Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-10

PRESIDENTIAL EXCURSION,
Departuro from springfieId.


bright and beautiful, and the best humor
prevails among the excursionists. We are
accompanied by the committee from ST.
Louis, consisting of Burt. Able, Chairman,
y. o. Stonnard, Jno, s. Darby, Donnel G.
Taylor, eX7MayOr of st. LOUIS Col. Jno.
Knapp, proprietor OF Republican, HenryC G.
Brackmager, President of the Board of
Alderman, William Finderan, Col. Jno. M.
Williams and Thos. Richeson, 8,
Stopping short time at Chatham and
Auburn; the President was introduced and
applauded. and cheers were given for the
thirty-six States. Time did not allow the
Introduction of the other parties. ~ =
AZ Varden.T
WARDEN. 9:2S A. M.-Stopped several
minutes. On their being introduced to the
people three cheers were given, each for
the President, the Secretaries of State and
Navy, Gen. Grant, Admiral Farragut and
for the United States. Gen. Grant was call
ed on for speech. He facetiousIy said he
had bad cold, and would give them one
the next time he came along.
At Gerard. - s,
GERARD, 8.-There was a similar pro-
ceeding at this place. The President was
here the recipient of mammoth apple.
Al CnrlinViIIe.
CARLINvILLE, ILL, 10 A. M.-We have
stopped five minutes. The Presidents was
introduced and received with three en-
thusiastic cheers by the large assemblage.
Hon. Jno. Hogan, in introducing Secretary
Seward, said: HE, gentlemen, has never
pulled downthe flag of his country, as your
Secretary Hall did yesterday, because the
President wanted to pass under it," ~
This announcement was applauded.-
There twas an immense pressure to the
platform. The ladies' were requested to
come round to 1t, that they might see the
President. Three cheers were given for
the thirty-six States of the Union. Cries
for the President were heard, and the band
was requested by at least hundred voices
to stop its music. The Secretary OF the
Navy was introduced and applauded, and
with General Grant and Admiral Farragut.
AS elsewhere all along the route the cheers
were deafening. The President made a
brief speech, in which he said: Now that
armed rebellion had been overthrown, we
had toturn our attention to peace. Hewas
free to say he was gratified with the public
demonstrations on the way. He dldhot
look upon them as having been made with
reference to himslf personally, but if
General Palmer here stepped from the car
10 the platform, and persuasively requested
the people to keep quiet, as the President
had onlya few moments to stay.l 81
The President resuming, repeated, he
did not look on these demonstrations as
personal to himself but as evidence of the
feeling of the people foreboding the great
issue before the country. We have passed
through perilous conflict, and the great
question now is the preservation of the
Union your fathers have handed down to
Hau IA 20
tion almost at the feet of Andrew Jackson,
in 1882 and 1888, he intended to maintain
the Union of theStates. The question was,
whether we should continue to have the
Constitution as our fathers made it, and
Union of thirty-s six States, or whether all
the powers of Government shall be observ-
ed add consolidated with Union of only
twenty-five States. He continued to speak
until the cars began to move, when he was
greeted with enthusiastic cheers, and for
Union of thirty-six States. riaa-3
The President and Gen. Grant and Ad-
Iniral tFarraght were introduced at Ship
man, BrightoniandI Monticello, where the
train halted merely for that purpose.
10:33.-We are now % miles from Alton.
The excursionists all appear to be in good
health. They have been literally supplied
with refreshments on the way. The Chi
courteous attention, have rendered the trip
additionally pleasant. r.
.-. Al Alton. @
ALTON, ILL, Sept. 8, Noon.-The party
were received here by dense mass of per-
sons, many of them from the surrounding
country and from st. Louis and other cities.
Salutes were fired and the greatest possible
excitement prevailed. The excursiOnists
Nxyor taA IN a cta eIx
ed, where the President, Grant, Farragut,
Secretary Seward and Secretary Welles
we're respectively introduced. Tie cheer
ing was wild and the demonstrations en-
phatic. 20
THE MAYORS WELCOME.
The Mayor of Alton extended a cordial
welcome to the President, the statesmen
and heroes who accompany him, In a neat
speech, sayi ing that, however much the citi-
zens differed, 1t was irrespective of party.
He alluded to his recent presence at Chi
cago, laying of the Douglas monument
cornerstone, and the dying words of the
late Senator to his sons, namely: "Be
faithful to the Constitution and obey the
laws" and also referred to the visit yester-
day to the tomb of Lincoln, quoting from
the latter's inaugural address words of
patriotism and charity as the guide to duty.
3D., THE PRESIDENTS RESPONSE.
The President. In his response, returned
bis thanks, and said he and Senator Doug
las were personal as well as political friends,
both engaged in the same cause of guard
ing the public liberty. The reference made
to the Constitution induced him to say, 1t
was time to consider what the Constitution
is-whether 1t provided for a Government
Of limited powers, or. was made of gum.
elastic, to be stretched at will and pleasure.
All those who regard the Constitution as
the rampant of civil and religious liberty
must learn there can be no liberty without
law, and in the ladguage of the ancient
Greeks, ''the love of liberty'is the soul of
law" and when we lose it our liberties are
at an end. He might be reproached for his
public course, but he stood now where he
stood when he first entered upon public
life, whele he stood when the rebellion
commenced, and where Jackson stood in
1882, when 1t was proposed to dissolve the
Union of these States; and there, he
would stand, notwithstanding the vitu-
perations of public men and q the |
eating the Constitution of the country, and
with the help'of the people there he would
continue to stand, regardless of taunts and |
jeere. He exhorted those who heard him |
to take the Constitution and flag into their |
own hands-that flag which had been borne
by So many noble and gallant defenders,
triumphant on land and on sea-to come
forward like, men, forgetting party |
and party associations. We have heard |
talk about emancipation and, abolitionsl
Now who did more than he had done inf
behalf of that cause? But he would tell |
them that more emancipation was needed, |