Year: 1863

L


HIS Speech at the Burnet House.


Gen. Rosecrans arrived at Cincin.


natl on Monday, where public recep.


tion was extended to him by the citi-


zens. At the Burnet House the well


coming speech was made by Judge


Storer, to which the General thus re.


sponded:


FELLOW CITIZENS: cannot forbear


to thank you most heartily for this
manifestation of your sympathy, of
your repects, and of your regard for
my public services. While accept
the expression of your kind feeling as
evidences of your private regards for
one of your fellow citizens, 1 cannot
forget that the great heart of this peo-
pie does not come up here for any pri-
vate pupose, but from motives higher
than those of mere personal friendship.
l can not fail to recognize in the voice
of this people free and noble hearted
population who have been looking on
our contest of arms and struggling
along, with us for national life, who
have beenanxiously watching the strug-
gle. with this great rebellion, which has
attempted to destroy our nation and
break up our Government Govern
ment which no man, not even among
the revolutionists, has yet denied to be
one OF the best that ever existed.
Therefore it is that l say, when you
come here this morning, your sympa-
theis are touched not for me as an indi-
vidual, but for the Government which
has been in peril, and for whose preser-
walton i as well as yourselves have
been laboring.a [Cheers 'i'9


And while my heart beats with yours
for the safety of that Constitution and
Government, under which most of us
were born-under which all of us live.
and under which we hope to die, while
my own heart beats with yours for the
unity of this Government, which is the
hope of humanity. l must remember
also my own relation to it as well as to
you; 1 must remember that when you
come here you have some doubt as to
why the Government called me away
from my late post of duty. All l want
to say on this point is, to ask you to
remember that whenever you hear the
voice of the Government it is your du-
ty to yield it prompt obedience /;
[Cheersl to recognize its right to issue
orders, and to presume it has good rea-
son for what it does until we know the
contrary. Therefore / say to all whose
satisfaction to-day is marred by the
mingling of some disposition to ques.
ton the action of the Government, that
it would be we'll to stifle their feelings
and leave that matter for further light.
| may say this much, that the Presi-
dent of the United States, since the
battle of Chickamauga, has written me
personally to express his entire conf
dence in me. (Great cheers,) And I
may tell you also, that while some very
attentive friends in the city of New
York and in Washington appear to be
posted as to my health, the Army of
the Cumberland does not agree with
them. The Army of the Cumberland
thinks am well enough daughter and
cheers) and SO do /. And while some
of my New York friends have found
out that Generals Crittenden and Nc
Cook have conspired to make charges
against me, / have General johnson
coming to me from Indianapolis, with
expressions of extreme regret that their
names should have been coupled with
any such report. (Cheers) AS for the
opium eating that have done, / don't
think it would hurt anybody. ~


When arrived hear year ago l
had in my pocket the same order now
have, viz: to report at Cincinnati, to
the Adjutant General, for orders.