The Portland daily press., 1877-09-17
THE PRESIDENT in CINCIN-
Natl.
He Talks Abou. Business and the po,icy,

He Talks About Business and the PoIicy.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 5.-Although the Presi-
dent expressed desire that no formal reception
be given tonight, it was deemed improper that
no recognition be taken of his presencs in the
city, or that his arrival should only be greeted
by personal friends. From dark until after the
procession disbanded the streets along the line
of march were densely packed by good-na-
tured multitude, who moved slowly along, view
ing many beautiful decorations and illumina-
tions thickly distributed along the route ard
adjacent streets.
The train bearing the President and party
arrived at the Cincinnati, Hamilt IN 81 Dayton
depot at p. ~. The procession moved from
there to the lower end of 4th street. up 4th to
Walnut hating at the Gibson House. where
President Hayes was welcomed on behalf of the
people of Cincinnati by Rev. DR.. Lllienthal in
brief address.
President Hayes was cheered on stepping on
the balcony. He said:
Fellow ctizans-Tbese enthusiastic greetings
and this very generous welcome by my old
friends and neighbors of Cincinnati are indeed
very gratifying to me. l do not take them as
mere personal compliment. l understand that
largely they mean that you are attached to the
principles of the government of the United
States (applause). l trust also that may &C.
cept this demonstration as in part due to the
fact that the people of Cincinnati approve the
general course of the administration in regard
to the great and difficult questions of how to
bring about complete and permanent pacifca-
ton in this country (cheers). The whole coun-
try all sections, all states, all people, all races
and classes are deeply interested in the perma-
nent pacifcation of the country (cheersl; but,
my friends, no part of the people of the United
States are more deeply interested in restoring
harmony between the North and the South
than the people of Cincinnati (cheers). During
the greater part of the period of my residence
in Cincinnati, this city was border city. 1t
was like Baltimore and Louisville, border
city. On the other side of the line was popu-
lation, by circumstances beyond our control, in
some degree alenated and estranged from us ;
but, my friends. the great object of desire with
the gentlemen associated with me in the gov
ernment, the great object of desire with me, is
to change all that. L wish to see Cincinnati
occupy the position which her geographical
location entities her to occupy. L wish Cincin-
natl to be one of the great central cities of the
best part of the best continent on the globe
(cheers).
believe, my friends, that the day is coming
nay, believe the day has come. when the
great conflict that ragged between us for more
than fifty years is to be closed (cheers), and
how deeply are we interested in it, Four years
since the great crisis in monetary and business
affairs, and yet the depression has not entirely
passed away. -Four months ago, in New York,
in the presence of large assembly of mer-
chants of that city, thought proper to say that
in my judgment we might look for an early,
encouraging and decisive indication of res
toration of business prosperity throughout the
country. To-day, my friends, think may
say, in the opinions of wise and prudent OBJ
servers, these indications which 1 predicted
have come to pass. Look at it. They are not
perhaps as decided as we could wish, but was
informed to-day that the railroads of the north
west, beginning to carry to market the great
crops, are already earning more than at any
previous similar period of a year since the crash
of 1873. In our own state l am told the Lake
Shore road is doing a larger business than ever
before, and that the wholesale merchants of
the great cities are beginning to have trade
greater than at any time since the panic. Col
lections are more easily made than at any time
since the panic, and we all know that the true
basis of all prosperity is agricultural prosperi-
ty, which this year is assured.
We do not claim for auy administration the
advantages that come to the country from good
crops but my friends it seems to me that we
may ask some approval from our fellow citi-
zens if we have placed large part of our coun-
try in condition to give their full attention to
the raising of crops (cheers). As ilong as dis
content with the government AMI with their
fellow citizens of the north existed in the
southern States we all know that politics would
receive more attention than busiress; but now
I think am authorized to say to you that the
whole country begins again to think more of
industry, of improvements, Of business, than
politics (applause).
No part of our country can lack prosperity
without affecting the prosperity of all. The
prosperity of one section is the prosperity
of all sections. 1t is with ideas like those
that we enter upon the work of paci-
fcation. It has been my good fortune during
the last ten days to be present at the great SOL
diers' re unions, of soldiers of the North, and
passing among them and gathering their opin-
ions, / found that one and all they are ready to
come again to the ancient friendship and har.
mony, with the sole basis of cordial recogni-
ton of an obedience to the constitution as it
now is with all its recent amendments, CHEERS
But I have detained you too long, (cres of
''no," Ego on" &c., I feel upon this subject
that am treading in the pathway marked out
by the fathers as they stood shoulder to should
er and side by side, men of the North and men
of the South, and wish to see the day within
the next three or four years when again all
causes of dssension will, like slavery, be re-
moved forever, and when once more the ancient
concord and friendship will be restored, Cloud
and prolonged cheering) This is my hope,
this is my ambition, to do something to pro-
mote and advance this great purpose. When
you approve of that, my fellow citizens, you
approve what am trying TO do.
And now 1 will detain you no longer. I
simply wish to say, that what has been done
has not been done merely because we could not
help doing it, but because it was wise and
right to do it, (applause.) L believe with Pres
ident Lincoln, and indeed look to these com
ing days, as fulfillment of his aspirations.
In his first inaugural he said, 1.-THE mystic
chords of memory, stretching over every bat
tlefeld and patriot grave, the every loving
heart and every hearthstone throughout this
broad land, would swell the chorus of the un-
ion, touched as it will be by the better angels Of
our nature"