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ters, and crowded this immortal Cradle of Liberty, in consultation to promote its sue. cess.

 When our independence was achieved, their course was alike wise and patriotic.- They saw the infirmities of the old confede- ration, and saw also the means by which they might be remedied. To their everlast- ing remembrance be it said, that they acted as body of men, with foresight and wis dom. They assembled at their head-quar- terS, the Green Dragon, and prepared a me- morial full cf profound and statesmanlike reasoning, in favor of the adoption of the Constitution. When their Committee went to Philadelphia to present it, and Paul Re- viere was asked how many they were, he told them they were more than there are stars in Heaven" With the Sagacity of statesmen, never surpassed, they saw the ad- vantages of general union; of a uniform system of impOsts, and of a uniform curren- cy and medium of commercial exchanges When the Constitution was adopted, and that fact was known, they held such festival as has never since teen surpassed. The trades ! formed 8 procession and exhibited their hearty manifestations of joy. They felt kcenly, because they saw the necessity of having uniformity in the laws, and union among the people.

 

 mechanics, but members of other profes- sions. l am glad to see the Reverend Cler- gy, the followers of those Christian patriots, Mather, Clark, and Cooper, and no man can wish better for his pos:erity than that they should receive their patriarchal care for re- ligion and morals.

 lam glad to see members of my own pro- fesson with whom have been for years on habits of intimacy. Some are my seniors, many are of my own age; and many more are younger. I have lived among them and have known Dana, Parsons, Sewall, Parker, not to mention those who are living; and honor them as defenders of the truth as advocates from whom no man, with just cause, was ever spurned, though he came clothed in rags.

 I am happy to see Boston merchants--;s name honored in every part of the world A name connected with honorable and libe- ral conduct. What community has better sustained charitable institutions, enriched colleges, examined the haunts of want, igno- rance and vice, that they might administer relief! They have soothed the rawlings of insanity and have opened the ears of the Deaf and the eyes of the Blind, tha. they might pour upon them instruction. These are the merchants of Boston! May the AL mighty Being reward them

 Gentlemen, have been resident in the midst of you twenty years. It is now eigh- teen years since you first gave me your votes, and required my public services. If, since then, you have found more to be for given than to be reprovcd-if we part as good friends to-day as we met eighteen years ago, am content. Gentlemen, have done.

 will propose sentiment.

 The City of Boston-may it continue the Head Quarters of good principles, till the blood of the Revolutionary Patriots has run through thousand generations.