The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-12-03
THE PREsIDENT,s RECEPTION Al
GETTYSBURG.
speech OF Secretary Seward.

Seward reached Gettysburg, by special
train, Oh the evening Of the 18th.
The President and Seer .tary Sew
ard were serenaded, and each severally
replied to the compliment.
The President said he was happy to
see SO many Of his friends present to
participate in the ceremonies, but he
would make no speech, as he had moth
ing particular 10 say. Laughter and
applause.
Mr.. sEwARDs SPEECH.
The followingis is Mr. Stewards speech
in reply to the Serenade:
FELLOW CITIZENS II am now six
ty years old, and | have been in pub
lie life for forty years Of that time.
This night is the first time that ever
anybody in the State Of Maryland was
ever willing to listen to my voice a
voice-this is Pennsylvania or in
Pennsylvania SO near the border Of
Maryland, and the reason was, that |
saw forty years ago, opening before
this people the graveyard that was to
be filled with brothers who fell in NOR
tai political conflict, and knew that the
cause that. was hurrying them on to
that dreadful strife was slavery, and
when / did lift my voice it was to warn
them to remove that cause if they
could by peaceful and constitutional
means, and so avert the catastrophe Of
civil war, which has now fallen upon
the nation. Applause.
am thankful that you are willing
to hear me at last ! thank my God
that believe this strife is going to end
in the removable that evil which ought
to have been removed by peaceful
means and deliberate counsels. APP
plausc] | thank my God for the hope
that this is the last fraternal war which
will fall upon the country that has
been vouchsafed to us by Heaven-the
richest, the brightest, the most beauti-
ful, the most magnificent, the most ca
pable Of a glorious destiny Of any coun-
try that God has ever given to any
portion Of the human race. and hat
when that cause is removed, simply by
the operation of perishingas the cause,
and the agent Of treason that is with
out justification and without parallel,
thenceierth we shall be indeed a Union
one country, having only one hope,
one ambition, one destiny. Applause.
Then to morrow, if we have not
known it before, we shall know that
we are not enemies, but that we are
friends aud brothers that this Union
is reality, for it is one common coun-
try, and We shall mourn. l am sure,
with equal sincerity over the grave of
the misguided insurgent, whom we
have consigned to his last resting place,
and pity him with the same sincerity
and the same heartfelt grief that we
m ourn over the brother by whose hand
raised defense of the Government to
which he may owe allegiance, that
misguided brother fell and when we
part tomorrow night, let us remem-
Der that we owe it to our country,
that we owe it to mankind, that this
war shall have triumphant conclu.
sion in the establishment Of a Demo
cratic government upon the same prin
ciple that whatever party or portion
Of the nation shall prevail in an elec
ton, that party shall be respected anC
maintained in power, until it shaI
give place upon another trial, and after
another verdict to a different party oI
a different portion Of the people,
| Applause Without that, let me tel
you that you are drifting at once anC
irresistibly TO the very verge of tho
destruction Of all Governments. Will
that principle, this government Of ours
will be the best, the first, and happicst
in the world and may be, and so fal
as we q concerned, will be immortal
Good night [Chcers and applause.
is 1T A SUPERSTITION.
A bridge broke down at Terre Hautl
4 few duys since, drowning a number
of persons. The Terre Haute express
says;
"Onc incident connected with til,
recovery of the bodies is worthy C
more geneIal publicity. All had beer
found with the exception of Mis-
Thralls, and the approaching nigh
was about to compel the search to b.
abandoned, when some one suggcstSl
that by placing quicksilver in Il loaf o
bread and putting it in the water i
would drop directly over the body
Accordingly a loaf was prepared ant
two ounces of quicksilver placed in it
then taken about fifty feet above tn,
bridge and thrown into the water
1t foated down in the current, whicl
is quite strong at that point when sud
denly it stopped, and circling around
was apparently about to silk, when ;
gentleman in boat caught it, an(
graphing hooks being put down, tn,
body was found directly beneath, il
from eight to ten feet Of water. W,
had read of this mode some year
since, but supposing it one Of the many
superstitions, had almost forgotten il
What the philosophy is we cannot tell
Will some one afford us some light OF
i it2
Cure for Felons!
Boil up in an iron vessel of suficien
capacity (say four to six quarts enough
yellow do,k root to make strong