Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-05-09
PRESIDENT AT NEW ORLEANS
HAPPY SPEECH OF THE CHIEF
MAGISTRATE
At the Reception rendered His Party at tho
Crescent City-Event Was the Most
Elaborate of the kpd Ever At
tempted In That City.

tempted In That city.
The presidential party, en- route from
Washington to the launching of the
battleship Ohio at San Francisco, ar
rived at New Orleans May l, and were
accorded royal reception. AT ban
rendered him in the evening, which
surpassed anything of the kind ever
attempted there, the president said:
"Mr. Governor Heard, Mr. Mayor and
Gentlemen: | cannot find praise or
speech to express the profound appre-
citation which | feel for the warmth of
your welcone and for the gracious
words spoken in your behalf by the
governor CT your commonwealth and
the mayor of your city. Since my jour
neying through the South, leaving
Washington last Monday morning, l
have received in every state through
which have passed, in every city and
village, town and hamlet, a genuine
greeting from all the people, and to-
night | have the browning consumma-
tion of welcome from the representa-
tive people of the Crescent City.
The governor has well said that we
will always have differences. Men who
think for themselves will always have
convictions upon public questions, and
those convictions cannot always be the
same. The difference of opinion is
granted, and freely granted, among
American freemen and fully exercised
by the American people.
II was wondering while the COVER
nor was talking, really what were our
differences. My eyes turned toward
Judge blanchard, and | recalled that
we did not differ about river and har-
Dor improvements, and that we were
In favor of every justice and reason
able extension for the Improvement of
the commerce of the Mississippi river.
When heard the governor tell what
l knew SO we'll, and had occasion so
many times to feel, how the people of
Louisiana rallied around the stars and
stripes and were earnestly urging for
an opportunity to go to Cuba, to fight
the battles of an oppressed people,
could not but think that there was no
difference between us in the war with
spain.
And tonight | remembered--it is
only memory-how the citizens of
Louisiana gathered about the table of
the ways and means committee when
had the honor of presiding over that
committee, assuring me that they must
have protection on sugar and rice.
And then | reflected that there was
no difference between us about pro-
tection-certainly none on the ques-
ton of sugar-and then when | re-
membered that this banquet is held
tonight 10 the city Of New Orleans, and
recalled that it was your territory that
had expanded into more states than
any other territory that ever came
to the United States, it did seem to
me that possibly we were not greatly
in disagreement on the subject of ex-
pansion.
my fellow citizens, history cannot
omit New Orleans from its pages. Its
past will always engage our admira-
tion. It's romance of antiquity, the
quaintness of aneientday is combined
with spirit of energy which makes it
one OF the most progressive OF our mod :
ern marts of commerce, its historic as
sociations have secured for tan endur-
ing place in the annals of the American
republic. 1t has not always been un-
der the same form of government, and
the same sovereignty. The map Of
more than one nation has traced it
within its boundaries and in more than
one language its laws have been ad-
ministered within a period of little
more than century. Jefferson appre-
ciated more than any other public man
the commercial advantages of the
Crescent City
1.-The flag which Jefferson raised over
this city jackson successfully defended
with the brave volunte of the ter
ritory of Louisiana and Mississippi
lllustrious in American history is the
Sth of January, the day on which was
fought the battle of New Orleans. If
there are two names to be revered
more than others, they are Jefferson
and jackson. Precious, however, as
they are in your hearts and history,
they don't belong to you alone. The
whole nation claims them and renders
grateful homage for their priceless
services to country and to mankind.
They belong to civilization and to the
ages.
what history they have made To
be the author of the Declaration of In
dependence was honor enough for any
life. To have made the treaty with
France, adding to the union territory
larger than the original thirteen states,
and out of which have been carved six
entire states and parts of six others,
resting forever upon the principles
of that moral instrument, crowned
single life with record of achieve
ment with few If any parallels in hui
man history.
''Jackson's war record. the most bril-
liant page of which was written here,
made him hero for all time at every
fireside in the land, while his declara-
tion in 1882 that the laws of the United
States must be respected and obeyed;
that he would execute them at any
cost; that the federal union must be
preserved, are sentiments today en-
shrined in every American heart and
sustained and upheld by united peo-
ple-by forty five indivisible, indie.
strIctible states of an indestructible
union.
"Gentlemen, it has given me un.
bounded pleasure to greet and meet
you in the city of New Orleans, and
may | not say in conclusion that it will
be my effort as president of the United
States and the representative of the
people, not of the north or the south
but of the whole United States, to dc
what ever | can to sustain the honor
and promote the prosperity and glory
of the republic we love"
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