The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-26
THE PREsIDENTTAL JAUNT.
The President and Party at NsOsho Fails,
RanaaR.


NEosno FAILS, KAN, September 25.-
This comparatively unimportantp place was
thronged to-day by acrowd Of not less than
1900 people, who had assembled here to
attend the fifth annual District Fair Of
this locality and TO welcome the President
and General Sherman, whose coming had
been extensively advertised. Soon after
10 o'clock the distinguished visitors dis.
embarked from the train and proceeded
to the fair grounds, a mile distant in car.
riages. The President and General sher.
man were escorted by the Capital Guards,
Of Topeka, headed by the band OF the 18th
U. s. Infantry and q company OF boys less
than twelve years old, al In the uniform
Of ZouAves.
fairgrounds were handsomely decorated
aud ornamented by the various produc.
tons Of the State. Artistically and taste.
fully arranged at the entrance OF the
grounds was an arch, through which The
carriages passed, erected with great labor.
expense and artistical effect and orna.
mented with the products Of the farm Of
bon. John r, Goodin. A brief speech
was extended welcoming the President
IN behalf otthe Fair Association. He was
followed by Gov. St. John. s7
President Hayes responded as follows:
Coy. sT'J JoHNAND FELLow.C .CIrIzENs-M
hrst duty Is 70 make my sincere acknowi.
edRements TO the President and managers
Of this Fair and TO the Governor and State
officials OF Kansas for their kindness In
enabling me 10 be present with you 10.
day and enjoy with you this extraordinary
spectacle. | thank them as individuals
Tor what they have done in this reception
and welcome, and thank the people OF
kansas, who they represent, for the wei.
come they have extended 10 Us from the
moment We entered their borders until
this time. 80
Now, friends, Just one word Of sug.
gestion. =! want to present to this au.
dience and to present It somewhat fully in
reply to the question what are the settle
ments oil the war. What may YOU, as
soldiers, fairly claim you gained by your
victory, When you meet an honest Con.
iederate soldier who fought as brayely,
what we may say he ought in all fairness
TO admit. Now, in that subject there are
two general ideas. There Is the idea Of
relationship between the general govern.
ment and the State governments, between
what my friend, the President, called the
Nation and the States; another Ia the re-
lationship between the citizens OF the
OF all. 'A
Now, what are the settlements of both
Of these things in that great struggle flom
1851 TO 1865, and what may we claim was
done in regard to both Of these matters to-
W.T.: Inc right OF States aud the rights OF
all citizens. l think there has been some
neglect on the part Of all who have dis !
cussed the question as TO the opinions,
actions and settled Judgment Of Abraham
Lincoln. My judgment is that Of all the |
men who have written or spoken from the |
beginning until to-day on these questions,
that Abraham Lincoln Is the man most en-.
titled to be called the highest authority.
A wonderful man was Abraham Lincoln.
The world does not yet seem to know what
It lost when he went down. In his first
inaugural he called the people OF the
South my dissatisfied countrymen, and |
SAID to them, you can have no quarrel
with me-" A man OF such character,
who when he died every man throughout
the South felt as we felt that the best
friend they had was gone, and some turn
TO him naturally because he had q good |
heart, but he was also shrewd, practical |
and capable lawyer with a logical |
faculty developed and strengthened |
by contact with the public men
Of this country. This question OF |
States Rights" was q question he dwelt
on from the day he received his nomina.
ton at Chicago, until the day OF his death,
and II any man undentood It, Abraham |
Lincoln is the man who understood 1t best. |
Now my friends, his opinions on this
question were slowly formed and estab. |
lished in discussions before the American
people; not upon theoretical and abstract
discussions as Calhoun might have dis