The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-06-03
Tbe Governors Visit to OHIO.

The Governor 8 VISIT TO ONO.
Week before last. Gov. Lee and staff
visited Cincinnati to attend the Musical
Festival An elegant reception was ten
dered him and he was wined and dlned
as long as he remained guest In the clty.
At the ChamLer of Commerce, where the
formal reception took place, Coy Lee and
Gov. Wilson, of w. Va. spoke in response
to the greeting, and Gov. Foraker, OF
Ohio. replied Among other things, Gov.
Lee said:
"YGu are, most of you, familiar with
the early history OF Virginia. \ on know
that IN those troublous times she put the
sword in the hand of a Washington and
carved out the liberties of the republic.
She put the pen i'll the hand of her Jeffer-
son. and wrote the great Declaration Of In
dependence. She gave to the country JAS.
Madison ,>the father of our constitutional
government. She gave us John Marshall,
Who erected the splendid system OF the
judiciary and set it up as the bnlwark
between the people and any efforts TO
overthrow the liberties Of the people. She
gave to the country that grand orator OF
The American reyolurion-he OF the silvery
lOIiR Tic, VII WtlOoL CNClJ OiNutu oOutNohA>h
hung and who shook the throne of Eng
land 5 king with Give me liberty nr give
me death Patrick Henry.
afterwards, my friends, in consequence
of the way in which we were brought up
and ducated-educated to believe i'll the
Sovereignty Of the States-they thought
when they felt themselves oppressed they
could withdraw from General Govern
ment. You are all familiar with the
history Of Virginia in that respect GU
must give us credit at this hour and this
day for an honest conviction of feeling,
for an honest opinion as TO our rights
under the General Government. for you
cannot make men stand up under the shot
and shell which poured on them like
lightning from the mountains cloud.
unless they are lighting for what's termed
the faith within them applause.
differently We give you credit for valor
on those fields where the imson tide OF
battle ebbed and flowed all over them. We
now say to you in all spirit of Kindness,
ring the curtain down on those scenes, and
| il they are remem bered, let them be re-
called as evidence only of American yalor-
of American soldiership, OF American
herOism.
II will take back with me this kind
greeting. I am glad to see such evidences
| of prosperity and thrift in your midst.
| learn that your city has appropriated
| 81. 900 600 towards mending your ways,
[laughter], and / am happy to say that Old
Virginia is contributing to that solid
foundation. Laughter and applause.
She is reaching forward. She is going
ahead in this age of progress, aud to day
| Virginia is building cars and sending loco
| motives to the New England States. Her
railroads are for the first time stretching
out, and the great iron and coal regions of
West Virginia now lie almost at her doors.
| She is developing her domestic industries
rapidly, and she is advancing, as | say, IN
material growth and progress and kaoW
such information is pleasant to the people
! of Ohio, or else would not take up your
time lin telling you of it. Applause.
Virginia is going to do her share. Our
sole ambition now is to take this Old
Commonwealth up and place her once
again in the coronet which binds the brow
of the American Union, and there make
her once more brilliant jewel" APP
plauSe.
Governor Lee was cheered and cheered
again, and it was quite a lime before Pres
ident Stevens could make himself heard
above The din He then introduced Gov.
Foraker. Again the cheering started and
the chamber fairly rang with the applause.
When it had subsidized Governor Foraker
said
GOVERNOR FoRAKER's SPEECH.
Ladies and Gentlemen-1 am not here
to day to make speech. came only that
/ might oin with you in bidding welcome
~ 1idf.1 hal iGit
and State. In this service join with you
with the greatest earnestness and with the
greatest pleasure. | can say, however
that I am greatly gratified to see the
warmth and the cordiality Of the greeting
which YOU extend 1t. is evidence that
YOU bear in mind the fact, to which Gov.
Lee has so ittingly made alusion, that
while all the States of this Union are sis
tiers in general sense, the States OF West
Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky-that ought
| to have been represented here to-day also
ARE sisters in that special sense that they
have common mother in the person OF
the Old Dominion so well represented
| here. Applause.
| II am glad you bear this in mind, and
glad YOU bear it in mind, too to the extent
| Indicated by the remarks OF Coy. Lee. 1t
| is a pleasure 10 know that, although he had
| with him a member of his staff who halls
| from Hungry Station, yet that gentleman,
| because of your bOlnteouS hospitality, has
| not been able to want for something to lay
his mouth on. Laughter.l
! .'There is another sense in which it is
| gratifying to one to see this cordial and
hearty welcome extended by you. Gov
Lee has very appropriately, and in a most
| acceptable sense, referred to the fact that
the people of Virginia and the people OF
| Ohio have not always been in accord.
THAT is true. They have differed diff
fered widely, differed radically in the past
as to some of the elementary ideas and
propositions with respect to our form of
government and the relations of our States
to the General Government So radical
so wide, so earnest was that difference
that we finally drifted, as has been said
into great war. on the battle-heldS OF
which, with herOism and yalor that NJ
language can exaggerate, the soldiers OF
Virginia stood on the opposite side arraye(
to war. They fought out and settled fol
all time to come the differences that they
before that time had. And why?
'We are rejoiced to see these gentlemen
with us to-day, and see you greet them as
YOU do, for it gives them lasting teSti
monial to the fact, which | am glad they
have now learned, if they never did before
that when Ohio went to war against Vir
ginia. it was not because of any feeling Of
hostility, not because of any idea of hatred
or i'll will of any character to Virginia, but
it was because our hearts were filled with
love for its citizens and the grand country
from which they hail. We thought sc
much of them that we didn't intend *
allow them to separate themselves from
US, and that was the whole of it, Laugh
ter and Cheers we had, however, rather
a troublesome time in convincing them
that we were right. Laughter. 1t took
longer than we thought it ought to take
but not so long as it might, for it was 3
greater undertaking than we imagined it
would be- However, it was but testi
monial to the yalor and the heroism of the
men whom Gov. Lee is here to-day repre-
sentative of. [Applause.l
1--WE thought then. and we think now,
that while we have our convictions, while
we speak them plainly, speak them every
| where, yet we speak them only for the good
of this whole common country, it was the
pride. it was the ambition of the people OF
Ohio and of the people of all the North
that that magnificent country, that beau
tiful sunny southland, with all it's magnii-
| cent resources. ought to remain in this
| Union to build locomotives for Massa-
chusetts Laughter and applause.
| "We knew you had great material re-
sources filling the bowels of the rich soil
which you trod. We knew that in the
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