Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-15
Proceedings at Indianap oils.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. II.

! Along the route several speeches were
made by Mr. Lincoln, in response to the
earnest solicitation of the people who
had gathered in crowds at the way sta
lions. g-.#f - SEES
The special train, containing Mr. Lin
coin, arrived here at FIVE O'Clock As
soon as it approached the depot, a Ma
tional salute of thiry5our guns was
fired.
Governor Morton welcomed the Pres
ident elect. in appropriate speech.
In response, Mr.. Lincoln said:
Gov, Morton and fellow citizens of the
State of Intiana:-Most heartily do |
thank you for this magnificent reception,
aud while [ cannot take to myself any
share of the compliment thus paid, more
than that which pertains to mere in
strument-an accidental instrument, per-
haps l should say, of great cause--I
yet must look upon it as magnificent
reception, and as such, most heartily do
! thank you for it. aag @
You havo been pleased to address
yourselves to me cheerily in behalf of
this glorious Union in which we live,
in all of which you have my hearty sym
pathy, and, as far as may be within my
power, will have now and inseparabIy
my hearty consideration. While | do
not expect upon this occasion, or on any
occasion till after get to " gz-ll.tse.ee+
to attempt any lengthy speech, [ will
only say, that to the salvation of this
Union there needs but one single thing
the hearts of a people like yours
Applause. When the people rise in
masses in behalf of the Union and the
liberties of their country, truly may it
be said: s'The gates of He'll shall not
prevail against it,. Renewed ap-
plause.
| In all the trying positions in which I
/ sEall be placed, and doubtless shall be
placed in many trying ones, my reliance
will be upon you and the people of the
United States, and wish you to remem-
Der now and forever, that it is your bust
ness, and not mine, that if the Union of
these States and the liberties of this peo-
pie should be lost, it is but little to any
one man ffty-two years of age, but a
great deal to thirty millions of people
that inhabit these United States, and to
their posterity in all coming time.
1t is your business to rise up and pre-
serve the Union and liberty. For your
sakes, and not for mine, l desire they
shall be constitutionally preserved.
I, as already intimated, am but an ac-
eidental instrument, temporary, and to
serve for but limited time, but I ap-
peal to you again to continue to bear in
mind that with you, and not with poll
ticians, not with Presidents, not with
office seekers, but with you is the ques-
tion, "Shall the Union and shall the lib
critics of this country be preserved to the
latest generation?" Loud and pro
longed applause
The procession marched through the
streets, according to programme, to the
/ Bates House, from the balcony of which
Mr.. Lincoln, on being introduced by
Governor Morton, said:
| Fellow Citizens: It is not possible
for me while | am on my journey to the
National Capital, stopping as I do many
times, 1 say it is not possible for me un-
der the circumstances to make any long
speeches. Were [ to do more than ad-
dress such assemblies very briefly l
should be entirely worn out before my
journeys end.
[ appear before you more to thank
you for this very magnificent welcome
which you have given me, and still
more for the very generous support
which your State recently gave to the
political cause, which, [ think, is the
true and the just cause Of the whole
country and of the whole wold Tire
mendous cheering.
Solomon has said that there is time
to keep silence, laughter and when
men wrangle by the month with no GER
tainty that they mean the same thing,
while using the same words, it perhaps
would be as well if they would keep ST.
lent. [Applause.] The words coercion
and invasion are in constant use about
these days, and with some temper and
hot blood on some occasions. Suppose
we are simply to try if we can to aseer-
tain what is the meaning Of these words.
Let US get, If we can, the exact defni-
tion Of these words, not from a diction-
ary, but from the men who constantly
repeat them in terms of depreciation of
things they mean to express By the
words. Applause.
What, then, is Coercion? What is
Invasion? Would the marching of an
army into South Carolina, for instance,
without the consent of her people, and
in hostility against them, be coercion or
invasion? [ very frankly tell you that
| think it would be coercion of the peo-
pie, if the people of that country were
forced to submit; but if the Government
Of the United States should simply in