Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-12
THE OHIO VISITORS.
How They Were Entertained Yesterday
Their Departure for Jacksonville.

the day opened up bright and beautiful,
with the air cool and bracing. At an early
hour the visitors were abroad viewing the
sights. and were warm in their admira-
tion of our streets and squares, with their
rows of trees in evergreen foliage. The
Market was also thronged with the visit
ors. who were both interested and amused
at the appearance and vOciferOus cries of
the colOred hucksterS in attracting the
attention of purchasers to their wares.
The morning hours were passed pleas
antly. and by IL O'Clock the visitors had
returned to the Marshall House, where,
according to previous arrangement, they
were provided with carriages, and, ac-
cOmpanied by their hosts, visited Forsyth
Park. the Confederate Monument, Pulaski
Monument. the Georgia Historical SOcie-
tvs building HodgsOn Hall the Cotton
Exchange, Water Works, BOnaventure
and other places of public interest that
suggested themselves to the citizens who
chaperoned the party.
About u O'Clock the visitors were
driven to the Central Railroad wharyes,
and after alighting were invited to inspect
the cotton presses, grain elevator, ware
houses, wharyes, vessels and other sur
rOundings of this busy mart of COM
merce.
The new and magnificent steamship
Tallahassee was lying at the wharf, and,
with her bunting floating to the breeze,
presented quite holiday appearance.
The visitors were conducted aboard, and
as they stepped from the gang plank to
the deck. were conducted TO the saloon,
where they were met and warmly well
coined to the Inequalities of the Ocean
steamship Company by Gen. g. VI; Sorrel,
the popular and efficient agent Of the line,
assisted by the officers of the railroad
company and the steamship. The party
were conducted through the ship, and her
magnificent appointments were much ad-
mired. On their rounds the party were
halted at the smokers ROOM" where the
gentlemen were invited to partake of a
mild beverage known as ARTILLERY
punch" over which Commodore Hone
presided with much dignity, after which
lunch was announced, and the guests and
their entertainers assembled in the saloon
and were seated at the tables. Attention
was called, and General Sorrel intro
duced Captain Robert Falligant, who
extended TO the visitors in a happy and
eloquent manner warm Southern well
come.
Captain Falligant said in effect that
words would hardly express the welcome
which Georgia and the sunny South de-
sired to give their friends from the great
State of Ohio, who represented the senti-
ment and tone of the great West. He had
yesterday thought that OminOus sky
would seriously affect the pleasure of this
visit, but this morning the clouds had dis
appeared and the glorious sunshine of
beautiful day had thrown the sheen of a
Southern welcome over the occasion,
which expressed i'm language better than
he could the warm feelings with which
the citizens of the Forest City greeted
their friends from the mountains of the
West. In the course of the speech of Mr..
Falligant he very appOsitely brought in
the tabled Atalanta i'm his allusiOn to the
strength and power and great progress
the West had made i'm material advance
ment. MilaniOn Overcame her by artifice;
as he ran he dropped three
golden apples, the gift of Venus, which
Atalanta stopped to pick up. We Atalan-
tas of the South, he said, would stop every
time to pick up the golden apples which
YOU Milanions of the West would drop.
In a pleasing strain he alluded to the
change of sentiment recent events had
produced in the political aspect of affairs,
and wound up with a beautiful cOmpli-
ment to the ladies of the West who had
accompanied the party, saying that the
occasion eclipsed the great astronomical
event that had engaged the attention of
astronomers. They had been studying
over the transit Of one Venus while we
were contemplating the transit of a host
of Nenuses from the far-otf State Of Ohio.
Mr.. Falhgant's remarks were received
with delighted plaudits from all the visit
Ors,
Captain Falligant was replied to by Mr..
|. f. Mack, the President of the Ohio
Editorial Association. The lunch was then
attended to, and in due time Mr.. Mack
offered a toast to the Central Railroad of
Georgia, which was followed by speeches
from Mr.. George G. Washburn. Of the
Elyria Republicans, and Mr.. j. f. Dur
ham.
upon. spoke substantially as follows:
LADIES AND CENT EMEN-lt is indeed
a pleasure to meet the gentlemen of the
Ohio Press Association and extend to
them the hOspitalitieS of our Forest
City:" and | know that Captain Falligant
i'm his beautiful and eloquent address of
welcome but echoed the sentiments of our
entire people when l say we bid you well
come, thrice welcome, to our hearts and
to our homes. The press generally typi-
ties the character of a people, and some of
the most powerful intellects Of our own
State have yivifed it and given
it honor - among them EX-GOv-
ernOr Herschel V. johnson, General
Mirabeau Lamar, and our own gifted and
peerless orator and eX-United States Min
lister to Austria. General Henry r. Jack
son. Henry w. billiard, our late lamented
editor and gifted author VIM. Tappan
Thompson. and last but not least, our
present honOred Governor. Alexander Ii.
stephens. whose utterances have been
quoted over our whole country and makes
Georgia a marked state in its able and
progressive journalism; ard to great eX-
tent it was due to the press of the North
and West which was welded with so
much ability and upheld and sustained by
integrity. that liberty was again restored
to our beloved Southland. We feel closely
bound to OhiO-twO prominent sons of
your great State have ever raised their
voices in the defense of constitutional
liberty, and their best endeavors have
been devoted to the furtherance of the
interests of the South. / refer par
ticularly to Allen G. Thurman and
George ii. Pendleton. l believe Ohio was
also the birthplace Of our late lamented
President GARFIELD. | have not time to
eulOgiZe his memory as ! would wish, /
will only say, tiguratiYely, S0id South
weaved their chaplets of roses and be-
dewed them with their tears, and spread
them upon his grave. We lament his loss;
we honor his memory.
Gentlemen of Ohio, we bid you welcome.
We greet YOU not as strangers, but as
brethren and friends. We are bound
together not only by ties of friendship and
kinship, but with bands of steel, and we
pledge you an untarnished faith and honor
thai il shall not be the fault of her true
sons, native and adopted, If cur common
country be not the home of happy, free,
united and prosperous people, and her
career onward and upward, glorious and
triumphant forever; and whenever
you feel like leaving your homes
on the banks of the Ohio, !
the land of ice and snow, and, casting
your lots among us, YOU will find that the |
genial sun which lights and warns our
sunny South will not be more true than
the warm welcome which awaits YOU. for, |
although once estranged, we have long /
since forgotten the past and are endeaYOr- /
ing to build up our waste places and de- |
VelOp the material resources of our State, /
and we sincerely hope for and want union, !
harmony and a revival of fraternal affec- /
ton. for the affections of our Empire State |
-GeOrgia,-are now entwined around the /
pillars that uphold the American Union !
as the clasping ivy encircles the majestic |
oak. kOf, in spite of all that has been !
done by the madness of partisan zeal and |
bigOtry to augment and intensity the mis- |
cries entailed upon us by desOlating war, |
there still survived to us one indestruct- /
ible, illuminating sentiment of union and /
concord and brOtherly affection. There |
was still left us one name of magic spell |
and potency. at the utterance of which |
every base, ignOble passion was exercised /
and driven from our breasts, the fierce /
wranglings and chickering's of feud and |
faction were abashed and awed into ST. /
ience, and all that was lovely and good |
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