New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-04
THE LOUISVILLE COMMERCIAL DELEGA
TON

ADDRESS OF GEN. HIRAM wALBRIDGE-THE
PRESIDENTS REPLY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-The delegation ap-
pointed by the Louisville Commercial Convention called
on President Grant this morning. in accordance with
previous arrangement. The Chairman, Gen. Walbridge
spoke as follows:
ADDRESS OF GEN. wALBRIDGE.
Before its adjournment the late Commercial Conven-
ton at Louisville deputed the committee that have
the honor present the high and delicate responsibility
OF expressing Your Exceency sentiments OF gratitude
and recprocaton Of hearty good viii for the wish COM
muncated your dispatch for the success OF the great
objects for which the Convention convened Originally
called TO discuss the exclusive interests OF the Southern
States the theater OF its usefulness was subsequently en-
larged until 1t embraced the material prosperity OF
every section OF extended country Delegates were
in attendance from Vermont and Texas, as also from
Georgia and Minnesota Thus national IN It's character
1t pleasant beyond expression Ia receive encourage
ment at the hands OF the National Executive. lts
deliberations were confined manly 70 the great ques
tions OF finance taxation, Immigration, internal
improvements transportation, and necessary measures
by which the industries ana great natural resources OF
the South could be brought IN harmony with the new era
Of prosperity upon which the Republic has entered one
stand by the pghed faith OF the nation IN the full pay
men OF its public securities as stipulated When were
created and Forgetting al aenGeS e sPo oS 6e
ignored and that the citizens of the United states should
and indivsbIe In Conclusion we desire TO congratu-
late Exceency on the success which has thus lar
marked your administration Enough has transpired to
demonstrate that the expiration OF your second
the public debt may be more than half e1tingulshed
and that American securities VIII conmanca premium
In every part OF the inhabltable globe.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY
President Grant in reply, said he very much graf
flied to receive delegation representing not only
the great commercial interests nation but also the
new condition of affairs. The good-feliowship which
ought 10 unite common brotherhood and which was so
happily inaugurated and invigorated at Louisville he
hoped wond extend and permeate throughout the enre
Union until every vestge OF bitterness or unkndness
should forever be eradcaed He beneYed that<hlthlh
prosperous than ever was before, and the people
have Il within their power by judclous policy ana
advance their own interests ana those OF the
entire country with marvellous rapidly AS 70 his second
term could Gen. Walbrdge he felt now very
much he did at West Point IN his cadet days when he
counted every month with eagerness To get out OF his
position. He had not sought his present pOs'uOh, as
eYerybO knew.
The Hon. IL W. billiard Of Georgia was glad to have
the opportunity saying the President that he
CURED in the cordial appreciation which all parties must
give to the sentiments just expressed by him.
The President Qaughinglyl asked Col Duncan of Ken
lucky the people OF his State thought of the Ad
mnistraton, and whether there any hope OF Ken
lucky ever turning from her present politics.
Col Duncan assured him that Kentuckians, with rare
exceptions fully appreciated the Presidents honest in
do what he could for the good Of the country
and that the teegrapbic message kindly by the
President TO hm for the Convention, and the
newed OF kind feeling toward the people OF
States lately suffering much. would augment and
strengthen the respect which they already entertained
for the Chief Magistrate As Kentucky e would say,
however, that even the Fifteenth Amendment would
very little difference, as tie eolored vote would be
divided and do very little toward breaking down the
90 goo Democratic majority OF the state.
After informal and pleasant conversation OF half an
hour, the delegation withdrew.