Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-11
Reeept,on of Governor wright.


A Wright. late Minister near the court of Fred
erick William ~. Of Prussia, arrived in the city
on Saturday morning last. over the Lafayette
railroad He welcomed at the depot by
thousands of his fellow citizens. Our most dis
tinguished townsmen hailed his arrival A
procession was formed Of which Col. James Blake
was Marshal. and proceeded through the prnci-
pal streets of the city to the State House. Here
an immense coneOurse had gathered to greet his
Excellency. We noticed among others, William
Y. Wiley. Esq, DIR. W Clinton Thompson, +.
COstigan, Lawrence N. Vance, and many Others
on the platform Colonel Dumont, introdu
ced by the Marshal Of the day, Col. Blake, APP
peared, and Ou behalf Of the crowd assembled
and on behalf OF the whole State, babe Gov
Wright welcome as follows:
GOVERNOR WRIGHT: Your fellow citizens be
Iieve YOU worthy of honor, and have deputed me
70 greet YOU with words Of welcome. If / could
speak to you as they would speak, could they all
stand before YOU and utter the warm sentiments
of their hearts, pleasant to me would be the task
happy the words that should employ. The
people of Indiana are not men- wOrshippers, and
are unused TO words of aattery. Mere adulation
who represents them, and distasteful to you.
do not purpose to offend you nor myself with any
such. While that is the case, they not iu-
capable of approaching worth, nor unwilling to
render appropriate honor to whom honor is due.
-Four wears agone the people of Indiana select
ed you TO represent the uation at foreign court.
/ mean what say-the people did it, and compel
led politicians, then corrupt, and now disgraced,
infamous, beneath contempt, to execute the
quisite deed. They are satisfied with the seec-
tion-more than satisfied with the manner in
which the exalted trust has been executed. The
whole American people are proud of the manner
in which a plain citizen of Indiana, ten times
a courtier for not being a cOurtier at all has
represented the nation at an European court-a
court where civil and religious liberty, poetry and
song, the arts and the sciences, delight to -four
ish. The glitter of royalty has sometimes had
damaging influence on American ambassadors
Some there be who, having been honored by their
Government you have been, have forgotten
that they represented plain, unostentatous, re-
publican Government have Inexperienced the
object of their mission, have supposed that it was
not to attend to grave State affairs, to protect
the American flag and American commerce, to
shield the American citizen in foreign parts from
wrong and oppression, and to look after the in
terests of our Government and people; but that
it was to cut dash, and surpass the ambassadors
of kings in equipage and entertainments. / have
seen such an one, and his conduct on his recall
and return to the people, his masters, seemed to
say, Il have touched the gttering robes of kings
who rule by the grace of God' | have mingled
with lords aud mobiles; the .cloud-capped
tower, the gorgeous palace, the solemn temple;
have breathed fragrant atmosphere; and having
been the recipient of all this subtitle luxury
amt the same kind of vulgar fellow that once
was" L thought, as gazed bewildered upon bis
magnifcence, ION what meat does this our Caesar
feedl''
The people of Indiana greet no such inflated
mountebank in grasping the warm hand of the
returned ambassador at the court of Berlin; on
the contrary, they recognize in him one who IL
illustrates, IN his own person, the benefits of repub
lican institutions; one who has come up from the
people, and is still of the people; one who
understands that
''Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part--there all the honor lies"
The people of Indiana not inattentve observ-
ers of passing events. With what pride and salts
faction did they observe the course pursued by
yon, sir, when a naturalized American citizen was
impressed into the army of a foreign State. When
he cried, al am an American citizen, you turned
not a deaf ear. How did they rejoice when, with
Characteristic energy and determination, you sue
ceeded in procuring his release, and sent him on
his way rejoicing to the land of bis adoption, to
worship God under his own vine and his own ig
tree, with none to modest or make him afraid.
When he claimed the protection Of the stars and
stripes, it you, sir, that spoke to him cheer
ing words, that told him that he should again
stand upon freedoms soil, and that the banner of
liberty should again float over him. Nor in the
labOrs of State did the American Minister forget
his duty to mankind. The cause of education,
the advancement of the peaceful but noble pur-
suits of agriculture, and the elevation and amel-
Grafton of the condition of the toiling millions,
claimed his attention and occupied time that
others would have given TO Incidence or pleasure
With that old man whose life has been spent in
the pursuit of science, in garnering up an mex
haustible store of knowledge, in advancing the
cause of liberty; that old man whose footsteps
may be traced in every cline, who has not only
pored over the midnight lamp. but who has en-
dured the tolls and privations and dangers of the
camp and the wilderness among savage men and
ferOcious beasts for the benefit of his fellow man
find mpretending citizen of Indiana on
terms of intimacy and friendship, aiding and co
operating with him in labors having for their OBJ
ject the good of mankind
Alexander Won Humboldt is now dead, but his
memory will live forever, his labors are an i'm
perishable monument, and while the people drop
a tear to the memory of departed greatness, they
will delight TO honor his friend, who in a widely
different sphere has ..acted well his part"
During the few years that you was the honored
representative OF your country at the Prussian
Court, no citizen visiting that country from your
native land was neglected. In that, the high and
the low, the rich and the poor, speak your praises
with hearts of gratitude. They speak OF your at
tention, your kindness, your unostentatlous lber-
atty in unneasured terms of appreciation. Ii j.
certain. sir. that by fam or unfair means leap
turel" all who visited the vine clad hills and per
peiual valley of Prussia. but in our grief at thu
we are consOled by the reflection that the captivi
ty of the heart is a bondage whose yoke is easy
and whose burden is light" | had heard Others
at home and abroad speak of this kindness, ut
tentiom and hospitality repeatedly, and but yester
day little girl of tender years, with eyes Al
bright the gIeam of star, and cheeks like the
tints Of the morning, came 70 tell me about il
lest, as she said, might forget in my speech.
she pleased to dignity these few welcoming
words.
When you left home the skies were bright, peac
pervaded the land. united and happ,
people-honored at home and abroad, on the LAM
and on the sell Now the continuous roll of tn
drum fills the land. An unholy attempt has beer
made and is now being made to subvert the Gov
eminent, TO trail the flag Of freedom IN the dus
and tear doxn the temple of liberty. By traitor
and PARTICLES has the blood of freemen been she
upon the soil of freedom We have fallen upo
evil times, and civil war, with all its at.endan
horrors, is upon u.s.
Unless this unhoy rebellion is crushed out b
the strong arm Of the Government cities are ;
be sacked, the land TO be made desolate, aud tn
vail of the widow and orphan to be heard frof
ocean 10 ocean, and from the lakes TO the gull