The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-07-05
His Reception by the Citizens Of Free
mont. Ohio.
GOV. Hayes Reception speech al
Fremont.

Friends and all: | need not attempt to
nress the emotion | feel ut the reception
which the people of Fremont and oi
this county have given me tonight. On
der GnY circumstances an assemblage OF
this sort at my home to welcome me
would touch me and would excite the
warmest emotions of gratitude. But
what gives to this its distinctive charac-
ter is the fact that those that are proml-
neut in welcoming me home ! know very
well in the past have not voted with me
or for me, and they do not intend IN
the future to vote with me or for me.
1t is simply that coming TO my house
they rejoice that Ohio, that Sandusky
county, that the town of Fremont has re-
ceiyed at that convention that honor,
and thank you, fellow. citizens, Demo
Gratis, Indie endents and Republicans,
for this spontaneous and warm and en-
thusiastic reception. Cheers.
| trust that in the course of events the
time will never come when YOU will have
cause to regret what you do tonight. 1t
is very
GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
that has been placed upon me, to be a
Il responsibility which | know very well
| am not equal to perform. | under
stand well that it was not by reason of
ability or talents that | was chosen.
There were accidents and contingencies
that induced this result. But that
which does rejoice me is that here,
where | was born and spent my child
hood, there are those that come and re-
Nioce at the result. Cheers.
| trust, my friends, that as Irun along
in this desultory way (for you well know
that since | learned that / was to be
here tonight the throng Of letters and
visits and kilograms to answer have given
me no time to prepare for Il reception
like this), you must put up with hastily
formed sentences, very untilly represent
ing the sentiments appropriate to the oc-
casion.
THE GOVERNORS NATIVE VILLAGE.
Let me, if | may do it without too
much egOtism, recur to the history Of
my connection with Fremont. Forty
two years ago, my uncle, Sardus Birch
ard, came to this place, and | rejoice,
my friends, at the good taste and feeling
which has placed his portrait here TO-
night. He having adopted me as his
child brought me to Fremont | recol-
lect well the appearance 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; the old
fort still having some Of its earthworks
remaining SO that it could be easily
traced A pleasant village this was for
hoy TO enjoy himself in. There was the
fishing on the river, shooting water
fowls over the dam, on the islands and
the lake, and perhaps no boy ever On
joyed his departure from home better
than | did when ! EIst came to Fremont.
But now see what Fremont is, how il
has grown. 1t has not increased To a
first-class city, but it has become a pleas
ant home-so pleasant, so thriving, that
| rejoice to think that Whatever may be
the result next fall, it will be pleasant To
return to it when all is over. If defeated.
| shall return to you oftener than IF
GO TO THE WHITE house.
And il 90 there | shall rejoice at the
time when | shall be permitted TO return
to you and be a neighbor with YOU again.
and really we have no cause not to be
satisfied with our home and large inter
ests which will be for us here i'm the fl-
ture. Larger cities always have some
strife and rivalry, from which we are free
and yet we are situated between two com
mcrclal centres, east and west, between
which Is the great highway Of the world,
and we cannot but partake Of their pros
perltY oyer the railroad passing through
GhIs place, or near it, and to pass for all
time to come-the travel and trade of
New ork and San Franoisoo, of Lon
don and Hekin. Every town along this
route partakcs of the prosperity Of this
highway. Upper Sandusky on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago rail
road and Iriiin, that thriving and bean.
t!ful city, through which pa2sos the Bal
tlmore ana thic railroad far south of Us,
Thiie along the Lake Shore passes the
Great Northern division of the Lake
Shore road, making ,he road at this
Place, as 1t were, the great
ARTERY or THE WORLDS TRAVEL
And we can abide with the prosperity
that Is to come in the future.
Those Of our friends who travel in
Europe return sometimes dissatisfied.
because there Is a roughness in this conn.
try not feen IN England and the older
countries of Europe. But then the
greatest happiness, as all Of us know. in
reviewing garden or IA home, is TO see
me Improvements growing up in our
hailds. ms Is what We enjoy, aud the
chahge In Fremont from the time | first
x, it till today gives me pleasure
1here Is another change which makes
me feel sad and gives rise to mournful
reflections. When | came here in 1876
learned the names of many citizens
VINO kne" me in hoyhood- the mayor
MS M father Rudolphus Dickinson, Thos
HAN gas, aAd among others that mar.
vel OF business energy, George Grant
90 might go on, giving name after
name but 1t Is true, that of all that I |
remember seeing on that arrival hsre
not one is with rs tonight. All those |
Who came with me, my mother. nv sistar |
are gone. l have been touched scarcei, !
by anything that has occurred sinoa ~
nomination as much as by letter from a
friend at Norwalk, who wrote. "Tf Sor.
des Burchard could only have lived to !
see this" But this is the order of Prov.
ldence' Events follow upon one another
WAVE FOLLOWS WAVE
Upon the ocean, 1t is for each man n |
do what he can to make others bannv |
That is the prayer, and that is the dnfv |
OF life, Let us, my friends, in every |
position undertake to perform this. for |
me L had no reliance except that which |
Abraham Lincoln had when he went
from his friends at Springfield when he