The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-08

AO'A ''h aspire, we are glad to see you
coming down Gmmense cheering by the
freedmen present)-among us, the companions
OF your youth Mr.. President, you who have
Deen the Moses of our colored friends and
voters you who have faced all the dangers of
Faro at the Capital of the nation. In the name
OF the people of my State, welcome you to
the subsoil of your nativity. (Cheers.)
Mr.. Battle having spent his force and re-
treated in good order, the President opened on
him, with the evident intention 90 t.aoirc
him" as the Secretary ha,S. prophesied, as
follows -
Fellow City ~.
ans of expressing my emotions "a
voice, "The Yankees broke up all the express
companies in the war.'D (Great laughter.)
have no language certainly with which to
frame an appropriate address. (Another voice,
"Frame it in guilt - cries of "Put him out ''
and "Goodp') No, gentlemen, don't put him
out; he can't put me out, for l have no set
speech for this occasion. did not expect to
speak here, you must excuse me.
The President having concluded, the raging
Battle turned on Secretary Seward and Post
master Randall, and attacked them as fol-
lows -
am likewise commissioned to offer you
cordial welcome (''We don't drink I" inter-
rupted the Secretary to our State, and hope
you will pass your time agreeably, and retain
pleasant impressions of your visit.
Mr.. Seward replied as follows:-
can certainly say for myself that am
taken little aback by the size and weight of
my North Carolina friends, and l can only say
that if ever l am induced to fight Battle, it
will not be in North Carolina. (Cheers.)
Here Mr.. Seward threw up the sponge, and
Mr.. Randall stepped into the ring.
also return my thanks, like my friend the
Secretary of State. 1 have much pride in
visiting the birthplace of the Honorable Presi-
dent of this great nation-pride because the
Office of President, next to that of Postmaster
General can bestow more good offices upon
the people CHEERS and laughter) than any
other power in the world. l know this is the
feeling which animates the President, and
nothing would better please me than to see
this land full of post offices and postmasters.
The Presidential party was now joined by
the Raleigh delegation. One cannot help but
feel how false is human friendship, for it
seems no difficult matter now to get up a
Johnson party, yet we know how it would all
vanish into thin air at the polls. The train now
left for Raleigh and passed dozen stations
where groups of all sizes and colors were
gathered, which the President acknowledged
by sending Mr.. Seward to the rear of the car
to do the bowling.
At Kitrell's Spring the party stopped for
refreshment, and amid the popping of corks
and the fzzing of the liquid amber, the Presi-
dents spirits seemed to revive. An hour
passed, when the whistle of the engine sig
nailed the party to stop whetting their
whistles, and resume the pilgrimage to the
bitter end.
Crowds appear at every station, and in about
a couple of hours the party arrive at Raleigh.
Here they were met by the Mayor, who pushed
his way through the crowd and commenced
talking to the President, while dozen other
voices were so interrupting him that the Presi-
dent could not tell who was the official. Secre-
tary Seward remarked that probably they had
found a Mayors nest. This, of course, put
the crowd into fit of laughing, which the rea
| Mayor took advantage OF, and began thus:-
Mr.. President:-Allow me, sir, in behalf o.
the City Council of Raleigh, to tender you 6
cordial welcome. Many of the friends anC
associates of your youthful days were drafted
into the Rebel army, and have not yet come
back; indeed, we have ceased expecting them
but such of us as are left are delighted t.
honor one who has assembled the ladder O
fame to the topmost round without falling al
the way to the ground, and only put his foo
between the rounds four times. (Cheers.)
To this piece of hattery the President replied
as follows:-It would be affected in me to say
am proud of my performances on the ladder
and to say / could do it again; but thank
| you for the welcome.
The President was then escorted to the Var
borough House by General Sickles, as the Gen
eral has done with agitators before, and was
introduced to the crowd by Governor Worth
The Governors speech, which we quote from
memory, reads this wise:-Gentlemen and
Ladies' have the honor to introduce to you
his Excellency the Constitution Of the United
States, alias Andrew Johnson. He visits the
city of his nativity to tell us about the Consti
tuition. We desire the occasion to be one o
harmony. shall, therefore, make no allusior
to any subiect now dividiup nublic Oninion