Sir, again, I say we
welcome you to Faneuil Hall.
And now, my fellow-citizens, I will withdraw myself and present to you
the Hon. Jefferson Davis.
Address of Jefferson Davis, at Faneuil Hall, Boston, October 12, 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. It required not this to confirm me in a belief I have
so long and so happily enjoyed. Your own great statesman [the Hon. Caleb
Cushing], who has introduced me to this assembly, has been too long
associated with me, too nearly connected, we have labored too many
hours, until one day ran into another, in the cause of our country, for
me to fail to understand that a Massachusetts Democrat has a heart as
wide as the Union, and that its pulsations always beat for the liberty
and happiness of his country. Neither could I be unaware that such was
the sentiment of the Democracy of New England. For it was my fortune
lately to serve under a President drawn from the neighboring State of
New Hampshire, and I know that he spoke the language of his heart, for I
learned it in four years of intimate relations with him, when he said he
knew "no North, no South, no East, no West, but sacred maintenance of
the common bond and true devotion to the common brotherhood.
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