sectional fanaticism.

With these views, it will not be surprising to those who differ from
me, that I feel an ardent desire for the success of the State Rights
Democracy, that convinced of the destructive consequences of the
heresies of their opponents, and of the evils upon which they would
precipitate the country, I do not forbear to advocate, here and
elsewhere, the success of that party which alone is national, on which
alone I rely for the preservation of the Constitution, to perpetuate
the Union, and to fulfil the purposes which it was ordained to
establish and secure. [Loud cheers.]

My friends, my brethren, my countrymen--[applause]--I thank you for
the patient attention you have given me. It is the first time it has
been my fortune to address an audience here. It will probably be the
last. Residing in a remote section of the country, with private as
well as public duties to occupy the whole of my time, it would only be
under some such necessity for a restoration of health as has brought
me here this season, that I could ever expect to make more than a very
hurried visit to any other portion of the Union than that of which I
am a citizen.

I will say, then, on this occasion, that I am glad, truly glad, that
it has been my fortune to stay long enough among the New Englanders to
obtain a better acquaintance than one can who passes in the ordinary
way through the country, at the speed of the railroad tourist. I have
stayed long enough to feel that generous hospitality which evinces
itself to-night, which has showed itself in every town and village of
New England where I have gone--long enough to learn that though not
represented in Congress, there is within the limits of New England a