Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-24
President Hayes Speech
AT THE REUNION OF HIS OLD REGI-
MgNP AT YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO,
ON SEPTEMBER lTTH.

MgNP AT YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO,
ON SEPTEMBER lTTH.
Comrades and Feltoto- Citizens:
After almost year spent in Wash
ington, engrossed in public affairs, it is
great pleasure to visit again my
friends in Ohio, and especially to meet
so many of my old comrades at this
yearly reunion of the Twenty-third
Regiment. Since we last laet at Will
loughby, year ago, there has been a
vast Improvement in the business con-
dition of our country. Whatever DIFF
ferences of opinion may be still found
among the people of this part of Ohio
as to the Importance of the resnmp-
ton OF specie payments, and as to the
methods by which IL has been accom-
plished, there is one kind Of resump-
ton which is very noticeable in
Youngstown, and which is making
rapid progress in the whole country,
about which ] imagine we are heartily
agreed and that ia Hgo9d times"
GCheers. When / last visited this
beautiful valley of the Mahoning, four
years ago, the financial crisis, and the
gloomy outlook for business and labor
and capital, occupied the thoughts and
depressed the spirits of the people
wherever | met them, whether in pub
lie assemblies, at their places Of bgsi-
ness, or at their hospitable homes.
Now, however, how great and how
gratifying is the change! All around
us here. and throughout the country
generally, we see cheering and hopeful
indications of better times. Not only
have specie payments been resumed.
but business activity ana profitable en-
ploymcnt for capital and labor have
come also. The chief industry and in
terest of this valley-the great iron
iptercst-alrcady begins to share
largely in the benefit of our improved
condition, and therefore heartily con-
eratulate all classes Of citizeLs ia this
large assemblage on the present favor
able business situation, and on the
bright and encouraging prospect which
the future holds out. Cheers. We
are all agreed as TO the revival Of busi-
ness. TChcers and cries of chats
SOY Within the past six weeks thirty
five tons of gold have come from Eu-
rope, and have been landed in New
York. Our friends in the West are
making as much gold as they ever did,
but instead of its leaving us it stays
at home, and what has gone is coming
back. This is sign Of good times,
and we all believe in that, whether We
be Democrats, Republicans or Tenn
perance men, or of whatever party.
Cheers and cries Of that's So"
But now that you are agreed on
that. | want to spend few minutes in
plain talk on another subject.
THE WAR LEGISLATION.
There is subject interesting to
every citizen, especially to those who
served in the Union army, in regard
to which | wish to say few words.
Since our last reunion, in several OF
the States and in Congress, events
have occurred which have revived the
discussion of the question as to the
objects for which we fought in the
great conflict from 1861 to 1863, and
as to what was accomplished by the
final triumph of the Union cause. The
question is, what was settled by the
war What may those who fought
for the Union justly claim; and What
ought those who fought for secession,
faithfully to accept as the Legitimate
results of the war ?
An eminent citizen of our State
Mr.. Gfoasbeck, said some years ago
that "war legisi.tse," lie regarded
the new constitutional amendments p
part Of the Legislation of the war fol