The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-01-14
Gov. sewara.s speech u AahurA.

reminded me, that have reached another i'm
le portant stage in joarney that has occupied
lc eight months Of time, and covered ten thousand
"A miles of space-the last stage-a stage beyond
= which can go no further. Although in this
journey have traversed no small portions of fonr
= contincnts-Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
a it is not until now that have found place
:, which, above all others, admire the most and
love the best. This placr-this very spot-on
g which You stand and / stand among you, is, in
I. deed, the one point on the globe which, whcr-
Il ever else may be, draws me back BY m irresis-
:. tible speil-the place where when rest / must
dwell-the only place where can be content to
live, and content when lifes 6tfnl fever shall be
. over, to die. II il the spot cherished in my
e affections above and beyond all others
above and beyond the spot where I was born
above and beyond the scenes in which /
was trained and edueated-adorned and mark
ed as those localities of my earlier life are lsy
mountain and nyer-by blue skies and genial
! Cline. Il il . spot cherished BY me above and
( beyond the scenes Of any severe labor-of any
; arduous achievement, and, il may use the ex-
preston without offensc Of any personal success
ses- love it more than the capital Of my ma.
Q tive State although in that capital have borne
) the baton of civil authority coniided to me by
three millions of free, brave, and enlightened
people. love it more than the Senate Cham
, ber-nore than the Senate Chamber Of the great
confederate Republic Of which we all are citi-
zens; although in that Senate Chamber / am
authorized, with one other representative, to
J pronounce the will Of the leading member of
that contederacy Hearty applause Ishould
not despair of vindcating this preference BY
comparing the natural advantages and the social
development Of the valley of the Owasco with
those of any other place that you or have ever
known Lakes, meadows, fields, forests are here,
which are nowhere surpassed; and comfort, ease,
intelligence. enterprise, and morals that may
justify challenge comparison ir any part Of the
globe But | will be candid, and confess that
my partiality stands upon simpler and more
natural logic prefer this place because it is
my place. APPLAUSE You may well be
candid also, and confess that you like it best be-
cause it i your place. It is true, my excellent
friends, that persons abroad who do not know
TINS attractive spot so famiarly as do, criti-
else it sometimes with severity. They point to
these dark, massive prison walls which are just
before me, and tell us that they mar the beauty
and detract from the graces of our city; but you
anu never see those walls, or if we do they ap |
pear to US only as the boundaries Of field Of
active Libor, productive industry, and bcneyo-
lent Instruction. So sometimes these distant |
critics are pleased to say that they think that l.
who now stand before you, am not an object |
worthy Of such consideration as you are now be- |
| slowing on me, and you, am sorry to say, do |
not seem to be much affected by that objection |
/
Is the only one where am left free to act in an |
individual, and not in representative and pub |
Tic character. Whatever may be elsewhere, |
mere ! am never either magistrate or legisla- |
ator, but simply citizen-a man--your equal |
and your hke-nothing more less, nor diff |
| ferent. Our relations with each other are the |
| simple ones Of domestic, private life Among |
you | see those who are my physicians, my |
priests, my cornselors and clients, my kinsmen-
not to speak of my childfen-those who are |
debtors to me Il am sorry they are few,) and |
| those who are my creditors, (aas, that they are
50 many) [Iaushter.] But we are all, trust,
| honest and just debtors-liberal and tolerant |
creditors We are all liberal though not uncon-
| scientious as Christians We all worship whom /
we please, and do not quarrel with each other i
| about our respective preferences. We all speak /
| for such principles, and vote for such candidates
| as we like, and watch each other pretty closely /
on election day; but when the votes are east and |
| the result announced, we 20 away about our
business, forgetting the disputes of the canvass
in short, We are free and easy in social inter-
| course-and if anybody abroad wishes to secure
the good opinion of any of US, his best way il to
speak as well and judge as kindly he can of all
OF US. Applause. Sir Ito Mr.. Myers,) you
| have kindly recalled what am sure should not
altogether have forgotten that thrty-seven years
ago this day after migrating by long stage
| coach journey Of four days duration from my
native region, opened my law-office, at the age
OF tWenty-one, in an humble building vet stand
ing-but not now as then standing alone-and
| sat down without acquaintance Of any character
TO wait there for my first Client and first friend
Many of those WHO then were in active life have |
since gone down into honored graves. Peace be
to their ashes, and honor and affection to their
memories. But there are yet survivors enough,
and they too vet hale and vigorous men, |
whose presence reminds me Of the incidents Of
at ga III a.alf m snI |
Sir Mr.. Myers,l in the County Clerks Office, filed
my first declaration and placed the seal Of the
people upon my first writ capas dd respo,sdtndsa.
Applause andlaughterl Here before me stands
Dudley Everts, ana here doubtless would stand
Charles Pomer6y-the postmaster {if he were
not officially engaged,) two of the warrant subal-
terms Of my artillery company. Renewed ap-
pIause and laughter The voice that often
stuns my and interrupts my speech comes
doubtlessly from the brass six-pounder, which
SO long ago procured from the State Arsenal at
Albany, and which my then Lieutenant Col Ly-
man Hinman, used in firing .teu de joie over my
first defeat as political candidate for civil
ofice. Great applause and dmerrimentl Those,
my friends, were good old days, when many OF |
you were then unborn, and those who marched
and countermarehed with me, as soldiers from
Weedsport to Scpo Centre, were as young as
you now are. But, alas, my friends, time has
brought many innovations. Then we might say
what we pleased, and do what pleased each other,
and, If we were satisfied, that was the end Of the
matter But now, there is the press (pointing
to the reporters and the telegraph (pointing to
the wires and the railroad, with Martin Calvin
and his mail bags (pointing to the mail agent,)
and there is nothing that an honest, good-na-
tured man can say do here in this happy val
ley of the Owasco to-day that he may not look
to find in print in the metropolitan press to-mor-
row. Hearty applause. You will excuse me,
therefore, for saying that, innocent and gratifying
as these local and personal "reminiscences are to
ourselves, they may possibly, if continued, draw
down upon Us some captious criticisms elsewhere.
And now, fellow-citizens, please to consider that
have been standing already half an hour on
this stage in the north end Of our city, while |
matronly lady, dwelling in South street, has been
expecting me to pay her visit at least of cere-
mony, which has already been due eight mouths.
ThE AuDAcITY or THE CLorH.---A highly fla
vored Kall0ch case has lately come off at Kesota,
Minnesota A Rev. Mr.. Hill pastor Of the United
Brethren, was accused Of certain scandalous prac-
tees and called together his church and society
to listen to his public confession. He told them
that three years ago he seduced girl aged six
teen from her home in Maine and took her to
Boston, and after short residence there, to Min
nesota, where he had resided with her as his
wife for thirteen months, having one child by her
He said he had left wife and three children in
Maine.
After this full confession he asked all who
were in favor Of his remaining as their Christian
pastor TO stand up, and majority rose to their
feet while the rest refused to vote either way
Evidently the United Brethren in Minnesota are
very liberal in their ideas of social life It s,,g-
gests the story Of the Church in Oakham, where
il was found embarrassing to discipline inem-
Der for drunkenness because 50 many Of the bret!l-
rem were il the habit Of taking little" where
upon one Of the deacons suggested that IF the
Lord Jesus must have a church in Oakham he
must take such material a. he can get"
A clergyman of the church Of England, Rev.
james Bonwell, curate Of st. Phillips, in Lon-
don having been detected in q similar crime. -
Having wife living in one quarter Of the city, he
courted the daughter of i deceased clergyman in
another part Of the same city, and under pretence