Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United StatesHarrison, Benjamin
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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; United States -- Politics and government
Ohio and Illinois did honor this day again to the Republican nominee.
From Cleveland came 800 voters; their organizations were the Harrison
Boys in Blue--200 veterans of the Civil War--commanded by Gen. James
Barnett; the Garfield Club, led by Thomas R. Whitehead and Albert M.
Long; the Logan Club, headed by Capt. W. R. Isham, and the German
Central Club. Prominent in the delegation were Hon. Amos Townsend, John
Gibson, and Major Palmer, the blind orator. Gen. E. Myers spoke for the
Buckeyes. The city of Normal, McLean County, Illinois, sent a delegation
of 200 teachers and students of the State Normal School, including 70
ladies. Student William Galbraith spoke for his associates.
General Harrison, in response, said:
_Gentlemen and Friends_--The organizations represented here this
morning have for me each an individual interest. Each is suggestive of
a line of thought which _I_ should be glad to follow, but I cannot, in
the few moments that I can speak to you in this chilly atmosphere, say
all that the names and character of your respective clubs suggest as
appropriate. I welcome those comrades in the Union army in the Civil
War. [Cheers.]
Death wrought its work in ghastly form in those years when,
patiently, fearlessly, and hopefully, you carried the flag to the
front and brought it at last in triumph to the Nation's capital.
[Cheers.] Death, since, in its gentler forms, has been coming into
the households where the veterans that were spared from shot and
shell abide. The muster-roll of the living is growing shorter. The
larger company is being rapidly recruited. You live not alone in the
memories of the war. Your presence here attests that, as citizens, you
feel the importance of these civil strifes. You recall the incidents
of the great war, not in malice, not to stir or revive sectional
divisions, or to re-mark sectional lines, but because you believe
that it is good for the Nation that loyalty to the flag and heroism
in its defence should be remembered and honored. [Cheers.] There is
not a veteran here, in this Republican Club of veterans, who does not
desire that the streams of prosperity in the Southern States should
run bank-full. [Cheers.]
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