Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-15
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THE PRESIDENTS RECEPTION
~ , In CINCINNATI. nj l.ti-a

on Wednesday morning, September 18th,
Hon. WINS. GRoEsBECK delivered the fol-,
lowing Address of Welcome: ~, r,.f-u ....
-1".iI MR. GRoEsBEcK's ADDRESS. 'Hs< ..L
Mr.. PREsIDENT:-During the war Ind
the pleasure of welcoming you here as q
Senator from the State of Tennessee, escap-
ing from personal peril. L welcome you
to-day as the Chief Magistrate oftheUhited
States, accompanied, on your return to the
Capital by its most distinguished officers,
civil and military. In the name of our Cit
izels, tender you all cordial welcome,
and our warmest thanks for your great SER
vices. When i look back Upon the extra-
ordinary dangers we eencountered-th dam
ger of foreign intervention, too threaten
ing to be oVcrstated; the danger on the sea,
the danger on the land. the danger In our
civilpolicy, and now See before me the men
who were among the most conspicuous for
zeal, and ability, and patriotism, in delv-
ering us from them all, were heartless in
deed, and our people most ungrateful, If
we withheld the expression of our waTmest
thanks! o Checrs.l We have thanks for the
Secretary, thanks for the Admiral, thanks
for the General, and thanks for you, Mr..
President cheers thanks for you all, for
yourlong, arduous, perilous and triumph
ant service. IL is not easy, Mr.. President
for those of us who were in private life
and remote from danger, to appreciate
the difficulties and pelils that were cncoun-
tered. i'l i|-HnN' n'.Hti. .li ~ i.a 'H
/ remember your own case. Mr. Presi-
dent: the trials and temptations that beset
You, all withstOOd, and leaving you the sole
Representative from the South IN the Senate
Chamber. remember the rougher trials
and dangers you encountered in the very
heat and flame of the war your own State,
trials of which those not exposed know but
little, and when | recall your firmness Of
purpose, your unfaltering courage and pat
fiotism, your fidelity, proved literally in
the furnace Of war, l render you, in the
name OF the people and of every patriot in
the State cordial welcome, [Cheers,l
Nor only so. may safely offer you the
same welcome for your active and effective
eo-operation-I say cooperation, not mere
acqlIiescence--in the work of emancipation,
and for your earnest desire and efforts to
heal the wounds of war and restore the
harmony and union of the States without
delay. f"Good," and cheers, May not
thank you. also, for declining to accept the
extraordinary powers of the Freedmen's
Bureau bill? powers so dangerous to in
trust, so difficult to recall hope the pre-
eedent of refusing to enlarge his power
may be,repeated and repeated in the future
history of every Chief Magistr ate, and tits
to your honor, Mr.. President, that you
have, thus far, notwithstanding your OPP
pOrtunites. and l might even say, tempta-
tiOns, done nothing tending to the unneces-
sary Capitalization of power at the national
Capital. [Cheers.] That is our danger.
And now, Mr.. President and gentlemen,
we rejoiceto to know that the bloody, vast
ing. fratFicidal war is over. l.eg ~. moi,
The jurisdiction of the Government in
all the fullness it was exercised, before the
war, is restored throughout the land, and
all its departments are resuming their ac-
customedi functions without hindrance, aud
upon Invitation. Onr cherished writ of
hdbeds corpus is, everywhere restored. The
causeiess, cruel rebellion is crushed. The
Is over. The Admiral is here. and not
on the monitor; the General is here, a d
not in the field; /; our armies are diSbanded,
and our soldiers have returned to their
peaceful avOcations, and thisIha been so
for more than year. Surely, we have
peace. The necessities of war, it has been
claimed, override constitutions and laws; !;
but it is idle to claim this in condition of
peace. What then? Ours is a cOnstitu
jtiohal Governments and our desire Is that
10 may be administered under the CONSTR
tution,y [Cheers.l We want the Union as
our fathers made it. We fought for the old
Union, and we fought for nothing else.
[GheeF5.] Slavery was our only trouble.
1t is gone. and now we ask that we may
have continued 10 us that Government
which we received from our fathers. We
know it.; we are accustomed to it; we are
attached to it; it has answered in times
Of peace; It has answered in times of war.
We dread the doctrine that all experiments
and the tendency to centralization and des7
potism always incident to war. am not
here to discuss party issues or to invite their
discussion BY you. ...r.. Ina. ,.,,,,. ..,r,.
| may simply say that | recognize the
doctrine that all the States are In the
Union, with all their accustomed powers,
and it seems to me the present Congress
has admitted it. The amendment it now
proposes is, by its terms, submitted to, the
Legislatures of, all the States. Not to con-
ventions in the States, nor to Legislatures
hereafter to be elected, but to the present
Legislatures. I-aood ol r9twrH .riI"1-
"A Territory or province can not vote on a
constitutional amendment, and no organ
ization outside of the Union can so vote !;
nothing but d State. In the Union, just
as Ohio is, can so vote. II [wGoUdI Y and
cheers. uilt would seem that a. State in
the Union, to participate in the high
act of amending the Constitution, the
paramount law, and the supreme legisla-
ton, must be in the Union to participate in
its ordinary, inferiorlegislation,
n But, ! leave all discussion, and | close
with the expression of single wish. /
have called this iratricidal war, aud twas,
We and the South are one;people. with a
common lanoestry, and related by the ties
of blood, and in all ways. Our kindred are
among them their Kindred are iamOug US.
Our dead are in their graveyards; their
dead rare in ours. We exchanges almost
daily greetings, and are bound to each
other by ties that will never be suldered.
Notwithstanding the ill-will aud bad blood
engendered by the war, and started anew
somewhat by the sharp antSgonisms
springing from party. strife, there Is at last,
behind all this, an abiding affection. We
RoulCb invoke this potent, agency to the
work of restoration. Cancellation aud
.xinHness constitute the true policy for The
hour. The General to whom 1 have ali
ready allnded, tniedoit in the terms agreed
upon at the surrender of Lee. How magl-
cal was, the, result, how absolute was the
surrender that followed, and how, encopr-
aging the feeling tliat swiftly pervaded the
S0uth!' Our wish Is that you may e0na
tinue it toward the South, in the1North,
and yeverywhere!0 yn0L.
Iwas present when the remains OF your
predecessor, sO-sbasely- murdered, passed
through the city of New York. In COR
ner or EnionE Square, and 1oppesiteg the
statue Of Washington was erected a. tenn
porarH monument, on the base Of which
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