The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-26

IpObluOu Ot 1hlumhVJ uLnOuuLb 10 tlOuB-
; ands OF German Republican votes in
New York. The fight they make Is against
the very idea the Germans as warmly
cherish. .u.r u .,.-.
A Reception to Governor Hayes
at Fremont, OhiQ-His Speech
on the Occasion.
Fremont, o, June 25.-The following
Is Governor Hayes speech at the resep-
tion rendered him last evening; acopy Of
which was received too late for transmits.
sion last night. Gov. Hayes arose and
after quietness was restored said:
"MR. MAYoR-Fsaov Gti=ens-Frend,
l-Naghbors and ALL need not attempt
10 express the emotion ! feel at the re.
ception which the people Of Fremont
and this county have given me TO-
night Under any. circumstances
an assemblage Of this sort at my home
10 welcome me would touch me, and
would excite the warmest emotion of
gratitude, but what gives 10 this It's dis
finctiye character IL the fact that those
that are prominent in welcoming ME
home, I know very we'll in the past
HAVE NOT VOTED WITH NE OR FOR ME.
They do not intend in the future to vote
with me or for me. It ia simply that,
coming to my home, they rejoice that Ohio,
that Sandusky county, that the town OF
Fremont has received ut that convention
that honor. I thank you, Democratic
iellow.citizens and Independents, and Re.
publicans, for this spontaneous, and warm,
and enthusiastic reception. Cheers. l
trust that In the course Of events the
time will never come that you will have
cause to regret what you do tonight
1s A VERY dREAf RESPONSIBILITY
that has been placed upon me, to be rep.
resentative OF twenty millions Of people,
responsibility which l know very we'll
that am not equal 10 perform. 1under-
stand very we'll that 1t was not by reason
Of ability or talents THAT l was chosen.
There were accidents and contingencies
that caused this result.
Duf THAT WHICH DOES REJoIcE ME
is, that here in the home Of my childhood
there are those that come and rejoice at
the result. [Cheers.] 1 trust, my friends,
that you will excuse me as run along in
this desultory way; for you we'll know that
since learned / was to be here to-
night, the throng Of letters, visits and
kilograms to answer, have given me no
time to prepare. for q reception like this.
You must put up with hastily formed
sentences very unfitly representing the
sentiments appropriate to the occasion.
Let me, II I may do il without too much
egotism, recur to the history OF my con-
nection with Fremont. Forty-two years
ago my Uncle Sardis Burchafd came to
this place, and / rejoice, my friends, at
the good taste and feeling which has
placed his portrait here tonight, he hav-
Ing adopted me as his child and brought
me to Fremont. Irecollect we'll the ap'
pearance OF the then Lower Sandusky,
consisting Of a few wooden buildings
scattered along the river with very little
paint on them and these trees, none Of
them grown.
t' THE OLD FORT
still having some Of It's earth works re-
naming so that it could be easily traced.
A pleasant village this was for boy 10
ehjoy himself in; there was the fishing on
the river, shooting water fowls over this
dam, the Island, and the lake, and per-
haps no boy ever enjoyed his departure
from home better than / did when I first
came to Fremont. But now see what
Fremont is, how il has grown. 1t has
become pleasant home, SO pleasant, SO
thriving that |
,.m IREJoIcE TO THINK
that whatever may be the result next fall,
It will be pleasant to return when all is
over. If defeated, ! shall return to you
oftener than If I 60 to the White House,
and II 60 there 1 shall rejoice at the
time when I shall be permitted to return
TO you to be neighbor with you again,
and really we have no cause to be dissat-
isfed with our home and the large inter.
ests which will be for US here in future.
Larger cities always have some strife and
rivalry from which we are free, and yet
we are situated between two commercial
centres, the East and West, between
which Is the great highway Of the world,
and we cannot but
rARTAKE OF THEIR PROSPERITY
over the railroad passing through this
place, near IL to pass for all time to
come, the travel and trade Of New York |
and SAM Francisco, Of London and Pekin.
Every town along this route partakes Of
the prosperity Of this highway. Upper
Sandusky on the Pittsburgh, Fl. Wayne
& Chicago Railroad, and Titiin, that thriv-
ing, and beautiful city through which
passes the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
far south Of US, while along the lake
shore passes the great northern division
Of the Lakeshore road making the road
at this place as it were.
.... THE GREAT ARTERY
Of the worlds travel, and we can abide
with the prosperity that is to come In the
future. I.-l1E
Those Of our friends who travel in
Europe return some times dissatisfied be.
cause there is q roughness in this coun.
try not seen In England, and the older
countries OF Europe, but then the great
est happiness as all Of us know i. in pre-
pairing garden or home, is to see the |
Improvements growing up in our hands.
This Is what we enjoy and the change In |
Fremont from the time l first knew Il till |
to-day gives me pleasure. There Is an
other change which makes me feel sadder |
and gives rise to mournful reflections.
When came here In 1916 l learned the
names Of many citizens who knew
me in boyhood. There was, Mr..
Mayor, your father Rudolphus
Dickinson, and Thos. Hawkins. Among
others, that marvel oil business energy.
Geo. Grant. And SO / might 90 on giving |
names after names, but It Is true Of all |
that remember seeing on that first visit,
not one is with us tonight, all those
who came with me, my mother and ais.
ter, are gone. I have been touched scarce
ly by anything that has occurred since
the nomination, as much as by letter
from q friend at Norwalk, WHO wrote,
SIf Sardis Burchard could only have
lived TO know this.n But this Is in the
order Of Providence, events follow upon
one another as wave follows wave upon
the ocean. II is for each man 10 do what
he can TO make others happy, that is the
prayer and that is the duty Of life. Let
US my friends, in every position under
take 10 perform this.
For me l have no reliance except that
which Abraham Lincoln had when he
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