The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-21
The Presidential. Tour. T..

rear platform, admired the scenery, and
seemed equally interested in the late battle
fields, whether the Yankees had the better
or worst at Chattanooga. On Market street
large monogramatic arch, consisting OF
the letters ar. B. H." had been erected,
from the centre of; which large floral key
was suspended. y.s.s-. 49, .-..
. MR.. KEY SPEAKS AT CHATTANOOGA.
CHATTANOOGA, September 20.-Aiter an
address Of welcome and elaborate speeches
BY the President and Secretary Of State, Mr..
Key said: -.--, ...~.'sc,
| Ny Friends,-I am quite hoarse to-day.
and could not make speech II wanted
to; and am sure you would not want me
to make one il / could, for you have heard
me here and everywhere on all sorts OF
questions. There is one thing can say to
you to-day, and I can say it to the people Of
the United States, that when the President
did me the very great and distinguished
honor to place me In his Cabinet the col
ored people OF Chattanooga were not afraid
Of that act. They knew me, and knew /
was their friend. They did not suppose
that an old Democrat would hurt them
much. [Applause.] 1t may be that the
white people were more afraid OF me. I
don't know how that was. [Laugbter.]
| tttli lau W sLilu 1ous Sbll Liat L
owe to Chattanooga; to the people OF
East Tennessee. They have been my
friends. And while I am not unmindful
OF the great honor the President did
me In the appointment, while am proud Of
the Administration to which have in my
feeble way given my earnest support, re-
member with still more pride and gratitude
the fact when, in your Legislature, / was q
candidate for senator Of the United States,
every man in East Tennessee, white and
black, Democrat and Republican, Union
man and Confederate, was for my election.
Now, to crowd like this, what could l
say? II were to talk too much might
say something that somebody would not
like There is no people on earth that
love as the people OF Chattanooga. ZAP
plause.]
Judge Key Qeadng forward Mrs. Hayes ::
Here is the best speech that think has been
made. They abuse all the other members
OF the Administration, but nobody abuses
her. .
Mrs. Hayes was greeted with loud and
continued applause.
UAMPTON's SPEECH AT CHATTANOOGA.
] scarcely feel that am authorized to de-
tain you one moment when those Of you out
there are standing in the rain, but ! will at
least have the comfort OF knowing il I do
so that my speech will not be dry one.
I come to you, my friends, having met
The President OF the United States
when he first came upon southern
soil. The authorities IN Louisville did
me the honor to invite me to join them,
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
soil, as a southern man, and recognize in
him higher than a party man [applauseE
q man who had forgotten as he rose to be
a patriot; and it has been my additional
good fortune to accompany him as be
iourneyed southwark, and I think we
may say to-day that he struck the solid
South. He Is here in Chattanooga, stand
ing upon your battle-scarred plains, looking
and seeing every hillside crowded with the
evidence OF war. Remembering that your
soil has been stained by precious blood,
poured out by brave men who were fight
Ing honestly for their convictions on each
side,. am glad to come here with him and
see the motto that you have written
there OF peace and harmony once more re-
stored in our beloved country; and, my
friends, in the few remarks l have
had the honor OF making as I have been in
this triumphant procession OF the President,
I have studiously avoided any illusions to
politics. I have tried to subordinate them
entirely to feeling OF patriotism, and urge
upon you Of the South, asfar as possible, to
forget the past and to devote yourselves to
developing and opening up the best re-
sources OF this country. l want to urge
upon you this thing, and you Will have
power, and peace, and happiness eyermore:
I have not spoken Of politics. 1t was my
misfortune, perhaps, to differ. in politics
from the President OF the United States; but
Democrat as am, Democrat Is have been,
there is no man in America to whom more
cheerfully, cordially, and willingly do honor
than the Republican President OF the United
States. I do that, my friends, because he is
showing that he is the President Of the whole
United States. do that because he, in the
very first act Of his administration, lifted
that great pressure which was upon the
neck OF my own people. Many OF them
said he but did his duty. Many OF them
never smelt powder. Show me the man
who will do his duty without fear and With
out favor, and who will not do more than
his duty, and I clasp hands with him and
will stand upon the same platform. Jap
plause.] He has brought back peace to our
people. He has shown that the men who
fought each other can meet in peace and
fraternity without any loss OF respect.
We could do it when the State was
literally pinned down by bayonets, and
my right arm should have dropped
from my shoulder before I would have
given my hand in peace while my State was
pinned down by bayonets. [Applause.]
When we felt that each State was equal to
each other; that every man in each State,
white and black, when the great Republic
can party, the dominant party-the repre-
sentative OF men whom he fought
came forward and said, ssWe respect
you, as. men who fought for your
convictions, as men who fought bravely
and as long as they could"; when they
came forward and said that to us OF the
South, and extended the hand OF peace, and
said we were only fighting to restore the
Union; come back unto the household Of
States; come back to the hearthstone Of
your father, l felt that better things
would be accomplished. I felt as a
southern mana rebel, If you choose
1 could come back. [Applause.] l told
the men in Illinois that l had fought
them as long and as hard as I could,
and would have been fighting them
now il bad been. ordered to do so. They
honored and respected me for it, and that
| is the way for us to meet-as brave mon
should meet, il not forgetting the past, at
| least drawing a curtain over it-looking not
at the bloody past, which is full OF sorrow
| to all of us, but looking forward TO brighter
and higher future when all Of us will march
on brayely, honestly, truthfully, each one
doing his duty to the whole country. leav.
ing consequences to God. Long and con-
tinued applause.]
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