Education: Most Splendid Appearance

"On the President's landing, he was welcomed by a federal discharge of Cannon, and the Ringing of Bells. The Concourse of People was prodigious. The Procession was conducted with great Decorum, and exceeded anything of the Kind before exhibited in this Town.

"All Ages, Classes and Sexes, were full of Sensibility on this joyful Occasion" The brilliant Appearance of the Ladies from the Windows was politely noticed by the President, and gave Animation to the Scene. . . . On the Evening of the same day, the President and many others took a walk on the...

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