The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Presidential Excursion
Departure from Springfield
Enthusiastic Greetings Along
the Route.
Arrival and Reception at Alton
SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT.
Trip Down the Mississippi
Reception in st. Louis.
Arrival and Reception at Alton
SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT
Trip Down the Mississippi
Reception in st. Louis.
Banquet at the Southern Hotel.
SPRINGFIELD, III, $50 A. NJ.

SPRINGFIELD, I'LL, $50 A. NJ.
September S.-The committee of Ar.
rangements; accompanied by a band of
music, together with large number OF
citizens, escorted the Presidential party
to the cars for st. Louis, distant "a miles.
| The State and city authorities as class
had nothing to do with the reception OF
| the President The weather after the
rain last night is bright and beautiful.
We are accompanied by the committee
| from St. Louis, consisting of Bart. Able,
| Chairman, +, 0. Stanard, John +. Darby
| Donnel G.. Taylor, Col. Kossess, Henry L.
Brockmeyer, VIM. Finderan, Col. John
NJ. Williams and Thomas Richardson.
Stopping short time at Chatham and
Auburn, the President was introduced
and loudly applauded Cheers were
also given for the thirty six States The
remaining time did not allow the IN
PRODUCTION of other parties.
vERDEN, 9 AN.
Stopped several minutes, and OH their
being introduced to the people, three
cheers were given each-for the Presl-
dent, Secretary of State and Navy, Cen
| eral Grant, Admiral Farragut and the
| United States. The President being
| called on for a speech, he facetiously said
he had a bad cold, and would give them
one the next time he came along.
GIRARD.
There were similar proceedings at tins
| place. The President was here the re-
| cipient Of a mammoth apple.
CARLINvILLE, 10A.M.
We have stopped five minutes. The
| President was INTRODUCED and received
with three enthusiastic cheers by the
large assemblage.
Hon. John Hogan in Introducing Sec
retary Seward said; He, gentlemen, has
never pulled down the flag Of his coun-
try as your Secretary of State did yester-
day, because the President intended to
| mass under il. This announcement was
applauded.
There was an immense pressure at the
platform. Ladies were requested to
come round to it that they might see the
President. Three cheers were given for
the sc States of the Union.
Cries for the President were heard, and
the band was requested by at least a
hundred voices to stop its music. The
Secretary of War was then introduced,
then Generals Grant and Farragnt, as
elsewhere.
All along the route the cheers were
deafening.
The President made & very brief
speech.
The President, and Generals Grant
and Farragut, were introduced at Ship
man, Brighton, and Monticello, where
the train stopped merely for that pur
pose
1898 AN.
We are now twenty-three miles from
Alton. The eXcuTsionists all appear to
be in good health. They have been lib
orally supplied with refreshments on the
way. The Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company by cOrteous attentions, have
rendered the trip additionally pleasant
ALTON, II NJ.
The party were received here by q
dense mass of persons, many OF them
from the surrounding country, and from
st. Louis and other cities, salutes were
fired and the greatest possible excite
ment prevailed.
The excursioDists were conducted to a
stand previously erected, where the
President, General Grant and Secretaries
introduced. The cheering was wild and
the demonstrations emphatic
SPEECH OF TIE MAYOR OF ALTON.
The Mayor of Alton extended a cordial
I welcome to the President and the states
men and heroes who accompany him, il
a neat and elegant speech. He referred
to the scene at Chicago, the laying of the
Douglas monument cornerstone and
quoted the dying words of the Senator
10 his son, namely, "Be faithful TO the
Constitution aud obey the laws and
the tomb of Lincoln, quoting from the
latter's inaugural addresses words ot
patriotism and charity as the guide Il
duty,
SPEECH OF TIE PRESIDENT.
The President, in his response, re.
turned his thanks, and he stated that he
and Douglass were personal rs well a:
political friends, both engaged in the
same cause of guarding the public lib
erty. The reference made to the Consti
tuition induced him to say it was time K
to consider what the Constitution was
and whether it provides for a govern
ment of limited powers or one of guma
lastic, to be streached at will or pleas
ure. All those who regard the Constitu
tion as the rampant of civil and religion;
liberty must learn that there can be NJ
liberty without law, and, in the Ian
gusge Of ancient Greeks, 'the love oi
liberty is the soul of law" and when We
lose it our liberties are at an end. He
might be censured for his public course
but he stood now whare he stood wher
he first entered upon public life, and
where Jackson stood in 1882, and
there he would stand, notwithstand
ing the yituperations of public mer
and to the press. He stood maintaining
and vindicating the Constitution of the
country, and with one-half of the peo
pie, there he would continue to stand
regardless of taunts and jeers. He ex
horted those who heard him to take the
Constitution and flag into their OWL
hands that flag that. had been borne by
| SO many poble and gallant defender
| triumnhantly on the land and sea anf