Year: 1877

t.s4..- rtr.u, CINoNSATIr Sent Is.


The train bearing President Hayes and
party arrived at the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton depot at eight p. m, and
the procession moved from there to the
lower end of Fourth street, up Fourth to
Walnut, hating at the Gibson House,
where President Hayes was welcomed in
behalf of the people of Cincinnati by
Rev. DR.. Lilienthal in n brief and happy
address. President Hayes was loudly
clfeered on stepping forward on the bal
cony, and, when partial quiet had been
restored, said;


FELLOW CITIZENS These enthusiastic
greetings, and this very generous welcome
by my old friends and neighbers Of Cincin-
natl, are indeed very gratifying to me. do
not take them as mere personal compliment.
l understand that largely they mean that you
are attached to the principles Of the Govern
ment of the United States | trust also that
may accept this demonstration as In part
due to the fact that the people OF CINCINNATI
approve the general course or the Admints-
tration in regard to the great and difficult
questions Of how to bring about complete
and permanent pacification in this country.
The whole countrY-all sections, all States,
all people, all races and classes-are deeply
interested in the permanent paeiication Of
the country. But, my friends. no part
of the people of the United states are
more deeply interested In restoring
harmony between the North and, the
South than the people Of Cincinnati. Dur
ing the greater part of the period of my res
idence in Cincinnati this city was o border
city. It was like Baltimore and Louisville,
border city on the other side of the line,
with population which circumstances be-
yond our control in some degree afenated
and estranged from us; but, my friends, the
great object of desire with the gentlemen
tad rwit me In bn Fnn mt fbfa
great object of desire with me is 10 change
all that. | wish to see Cincinnati no longer
a border city. / wish to see CincipBati &C.
cupy the position which her geographical 10
cation entities her to occupy. wish Gin
cinnati to be one OF the great central cities
of the best continent on the globe. Ibelieve,
my friends, the day is coming, nay, l believe
the day has come, when the great conflict
that ragged between us for more than fifty
years is to be closed. And how deeply are
we interested in it. II is four years since the
great crisis in monetary and business affairs,
and yet the depression has not entirely passed
away. Four months ago, in New York, in
the presence of a large assemblage OF mer-
chants of that city, thought proper to say
that In my Judgment we might look for early
encouragement and decisive indication of
a restoration of business prosperity through
out the country. To day, my friends think
l may say thatint the opinion of wise and pru-
dent observers the indications which pre-





not, perhaps, as decided as we could wish,
but was Informed to-day that the railroads
of the Northwest were beginning to carry to
market the great crops, and are already earn
| ing more than at any previous similar period
| of the year since the crash of 1873. In our
own State am told the Lake Shore Road is
doing-a larger business than ever before, and
that the wholesale merchants Of the great
| cities are beginning to have a trade greater
| than at any time since the panic. Collections
are more easily made than at any time since
tasas sp9HAiea VI f9d gS AZ know n sost the True
perity, which this year is assured. We do
| not claim for the Administration the advant-
ages that come to the country from good
crops, but, my friends, it seems TO me that
| we may ask some approval from our fellow
| citizens il we have placed large part OF our
| country in a condition to give their full at
| tention 10 the raising of crops. As long as
| discomfort with the Government and with
| their felloW-citiZens of the North existed in
| the Southern States, we all know that poll
| tics would receive more attention than
business; but now think l am authorized
to say to you that the whole Southern
country begins again to think more of in
dustry, of improvements, of business, than of
| politics No part of our country can lack pros
perity without affecting the prosperity of the
| whole country, and the prosperity OF our sec
ton is the prosperity OF all sectlohs' IL Is
| with ideas like these that we desire To enter
upon the work of paciticaton. II has been my
good fortune during the past ten days TO be
present at three great soldiers reunions, sol
diers Of the North, and passing among them
and gathering their opinions. l found that,
one and all, they are ready to come again TO
the ancient friendship and harmony with the
South upon the sole basis of a cordial recog-
milton of and an obedience to the Constitu-
ton as it now is, with all its recent amend
ments. But have detained you too long.


feel upon this subject that am treading IN


the pathway marked out by tire fathers as
they stood shoulder to shoulder and side by
side, men of the North and men of the
South. wish to see the day within the next
three or four years when again all causes OF
dissension will, like slavery, be removed for,
ever, when once more the ancient concord and


friendship will be restored. This is my


hope, this my ambition, TO do something to


promote and advance this great purpose


When you approve of that, my fellow citi'


zens, you approve what am trying to do


And now will detain you no longer. sim


ply wish to say that what has been done has


not been done merely because-w we could no


help doing II, but because we believed II was
wise and right to do it. l believe with Pres
ident Lincoln, and indeed | look to thes'
coming days as a fulhllment of his aspira
tiOns. In his first inaugural he said; ...


The mystic chords Of memory, stretching owe
every battlefield and patriot grave, to every 10y
ing heart and every hearth-stODe throughout thi


broad land would yet swell the chorus OF tn


Union, touched it will be by the better angels
+ our nature.