Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-21
Greeley's Reception at Cincinnati.
What He Knows about ExpOsitions.
The Coming Millennium Of Labor.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 20.-Horsce Greeley
arrived at Little Miami depot at 3:2O O'Clock
this afternoon in charge of the Reception
Committee of the Boards of Aldermen and
Councilmen from this city,who met him at
the village of Morrow. At the depot he
was met by the entire Common Council in
carriages. Mr.. Greeley was placed with
Mayor Davis in the leading carriage drawn
by four horses. urrier's Band in wagon
drawn by SIX greys led the procession. There
was an immense crowd at the depot, and
Greeley was received with cheers. The whole
line of march to the Burnett House was a
solid throng of people. The demonstra-
tions were hearty and enthusiastic, but did
not assume a political phase. But
few banners were hung out on the
line of march. His reception was as a
guest of the city and as distinguished
visitor to the industrial Exposition. At the
Burnett House the jam OF people was very
great, large details of police being neces-
sagy TO clear the streets. After MIR. Greeley
had remained a little time for rest al the
Burnett House, he was escorted to the EX-
position Hall, the street along the line Of
march being densely thronged with people.
The reception at the Exposition took place
u jsi6 lOOAA- iO"
ladies', the com nissioners, the Mayor and
members OF tbs City Council, had met to
receive him. The reception speech, in be-
half of the Exposition Commissioners, was
made by A. T. GoshoT2, President, and in
behalf of the city by MayOr Davis. MIR.
Greeley responded as follows:
A solitary soldier equipped aud plumed
for war is not an imposing spectacle. Sur
rounded by the agencies and incidents Of
peace, he seems incongruous and fantastic,
arelic of some by-gone age, representative
of social order long since fallen into de-
cay. But mass one hundred thousand such
as he into an army, carefully ranked, thor
oughly disciplined, and supplied with all the
requisite enginery of DETACHMENT and de-
struclion; aud its majestic power, its terrible
significance are plain even to the aWed, ad-
mring gaze of childhood. So the work Of
the lonely pioneer, buried deep in the prim-
tive forest wherein his rude log cabin has
just been thrown up, around which he is
slowly beating back the empire Of shade and
savagism by dint Of ak and fire, seems
petty and casual, when regarded by
itself; but could we from some commanding
height, some ship ct the air, look down at
once upon the whole body Of pioneers at
their daily labor, We should recognize in
their desultory array the skirmish line of
advancing civilization, th4 harbiDger of in
telligence, comfort, thrift, humanity and
religion. The wolf, the bear, the serpent,
perishing or vanishing as the pioneer host
slowly, irregulaIly, yet inexorably moves
Oh, are now seen to be the types of moral
order which civilized society is destined to
supplant and replace. take this to be one
chief end of Industrial Expositions, 10
make the workman realize the es-
sential value and the dignity of his
work. The infinte division and subdivis-
ion of labor exacsed by modern inv6 ntion
and machinery are calculated to obscure
these inspiring considerations. The arti-
zan or artificer degotes his days to making
not a whole watch, but wheel or pinion,
at most a spring. He may give his life to
matchmaking, and yet never see one watch
perfected. AS the most skllful and valued
worker in factory may spend his year in
setting up looms or compromising dyes, and
never make one yard of cloth, the Exposi-
ton is needed to inspirit each with a thor
ougb, cheering consciousness of what has
been effected by the combined labors aud
efforts of all. ! gazed with interest on the
opening of the first " orld's Exposition at
London twenty-one years ago. Apparently
superficial, the procession of Queen and
Princes, of Dukes and Garter knights, in
honor Of the efforts and products of smiths
and weavers smacked ofgrimace and afec;a-
ton. How could they truly honor manual
industry who bad all their lives Stunned it
as degradation? And yet that parade of
feudal trappings and gew-gaws did honor
productive labor, however blindly and even
insincere. No prophecy of the auspici Jus
day when swords shall be beaten into plow-
shares and spears into pruning hooks was
was ever clearer than that procession of
royalty and aristocracy, of plenipotenti-
aries and gold sticks, in waiting to usher