Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-14
serenade to the Hon. Galusha A..
Grow.

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serenade to the Hon. Galusha A.
Grow.
The Hon. Galusha a Grow, Speaker of
the House of Representatives, arrived in
New York on Saturday, and was sernnded
at the ST. Nicholas Hotel Many citizens
called upon Mr.. Grow aud paid their re-
spccts, and vast assembly gathered be-
fore the hotel some time before the hour
designated { 10 o.cloek) for the serenade.
Mr.. E. Delafeld Smith, U. s. District
Attorney, appeared upon the balcony. He
was received with loud cheers. and intro.
duced Mr.. Crow as follows:
Fcliotc- CitiEsas: 1t having been anuoun-
ced last evening that the distinguished
statesman, in whose honor you have as
semhled, would be in our city to-day, we
have yielded to general desire that the
event should not pass nnnOticed. The
President and his Cabinet, nfter sustaining
unaided and alone the honor aud the very
existence of the country, during months of
doubt and darkness. sum noned the assist
ance of the national Legislature. That
summons was notify responded to. The
President called for 100000 men they
voted 100000. The President asked for
four hundred millions of money; they voted
FIVE bundred millions. No ussemblnge,
save the Continental Congress will live
more honore'i on the pnge Of history
Cheers While we glory in the gallant
ry of our Union army, we greet to-uight
civil officer OF rare ability aud tried patri-
Otism. We rally II respect to the author
of the homestead pulley, the champion of
Union and liberty, and The man who haul
ed down the South Carolina "Keitt.'-
daughter and AppIause.1 This ovation is
not offered by party. but by the repre-
sentatives Of the patriotic people OF New
York, of nll political predictions. We
honor the son OF Pennsylvania, the worthy
successor in the Speaker chair nf James
X. Polk and Henry Clay. Etllow-citizeus.
Introduce to you 'dlth Hon. Galusha A.
Grow, the Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives. Cheers.l
Mr.. Grow then came forward amid great
cheering, He said:
FELLOW CITIZENS: Accept my grateful
acknowledgements for the cordially of
this greeting. With mingled emotions of
joy and of sorrow stand before you: of
joy, that around me waves so prOfusrIy lie
emblems of a glorious nationality, and
that here every man is proud to be an
American citizen; Of sorrow, that in SO
large portion of the Republic the claim
of American citizenship should be regard
ed us crime, to be visited with crueitieS
which make even the savage blush, and
that anywhere on American soil the pence-
ful homes of citizens should be laid in
ashes, and they eXiled from the scenes of
their infancy. and all that man holds dear,
because they cherish with devotion the
principles of our patriotic sires, and choose
to sustain the Constitution and fUrm of
Government they cemented by their blood.
Fellow citizens, during the last decade
the spirit of human progress hHs made
triumphant march over the whole world,
and mOss-cOutcd wrongs and time-hOn
; ortd abuses have crumbled before its
magic power. Everywhere the chhinS of
the scrf have been broken; old natouali-
ties have fillcn-new uationalities lrnve
risen; old dynasties have perishcd-new
dynasIies Lnve been formed, and along
the shores of the Mediterranean the dun-
geons of despotism have given up thei:
victims guilty of no ofanse save that they
loved ooly liberty. [Cheers. And the
land of fable and of song is again the home
of Fretdo The first exultnnt notes of
disenIhrailed nationalities in the Old
World had scarce expired on the pains of
| Europe when the iron hail beating against
the walls of Sumter shook whole aronti-
uent, and called millions of men to the
tented field to uphold with stent arms
and brave hearts the priceless blessings
beqneathed to US by our fathers. lGreat
cherringl shnlInot trespHsS upon yOnr
patience ut this time to discuss any of the
reasons nfIhis wicked and causeless rebel
lion against the nearest aud dearest rights
OF mankind by striking frttricidal blow
at the vitality of the Reuublic, which. when
it falls, should so great a calamity betall
the race, Freedom, heaving SIGH, may
wing her way back to heaven. Aud OPP
pressed. down lroddeu man can hug his
chains; the only legacy he can bequeath
his children. By the obligation yOu owe
YOUR children, aud the reverence due your
tathers. will you, l ask, allow enemies
Iabruad aud traitors al home to sap the
foundation of your Freedom. II you do
you will be false to the grent trust that
kind Providence has given to your keeping.
When you permit 10000 men, composing a
gieat oiigArchy, to run an imaginary line
across this continent, yon will permit -
death blow TO be struck ut the lib
critics of mankind Your fathers, half
| a century ago, with a forecast that
was characteristic of their acts, thought it
necessary to exclude from this continent
all forrign jurisdiction. Hence they pur-
chased louisiana, taking her from France
her jurisdiction lying wes; of the Mis-
sissiTpi. For the same reason Florida
was purchased in order to control the COM
merce of the Gulf of Mexico. Her juris-
dction then rested in Spain, and was
transferred to the Government of tue
United States. Your fathers believed it
was one of the questions OF vital import
ance 10 tie future of this country that no
foreign power should have jurisdiction at
The mouth OF tue Mississippi river. Are
you willing, to-day, that hostile portion
of your own people should have jurisdic-