The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-01

Staff Committee of Reception, Governors and
Legislatures of Kentucky and -Tennessee.m mem
bers of City Councils of CinciaRati. Louisville
and Memphis, proceeded to the State House.
and were cheered by the threng which filed
the streets. The Committee Of Escort, and
other officers. conducted the guests into the
Hall Of the House of Representatives where
they were received by the General Assembly
in Joint Convention.
The address of welcome, brief and peril
nent was delivered in an impressive manner
by Gov. Dennison, as follows =
Friends Of Kentucky. Of Tennessee, and Of
4 Indiana:
On behalf of the people of Ohio, speaking through
their General Assembly receive you this their Capt.
greet you Representatives of Sovereign States.
sissipp the citadel of the National Com
federacy greet you feow-citisens of the Union
dear to all, the source of whatever most
proud country, and the preservation of which, for
the equal common benefit of all the States alike
The highest and most grateful duty Of every American
By ali these honored titles you heartily welcomed
| here to-day. ar a
Governor Magofin responded eloquently on
the part of the State of Kentucky. Address
ing the Governor and General Assembly, he
said
must retun in behalf Of the people of my State and
Of the Legislature Of Kentucky. grateful thanks
welcome from people of Ohio but were unprepared
for such greeting have had. II has been a mag
landing Cincinnati We were received with the roar
of peaceful cannon and the shouts of welcoming hosts
tucky. We viii tell them of it, and we will tell them
that all have to do to keep this Government together
! better.
Other speeches. and many interesting salu-
tatiOns followed.
At dark, the hotels and many stores and
dwellings were brilliantly illuminated The
dome of the State House was splendidly light
ed up, and the city was ablazs with pyrotech
mic fires. Crowds of ladies and gentlemen
thronged the streets, and there was universal
hilarity abroad. After supper, the guests and
their hosts assembled in the Hall of the House
at social leyee, and afterwards in Odeon
Hall, around the banquet table. Menter's
Band furnished superb music. Lieut. Gever-
moe Kirk presided, and the seats of honor
were appropriately distributed.
Many appropriate sentiments we're read, and
eloquently responded to, by various individu
ais To the following, Gov. Chase responded:
Our Federal Uaion-. It and shall be preserved,
Gov Chase said
Mr. President: Not far from the city of Nashville on
southern shore Of the amid the pleasant
senes OF the Hermitage, rises the modest monument
ara obH place Oh
the Patriot Hero sleeps but his lessons to his country
men, whether expressed in deeds words still live
the printed page of their hearts Among these lessons
none ever met with heerer response from the whole
American people, han the simple deelaraton which has
lust been repeated Federal Union, be
served? Far distant day when it shall meet re-
sponse less decided or less unanimous The sentiment
ITSELF indeed hut echo to the of all
hearts, from the very beginning of the struggle
for Independence The primal necessity of the revolu
ton was union. Without il the revolution ITSELF though
in name success would have been in truth disastrous
failure It was first aud last among the aspirations of
Washington and his great compatri0s, and the i'm
pressive among the hn admonons of the father of his
country are those which inculcate its priceless WORTH
and exhort his eountrynen to its perpetual maintenance
1t was fit that the first President from the new States
should emphaticay re-afrm the Judgment and purpose
of the lrst President from the old It s it, also when
Representatives of the three States first organized 10
this great central valley gathered together
tna thls sentiment should again be affirmed wien emRha-
sis and decision As the rivers Of these States flow into
one Ohio bearing its bosom their Interests
commerce. so should the of the dwelers up
these shores flow together in vast Of de-
voton to the Uoion laden with the precious freight of
But, Mr.. President, I must not enter on this large
iheme; the time does not permit. ID it peedful The
really believe the time for the dissolution of this
Union has actually is small to excite alarm
ngences the destruction Of he noSes political fabric
ever reared by man. may become desirable, may
their error. For Chic. at least may confidently speak
She has been and win remain loyal the I'm
ion and the Constitution While yet in my earliest
hood put resord conviction in all future as
in all past circumstances, Ohio win fast
National Union, and that her growing energies viii on
no occasion be more Willingly or powerfully put forth
than in the support and maintenance of both in unim
psired vgor and strength That conviction remains
changed do doubt, Mr. President, that the spirit
aud purpose of Ohio the spirit purpose of ali the
States whose worthy and honored Representatives are
gathered here tonight We will not surrender the
proud title of American czsns; will not renouLce
will not madly fling away the blessed boon of free
Institutions ever vouchsafed By Heaven to WE will
not prepare for children instead of the noble heril-
a5e of freedom prosperity and peace which fathers
transmitted to detestable inheritance of desposm
calamity and civil Mol no Thousand times No
We will compose whatever differences have arisen, or
may arise in the spirit of fathes-claming mutually
whatever find to be just chershing above all with the
constant ardor of Washington. cordial
attachment to our Federal Union, will resolve with
the inhexibe determination of Jnckson that it r,ust be
preserved. = = i
The Excurtionists left Columbus for Cin-
cinnati at 10 clock Friday morning, accom-
panied by many members of the Ohio Legis- |
lature. which adjourned over to T esday.-I
The guests were escorted to the depot by an
imposing display of military, including the
Columbus Brigade, three companies from Day
ton and one from Springfield the Governor
and staff, Members of the General Assembly. |
City Council, and many. citizens. A dispatch
says @they went away we'll pleased with t cir
hearty welcome and visit to the Capital of
Ohio"
Legislative Reereatien-Five Thousand Dollars
-sls. Appropriated. i.o
The members of the Ohio Legislature went
on an excursion to Cincinnati last Thursday !
to meet the members of the LagislatnIes of