The New Hampshire Gazette

At Windsor, (Vt.) the following patriotic address was presented to the President of the U. States by the Young Ladies of that place.

ADDRESS.

To the President of the United States.

SIR—Impressed with a high sense of the honor which the inhabitants of this village receive in being permitted to welcome the Chief Magistrate of the Union, we beg leave, in behalf of the Young Ladies of the Windsor Female Academy, to present you our humble tribute of respect: which, although from the juvenile female pen, will not we trust, be unacceptable, or deemed entirely beneath your notice. While we regard the President of the nation as the protector of our country, the preserver of our rights, and dearest privileges, and the guardian of our literary institutions, our hearts glow with feelings of gratitude, and we delight to address him by the endearing appellation of Patron and Friend. Permit us, Sir, respectfully to congratulate you on your safe arrival in the State of Vermont, on the present happy and prosperous situation of the country over which you are called to preside, that the Olive of peace is now waving where lately the Clarion of war was heard—and that your entrance upon public duties both arduous and important, is at a time when, from the general peace and tranquility that reign, you can have leisure to promote the happiness and literary attainments of the rising generation. We feel happy, that the visit, by which our northern states have been so highly honored, has been undertaken at a time, when every thing must have combined to render it pleasant to yourself, as well as to the people; and we believe, that their reception of you has been, and will continue to be such, as is consonant to their views of respect for your private character, and the elevated station you have the honor, with so much dignity to fill, as President of the United States.—That you may long live in the affections of a free and enlightened people, and that success may crown all your exertions for the public good, is the ardent wish of many a patriotic, although youthful female bosom.

ANSWER.

Young Ladies,

I beg you to be assured, that no attention which I have received in the course of my route, has afforded me greater satisfaction, than that with which I have been honored by the Young Ladies of the Female Academy of Windsor. I take a deep interest, as a parent and a citizen, in the success of female education, and have been delighted, wherever I have been, to witness the attention paid to it. That you may be distinguished for your graceful and useful acquirements, and for every amiable virtue, is the object of my sincere desire. Accept my best wishes for your happiness.

JAMES MONROE.

The Members of the Windsor Female Academy.