BOSTON MEMORIAL.

THE Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United States, by the President, having produced deep pecuniary Distress throughout the Country, and especially in the Atlantic cities, Memorials and Petitions to Congress poured in, vehemently complaining of the Act of the President, and urgently praying for Relief. One, from the City of Boston, was carried to the Seat of Government by a large Committee, and presented to the Senate, by Mr. Webster. The Committee, having also requested Mr. Sprague to address the Senate upon its presentation, he did so, in the following Remarks.

PUBLIC DISTRESS.

REMARKS

MADE by Mr. Sprague, on the Presentation to the Senate, by Mr. Webster, of the Memorial from the City of Boston, complaining of the Act of the President in removing the Deposits, and praying Relief from the deep Distress which had been occasioned thereby.

MR. SPRAGUE rose and said, that he had been requested, and although he felt, as he was sure that every one must feel, that it would be an act of supererogation to add any thing to the forcible remarks which had been already made, yet he could not refuse to add his testimony to the high character of the individuals who had transmitted this memorial. He supposed that because he had long enjoyed the acquaintance of many of the signers, and of all of the committee who had borne the memorial hither, it was expected of him that he should offer that testimony.

The Senate had now before them the memorial of about seven thousand of the citizens of the city of Boston, and their testimony to the existing distress; and this testimony might be considered as strong and as emphatic as any which had ever yet reached the Senate, or been presented here by any of the representatives of the people in their places. This testimony came from New England, the land of the primitive pilgrims—from Massachusetts, the first State which moved in that glorious struggle to which he was happy that allusion had been made yesterday by the gentleman from Virginia, and which had led in our independence—from Boston, which, in that State, had been the earliest to resist oppres

sion, and to start in the career of liberty. He was not going to attempt any eulogium on that section of the country. The names which he had pronounced were in themselves a higher eulogium than any language could convey, and would carry to every heart a feeling of impressiveness which no words could increase.

You, sir, continued Mr. Sprague, who recently have visited those places, in company with the Chief Magistrate-you need no language of mine to impress on you the true character of this people. You have yourself recently stood in the high places in Boston and its vicinity, on the heights of Dorchester on one side of the city, and on Bunker's hill on the other; at Charlestown and at Cambridge. You have there almost had in view the plains of Concord and of Lexington; and have stood where the blood of our fathers called to their descendants, "Sons, scorn to be slaves!"-where that flag was first unfurled which has since floated, in proud triumph, over every wave, and against every foe -in that Faneuil Hall, where the voices of the Adamses, the Hancocks, and the Otises, first breathed into this country the breath of life. You have partaken of the unbounded hospitality of this people, and I am sure you will respond to the sentiment, that this is the land where friends find a welcome, and foes a grave.

If he was not misinformed, (Mr. Sprague continued,) during that visit, while the Chief Magistrate was reposing in the city of Boston, this disastrous measure had been decided on, which had now brought before the Senate the protest and memorial of seven thousand of these citizens. If he had not been greatly misinformed, the letter of the twenty-fifth of June, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, was dated from Boston, during that visit, and at the very time when the person whose name was affixed to it, was confined to his chamber by sickness, in a dark room, and in a condition of entire incapability of physical or intellectual effort. Would to Heaven, that, amidst the scene of uninterrupted prosperity which then surrounded him on all sides, the respect which was everywhere paid to the authorities of the Union, some strong influence could have withheld his hand from that signature, while such tributes of respect and approbation were tendered to those who were the agents in continuing to us a Government which provided for and protected the general happi

ness.

That people, whom the President then saw in a condition