interest in whatever concerns you. I shall always bear with me most
pleasurable recollections of my sojourn among you, and hope it may be
my good fortune some day to meet some of you in Mississippi, and thus
have it in my power to reciprocate, imperfectly it may be, the
kindness which you bestowed upon me. I thank you for your polite
attention, and cordially wish for you, one and all, present and future
prosperity.



Speech at the Grand Ratification Meeting, Faneuil Hall,
_Monday evening, Oct. 11th, 1858._


Countrymen, Brethren, Democrats--Most happy am I to meet you, and to
have received here renewed assurance--of that which I have so long
believed--that the pulsation of the democratic heart is the same in
every parallel of latitude, on every meridian of longitude throughout
the United States. But it required not this to confirm me in a belief
so long and so happily enjoyed.--Your own great statesman who has
introduced me to this assembly has been too long associated with me,
too nearly connected, we have labored too many hours, sometimes even
until one day ran into another, in the cause of our country, for me to
than to understand that a Massachusetts democrat has a heart
comprehending the whole of our wide Union, and that its pulsations
always beat for the liberty and happiness of its country. Neither
could I be unaware such was the sentiment of the democracy of New
England. For it was lay fortune lately to serve under a President
drawn from the neighboring, State of New Hampshire, [applause,] and I
know that he spoke the language of his heart, for I learned it in tour