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
Rush, Decatur, and Delaware counties, Indiana, contributed fully five
thousand visitors on the 15th of August. Rush County sent twenty
Republican clubs, mainly township organizations, led by one hundred
veterans of 1836 and '40. The prominent Republicans of the delegation
were Hon. John K. Gowdy, John M. Stevens, A. L. Riggs, W. J. Henley,
John F. Moses, T. M. Green, J. C. Kiplinger, J. W. Study, and G. W.
Looney, of Rushville; R. R. Spencer and J. A. Shannon, of Richland.
Judge W. A. Cullen was their spokesman.
General Harrison, responding, said:
_Judge Cullen and my Rush County Friends_--I am glad to see you
here--glad to be assured by him who has spoken in your behalf that
your coming here in some measure is intended as an evidence of your
personal respect for me. The respect of one's fellow-citizens, who
have opportunities to know him, is of priceless value.
I cannot in these daily addresses enter much into public questions.
You are Indianians, some of you by birth; some of you, like me, by
choice. You are Republicans; you have opposed always the doctrine of
State's rights; you have believed and gloried in the great citizenship
that embraces all the people of all the States. You believe that
this Government is not a confederation to be dissolved at the will
of any member of it, but a Nation having the inherent right, by
arms, if need be, to perpetuate its beneficent existence. [Great
applause.] Many of you who are here to-day have aided in vindicating
that principle upon the battle-field [cries of "Plenty of us!"], and
yet these views are not inconsistent with a just State pride. We are
proud to be Indianians, proud of the story of her progress in material
development, proud of her educational and benevolent institutions,
proud of her Christian homes, proud of her part in the Civil War.
If there has been any just cause of reproach against our State we
will all desire that it may be removed. We may fairly appeal to all
Indianians, without distinction of party, to co-operate in promoting
such public measures as are calculated to lift up the dignity and
honor and estimation of Indiana among the States of the Union. [Great
applause.]
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