Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-24
The Presidents Northern Trip.

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fourth day 10 New Hampshire. We are now
reacbiog the cod Of our tour through this TO-.
.erestiDg and patriotic State. Of all welcomes
ard receptions VIC have bad or shall have, am
sure, from lasting, from grateful, from sgreea-
bic recolsctlops, your OVID, being last, Will sure.
~ never be forced lron our memory. Your
MAYER tells US that the lowo of Nashua has
been visited by the Chief Magistrate Of the De.
ton four tmes-hloDroe, Jackson, Pierce and
GRAFT Surely don't wish 10 name those dis.
tineuisbed patriotic statesmen of the past with
view to provoke comparison. We all know
what those men have accomplished. and of all
that they have accomplished for their country
how little Of it that is DOW best remembered is
connected 10 any way with any political party
We remember Jackson because be said, and
acted according to his say, The Union--it
must and shall be preserved" We remember
Monroe. because he gave to the country not
victory for party, but gave it that era OF good
feeling which will never be forgotten. Aud SO,
ny friends, if there is any reason why you
should be Interested in tho present adIiuistra-
ton Of the country trust it will turn out 10 be
that after four years are ended something, how
ever small, will be found to have been done for
the common good eud the common glory OF the
whole Country and of all of it's inhabitants.
Ladies and Fiends-Our reception and vel
come everywhere 10 New Hampshire have been
gratifying ADD hearty; but nowhere, l assure
you, has it been more gratifying, and certainly
nowhere warmer than 10 Manchester. We
thank you for such welcome and such reception.
We are grateful to the good taste of your an
cestors, whose elms ard naples have somewhat
tempered the warmth of the reception. Our
J IIoL kbo 10
suggest to you the impossibity DIGGING through
that part ofthe reception ceremoDywhlch consists
Of hand shaking. | must say 10 you,as l have
said 10 number OF audiences at different times,
that l will be glad to have it understood by la
dies and gentlemen, young and old, that In.
stead Of an actual shake of the hand now ex.
tcud to you wholesale hearty buckeye shake.
Ga politics and public affairs VIC need not speak.
If 40 Administration cannot stand upon its acts,
leaving out all disSension to friends and adver-
ssries, it cannot stand at all. Talk and argu.
rnent will not save it, therefore [ must omit all
that. desire to have it understood, and that.
perhaps, would be quite as we'll understood if |
did not speak of it, that however defective our
methods, however mistaken our measures, the
end that we aim at is the welfare OF the whole
country aud oil all its inhabitants We wish to
see every part of the Constitution of the United
States-the part which is new 10 less than the
part that is old-observed, obeyed, respected
and loved in all parts Of the country. If in any,
thing We are mistaken, the people of the country
will correct the mistake. Aud cow my friends
[ am sure you will be glad to be introduced to
and hear the voices Of some OF those who are
associated with me 10 keeping council 10 DELHI.
Grating upon the public affairs of the country,
Three members of the Cabinet are present, and
| hardly know which you wish to see first.
Voice-"All three Of them The man l
was most anxious 10 see, as L had never seen
him, was the democrat from Tennessee that
some how or other got 10 the Cabinet to the as
constituent and, I am afraid, dsmay of my
friends All right now, and I am quite sure,
from what I have observed of his ability and
dignity, all right in time 10 come. However
we may have differed in the past, now and 10
the future we are likely to agree, but 10 this
we are DOW agreed. that this is QUO people, hav
ing, 10 the language of Webster, one Consi!u-
ton, one destiny. Without further preface, |
introduce to you Judge Key, of Tennessee
MIR. Key said -
1t has seemed to me that We should forget
tho auarrels of the past; that We should feel
that We are brethren; that We belong to united
and inseparabe country. O0e thing may
mention. Recently We have had railroad strikes;
We have had these mobs which superveno upon
them, and [ am grati6ed to say that during all
of the troubles, which shook, which may say
deted the authorities of some of the greatest
cities Of the nation, 10 New England and in the
South there was 20 disturbance. but universal
submission to law and order. [ hope that this
is evidence Of peace, of amity that is to be per
petual. | thank you for the manner in which
| have been received, and | extend to sou my
best wishes.
NASHUA. N. H., August 24-The Presiden
lia party took their places 10 the special cars
noon en- route tor Worcester. A very enthusi.
astc crowd assembled at the rear of the train
aad the President was repeatedly urged to
speak. He spoke as follow5:-
81 have spoken 90 often and so much in New
Hamsphire, aud especially 10 this town of
Nashua, that [ hardly know how to start. l
feel rather like going through that military eVo-
luton which is sometimes necessary, OF mark.
ing time, it makes no progress. There are
number Of things on which We, think agree,
aud 10 this sort of miscellaneous assemblage,
made up of republicans, democrats and indie.
pendenJs, made up OF men of different scots
and possibly some aud macy who have no sect
at all, Of capitalists and laborers, it is desirable
to discuss rather those tbngs 10 which We
agree than those things in which We differ. We
have occasion daily to meet and discuss our
differences. Political meetings are for that pur-
pose. These meetings are largely denominational,
sectariaD. but this is gathering in which l
trust the general spirit is desire for harmony,
for friendship, for agreement, and that really is
the guiding sentiment, so far as my purposes
are concerned, of this Administration to bring
people together who have heretofore been d.
vided. Amorg those ideas about which We
agree are these. We arc agreed that this terri.
tory embraced within the United States from
the tropics almost to the frigid zone, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, is hereafter indistructa.
bly, one nation, and again it is nation com.
posed of States all of which States have equal
rights, and it is crowded with Inhabitants of
different races, natiopali,ies, employments and
differences Of life, all Of which States have
equal rights. Now there are three great ideas,
and the fourth is that the National Government
has all within the sphere of its proper constitu-
tiopal rights. 1t is supreme aud all this, |
think We are agreed 90, and if there be any
chart on which any one shall attempt to make
out the course that this Administration is to