Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-27
TIE President,s southern Airing.

C,nccrning President Hayes's ap-
peamnce in Louisville and the
speeches and feeling of tho people
upol the occasion, the coarier-Jour-
! nal delights itself in the following:
II there was a doubt in any mind
as to the propriety of yesterdays
demonstration, it will be dissipatod
by yesterdays speeches. The most
enthusiastic sentimantalist could ask
no more. Whether Hayes or Hamp-
ton spoke, Evarts or McCreary,
Scharz or Vanzandt, Thompson or
Key, or Matthews, the strain was
the same; let Us forget and forgive;
let US be ono people let bygones be
bygones let US have peace let us
restore the Union under the Consti-
tuition, and by long pull, strong
pull, and pull all together, try to
build up our material fortunes.
That was the spirit of the vast
populace that listened. The South
has had to swallow great many
frogs the past twelve years, and is
not going to make any wry faces
over this one. Even fit were dis
posed to do so, it could not. On the
contrary, the present frog is good
fat one, and, being done to turn
and dressed la mode, it is'not in the
least bad to take.
Seriously, the true Kentuckian is
by nature hospitable, and his pleas
ure is increased as his guest is genial
and gentle, affable and easy. Nothing
could exceed the admirable self-pos'
session, the ready grace and the in
cessant good humor of the President.
Hampton's soIdierly composure was
Illuminated by the radiance OF the
juvenile Secretary of the Navy, who
took the crowd quite off its legs by
his manner no less than by his
words. A rare old sea-fox in truth,
this jolly, weather beaten mariner OF
the Wabash Last and best, the
presence of Mrs. Hayes in the throng
moved tho enthusiasm Of the people
who feel sure that, whatever they
NAV think hereafter of her husbands
Administration, they will always be-
lieve in the infalibility Of hers
On the whole, from first to last. the
Presidents first day on Southern
soil was day of rejoicing, vindicat-
ing the reciprocal expressions of cor
diality of which it was the occasion.
All honor to Louisville, and to Ken
tuckyl Among the utterances none
were heartier better said or better
timed than those of Gov. McCreary
| and Mayor Jacob. They express fit
tingly the feeling of the State and
the city. Perusing the various ad-
dresses, home-folks will be proud and
pleased by these representative OUT
givings of homo sentiment and opin-
ion.
Our local reporters, who give the
speeches, chronicle also the scenes.
All day long, and nearly all night
long, the streets were alive with
| merry-making. Everybody realizes
| the nature of the occasion. 1t is In
newise partisan. 1t is peace. The
star quonching angel of thedawn has
appeared at last, not in the person of
any man or party, but God.sent,into
the hearts of men and the people
| feel it. damn politics" is the feel
| ing, where it is not the word. We
may quarrel as much IS we like next
week or next year; beliko we shall
but to-day we mean 70 immediate tc
the Goddess of Liberty on rcd,
roaring dry goods box, and woe to
the idiot who gets in our wayl That's
"tho kind of girl we are" and we
don't care who knows ii
There be those, a very few, who
prophesy evil of these things. Wei,
let them prophesy. Unless man
be without honor in his own country
he cannot be prophet, a PROPOSE
ton in algebra which we leave to
be solved by those who think that
instead of behaving"like gentleman
| kentucky aud Louisville should have
behaved, on this occasion, like dogs,
disgracing not merely themselves.
but the bones and graves of those
who have gone before. Happily
prophets of this description are rare;
and, as time advances, they will not
become more numerous. In the in
term, they will hot obstruct the
progress of events, or obscure the
glory of the people of Kentucky.