The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-11-02

Welcome to Elko-speech by Col. 7. J. Henley.
On the arrival OF Hon. G. II. Kendall in
Elko, he was met on the platform by an i'm
mense concourse of citizens of this county.
On behalf of the people, Col. Henley delivered
! the welcome address, which was responded to
by Mr.. Kendall in brief but eloquent reply.
The following is n copy of Col. Henley's adj
dress, as near we could report it in the con-
fusion of booming guns and deafening cheers:
Mr.. Kendall: 1t is my pleasant duty, at the
request of the good people of Elko, to extend
| to you kind and hearty welcome to our
! pleasant little village.
We hail you, sir, and greet you as our
| standard-bearer i'll great and glorlous work
| We are here from all points OF the compass
| representing all nationalIties in the christian
| world and almost every State aud county in
| the Union. separated from our wives, and
| children and our friends, seeking to better our
| condition, seeking to accumulate something
| with which to cheer the hearts of the loved
ones i'll our distant homes. We IRE here. sir,
| to fight the battle of the people, the tuilng
masses, in hand to hand combat with bank
ties, monOpolists, cheap labor advocates,
| thanked on either side by Chinese, JAPANESE,
| Turk-e-e-s. Indians, coyotes, grnsshoppers
and Black Republicans.
In this fight, sir you are orr stnndlrd-bear-
| er. 1t is your duty to carry aloft our banner.
unfured to the breeZes Of Nevada inscribed
upon its highest folds, in close proximity TO
the stars and stripes of our beloved Union,
the never perishable sentiments of the immor-
tai Douglas-"This is a government made by
white men, for white men, and their posterity
forever!
But, sir, it is not fitting that / should now
go into the merits Of this canvass. One thing
more, and l have done. The wave Of fauati-
| piSm M folly nj hiUh taNatipn NJ rnpnnnnly
OF oppression, of madness, of political insani-
ty, which has been so long heaving and dash
ing its foaming crest over our fondest hopes
and crushing our most cherised desires, leav.
ing in its wake the fragments of wrecked
Constitution, ON oppressed, oyer.taXed and
down trodden people, with fiendish invita-
talon to the whole pagan world Chinese, Jap
anese, Kanakas, and canabals from the South
Sea Islands, and negroes from the interior of
Africa, to come to our shores and join in
the carnival of the wreck; to come by steam
boat and railroad, by the steam ship subsidi
, zed by their spoils, and by the slower process:
Of the me:chantman; to come, sir TO Join then
in their unnatural and unholy attempts tc
: wrest from white hands this glorious govern
ment Of Ours and place il in the grasp of the
pagan, the heather, and the savage.
This surging wave, forebodng nothing but
evil has been stayed upon the shores Of thu
Pacific. Oregon and California have in tonei
shores the glad tidings of great Joy thai
white men rule upon the Pacific slope of tb,
: continent. And, now, sir, il IL for IN in th
great interior basin, this land of sagebrusl
and silver, to take up the work by them n
glorionsly begun, and send greeting 10 on
q brethren every where the of tidings of victory
for which, with FACILITATING hearts and bate
, breath, thoynre 30 anxiousy awaiting; tiding
i which shall 90 forth on the wings of the light
, ming, touching Mt New York and radiatin
. through every town and village--over the blu
waters of the Ohio, the turbid waves Of tn
Mississippi, to New Orleans--on to the Caro-
Z linas and Virginia; through the great valley q
tho Missssippi; to the extreme confines o
the Northwest; carrying JOY and gladncss l.
n millions OF hearts now oppressed aud fororn
IL ~ through you, sir, that we propose 10 sen
y forth those joyful ,idngs. Around You stan
a the men Of brave hearts and strong arms
nerved to the task Of rendering the aid yo
, require. You have scarcely nh idea, sir, wha
u thrill Of joy and hope the news Of your cleo
:. ton will send to the hearts Of the hundreds q
. thousands now dropping and doubling an
trembling for the fate Of our country, and /
the hearts Of hundreds OF thousands NOR
who are now groaning under the iron.cla
rulers Of military reconstruction. Your cleo
ton will be hailed ms the harbingor OF conso
! lntion and hope-a light in dark places, whic
: will add its eilulgent rays to the bright illuu
, nations Of Indiana, Ohio aud Penusylyu
mia, which are now sending forth light equa
TO the MONDAY sun athwart tho political sky
But enough we knoic ron will do your duty
yOu hmm 80 will do ours.