Republican Herald

MISCELLANEOUS.

Below will be found an account of the President's reception at Nashville. The Washington Globe, in alluding to this subject, makes the following excellent remarks:-

"The public will observe with pleasure the peculiar sensibility—the affectionate—the almost filial feelings of attachment, that have marked the reception of the President among his neighbors in Tennessee. The malignant persecution of the factions which have combined to destroy his fame, as a means of impairing the strength of those principles which he has restored to the administration, and which, if once thoroughly recognised by the People, must forever debar the ambitious leaders of the coalition from the control of the Government to which they aspire, has drawn forth the earnest and impressive demonstration of love and veneration, which, under other circumstances his neighbors would have restrained. The unanimity with which the Convention of Tennessee came forward in a body, to mark their approbation of the President's course as to the Bank, including the veto and the removal of the deposits—two great measures, most especially his own, and the responsibility of which he therefore more emphatically assumed than any other, must have been gratifying to him in the highest degree. The Representatives of the State of Tennessee knew him well. They knew that his hostility to the Bank of the U. States proceeded from no design on his part to create a spurious paper currency on State credit. They knew that he always opposed a currency of any kind, which did not consist of coin, or which was not immediately convertible into it. They knew that he always opposed the Bank of the United States, as well because he considered it unconstitutional, as because it could send notes so far from its vaults, as to become practically unconvertible to a great extent, and in this way, and through the extent of its other privileges, supersede the precious metals as a currency, and render itself the fountain of the whole circulating medium of the Union.

Knowing these things, and the utter abhorrence which the President has always expressed, of having the currency—the circulating life blood of a commercial community—in the hands of a monopoly, the persons who surrounded him could bear testimony to the sincerity of the sentiment which he proclaimed in his toast. 'Gold and Silver—The true constitutional currency.' This, coupled with the boldness and resolution with which he encountered the power of the Bank, to restore the constitutional currency, and his other famous toast. 'The Federal Union—it must be preserved'—together with the measures by which he gave it efficacy, will hand his name down with increasing honors through every generation. In breaking the power of the Bank, and restoring the constitutional currency, he has raised a rampart against consolidation and aristocracy. In crushing nullification he has put an end to tendencies which threatened anarchy in the dissolution of the confederacy."

THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.

The Nashville Republican contains a long account of the reception of President Jackson by the Tennessee Convention, which is pronounced the most imposing spectacle ever witnessed in that State. The President was escorted into Nashville by a numerous cavalcade, amidst the firing of cannon, the ringing of bells, and the cheers of immense crowds of citizens who had collected in the streets and squares. Having been conducted to the hall where the Convention was in session, Gen. Carter, the President of that body, descended from the Speaker's chair, and addressed him as follows:-

"The Assembly before which you stand, representing the people of the State of Tennessee in their highest political attitude, rise, sir, to receive you within the hall of their sitting, and in behalf of themselves and their constituents, to express their undiminished confidence in your patriotism, and their profound respect for your public and private character.

"It has been your lot, sir, first at the head of an army, and subsequently as Chief Magistrate of the nation, to be engaged in service more arduous and critical than has fallen to the duty of any citizen, save one, since the auspicious act of confederation and independence. Alike vigorous, decisive, honest, and patriotic, in the cabinet as in the camp, it is your good fortune to have achieved a name commensurate with the existence of the Republic, and dear to a large majority of its citizens. That you may long live in the employment of this enviable distinction, participating in the blessings of the Government which you fought for in youth, and so nobly sustained in a late hour of peril, is, sir, the ardent hope of this assembly, and the multitude who crowd around you.

In reviewing the many and important events which have given renown to your career, we will not so offend against your own convictions of the fallibility of all human wisdom as to say, that you have not possibly erred in administering the many high and solemn functions that have been submitted to your care by a confiding country; that you have not done so (if at all) from improper or impure motives, is a declaration due to the acknowledged patriotism that guides and directs your course in life;—and though the bitterness of party may now detract from your merits and impeach your motives, the deliberate judgment of another generation, uninfluenced by the feelings of those who differ from and condemn you, will enrol your name with the long list of patriots consecrated to fame and to the veneration of posterity.

"In the mixed multitude before you, and around, you can readily distinguish the companions and associates of your early life—men who have stood forth at your side in the past hours of your perils and your triumphs—and their children who have grown up into life beneath your own eyes and observation: with one heart they now meet you, and tender the homage of affection, confidence and regard."

To which the President replied in the following manner:-

"Sir: I receive the greeting which you have been pleased to tender me on this occasion, with feelings too strongly excited by the imposing character of the body in whose behalf it is offered, and by the various associations which it recalls to my mind, to enable me, I fear, to make an adequate acknowledgement.

"I meet you, sir, and the august body over which you preside, as the representatives of the People whose partiality and confidence, far exceeding my claims, first brought me into public notice; and who have since, in every vicissitude of fortune, uniformly sustained me with an ardor of friendship, and generosity of fellow feeling, that never can be requited. To you and to them, let me say, that, in no situation in which I have been placed have I lost sight of the responsibility which was due to them. I have ever been mindful that it was on the faith of their character that mine rested, in a great degree, to do whatever good or evil was to be the results of my labors in the service of our common country.

When assured, then, by you, that these labors, notwithstanding the defect of judgement which they doubtless too often manifest, are yet worthy of the public approbation, I feel that I have been fortunate, and that the reward, as well as the stewardship which was too generously conferred, is disproportionate to my merit.

"Allow me, gentlemen, to express the hope, that your acts in the convention may be crowned with success, and that, in all time to come, the free People of Tennessee, whilst enjoying the prosperity and happiness which are the reward of wise and equal laws and a steady and virtuous administration of them, may remember each and all of you as their benefactors."

Having received the individual salutations of the members of the Convention, the President proceeded to Vauxhall to partake of a public dinner which had been prepared for the occasion, and at which were present 1500 persons.

The health of the President having been drank with rounds of applause, that gentleman proposed the following toast:-

The true Constitutional currency—gold and silver coin: It can cover and protect the labor of our country without the aid of a National Bank, an Institution which can never be otherwise than hostile to the liberties of the People, because its tendency is to associate wealth with an undue power over the public interest.