Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-11-05
TIE spEgoHEs OF GEN RosEoRASs

tesgrspbic report has heretofore informed our readers
that Con Rosecrsns met with very enthusiastic greeting
upon his arrival at Cincinnati Monday morning last
Amid the booming of cannon the display of flags, and
the hearty cheers Of many thousand citizens he was con
Quoted from the steamboat landing to the Burnet House
the balcony of which formal address of welcome Wa'
made by Judge Storer who concluded by introducing
Gen. Rosesrans to the who thronged the street 10
front OF the Hotel The General then addressed the as
semblage as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: cannot forbear to thank you most
heartily for this manifestation OF your sympathy oil your
respect and of your regard for my public services
While accept the expression Of your kind feeling as
evidence of your private regards for Of your fellow
citizens cannot forget that the great heart OF TINS PEG
pie does not up here for any private purpose put
from motives higher than those o. mere persons, ieno
pie free and nobe-hearted population who have been
looking upon contest Of arms and struggling along
with for national life who have been anxiousy watch
ing the struggle with this great rebellion which has at
tempted TO destroy nation and break our Govern
ment-a Government which man, not even among the
reyOut onss has yet denied to be of the best that
ever existed Therefore it is that say when yeu come
here this morning your sympahes touched not for
individual but for the Government which has been
in peril and for whose preservation well yourselves
have been laboring: lCheers
And while my heart beats with yours for the safety of
that Constitution and Government under which most OF
bornunder which all OF us live, and under which
hope to diewhe my own heart beats with yours for
the unity of this Government, which 10 the hope OF hu-
mainly must remember my relation to it as well
as to you. must remember also that when you come
here you have some doubt as to why the Government
called me away from my late post OF duty All want 10
say this point to ask to remember that whenever
hear the voice of the Government 1t is our duty to
yield it prompt obedience, lcheers to recognise its
right to issue orde and to presume it has good reason
for what it does until know the contrary Thereore
say to all whose satisfaction to-day is marred by the
mugng of disposition to question the action of the
Government that it would be well to she their feelings
and leave that matter for further light may say this
much that the President of the United States since the
battle of Chckamauga, has written me personally to ex
press his entire confidence in me LGreat cheer And
may tell you also that while some very attentive friends
in the city of New York and in Washington appear to be
poaed to my health the Army of the Cumberland does
not agree with them. The Army of the Cumberland
thinks am well enough, and so do / Laughter and
cheers And while some Of my New York friends have
found out that Gems Crttenden and McCook have con
spired to make charges against have Gen johnson
coming to me from Indianapolis with expressions OF ex
treme regret that their should have been coupled
with any such report Cheers As to the quantity OF
opium have taken, you will have to excuse mel refer
you to my druggist Laughter | arrived here one
year ago. with orders to report from Cincinnati 10 the
Adjutant General. have the same orders now III my
pocket that then had [Cheersl
Now, friends and ellowcitizens, presume the Gov
eminent does not intend to attack the character OF her
public officers; and presume that the Government is
not responsible for those attacks upon which were
made prominent in some of the public journals Of
Washington and New York, which copied into the
papers of this city. [Cheers l presume that our Gov
eminent would not make such charges Whatever it does
am willing TO have done.
have nothing further to say than this that if any
thing gives hope for the future of country it is the
noble and self sacrificing spirit manifested by the people,
who, in spite Of the WEAKNESS of warof the loss of
friends and relatives Of children fathers aud brothers.
and all that entails-are devoted and unyleldng.
GCheersl They still convinced that if there is any
hope for this county in the future is in the unity and
preservation of our Government. Cheers. 1t is for
that live, and for that expect to die Long and
tnued applause.
At the conclusion of his speech cheers given for
Gen. Rosecrans and the Army of the Cumberland As the
General retired there rush made for the balcony
and all who could do sought grasp of his hand The
welcome throughout was earnest and hearty.