The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-29
GEoRdE PEABODY, $50.

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HIS Magnificent Girt--His Reception
and speech at Baltimore Hast Thurs.
day.--Three.f .fourths Of his Immense
FORTUNE Invested I'm Government
Bonds. ..
George Peabody the princely banker,
who gives away such vast sums of
money to educational and charitable
institutions, had q public reception at
Baltimore on Thursday last "a flor an
address Of welcome by the Governor of
Maryland, he responded as follows:
| Your tEZreeNenesE Ladies and Ge,itle-
4. Snen:-I thank you most kindly fort
honor which the Governor Of Maryland
1 has done me in the sentiment which he
4 has expressed; and I thank youS slataies
and gentlemen, for the enthusiasm
which you have been SO kind as to
manifest at the mention of my name.
Enthusiastic ticapplause.1 The Governor
| of Maryland has referred to the assist
anee which he gives me the credit of
4 performing thirty years agoor more,
4 forthe resuscitation, in some measure.
4 OF the credit OF the State of Maryland. !.
The same compliment was yesterday
paid me by the Mayor and Councils
1 In reference tothe same subject. i win
therefore only say to you that what i
did:at that time, any pledge that ever
made at that time has been fully sus-
tanned by the State of Maryland
throughout the duration of that time.
ut is upwards of half q century since
came from Georgetown, in the District
| OF Columbt where L had for some
time been in business, to reside In this
city. / was them but twenty years of
/ age and: commenced business in COM
pany with Mr.. Elisha Riggs, of George
town, ut 2l51S Market street, then called
'Old Congress Hail." and there it was
that gained the first S5OOOof the for
tune with which Providence has
croWned my eXertons. From that Pc
| Eiio9 TOO Iof twenty years of my LIE, though
New England man, and though
strong prejudicess existed even atJfhati
time between the Northern and South
efn States, 4 never experienced from
the citizens of Baltimore ANYTHING but
kindness, hospitality and confidence.
1t would, then, be strange indeed IL L
We're not deeply attached to Baltimore;
land from the time of which / have
spoken to the present moment. Iahaye
ever cherished the Warmest and most
grateful feelings towards the iinhabi-
tants OF this beautiful city, where 1 en-
tered upon a business career which has
been soiprospefous. q yHEh4s
And although have lived abroad. for
more than thirty years, under the Gov
ernmentgofa Queen who is beloved,
not only In her own realms, but
Throughout all cfvi ilized countries, and
who has bestowed upon me very
nigh honor, yetmy appreciation (warm
though it is), of Kindness and honors
bestowed on me in England has never
efaced the grateful remembrahc
WaIm Interest which i must ever cons
meet with the home of my early busi-
ness and the scenes. of my youthful ex-
I am, therefore; glad to meet you
hereto stand again where I can look
upon the scenes which recall SO many
memories otomY younger idRYs-andI
still more glad to receive from you this,
warm greeting, the token that nv
course OF lie ~ has 3 met with your appro-
But yet come to you now, in some
degree, with a saddened heart, ut find.
Ing that nearly all my early acquain-
tanceS in Baltimore have LETT the, stage
of life, and I am left SO nearly alone
among them all, and, in lately looking
over list OF the principal importing
merchants of Baltimore (headed by AZ
e1ander Brown "a Son and Georreand1
JohnIHohman), attached to a circular
addressed to our shipping merchants
In Europe, dated fifty-one years ago,
ana containing ninety three firms, COM
posed of one hundred and seven per-
sons, of whom I am. one. And having
pup once before visited my native land
In thirty years, / feel now as If add dress-
ing a.communfty to whom i am per-
sonally almost wholly unknown, and
as II 1 were standing herea relic ofpast
year,, and Sadd dressing a generatiori 10
which L do not myself belong.
But my interest both in the present
ana IN, future generations is, / trust.
not less than in that which has passed
nr. y passing away the fathers of many
OF you who hear my voice were among
my Intimate friends, and thus situated.
hope Imay not be presumfng In what
snau nave to Say.giM 7P13li,l .F5ttI,sss,il.
since my last visit, nearly ten years
ago, many and great changes have TAX
en- places then had the pleasure of
expressing my. regard for this city. and
my desire for the, good of its future
citizens by the eestabfishment Of the in
stttuttonin which i Iam,now addressing
you. could then hard dlYexpeeteo to live
to address you here at this time. but God
has q been pleased to pEolon6 d NV
years beyond the three score and ten
allotted to man, and to enable me to
carry out at this .timathe views I then
entertained with regard to the opera
lions and benefits Ofthis institution.
With the details of the scheme and
organization of the Institute do not
propose to interfere. i am fully oonfi-
dent that 1 leave them In the hands of
those who are devoted earnestly, and
even enthusiast stically to Sdevising and
carrying ont such plans as will, for all
coming time, work for the highest good
and culture OF those for whom its bene-
fits were intended. But am sure Won
Will pardon me, my fellow-citizens If
on one point to which Governor Swami
has eloquentlyall alluded.-the spirit of fhRr-
mony in which all should be carried ON
II speak few words, coming as they
do trom the very depths of n heart,
and appealing to- you, yOIs the people
OF baltimore, with whom rests the sue
cess or failure of this Institute. For,
as years advance and what were fore
bodings for the future have become
merged in the past, the earnest desire
for unity and brotherly feelings which
I cherished and expressed ten wears
ago, in the terms Just referred to bv the
Governor of ,MaEylAnd,, has become
deeper and 4moEe lntenSasI 1T la NV
hope and prayer that this Institute NAV
not only have and fulfill a mission in the
fields of science, of art and of knoFl-
edge, but also one to the hearts ofmen.
teaching always lessons of peaca andIl
good will, and especially that now IL |
may in some humble idegnee. be instru-
mental In healing the wounds of our,l
beloved aud common country, and es-
tablishtng again happysand harmini.
ous Union-the only Union that can be |
preserved for coming ages, and the onIyfl
one that is IoOTtb preserving. And here
may well refer, to, a subiect, which,
though of a personal nature, has its
bearings on what have said. II have
been told several times that I have been
accused OF want of devotion to the
Union and i take this occasion to place
myself right, for have not a.iWord OF
apology, not a word of ofretraction 70 |