The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-29

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! FELLOW, CIrizENs:. 1 should, be a grea
than . man, II were not extremely gratiiet
| by this mark of your kindness you have shown
me in recent days. did not expect any .sucl
| meeting as this. / knew there WAS greet
ing awaiting me, but did not expect so cordial
generous and general q greeting, without dis
tinction of party, without distinction of in
| terests, Is i have received here tonight. And
you viii allow me, in q moment or two, Il
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| Twenty years ago this last week first en-
| tered this Chambef and entered upou the du
| ties of public life, in which have been ever
hour since that time, in some capacity OF
| other. I left this Chamber eighteen wears ago
and 1 believe / have never entered It since
| that time. But the place is familiar, though
| It was peopled not with the faces that set
| before me here tonight alone, but with the
| faces of hundreds Of people that knew here
| twenty years ago, large number of whom
| are gone from earth. rIa F.= -
| It was here in this Chamber that the word
was first brought of the firing on, Fort sum.
Lancaster, the late Senator rSchIeigh-General
Schleigh, who died not very long ago-I re-
member distinctly as he came down this aisle
with all the look Of anxiety and agony in his
face, informing us that the guns had opened
upon Sumter. remember that one week
after that time, on the motion Of leading
Democratic Senator who occupied q seat not
far from that position (pointing to the Dem
ocratic side of the Chamber), that we sur
rendered this Chamber to several companies
of soldiers, who had come to Columbus to
tender their services to the imperiled
Government. They slept on this carpet and
on these sofas, and quartered for two or three
nights in this Chamber while waiting for 9TH
er quarters outside of the Capitol. :. ..-H
All the early scenes of the war are asso-
ciated with this place in my mind. Here were
the musterings-here were the center, the
nerve center, Of anxiety and agony. Here over
In the course of three weeks to the imperiled
Nation. Here, where we had been lighting
our political battles with sharp and severe
partfsanship, there disappeared, almost as If
by magic, all party lines; and from both sides
OF the Chamber men went out to take their
places on the field of battle. can see now,
as look out over the various seats where sat
men who afterward became distinguished In
the service in high rank, and nobly served
their constituency and honored themselves.
We now come to this place, while so
many are gone; but we meet here tonight
with the war SO Tar back in the distance that
1t is An almost haf-forgotten memory. We
meet mere tonight with q nation redeemed.
We meet here tonight under the nag we
fought fors We meet wiAh . glorious, great
and growing Republic, made greater and more
glorious by the sacrifices through which the
country has passed. And coming here as do
to night brings the two ends of twenty years
together, with all the visions Of the terrible
and glorious, the touching and cheerful, that
have occurred during that time.
came here, fellow-citizens, to thank this
General Assembly for their great act OF con-
fidence and compliment to me. do not un-
dervalue the great office that you have ten
dered to me yesterday and to-day; but say,
without, think, any mental reservation, that
the manner In which 1t was rendered to me lie
far higher to me, far more admirable, than
the thing itself. That It has been q voluntary
gift of the General Assembly of Ohio, without
solicitation, rendered to me because of their
confidence, is as touching and high q tribute
as one man can receive from his fellow-citi-
zens, and in the name of all my friends, for
myself, / give you my thanks. ,-..l a
recognize the importance Of the place to
which YOU have elected me; and should be
base If did not also recognize the great man
whom YOU have elected me to succeed say
for him, Ohio has had few larger minded,
Undetermined men in the records of our his
.plause. Differing widely from him, as nave
done in politics and do, 1 recognize him as q
man high in character and great in intellect
and l take this occasion to refer to what / have
never before referred to in public-that many
years ago, in the storm Of party lighting,
when the air was filed with ali sorts Of mis-
siles aimed at the character and reputation Of
public men, when It was even for his party
and NV associates, Senator Thurman said in
public. I'm the campaign. on the stump-when
men are as likely 10 say unkind things as at
any place in the world most generous and
which shall never forget SO long as I live.
GApnlause.l / saw. moreover. thst the flow
ers that bloom over the garden wall of party
politics are the sweetest and most fragrant
piausel |; and where we can fairly pluck them
and epiov their fragrance, ft Is manly and de-
lightful TO do so.
And now. gentlemen ef the General Assem-
bly, without distinction of party, recognize
niubt- Whatever nv own course NAV he in
the fnture. a large share Of the inspirat,on Of
INV future public life viii be drawn from this
occasion and these surroundings, and I shall
feel anew the sense Of obligation that feel
to the State of Ohio. Let me venture to
point q single sentence in regard to that work.
During the twenty years that have been in
Congress Of the United States, l have tried
to do one thing. Whether l was mis-
fe 10 fooW V cfs Des Al W6atevep
sonal cost to myseif have represented. for
many years district in Congress whose ap-
probation l greatly desired; but though 1t
may seem, Per6sPS' Little egotls.lSat 70 Say T
one on ne person. % and nd his % name was Garfield.
Laughter and applause.l He is the only