Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-12
on THE A ROUNDS.

Chamber Of Commerce and Cotton Elk.
change, where they we're welcomed BY
the officers Of both associations and the
merchants. At noon the excursionists
visited the Chickasaw club-rooms and
were received 10 hospitable manner,
after which they were placed in hacks
and were driven through and around the
city, visiting different places of interest
en- route. Atthe Chamber of Commerce
and Cotton Exchange gathering Senator
Isham G. Harris delivered the following
address Of welcome:
Gentlemen Of the Delegation:
The chamber Of commerce and cotton
exchange have done me the honor to re.
quest me, in their names, to bid you
welcome to the city Of Memphis. 1t
would be TO me an agreeable duty to
welcome to Memphis the representatives
OF the trade and commerce Of any one Of
our sister cities, but it affords me more
than ordinary pleasure to welcome q
delegation from the Queen City OF the
West. For we we'll remember, and can
never forget, that when, in 1873. the
heavy hand Of calamity was upon US,
like the pail of night, alarming our fears,
crushing our hopes and decimating our
population, Cincinnati With a prineely
generosity extended to our stricken city
aid by thousands and thousands of dol
lars-a generosity not only commensu-
rate with the necessity, but extending
beyond it; for when we had emerged
from the scourge we found our sister city
standing with extended hand offering
her thousands more, which, fortunately,
we were able to decline.
Bat | shall transcend the limits Of
their authority aud say to you, not only
in the name Of the chamber Of commerce
and cotton. exchange, but in the name Of
the whole people Of the Bluff City, the
whole people of Tennessee, | tender to
you a cordial and hearty welcome 10 our
city and our State. For I am sure there
is not a city, town, village, or hamlet
within the limits Of Tennessee that would
not gladly welcome you, and cultivate
with you the most kindly commercial
and social relations. We recognize the
fact that you have not an enterprise OIL
interest in your Queen City of the
} West" that does not, 10 a greater or les;
| extent, affect our interests here, aud tha'
, we have not an enterprise or an %interes
here which does not, to some extent
affect the interests OF the people of Ohio
as well as the people of all the otbel
E States of the Union. Though citizen
OF different States, We are citizens Of
common country, whose interests, pros
poets and hopes are in the main identi
S cal. and who must share a common fate
[ citiz ans mutually aud equally intereste,
! In the peace, prosperity and happi
= ness, greatness ana glory Of our couu
try, and our whole country. /
view Of which facts, it ia nc
only q pleasure and q measure of SCUM
policy, but it is a duty to cultivate wit
each other the most kindly commercial
10 social and political relations. 1t is
70 duty to ourselves and to the country tbs
we get closer together and understan
~ each other more thoroughly and bette
10 than we have done heretofore-unde
d. stand each other so thoroughly aud We
r. as to eradicate forever the sectional jea
%ousies, pref udices and hates which hay
heretofore distracted u counsels, para
at lied our industries, Frustrated our cor
,e merce and trade and destroyed the peaC
of the country; understand each 9th,
so we'll as to forget that there is a Mort
a or a South, remembering only that OF
re States, though sovereign within the
n spheres, are integral parts Of one grea
grand and glorious whole. The Peep
of Tennessee have the vanity-ifi it be
is vauity-to believe that the more th
roughly you know US, the better you wi
Il. like us; and we are quite satisfied tn.
the more we see and know Of you Ii
DO more we shall appreciate you.
~ But | did not intend and do not pr
lp- pose to infict a speech upon you. v
: propose to show you our ambition
young city, and: let it speak for itse
'n' Would that could show you all OF TIE
srs nessee, as | am sure that she would speI
~ for herself better than / can speak (
80 her. But am trespassing upon time tn
= can be more prohtablY employed
he shakiDgbands becoming batter ecquail
nd ed with each other and visiting the ROOF
OF the Tennessee club, where, | am SUI
-; we a iud much that is more sparkli
'u' and inspiring than any poor words ii
It's. | can command, The Spaniard, wb
he he ushers you into his house, puts !
nm arm aifectionstely about your neck a
A. says, MY dear sir, l beg that you CT
'ne slider this honse, with all it contains,
wi yours" In the language Of the SpauiO
| cay to you, gentlemen, / beg that y
consider this city, with all it contai
yOurs.