Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-01
ODE iNGTnENTs .N AMERfcAx
 HISTORY
JoHNsoN's SWING AROUND THE
CIRCLE.

'OhNSON'S SWING AROUND THE
 CIRCLE.
 When President Johnson had served lttle more than year as chief execn tive of the country, and was in inc mlast Of an exciting struggle With con- gress, he decided upon a presidentiai tour which has come to be known as hls Swing Around the Circle"
 This trip was taken for two narnosas one was political and to bear an infu ence on the coming election for repre- sentatiVes to congress, and the other was that the president and cabinet might attend the ceremonies incident to the laying of the cornerstone of mon umhnt erected in Chicago to the mem ory of Stephen A. Douglas.
 On the 18th of August. 1866 Presi- dent Johnson and lis party began what was, in some respects, the most brilliant tour ever made by any president of the United States. The party. nuuiher,ns sixty persons. included the president and his daughter, cabinet members and senators and their wives. as well as General Grant. Admiral Farrag1lt ana a number of other prominent officials. The tour was one continuous ovation.
 From the time they left Washington until their return three weeks later their every stop was the signal for en- thusiastic popular demonstrations. while in all the principal cities along their route receptions and banduets were the order Of the day.
 The first stop of importance was al Baltimore. The party were met at tht 1 Annapolis Junction by the governor 0. the state and his staff, and when the, 1 hn o5t -. 1 suspended and the streets thronser
 with interested spectators. As they
 made their way from Baltimore to Pail 1 adeiphta. delegation representing th state of Delaware boarded the train ant i extended every possible courtesy
 1 When Philadelphia was reached the presidential party were escorted to thei hotel by parade of tfiremen, militar1 l and other organiza tions and betweel Philadelphia and New York they mad | short stops at Trenton and Jersey City l The reception at New York, with it's ra val aid lana pageanry. it's military an civic demonstrations it's banquets ant speech-naking, beggars all description. In every address of welcome or re sponse to toast the president wa compltmented on the stanch stand h
 had taken with reference to the restora NAOIl VI ttic SoOtu 1 lie DISSlQent all
 his party reached Chicago on Septembe S, the date of the laying of the corner stone, and after participating in the i'm
 posing ceremonies attendant upon tn
 occasion, they continued their 5ourne to St. Louis, where there was a gran l naval procession of more than thirt vessels, led by the steamer Andy John
 son, on which the president was feceit ed, and which was so named by It's CT thusiastic owner in his honor.
 Nothing occurred to mar the pleasur , of the party on their hon1eward journe until Johnstown. Pa. was reached. this place d frightful accident happeI
 ed, which cast a gloom oyer the rest the trip. Just as the train was fnovin and the people. were shouting their goo will after the president, the pillars {
 the bridge gave way through the strai : of the imme<Sse throng it held. and th crowd was brecipitated into the cana . twenty feet below. Fifteen persons wei killed outright and ninety others wei seriously injured.
 l A royal welcome was given the part . when they again reached Washington but in spite Of the great enthusiasm tf weapons of the president were turne
 against him and a more intensely rad cal congress never assembled in Wasi :. ington than the foftieth.
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