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President Hnrri.on's visit 20 Gales.
burg, Ill

Laws Of the L11i.
President Hnrri.on's Visit 40 Gales
burg, Ill.
GALEsBURG, H., Oct. 9.-The pres
idont vas met here by Mayor Stevens
OF the local committee, who acted as
his escort to the Union hotel There
was an enormous crowd at the station
and on the streets. and the progress Of
the procession of carriages through
the streets was marked with continued
cheering. The president attended the
exercises of laying the corner stone
OF Knox college. and after that went
TO the opera house where the reunion
Of the brigade to which he belonged
was held. Here Colonel Dustin, ad-
dressed the president, announcing to
him his unanimous reelection as pres
ident of the association.
The president in response to the
mayors address of welcome, said:
MIR. Mayor and fellow citizens: The
magnitude of this great assemblage
! fills me with surprise and with con-
sternation, as | am called to make this
attempt to speak to you. | came here
to meet with the survivors of the old
brigade. l came in expectation that
it would generally be spent in their
| companionship and in the exchange of
those cordial greetings which express
the fondness and love which we bear
to each other, but to my surprise
have found that here today the First
brigade for the first time in its histo-
ry has been captured. Applause.
One or two | have been able to take by
the hand and some Of them / have seen
as they marched to the review stand,
but they seem to have been swallowed
up in the vast concourse of their war
| comrades and of their fellow citizens
Of Illinois. | hope there may yet be
time during the day when shall be
able to take each of them by the hand
and assure them that in the years of
separation since muster-out day have
borne them all secretly in my atfec-
Tomato remembrance. They were a
body of representative soldiers coming
from these great central states of Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and as the bor-
dcrs OF these heroes and patriots were
touched in the great struggle for the
union [applause] who should say who
were the bravest when all were brave?
The distinction that Illinois may claim
in connection with the organization is
that, giving equal courage, fidelity and
loyalty to every man, Illinois furnished
three-ifths of the brigade. Applause. ]
But possibly | should withhold here
those suggestions which come to me
and which will be more appropriate
when 1 meet them as separate organi-
cations. Cries of mo, go on."1 |
have been greatly impressed with the
assemblage in this beautiful city, in
this prosperous state. The thought
has occurred to me, and the more |
thought of it the more sure | am of
the conclusion that no where on the
face OF the earth, except in the United
States OF America, under no other flag
that kisses any breeze could such an
assemblage as this be gathered. APP
plause and cheers. Who are these?
Look at their faces. See the evidences
OF contentment, thrift prosperity and
intelligence that we read in all these
faces. They have come from all these
homes OF villages, cities and farm and
here they are to-day, the strength and
rock OF our security rs q nation OF peo-
pie who furnished an invincible army
when the flag was in danger, people
upon whose enlightened conscience and
God-fearing hearts the country may
rest with undaunted hope. TApplause
and cheers. Here is the ultimate dis
tribution of government power. OF ali
efforts of presidents and cabinets and
judges and armies ever to maintain this
country, to continue it in this great
career of prosperity, it is by this great
law -abiding, liberty-loving people by
whom they are chosen to these import
ant offices. 1t is tho great thought OF
our country that men shall be governed
as little as possible, that full liberty
shall be given to individual effort and
that the restraints of law should be re-
served for the turbulent and disorderly.
What is it that makes your communi-
/ ties peaceful, that makes these farm
homes safeP 1t is not the policeman,
it is not the soldier. 1t is this great
and all-peryading American sentiment
| NA'''S N-Ns'As' VIZ law Will q
threatening warning to the law
breaker, and, above all, it is the per-
vading thought that gives to every
man what is his and claims only what
is ours. Great applause. The war
was only fought that the law might
net lose its sanction and its sanctity.
Applause. If we had suffered that
loss, ACKNOWLEDGMENT would have been
u lesser one, but we taught those who
resisted the law and taught the world
that the great sentiment of loyalty to
our written law was so strong in this
country that no associations, conspira-
cies or combinations could overturn it.
Good, good" and applause. Our
government will not fail to go on its
career OF development, in population,
in wealth, in intelligence and morality,
SO long as we hold up everywhere in
localities, in communities and in the
nation, this great thought Every man
shall keep the law, which secures him
in his own rights, and shall not tram
pie upon the rights OF others. ZAP
plause. Let us divide up on the tariff
II laughter and finance, but let
there never he n division amopU tho