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But I trust in Heaven I may never hear those words
"North" and "South," white and black, suffrage bearing
or slaveholding, until this community can feel united in
the face of the solid wealth and resources of the West.
Instead of our indulging in complaints against each other
of the North and South, the statesmen who shall come
here shall see how to maintain the Atlantic East in its
competition with the growing and rapidly developing
West. You have foreign immigration. We in the Atlantic
cities of the North invite it. We catch a small portion of
it as it passes through the gates. It is repelled at the
South. It is borne away over the West. We hamper it
with questions as to its religion, or whether Irish, Ger-
man, Catholic or Freethinker, and we make "Know Noth-
ing" societies. But one sunshiny morning we will awake
and find the youthful empire of the West still developing
and stretching over a boundless extent of land. It is
necessary that the Atlantic States and you and I and all
shall adopt a policy that will prepare us for that time.
[Applause.]
RECEPTION BY THE ANNAPOLIS AUTHORITIES.
At the conclusion of Secretary Seward's remarks the
guests of the State were escorted to the Senate chamber,
where some time was spent in viewing the historical pic-
tures and in pleasant conversation. The exact locality
where General Washington stood when he resigned his
commission was pointed out to the President, and this,
with other reminders of the past and present associations,
could not be indifferently viewed. In the meantime Dr.
Abram Claude, Mayor of Annapolis, and the recorder and
aldermen, appeared in the chamber, when the Mayor ad-
dressed hia Excellency, and, in well-chosen words, pre-
sented him with the following preamble and resolutions
adopted by the city authorities of Annapolis on the 25th
instant:
Whereas, Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, will probably visit this city on the 28th instant,
upon the invitation of the State Convention, now here in
session;
Be it resolved by the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of
the city of Annapolis, That on behalf of themselves and
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