Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-09-27
The Presidents Address.

NIX. RoBINsoS AND FELLOW CITIZENS
OF IOuisvILLE / thank you Tor this
kentucky welcome. The people oi Ken
tucAy and The people OF ONO are Old ac
quaiutances. The early history ot the TWO
States lie 50 blended that you canuot write
the early history OF ONO without hay ny
more than hall It's pages filed about "a
folks OF Kentucky. Applause. And l
suspect you Cannot write Tie history oi
Kentucky without occasionally mentioning
the Stat. ol Ono. Three cheers Tor
ONO. Eight years ago | had occasion
to JOIN la u welcome To the members of the
Legislature aud other distinguished men
OF Kentucky. l cannot undertake to repeat
the emarks then made. but Il seems to
me not inappropriate 10 pursue the same
general course of remarks with which
welcomed the keDtucklans eight years
ago.
My earliest recollections, my earliest
knowledge OF Kentucky Is associated in
deliOly with the conversations and speeches
Of that favored aud most eloquent Cover
nor OF Ohio, and native vi fkenlucky-Gov.
Corwin. He was fond, In his eloquent
speeches aud still more eloquent CONVERSE
tious, OF talking of kentucky and the Ken
tuckians. He used 10 say, with that habit
ot his OF drawing illustrations from the
Scriptures, that il ANY people since the dis
persion on the Plains OF Shinaf were liter
ally Graded In war, it was the people Ut
Kentucky. In childhood ana IN youth
they fought the savages, In the blockhouse
and stockade, by the side Of heir mothers
and sisters; and in manhood they pushed
the hostile savaxes and British Invaders
from Onio and indiana. IL was q common
observation that Kentucky, the trst State
aud the most populous In early times. aud
by lar the most powerful, was always
ready to help Ohio, when she needed help.
In every moment and on every occasion
Of apprehension, Ohio always appealed To
Kentucky. and never appealed in vain
The bones OF kentucky's sons were whit
ened on every battlefield in the Northwest,
aud when savage invasion occurred no
longer, and peace WAS smiling over both
these States, the cordial and frieudiy rela-
tons between them continued on and on.
In 1924, Ohio rejoiced TO cast her vote for
kentucky's fsvorite-Henry Clay-and
twenty years aiterward, l am glad aud
proud to be able 70 SAY that. with the ina
jority OF the people OF Ohio, l east my tirst
vote for Henry Clay. Of Kentucky aud yet
this meeting OF friendship WAS not contiued
to one of,the political parties, for our adver
saries, rejOiced to vote for Col. Il. K. john
son tor Vice President, and afterwsrd for
Butler for Vice.President; aud you recip
rocated the feeling, and gave to our farm
sr.patriot, Gen. harrison, In lS4O, the
highest msjoritv which he received in any
State Of the Union.
This was the course Of events In early
times; but afterward there came an es.
trsngement, and there came division aud
discOrd, and the old friendship seemed to
be gradually disappearing, and afIerwsrd
there came war, but tor the cause of that
estrangement and hostility, Kentucky was
not responsible. Nor WAS Ohio RESPONSE.
bile. Kentucky alone could not remove it,
neither could Ohio alone. nor could both
together, and any man who sees In the A.
fairs Ut ueu, on any OceasiCn, the nDger
OF Almighty God. sees IN That struggle The
ends Of Providence, and the difficulties
perfectly removed-tLe only causes that