Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-27
The Murkrille Guqnirer.
YORKVILLE, 8. C.?:d'
THE PRESIDENT IN RICHMOND.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1886.

The President attended the fair of the
Virginia State Agricultural Association at
Richmond last Thursday. Secretaries Bay
ard and Endicott, Postmaster General Villas
and Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman
accompanied him. The party was enthus:-
astically received along the route from
Washington, and at wayside stations the
President shook hands with crowds gather
ed to greet him. At Richmond the recep-
ton amounted to an ovation. The Presi-
dental party were welcomed by Governor
Lee in an eloquent address to which Presi-
dent Cleveland replied. He said:
Fellow-citizens of Virginia: While l
thank you most sincerely for your kind re-
ception and recognize in its heartiness the
hospitality for which the people of Vir-
ginia have always been distinguished, am
fully aware that your demonstration of well
come is rendered not to an Individual, but
to an incumbent of an Office which crowns
the government of the United States. The
State of Virginia, the mother of Presidents,
seven of whose sons have filled that high
Office, to-day greets President who for the
first time meets Virginians on Virginia
soil.
congratulate myself that my first intro
duction to the people of Virginia occurs at
time when. they are surrounded by the
ity of their State. Whatever there may be
in honor in her history, and however much
of pride there may be in her traditions, her
true greatness is here eXempllfed. In our
sisterhood of States the leading and most
commanding place must be gained and kept
by that Commonwealth which, by the labor
and intelligence of her citizens, can produce
the most of those things which meet the
necessities and desires of mankind. But
the full advantage of that which may be
yielded to State by the toll and ingenuity
of her people is not measured alone by the
money value of the products. The efforts
and the struggles of her farmers and her
artisans not only create new values in the
fields of agriculture and in the arts and
manufactures, but they at the same time
produce rugged, self-reliant and independ-
ent men and cultivate that product which
more than all others ennobles State-a
patriotic, earnest, American citizenship.
This will flourish in every part of the Amer
lean domain; neither drought nor rain can
injure it, for it takes root in true hearts en-
riched by love of country. There are no
new varieties in this production. 1t must
be the same wherever seen, and its quality
is neither sound nor genuine unless itgroWs
10 Qeck anu Dedutlly I'LL euGlIe auu uui
nation, nor unless it supports and sustains
the institutions and the government found
ed to protect American liberty and happi-
ness. The present administration of the
government is pledged to return for such
husbandry not only promises, but actual
tenders of fairness and justice, with equal
protection and full participationin national
achievments. If in the past we have been
estranged, and cultivation of American cit
izenship has been interrupted, your enthu-
siastic welcome to-day demonstrates that
there is an end to such estrangeement, and
that the time of suspicion and fear is sue
ceeded by an era of faith and confidence.
In such kindly atmosphere and beneath
such cheering skies l greet the people OF
Virginia as co-laborers in the field where
grows the love of our united country. God
grant that in the years to come Virginia
the Old Dominion-the mother of Presi-
dents, she who looked on the nation at its
birth-may not only increase her trophies
of growth id agriculture and manufactures,
but that she may be among the first of all
the States in the cultivation of true Ameri-
can citizenship.