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.
Counteymen,  Beetheen,  Democeats  :  Most  happy  am  I  to  meet  you,  and
to  have  received  here  renewed  assurance — of  that  which  I  have  so  long  be-
lieved— that  the  pulsation  of  the  Democratic  heart  is  the  same  in  every
parallel  of  latitude,  on  every  meridian  of  longitude,  throughout  the  United


556      RISE  AND  FALL   OF  THE  CONFEDERATE   GOVERNMENT.
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  Gushing],
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.
