River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-27
DOWN SOUTH.
The Presfdent ana wade Hampton Clasp
Hands.

Chattanooga on tire Goth on their South
ern trip, ano the President made the fol-
lowing speech:
FELLOW CITIZENS 1T is a great pleas
ure to be so heartily greeted by the peo-
pie of this part of the United States. Jap
plausel There are many circumstances Of
interest connected with your city of
Chattanooga. Geographically it is inter-
esting; historically, it is extremely inter
esting; also from the character of its in
habitants. This assembly / regard with
! increased interest because of the variety
of people Which, compose it. / suppose
large proportion of those who now hear
me are citizens OF Tennessee. many of
Alabama, and it is suggested some or
many perhaps, of Georgia and other
States. 1t is very obvious that there are
men and women here of both races. |
am told also that many of those present,
perhaps pretty squarely divided, are peo-
pie who adhered to the Confederate
cause, and people who adhered to the
Union cause during the late great civil
contest. There are here, | know, some
brave soldiers who fought on the Union
side, perhaps almost quite an equal num-
Der of those who fought on the Confed-
crate side, and we are altogether in favor
of peace and harmony in our beloved
country. Applause Now there are two
leading ideas, two important things to be
accomplished; we want all sections to
have equal rights and we want all citi-
zens TO have equal rights before the law
We want the government to regard alike
and equal all sections of the country; we
want the government, national and State,
to regard alike and equal all citizens of
all races. Now these are the things to be
ACCOMPLISHED The measure, the path
way, we may differ, but, my fellow-citi-
zens, if we concur heartily as to the ends,
we are sure to accomplish them. | did
not therefore discuss at all in my remarks
before the people at various points the
measures that have been adopted, the
measures we wish hereafter to be adopted !;
but do undertake to say few things
to all the audiences who have honored me
with their attention, which / hope are
calculated to increase their desire that all
in this country, in all sections, shall
have equal and exact justice. Loud APP
plause. Now, my friends, the intention
of it all is to bring back to the country
the ancient harmony, the ancient concord,
and the reasons for it are numerous; but
| must not detain you any longer to
detail them. A part of them are materi-
al, part of them we may call, perhaps,
sentimental Look on the first:
Here is the State of Tennessee. have
tried to find out this morning how long it
is from its eastern point to its western and
the eminent getlemen who have met as
your committee, and ought, ! suppose, to
know how large Tennessee is, vary from
three to six hundred miles, in length.
have concluded to average and call it four
hundred and fifty miles from the eastern
to the western end of the State. A
voice, {" $40 miles, 1t is better than
supposed, perhaps a hundred miles in
width2 Voice, 10. Still better,
Now this State of Tennessee contains, as
suppose, about one-fourth as many PEG
pole in proportion to its territorial extent,
!. as Pennsylvania or Ohio, and vet it has
almost identically the same advantages to
sustain as dense population as is pos
sessed by Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in
addition it raises cotton and other pro-
ducts which we cannot raise in those
States. Now, if you want to build up
Chattanooga you want to settle this whole
country as densely at least as Ohio or
Pennsylvania Whatever, therefore, will
attract capital and labor and enterprise
that, other things being equal, you wish
to favor and you wish to promote. Now
the first thing, if you wish to make this
country attractive to labor and capital
and to enterprise, is to restore peace and
harmony in your midst between the con-
federates and the Union people, Applausel
between the colored people and the white
people. Applause. These are the ends
to be accomplished, for you should have
that state OF society which will draw to
you the best immigrants of Europe fand
of the North. | have spoken at other
places of an additional incentive, that
which will come by having here an OPP
portunity for the free education Of all peO-
pie. black and white, in every neighbor-
hood. / have said, erect in some shady
grove. comfortable little school houses,
with a competent school teacher nine
months. You have better advertise
men. of your advantages than you can get
4 by any other equal expenditure OF money.
/ Applause Well, my friends, these are
material considerations. You have forests,
coal, iron, space, plenty of untitled land,
and with peace and harmony restored
you will have, nay, am sure you are get
ting the best Immigrants of this country
and Of Europe. But, my friends, we are
made of something besides thai which is
material. 1t is not alone the pocket
nerve that governs man. That is very
interesting, but it does not entirely con-
troll. We all of us rejoice when we see
reviving again the old feeling of friend
ship, harmony and patriotism that ena-
bled the fathers to build these institutions
and this nation. They framed consti-
tuition with wisdom of architecture
which Webster says united national SOW
ereigntv with State, individual security
with the public welfare. They did it
because they were all of one mind, one
/ heart; because men like Washington
and jefferson met men like Franklin,
John Adams and Samuel Adams with
precisely the same end in view. We
wish to revive that ancient spirit and
feeling throughout this whole country. |
have been since | crossed the Ohio river
with the evidence everywhere of reviving
patriotism and restored peace and har-
mony. Applause In Louisville and
Nashville we saw girls and boys sitting
/ in front oftheir school houses each with
a little Aserican flag, that flag which we
are so fond of, which / hope
now we are fond of styling the
old flag. We have seen these
assemblages of young people by the
hundred and waving their flags and sing
ing in beautiful harmony their sacred
and patriotic songs. This shows that the
day is coming, nay that it has already
come, which every true patriot desires.
4 lApplause.l That is the feeling through