Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-10-22
THRPRRsIDENTA AT WINCHESTER
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| portion of the committee OF reception cons
sisting of Mayor VIM. l.. Clark, Col. j. P.
| RELY and Gen. Jas. Fl. Williams, together
with the city council, left here at 9:l5 A. NJ.
to meet the presidential party at Stephen
sons gdepo., five miles below town. At
1895 the train bearing the distinguished
visitors aud escort arrived. Entering car
RIGGS they were at once driven to the resi-
dence of Gov. Holiday, on Market street. es-
corted by the Winchester Light Infantry,
Capt James b. Burgess; the Woodstock An
derson Guards Capt Magruder, with Frede-
rick Cornet Band. The party consisted of
his Excellency President Rutherford b.
Hayes, wife and son Webb. Secretary Thomp.
son, Gen. Hastings ond wife, Mrs. White
scy aud Mr.. Charles Whittlescy. After
spending q short time at the Governors. the
party drove to the elegant residence of Judge
Edmund Pendleton, where was served a mag>
nificent banquet, (though termed lunch)
Every luxury was in abundance. Among
the guests were noticed Hon. Alex. Boteler,
Col. Beverly Tucker, Gen. G. s. Meem and
David Mcclure. The military, with band,
accompanied tho party on their departure
from Judge Pendleton's to the fair grounds
where about ten thousand people wore in
waiting
On arriving at the fair grounds the presi-
the grand stand, which was crowded to over.
flowing.
WELooME TO THE FAIR.
Maj. II. L. D. Lewis, of Clarke county, on
behalf of the Agricultural Society, welcomed
his Excellency as follows:
"Mr. President: It is with great pleasure
that extend to you upon the part Of the
officers and members of this society a most
tat IN n
to you our sincere qualification at having you
with us to-day, as also your estimable lady
and members of your cabinet. 1t is need
less for me to say more, the chief execu.
tive of our State is with US, Gov. Holiday,
a native Of this county and member of our
society. Allow me, sir, to present him to
you"
Before addressing the President Gov Hol
liday thanked Major Lewis. of the Shenan>
doah Valley Agricultural Society, as follows:
~ thank you for this kind and cordial re-
ceptiou upon the part of the Shenandoah
Valley Agricultural Society. There is no
place in the world where it could be SO
grateful to me as this Here 1 was born
here have spent the days of my youth and
MANHOOD, and when life's work is done, here
hope to be buried" The Governor con-
tnued:
"Mr President: In the nam of the peo>
pie OF the Valley of Virginia, l bid you well
come to our midst When you look around
upon this landscape. stretching off toward
yonder blue mountains, and comparing in
fertility and beauty with any equal area on
the continent; when you think of the scenes
which have been enacted right here in view
from the time when Washington held it as
frontier post through events in some ofw which
7 -. otal 81, l.,o
made the spot on which we stand rival in in>
terest many~of ancient story, you will not
wonder that its people are proud of their
home and are glad to welcome you to its hos
FATALITIES.
,"My friends and fellow citizens, intoduce
to you the Presiden. of the United States
He has come among US to learn something of
our industries and to make the acquaintance
of our people. I know that you pleased
to welcome him, that you may show him by
this exhibition how you appreciate the boun-
ty with which fortune has poured out her
blessing as from a full horn, and, in the
sharing of them with guest, how you emu
late the hospitality of the oden time. But
whilst you thus give him welcome as guest,
you will, am sure, as Virginians, welcome
him on account of the high official position
he holds. TApplause 1t has been our lot
IS State, in the dispensations Of Providence
to have played marked aud varied role in
the history of the country, from colonial
times Her sons were among the leaders of
the revolution-one of them, whose re-
mains rest almost in view of your off isl resi-
dence, was the founder of the republic, and
another of them, whose home and grave you
recently visited, has | cen called the father of
the constitution yet when she thought that
the instrument Of her own device was used
the mears of oppression she withdrew and
appealed to the wager Of battle-the arbiter
of nations-in vindication of her course
The objects around us-the ruins of those
Notifications that now overlook us; yonder
Federal and Confederate cemeteries, where
thousands are buried and now sleep side by
side in their martial clothes the fields for
miles about US, from those mountains behind
which the sun is fastening to those upon the
east, whose shadows made jublant by tho
dancing waters Of tho daughter of the stars !;
the streets OF that city, through whose streets
the tide of war ebbed and flowed in nigh one
hundred battles this whole surrounding re-
gion, every acre of which has been pressed
by the feet and wet with the hood of CON
tending armies-are only samples of how
earnest and devoted Virginia was in what she
believed to be true and right. For four
years Virginia renowned her allegiance and
denied the authority of the federal govern
ment. In the issue of arms tho verdict was
against her Far away another field her
armies were surrendered. and the standard
under which they marched was lowered,
rolled up and laid away, tsttered and worn
by service and written all over with heroi,
fortitude and suffering. but without. believe,
one blot of shame. TApplause Once
more she recognized the Union. and plighted
her faith TO uphold the constitution and the