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
Godfrey Commandery, Knights Templars, of Chicago, colored men, _en
route_ to the Grand Conclave at Louisville, paid their respects to
General Harrison on the 13th, and were individually presented by Eminent
Commander H. S. Cooper. On August 14 the visitors aggregated 6,000.
The first delegation came from Hamilton County, Indiana, headed by
eighty veterans of the Tippecanoe Club, Charles Swain, President. There
were nine Lincoln League organizations in line. Among the leaders were
J. K. Bush, J. E. Walker, F. B. Pfaff, J. R. Christian, Benj. Goldsmith,
Ike Hiatt, and C. R. Davis, of Noblesville, and Captain Carl, of
Arcadia. Hon. J. R. Gray was their spokesman.
General Harrison, in reply, said:
_Colonel Gray and my Hamilton County Friends_--The demonstration
which you have made this morning is worthy of Hamilton County; it is
worthy of the great party to which you have given the consent of your
minds and the love of your hearts; it is altogether more than worthy
of him whom you have come to greet. You come from a county that, as
your spokesman has said, is greatly favored, a county rich in its
agricultural capacity; but, as I look into your faces this morning
I turn from the contemplation of material wealth to the thought of
those things that are higher and better. [Applause and cries of "Good!
Good!"] Not long ago a distinguished Englishman and jurist visited our
country. On the eve of his return, in a public address, he alluded to
the fact that wherever he went he was asked whether he was not amazed
at the great size of our country. This student of law and government
very kindly, but very decidedly, rebuked this too prevalent pride of
bulk, and called our attention to the finer and higher things that he
had observed in our American civilization.
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