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
May every prosperity attend you. May this ground, made memorable by
one of the most gallant assaults and by one of the most successful
defences in the story of the war, never again be stained by
blood; but may our people, in one common love of one flag and one
Constitution, in a common and pervading fealty to the great principles
of our Government, go on to achieve material wealth, and in social
development, in intelligence, in piety, in everything that makes
a nation great and a people happy, secure all the Lord has in His
mind for a Nation that He has so conspicuously blessed. [Great and
prolonged cheering.]
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, APRIL 15.
Chattanooga was reached Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock. The President
was received with marked cordiality and enthusiasm by the several
thousand citizens assembled at the station. At this point the party
was joined by the President's younger brother, Mr. Carter B. Harrison,
and his wife, of Murfreesboro, Tenn. The following prominent citizens
comprised the committee that received the President: Hon. J. B. Merriam,
Mayor of Chattanooga; Hon. H. Clay Evans, Judge David M. Key, H. S.
Chamberlain, D. J. O'Connell, Henophen Wheeler, John Crimmins, Maj. J.
F. Shipp, Col. Tomlinson Fort, John T. Wilder, Adolph S. Ochs, John B.
Nicklin, L. G. Walker, A. J. Gahagan, C. E. James, F. G. Montague, H. M.
Wiltse, John W. Stone, J. B. Pound, E. W. Mattson, and Judge Whiteside.
The committee escorted the distinguished guests to the summit of
Lookout Mountain. At the Lookout Inn President Harrison pointed out
to his immediate companions the spot where he was encamped for a time
during the war. From the mountain the party was driven about the city,
which was profusely decorated. All the school children in the city stood
in front of their respective schools and waved flags and shouted as the
President and Mrs. Harrison drove by. Assembled around the platform
where the general reception was held were many thousand people.
Ex-Congressman Evans, amid deafening cheers, introduced the President,
who said:
_My Fellow-citizens_--I have greatly enjoyed the opportunity of
seeing Chattanooga again. I saw it last as the camp of a great army.
Its only industries were military, its stores were munitions of war,
its pleasant hill-tops were torn with rifle-pits, its civic population
the attendants of an army campaign. I see it to-day a great city, a
prosperous commercial centre. I see these hill-tops, then bristling
with guns, crowned with happy homes; I see these streets, through
which the worn veterans of many campaigns then marched, made glad with
the presence of happy children. Everything is changed.
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