The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-09-11

| luents Visit 70 st Louis, IN addition to the
Associated Press dispatches After the
procession the President was called out at
the hotel and spoke as follows:
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
FELLow-CTTrzEss, OFFICERS AND SoLprsRs
Permit me here this day to tender through
your honored representative, the Mayor, my
profound thanks for the cordial welcome he
has extended me from the citizens, prospect
| i've Of business, calling, or opinions on polit-
ical questions. For this cordial and sponta.
neous welcome confess to you that Ian
guage Is inadequate to express my gratitude.
do not look upon this demonstration as to
| the number Of persons which has made this
! visit to st. Louis, but J look upon 1t as an
indication Of the popular heart moved with
reference to questions now agitating the
public mind. Applause. And, believing
this, come before you with the country's
flag bearing thirty-six stars, with the Con.
stitution in one hand and the Union in the
other, believing that, with your help and the
help Of God, the Constitution and The Union
can be preserved. [Emphatic applause.
The time has come when the great masses Of
the people Of the United States should look
to constitutional government, and on
emerging from the chaotic condition in which
they were plunged, and resuming onr former
relations, II behoOves every man who loves
the law and the Constitution TO see that the
questions involved are properly adjusted. In
leaving the stand leave with you the Con.
stitution your fathers purchased with their
blood Renewed cheers turn over to
you the nag Of the country, not with twenty.
five, but with thirty-six stars. Turn over
10 you the Union. 1t will be protected and
cherished in your hands, and so FAR Us am
concerned being The humble medium in the
Executive Department God being willing
they shall be defended and protected at all
hazards. Renewed applause. Then, please
accept my profound, my sincere, heartfelt
thanks for the cordial welcome which you
have given me on this occasion. ..-'
The President was vociferously Gheered as
he retired from the balcony
Secretaries Seward and Welles were intro
duced and applauded
Next came Gen. Grant, when the cheers
were terrific, concluding with "tigers" and
EXPLANATIONS Of "Hurrah for Grant p .. .
Admiral Farragut was also introduced and
he, too, received the plaudits Of grateful
people for important services rendered to the
country. He made few remarksoexpres-
sive Of his thanks.
SPEECH OF Mr.. SEWARD.
Secretary Seward was called upon for q
speech. His advance to the front was greeted
with applause. He said: ....
FELLow-CrrIzENs: In all political history it
is not recorded that every Secretary Of State
spoke in the presence Of the Chief Magis-
trate, who, like kings and emperors, has min.
listers whose duty it is to be silent, and advise
and record-never to open their lips in the
common service Of all the people. But this
70 ha daxr Of, ,nlitioaI L.,
which hear men of all States and all coun-
tries talking in their own language. hear
men Of all the States-Il linoisians, Missou-
rians, Kentuckians Louisianians and Massa-
chusetts men-all speaking in their own Ian
guage, but all that language comes to my
ears in one euphony: AFTER five years Of
~ar we want peace" Applause.] We want
peace at home, now, henceforth, and forever,
and we are willing to accept war from any
other nation when God chooses to raise up q
nation against us. Applause.
Now, fellow-citizens, we have travelled and
made long journey from the capital to the
great City Of the Lakes, where we have at
tended, as became our duty the imposing
ceremony Of paying honor to the memory OF
a great statesman of the Northwest, Of whom
the nation was bereaved in the hour of his
greatest virtue. And we have visited, as
was our duty, the last resting place to which
were conveyed the remains Of the great mar
tyred President, Abraham Lincoln. l[Cries
in the crowd-"Hats OFF, We are now on
our return to the national capital. What
message shall we carry from this great city
to the cities on the Atlantic coast2 Shall II
be said that Missouri wants more Of civil
war? [Cries Of mo! Nov'] Does she want
herself or any single one Of the thrty-six
az Of hio ITnia,n ID a
tation In Congressf Renewed cries Of mo!
No!"l 50 that they only come in q loyal
attitude, and in the persons Of loyal repre-
sentatives! tCheers.] You are content,
then, with the results! You are prepared to
abide by the Constitution of the United
States? Cries Of Eyes, we are" You are
prepared to abide by the highest law, which
commands us to love our enemies, and re-
'ceive and accept our brethren to our bosoms?
Renewed cries OF eyes, that's it'll This,
then, is your message, and we will convey it.
Now, let me tell you this message from the
west bank Of the Mississippi, HOO miles
above the ocean tide, and 1920 to the high
est navigation Of the Missouri, will be q po-
tential message which will be listened to with
respect in Faneul Hall, in the City Hall of
New York, the Hall of Independence in Phil
adelphia, in Baltimore, around the tomb of
Washington, in the capital Of the United
States, in New Orleans and on the Pacific
coast-it will be so potential message be-
cause ii comes from the Constantinople of
America" -,
Secretary Seward left the portico amid
demonstrations of applause. The crowd re-
manned for long time in front Of the hotel
The New York Herald correspondent SAYS:
1.-THE procession was elegant and complete
beyond anything ever witnessed out of New
York, and far exceeds anything witnessed
since our departure from that city, The peo-
pie were wild with enthusiasm, and carried the
spiritinto all their manifestations and actions
OF the speech on the evening of the ban
quet the same correspondent remarks:
His intention was to do nothing more
than return thanks for the ovations of the
day, but some malcontents in the crowd
commenced Interruptions, as they did at
Cleveland, and provoked him into more ex-
tended remarks, in the use Of which he
charged the rioting and bloodshed at New
Orleans upon the radicalsm of Congress;
showed up the dishonesty of that body in its
pretended love for the soldier in the matter
of bounties and their affected sympathy for
the Fenians in the matter of the neutrality
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