Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-21
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
The President i'm Richmond

The President in Richmond.
RICHMOND, Oct, 2l.-The Presidential
party arrived here at twenty-five minutes
past eleven o'clock. At Fredericksbur
where the train arrived at 9:45 an artil-
lery salute was ired, and an assem-
blage of several hundred of the
towns people cheered the Presi-
dental party. A stop Of five minutes
was made, during which the President ap.
peared upon the rear platform of his car,
and being introduced to the crowd by Gen
Wickham, shook hands with many of the
people; several young ladies brought bou-
quets TO be presented to him. At Milford,
the train was boarded by committee ren.
resenting the Virginia State Agricultural
Society, the Common Council of Richmond
and the citizens. The train arrived here at
1880 a. m. 1t was met by the Governor of
the State and the reception committee
| with proper escort and conveyances
4 few minutes drive brought the party to
| the fair grounds, and as the head of the line
filed into the main entrance the Presidential
salute of twenty-one guns was fired. The
guests were ushered into the Office Of the
president of the society, where the members
of the reception committeeman a few other
distinguished citizens were formally intro.
duced. Half an hour later the President,
taking the arm of Governor Lee, made his
way to the veranda of the Office. Col. Rob
ert Beverley, president of the agricultural
society, introduced Governor Lee, who,
after alluding to the annual gathering of
the agricuturists of the State and the utter.
est evinced in it by the presence of the chief
magistrate of the republic spoke Of the re-
| sources Of the State; the advances made in
| agriculture; her mineral wealth aud the in
creasiog facilities for transportation; the
growth of manufactures within her borders,
and concluded Us follows:
Il speak of all this, sir, because while &C.
cupying the position you do of knowing no
north, no south, no east, or no west, it will
give you pleasure to know that the south
will contribute her proportionate share to
the future grandeur and glory of the Amer
lean republic. The old mother of Presidents
to day welcomes within her borders Presi-
dent of the United States, and I know that
| voice the sentiments of this vast multitude
when tender to you and tbs distinguished
citizens and statesmen who accompany you
sincere, hearty, and cordial welcome"
| The President was then introduced by
Col. Beverley, who, in behalf Of the farmers
of Virginia, welcomed him to their Slate.
In clear voice, loud enough to be heard
upon the borders of the great multitude,
the President spoke as follows:
Fellow citizens of Virginia-While
thank you most sincerely for your kind re-
ception and recognise in it's heartiness the
hospitality for which the people of Virginia
have always been distinguished, l 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, today greets a President, who, for
the first time, meets Virginians upon Vir
glnla soil. l congratulate myself that my
llrst introduction to the people of Virginia
occurs at time when they are surrounded
by the exhibits of the productiveness and
prosperity 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 exemplifed. In our ssterhood
of States: the leading and most commanding
place must be gained and kept by that com
monwealth, which, by the labor and intelli.
|
OF those things which meet the necessities
and desires of mankind. But the full ad
vantage of that which may he Welded to q
State by tho toll and ingenuity of her peo.
pie, IS not measured alone by the money
value of the product The efforts and the
| struggles Of her farmers and her artisans not
only create new values in the field of apri-
culture. and in the arts and manufactures but
they, at the same Tina, produce rugged self
reliant and independent men, and cultivate
| that product which moro than all others en-
obles State-a patriotic, earnest, Ameri.
can citizenship. This will flourish 10 every
| part ofthe American domain neither droutb
nor rain can injure it, for it takes root in
true hearts enriched by love of country.
| These are no new varieties in this
| production a; it must be the same wher-
ever seen, and its quality is neither
sound nor genuine unless it grows to deck
| and beautfy an united nation, nor unless
| 1t supports and sustains the institutions and
the Government founded to protect American
liberty and happiness. The present administra.
ton OF the Government is pledged TO return for
sucn husDandry not only promises, but actually
tenders Of fairness and justice with equal protec
| ton and full participation In national achieve.
monts. II in the past we have been estranped
and the cultivation Of American citizenship has
Deen interrupted, your enthusiastic welcome of
to-day demonstrates that there is an end to such
arrangement. and that the time of suspicion and
fear is succeeded by of faith and confidence.
In SUCH kindly atmosphere and beneath such
cheering skies greet the people of Virginia as co.
laporors in the field, where grows the lovo of our
united country. God grant that in the years to
come Virginia, the Old Dominion the mother of
l'resdcnts-she who looked on the nation at its
birth.may not only increase her trophies of
CROWN IN agriculture and nanufacturos. but that
she may be among the first of all tho States in the
cultivation of true American citizenship"
sentenced to the Penitentiary.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2l.--F. J. F. Bradley, The
ex-manager of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany, was lodged in the county Jail this