The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-13


LONDON, $3.50 p. M.-The President
was warmly welcomed here, as were
also Grant, Farragut and Sec'y Welles.
Gen. McCollom conducted tho introduce
ton her ns at the proceeding places.
Cheers were given for the Constitution
and the Union.
COLUMBUS, 4.SO p. Mon entering
tho station, II salute was fired by Ma
jor KadGurd's battery. The party were
Immediately escorted from the cars to
tho open carriages provided, and ac-
companied by the committee, drove
through tho principal streets to the
court house. Tho entire population of
tho city seemed to have turned out.
Tho limo of tho procession was crowded
with people on the sidewalks, in the
windows, and on horseback. Numbers
of flags were displayed in every direc-
ton. After tho President, General
Grnnt and Admiral FnrrGgut. Tho
most prominent feature of the
procession was n SPLENDID array of
Iiromen. They were accompanied by
their engines, which were guily decOr1l-
ted and arranged in n tasteful manner
to present IA lively scene. Tue finest
point in the route of procession was at
Capitol Square, surrounding the State
House. Hero II largo open area was
filled with people and the balconies of
tho Writ House aud principal stores
were thronged with spectators, among
whom was IL large number of ladies.
Tho yells and huZZns at this point were
very vOciGGrOuS and as tho carriages
turned toward the grounds of the State
House the mass on ench side seemed TO
vic with others in tho enthusiasm of
their shouts. Arrived in front of the
east entranCe, the party alighted and
were COurteously received by the mayor
and members OF tho committee and
Il 11.,RE
WIS consumed i'll securing silence and
when this was obtained Gen. McCullum
introduced, i'll succession, tho President
of tho United States, Secretary Wellcs,
General Grant, Admiral Farragut and
General Custer. These gentlemen were
vOciferOusly Cheered.
MIR. Bull, tho Mayor OF Columbus,
then addressed the President on behalf
OF the Common Council and citizens,
extending to him Il cordial welcome.
He said he had the satisfaction TO know
that the President received this well
come from the councils, and this sDOn-
taneouS Rssemblage on account
of his services in the Senate
and as President of the United States
in maintaining and preserving the
Constitution of the country and the
union of the States. 1t was now his
important duty to assist in restoring
the people of the distracted States to
their former relations to the COVERT
ment. After other complimentary re-
marks he again extended cordial
welcome to the President and the dis
ttnguished gentlemen accompanying
him. The President replied as follows:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES me through
your hOnored representative, on this
occasion, to tender to you my sincere
thanks for the cordial welcome YOU
have given mo, and for the kind allu-
sion both i'll regard to personal charac-
ter and official position. There WINS SO
much confusion that the President had
te pnuse.l and at the same time receiv-
ing me as your fellow-citizen, indepen-
IDENTIFY Ofmy being the Chief Executive
Ofthe United States; [Cheers,] for thank
God, on this occasion, l can proclaim to
you that am IL citizen of the United
States.
1t will be remembered by this large
and intelligent audience that was
once among you as an exile, driven
from the borders of my own State to
seek refuge elsewhere. am grateful
for the cordial welcome received bv
the people mt that time. l come today
as tho Chief Magistrate to receive n
similar welcome, but how different
things are now from what they were
then. Our country was involved in II
civil war which we have just passed
through, in which blood has been shed.
lives sacrificed, and money expended,
But thank God, after all that has been
done, 1t is in my power to proclaim to
you to-day that peace has been made,
and we now come with the cOuntry's
flag containing SO and not with only %
stars. [Applnuse.1 Then what is our
condition now? When i'll your midst
as an exile what was my language and
appeal that l was in favor Of the pre-
servntion of the Union, sustaining the
Constitution of my country, i'll fact,
that wHs my business. stand where /
did then, vindicRting the Constitution
of my country, and appeal to tho peo-
pie to maintain the principles ! then
and now advocate. l then argued aud
urged that the Union could not be
broken; l then COntended that there
was no power or constitutional right
for one of the States to secede. Con-
gresS declared by IL solemn resolution.
that the war ought to be prosecuted for
tho suppression of the rebellion; and
when this was accomplished, tho flow
of blood and expenditure of money
should cease. We now find that the
war has ceased and peace succeeded,
and now the Union under the COnstitu-
ton stands us it did before the rebel
lion commenced But coming out
of the rebellion, we no longer
exist in their own limits. The emunci-
patton proclamation was IL war measure
and the question in name was whether
the courts of the United States would
not declare it unconstitutional, but to
place the matter beyond, it gives a con-
stltutionality for all time that slavery
was abolished. The amendment was
submitted and ratified, thus making il
n law of the land. We found the apple
of discord had so far been removed.
When came into power the question
was presented, What shall be done Z?
We initiated and took steps to restore
tho States to all their authority and
privileges and to their former relations
TO the Federal Government. We found
blockade of commences; this was re.
moved. The custom houses and ports
were reopened and collectors, Judges.
mnrshals, district attorneys and other
officers appointed. Postal facilities
were also restored to all the States.
These things being done, questions
were narrowed to II simple point.
In order to make the restoration
of the union of tho States complete, it
was to restore the principle of restora
ton, principle for which our revolu-
tionary fathers commended when thew
perilcd their lives in separating from
the crown of Great Britain, and put at
jeopardy all they held sacred, in order
to have their independence. They
trusted on-the great principle that the
people should not be taxed without rem
resentatiOn. We have gone on impos-
ing taxes, and those Southern Stutes
come up and say to Congress and tho
nation. that they ought to be represent
ed. Why should they not be represents
ed by loyal members ofCongress? The
question occurs whether or not this gov
ernment shall restore tho great princi-
pie established by our fathers, that re-
presentation and taxation should 20
hand in hand. Aud now nv
countrymen, let me say, that
Congress, that once declared