Weekly National Intelligencer

THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO THE NORTH.

The New York "Express" of Thursday evening thus happily welcomes the expected visit of the President of the United States and a part of his Cabinet Ministers to the North, for the purpose of being present at the opening, in its entire length, of that great line of communication between the Atlantic and the Lakes, the Erie Railroad:

"The President and his Cabinet so state our Washington letters—will leave Washington on Monday morning next, and be in New York Tuesday noon. On Wednesday morning they will go upon the Erie Railroad trip to the Lake, and it is highly probable that they will go thence to Buffalo. Tuesday thus will be our day to welcome them here, and to express the respect we feel.

"The visit of MILLARD FILLMORE to his own State and his own home, upon this iron linking of the Ocean and the Lake, inspires us with many, many reflections, and we regret that we have so little space this busy week to indulge in them. He is our own son, our own fellow-citizen, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Step by step we have seen him rise up among us, honorable and honored in every thing, till now he returns to us the Chief Magistrate of twenty-three millions of people. As the Chief Magistrate, he has administered the Government in the most perilous hours of the Republic, amid its most trying scenes, with an integrity inflexible, and a fearlessness that has challenged public admiration, and, we hope and believe, public approbation. The South he has had to chide sternly in two instances, most significantly when Texas threatened to invade New Mexico; and the North he has had to chide with equal energy, when passion was threatening a nullification of the Laws. But with an equal and a fearless hand he has held the scales of justice, thinking nothing of himself, but only of his duty to his country. No man has done so little to court popularity, but few men have won more. His highest ambition seems to have been to rescue his country from the peril in which he found it, and from which it is yet far from being free. During his brief Administration laws have been passed and principles settled in no degree less important than the Federal Constitution itself. His name and his fame are thus engraven upon history through his agency, in measures the value of which it is as impossible to exaggerate as it is difficult to describe.

"We hope, therefore, to see our city, our people, our constituted authorities, in all their various organizations, seize upon this fitting occasion to express and utter their respect both to the President of the United States and to the great Defender of the Constitution. It should be no stinted tribute, no parsimonious approbation, but the hearty, prolonged utterance of a great metropolis to statesmen who have done so much to keep and make that metropolis great. Fitting occasion, we say, because the reason of their presence is the inauguration of a great work, beyond what Roman ambition ever dreamed of or Egyptian energies ever conceived. The success of that work is a great era in our day, and appropriate is the presence of the President of the United States, with such a Secretary of State."