Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-09-27
The Presidential Tour.

| CHATTANOOGA, September 20.-En route
the President and Mrs. Hayes occupied the
rear platform and admired the scenery, and
seemed equally interested in the battle.
fields, whether the Yankees had the better o,
| worse.
at Chattanooga, on Market street, large
monogramic arch, consisting of the letters
| K. B. H., had been erected, from the centre
Of which u large floral key was suspended.
After an address of Welcome aud elaborate
| speeches by the President and Secretary of
State, Governor Hampton came forward and
spoke as follows:
scarcely feel that am authorized to do.
tain you one moment when those of you out
thero are standing in the rain, but l will ut
least have the comfort of knowing if l do 60
that my speech will not be dry one. come
to you, my friends. having met the President
of the United States when he first came upon
Southern soil. The athorities in Louisville
did me the honor to invite me to ioin him
there, and that gentleman himself added to
that honor by expressing the wish that
should come. I went there expecting to
remain only few hours to greet him on
Southern scil as q Southern man, and I
recognize in him man higher than party
man. (Applause.) A man who had forgot.
ten party as lac rose to be : patr!et, and Il
has been my additional good fortune to nc
company him as hoj ojournoyed Southwatd, and
think we may say to- day that he has struck
the solid South. lie is here in Ohattanooca
standing upon your battle SCARED plains.
locking and seeing every hillside crowded
your soil has been stained by precious blood
poured out by brave men who were fighting
honestly for their convictions on each aide
am glad to come here with him and sea tho
motto that you have written there, of peace
and harmony once more restored in our be-.
loved country; and my friends, in tho few
remarks have had the honor Of making. as
have been in this triumphant procession of
the President, have studiously avoided anv
allusion to politics. have tried to subordi,
nsto them entirely to feeling of patriotism
and urge upon you now men of the South.
as lar as possible, to forget past differences
between our people, to devote yourselves to
developing and opening up the best resources
OF this country. want to urge upon YOU
this thing, and we will have power, peace and
happiness evermore. have not spoken of
politics 1t was my misfortune perhaps to
differ in politics from the President Of the
United States, but Democrat as I am. Demo.
crat as have been, there is no man in
America to whom more cheerfaly, cordially
and willingly do honor than the Republican
President of the United States. l do that.
my friends, because he is showing that he is
tho President of the whole United Statos. /
40 that because he, in the very first act of
of his Administration, lifted the great pres
sure which was upon the neck Of my own
people. Many of them said he did but his
duty. Many Of them had neversm cit powder.
Show me tho man who will do his duty With
out fear and without favor. and who will not
40 more than his duty, and clasp hands with
MN and will stand upon the Same platform.
tApplause. He has brought back peace to
our people. has shown that the men who
fought each other can meet in peace and
fraternity without any loss Of respect. We
could could not DO it when the State wac pinned
DOWN sy bayonets, and my right arm should
haze dropped. from my shoulder before I
you'd have given my hand in peace while nv
state state, was pinned pinned down by bayonets. ZAP
plause') When wo felt that every State was
the equal of the other, that every man in
every state vas equal, white and black, whom
the a leader Of the great Republican party, the
dominant party, the representative of men
whom wo f'ught. came forward and said: "We
respect you as men who fought for your con-
,ylct'ons. as mem who fought bravely, and az
long as they couid% when ho came fbrward
and said that to us Of the South, aud extended