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
INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 19.
Illinois sent three large delegations this date from Springfield,
Jacksonville and Monticello. Conspicuous in the column was the famous
"Black Eagle" Club of Springfield, led by its President, Sam H. Jones,
and the Lincoln Club, commanded by Capt. John C. Cook.
In the Springfield delegation were twenty-one original Whigs who
voted for Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, among them Jeriah Bonham, who
wrote the first editorial--Nov. 8, 1858--proposing the candidacy of
Abraham Lincoln for President. Others among the prominent visitors
from Springfield were: Col. James T. King, C. A. Vaughan, Major James
A. Connelly, Paul Selby, Hon. David T. Littler, Jacob Wheeler, Gen.
Charles W. Pavey, Robert J. Oglesby, Ira Knight, C. P. Baldwin, James H.
Kellogg, Alexander Smith, Geo. Jameson, Augustus C. Ayers, Jacob Strong,
Dr. F. C. Winslow, Fred Smith, Charles T. Hawks, Hon. Henry Dement, Col.
Theo. Ewert, Jacob Bunn, J. C. Matthews, J. R. Stewart, H. W. Beecher,
Andrew J. Lester, Dr. Gurney, and Howes Yates, brother of the great war
Governor.
The Jacksonville visitors were represented by Hon. Fred H. Rowe,
ex-Mayor Tomlinson, Judge T. B. Orear, J. B. Stevenson, Dr. Goodrich,
Professor Parr of Illinois College, J. W. Davenport, and Thomas Rapp.
Attorney-General Hunt spoke on behalf of all the visitors. General
Harrison's reply was one of his happiest speeches. He said:
_General Hunt and my Illinois Friends_--I thank you for this cordial
expression of your interest in Republican success. I thank you for the
kindly terms in which your spokesman has conveyed to me the assurance,
not only of your political support, but of your personal confidence
and respect.
The States of Indiana and Illinois are neighbors, geographically.
The river that for a portion of its length constitutes the boundary
between our States is not a river of division. Its tendency seems
to be, in these times when so many things are "going dry" [cheers],
rather to obliterate than to enlarge the obstruction between us.
[Cheers.] But I rejoice to know that we are not only geographically
neighbors, but that Indiana and Illinois have been neighborly in the
high sentiments and purposes which have characterized their people.
I rejoice to know that the same high spirit of loyalty and devotion
to the country that characterized the State of Illinois in the time
when the Nation made its appeal to the brave men of all the States to
rescue its flag and its Constitution from the insurrection which had
been raised against them was equally characteristic of Indiana--that
the same great impulse swept over your State that swept over
ours--that Richard Yates of Illinois [cheers] and Oliver P. Morton of
Indiana [prolonged cheers] stood together in the fullest sympathy and
co-operation in the great plans they devised to augment and re-enforce
the Union armies in the field and to suppress and put down treasonable
conspiracies at home.
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