Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-02-27
VHE BANQUET AND GOV.
TVIIAGEN
The Cincinnati press are ina stew about some


The Cincinnati press are ina stew about some
matters which happened at their great banquet
at the Burnet House on the ED The follow
ing extract from the Gazette, shows that
sl:ght was given to the Governor of Ohio. and
was resented By his withdrawal from the ban
quet:-
@Only one thing happened to mar the festiyi-
ties of the occasion, and that was the mean and
contemplate slight which was given to Gov.
Chase. We resent it, as an indignity to the
State of Ohio. We believe that it was intended
and 80 believing so shall we speak of it Gov.
Chase was present at the banquet. He had
position assigned him, proper for him to hold
ontheright ofthe presiding officer, Mayor Faran.
A list of toasts had been made out and printed.
We understand that A. S. Sullivan, Esq, was
the presiding genius Of the committee who
framed them. No notice was taken in the pro-
Crane Of toasts and responses, of the State Of
Ohio, and It's Chief Magistrate, Gov Chase, was
in our Judgment, wilfully and purposely slight
ed and insulted, and through him the people of
Ohio. He was not noticed. The State of Ohio
was not noticed in the compliments which were
given, and very properly under the occasion the
Governor left the table"
Other papers contend that no slight was in
tended nor taken, and that the withdrawal of
the Governor was solely for the purpose of wit
Messing the beautiful Illumination of the city.
The Columbian says
The celebration being National one, no
State OF its Governor was specially designated
BY any coast prepared by the Committee The
entertainment was limited as to time, and, there
fore, but few toasts were prepared, and 1t was
thought that gentlemen invited from abroad
should be selected to respond to them. Besides,
if theState of Chic WAS toasted, it was thought
to be in better taste to have it come from the
representatives Of other States who were present.
Governor Wright, of Indiana, gave toast to
the State of Ohio, to which the President Of the
day, the Mayor Of Cincinnati, called upon Gov.
ernor Chase to respond. He preferred not
to do so. In the extremity of the room, the an
nouncement of Governor Chase's name was not
heard, and Judge Storer was called There
were some, also, who, so far: forgot the decorum
of the occasion as to hiss Some time after
wards, at the suggestion of gentleman seated
near him, the Governor, without attracting at
tention, left the; room 10 witness the ilumina-
ton Of the city. He did not manifest to that
gentleman or any one around, disposition to
resent what occurred as an indignity. On the
contrary, he has declared to q number Of gentle
men since, that he never thought Of such q
thing
with regard to Gov. Chase personally, if6e had
chosen to respond to the toast of of the Cover
nor Of Indian he would have been heard, an3
those gentlemenmost hostile to Kim, would have
been most determined that he should, as the
Governor of our State, receive respectful at
tention. But it seems that our city is blest with
number Of individuals whose eyes are jaun-
diced They are so intent upon their fayorite
hobby--so morbid in their hatred of everything
national and patriotic-so resolved upon being
anti-sIavery martyrs, that they see insults where
nons was intended, and become spiteful and
boisterous when better bred gentlemen of their
own school, find nothing to resent"