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
_General Knefler and Comrades_--I am always deeply touched when
my comrades visit me and offer their kindly greetings. I have no
higher ambition than to stand well in the estimation of my comrades
of the old Union army. I will not speak of any political topic. These
men who stand before me gave the supreme evidence of their love and
devotion to their country. No man could give more than they offered.
The perpetuity of our institutions, the honor of what General Sherman
so felicitously called the "old glory," demand the country shall
always and in every appropriate way honor and reward the men who kept
it a Nation. Whatever may be said of our great prosperity since the
war, and it can scarcely be exaggerated, if we look for the cause
under God, is it not found in the stout hearts of these men? They
have opened this wide avenue of prosperity and honor in which we are
moving. It will be a shame if our people do not in every way properly
recognize that debt and properly honor the men who gave this supreme
evidence of their devotion to the country and its institutions.
Thanking you again for this visit, I will be glad if you will enter my
house and let me meet you personally.
INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 20.
For the fifth time during the campaign the commercial travellers visited
General Harrison, each time with increased numbers. On Saturday,
October 20, under the supervision of the Commercial Travellers'
Republican Club of Indianapolis--G. C. Webster, President; Ernest
Morris, Secretary--they held one of the largest and most successful
demonstrations of this remarkable campaign. Their gathering partook
of a national character, as large numbers of "drummers" were present
from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan,
Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, and Vermont, while every important
city in Indiana sent its complement.
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