The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-10-19
THE PRESIDENT.
His address Before the Webster HistOr-
IcaI Society.


/ MARsHFIRID. Oct. 12-It was nearl
3 O'Clock VIXEN the exercises at the tom
were finished and the procession TOO
4 up the line of march to the held next I
the Webster estate, where we're pitche
! tents in which dinner and literary exel
/ cises were TO take place. The scene {
1 the ceremonies resembled a miniatuT
4 camp. The most noticeable of the tent
I were two large dining tents for the us
respectively of the Webster Histories
Society and the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery company That of the forme
| Vas nearest the road, between whicl
| end the dinner tent were three smalle
tents for ladies and the reception room
| The large canvas was oblong in shap
and within were sixteen tables, with &C
o0nmodations for about 400 persons.
After a brief rest the president ani
party were escorted 10 the large dinin;
L tent erected for the use of the Webste
Historical society. The president o
the society occupied the centre of til,
/ guesEs' table and upon his right sa
President Arthur, Mrs. Webster, Secrc
tarY Chandler, Mayor Green, of Boston
and others, and upon his left Governo
| Long, Senators Dawes and HOar, Col
/ lectOr Worthington, Secretary Lincoln
| and others When the audience haC
| been seated the retiring president an
| nounced the new officers and invited
| Governor Long, as the new president
| TO take the chair. After dinner Presi
/ dent Arthur was escorted to the adjoin
| ing tent, where the Ancient and Honor.
! ables were dining. His entrance was
the signal for repeated cheers, which
| were again renewed when he was form
ally presented by the commander for an
acknowledgment of the reception.
The commander introduced him as
the first president of the United States
whom the commander ever had the
honor to receive.
The president said: thank you most
cordially for your kindly and enthusias.
tic greeting. l thank you, too, for the
escort service you have done me 10 day.
am glad TO meet so many ancient and
honorable men. daughter and . ap-
plause l hope each member of the
corps will, like the Countess of Des-
mond, live TO the age of ITO years, and,
like her, die from old age You each
and all have my good wishes, and l
thank you again for your escort duty.
As the president concluded Gen.
Leonard proposed that they now drink
a glass OF wine with the president. The
president said:
will take this drink as a matter of
precaution. / drank my own health in
the first place, now drink to the health
of each and every one of you.
Upon returning 10 the society tent the
audience, partaking of the enthusiasm
manifested by the military, rose TO their
feet and cheered the president heartily.
Resuming their seats, the assemblage
was called to order by Gov Long, who
made one of his most eloquent speeches,
taking as his text the character and at
tainments of the great statesman, "mem-
ory of whom they were then recalling"
and concluded by felicitous and appro-
pirate reference 10 the president, whom
he introduced.
President Arthur was again heartily
greeted as he arose. He read from man.
uscript the following:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen:
1t will fortunately accord with the pro-
prieties, of this occasion, no less than
with my own inclination. if l confine
myself within the narrow limits of my
formal acknowledgements for the fiatter-
ing salutatIons. l cannot find words to
tell you how deeply I am touched by
the warmth of your greeting. Ii is but a
fresh display of that splendid hOspitali-
ty with which ever since / came with
in the borders of Massachusetts she has
Obstructed my path. l trust, sir, that
neither my gratitude nor my sympathy
with the purposes which have turned
our reverent footsteps hitherwa-d to- day
will be measured by my endeavors to
give them verbal expression. The char
acter and genius of that most iIlustrious
man whose life moved grandly ON in so
many paths of eminence, in commemo-
ration OF whose birth, a hundred years
ago, we have gathered to-day among the
peaceful scenes where he found rest
from the fret and worry of life, have for
more than generation been the theme
of discussion and eulogy. 1 shall not
attempt to labor in the field IN which so
many flashing sickles have swept and
which have so long been crowded with
industrious cleaners, but may perhaps
be permitted to declare my approval of
what has been accomplished by this So
cIety in futherance of the object for
which it was founded. 1t is asserted
upon what suppose to be trustworthy
authority that near the close
of his honored life Mr. Webster
expressed the wish that for aiding in
transmitting his fame to future genera
tions of his countrymen, for kindling in
their hearts the flame of patriotism and
for instructing them in the principles of
constitutional government, there hould
be disseminated far and wide such
recorded efforts of his genius as seemed
most worthy to be thus preserved Many
of the Hottest and most inspiring of Mr..
Webster's utterances have long been ia
miliaF as household words and in the
mouth of every school boy in the land.
But it is doubtless true that many others,
scarcely less dignified in subject, mas
terly in treatment and splendid in die
ton, are comparatively unknown. In
all that you have hitherto done and IN
all that you may do henceforth TO secure
the success which Mr.. Webster wished,
by the recollection and circulation Of all
his works which have permanent value,
and which of them have not, assure you
of my earnest sympathy. No one of the
rising generation of our countrymeu
who seeks 10 be instructed in those DO
liiIcal doctrines which are the basis OF
our federal government, to acquaint him.
self with the history of his country and
with the great progress and significance
of its institutions can by any other
course SO surely and so splendidly attain
those ends as by resort to that
great storehouse of eloquencc and-,wis-
dom, the published writings of Daniel
Webster. and SO bud you God speed, in
this work.
Immediately after the conclusion OF
his speech, which was punctuated by
frequent applause and was we'll received
Mr.. Stillman A Allen read an unpub-
Iished manuscript which was written
by Mr.. Webster and read TO the cabinet
in which he sat as secretary of state, and
which expressed his views upon i'm
| portant political questions of that day,
Henry L. Davis was introduced and
| spoke briefly of the effect Webster's
work as q statesman and legislator had
had upon the political affairs of the
country.
Gov. Bell. of New Hampshire, re-
| sponded in few words to the toast
"The Birthplace of Webster"
At this point in the exercises the
| president was obliged 10 Leave for the
train which was TO convey him TO Bos-
| ton.
Other brief speeches were made by
Judge Thomas Russell, in behalf of the
| Webster Historical Society, President
Bartlett, of Dartmouth college, in re-
| Spouse to the toast TO that institution
and Hon. Geo. s. Boutwell,.
Letters of regret were received from
George Tichnor Curtis, President
Elliott, Of Harvard. Secretary Folger
General Grant. Attorney General Brews
ter, Senators Bayard and Frye. Ex-Gov-
ernOr Ed. Morgan. Senators Plat anC
HaWley, Hon. Hamilton Fish, aud many
others.
GOodaIl Got HIS Game.
ST.. LOUIS, Oct ia Post Dispatch
| special from Marshfield, Missouri, says
| The sheriff of Laclede county. r. p
| Goodall killed Bob Taylor this morning
in attempting to arrest him, few miles
| from Lebanon, on board 6 passenger
train. Taylor is one Of three brothers
/ that murdered the sheriff and deputy
sheriff sf Hamilton county, Tennessee
| last September He has been hiding II
the vicinity OF Lebanon for some timG
past, and Sheriff GoOdail has been aftel
| him two weeks. This morning GoOdal
encountered Taylor on the train between
lFarahfiaId and .ebanofs and sfeDuif1f