The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1870, Page 10

~DVANON 10 THE PRANIDENE Grand Fourth of July Celebra- ‘tion in Connecticut. Enthusiastic Reception: of. the Prosident at Woodstock, Grand Turnout of the People of the Land of Steady Habits, Speeshes' by Ex-Licutenant Governor Woodford, Heury Ward Beecher ‘and General Batler. ‘Ex-Governor Hawley in Defence sf Chinese Labor. > ‘Woonsroox, Conn., nly 41870. Of oltizens bad gathered in the devot, and greeted the President with every demonstration of Joy. During the delay in getting off the train the Pre- eluent shovk hands with those of the people nearest ‘the platform of the car. The train was in charge of moving the dust of the journey. After rearranging A.B, Clark, and was drawn by the engime Governor The fellow: Jewell and driven by Wililam Kimbail, ‘Whitaker, Baron Catacuzy, Count Orloff, Calvin Day, J. R. Buck, Mr. Bromley, of Norwich; Mr. Church, ex-Lieutenaut Governor Avery, Unite] States Marsha! Carri, Mr. Goodlow, George M. Bartholomew, Professor Northup, Super- tntendent Public Schools; Mr. Hubbard, Mr. and The grounds surrounding “Mr. Bowen's residence Mrs. Sayles, Mr. McManus, Superinsendent New | Were simply, but elegantly decorated. A long the London aud Northern Railroad; Roland Swift and | carriage drive were posted numerous streamers, David Galiop, Henry Ward Beecher :mduiged his radical ideas in leading of by taking a seat on the Joconiotive. ARRIVAL, AT MANCKESTER, The train arriving at Manchester the President appeared for amoment on the platform and was received with rounds of cheers and waving of hand Kerchiefs. The Manchester Cornet Band during the halt discoursed appropriate music. Ward Chneeney joined the party. At ¢ this point of Vernon, with martial music, were assembled. The President from the rear platform appeared to Mr. Bowen. Henry P. Haven joined the party at and band of music were collected, A platform had alsO Deen erected, but it was thought best not to venture eo far from the train, The President waa Antroduced from the rear platform by Governor Hawley. After the enthusiasm had supsided in a measure Governor Hawiey also introduced the Rus- slan Ambassador, Count Catacazy, as the represent- ative of @ nation which had shown its sympathy with us through the dark days of our late war. PLBASUBE OF THE RUSSIAN MINISTER. ,Baron Catacagy was revelved with cheers, He remarked aside to the President that the hearty wel- come accorded everywhere to Gercral Grant re- minded him (the Baron) of the manner in which the Emperor of Russia 1 received by is people during his journeys through the empixe. At Baltic, a small Village en the route, the train stopped for afew minutes. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Islbnd, was waiting atthe station wifi @ deputation and wel- comed the President, who was recetved wyt cheers dy the.crowé. Again the train sped onward at the rate of forty miles an hour, the geniality of the Pres- Adential party increasing with the manifestations of enthnslastic weicome with which they were met on she journey. The Russian Minister expressed Dim- eelf as particularly gratified with what he had so far seen during this, dis first visit, to New England, °° RECEPTION IN WINDHAM COUNTY. At Plainfield, the next place at which the train stopped, hundreds had assembled from every part of Windham county. The fact that the train waa to stop ten minutes, and that an address was to be read here to the President, doubtiess had something to do with drawing together so large a concourse of people. The reecptien was at other places of a very enthusiastic character. The President, having appeared apon the platform and been Mtroduced by Governor Jewell to Mr. Cleyeland, the latter read the following address and resolutions:— Mr. PaesipenT—AS chairman ofthe General Com- mittee of Reteption, I have the honor of welcoming You and your distingulsped suite within the borders and to the hospitaliiles of Windham county—a coan- ty in whose bosom rests the honored dust of Putngm and Lyon and others who fought for a free govern- ment in the war Of the Revolution and for Its salva- tion ahd perpetuation in the late war of the rebel- lion—a county that has aiways been loyal to the democratic Por.tan idea that spake in the Declaration of Independence and in the Abeonth guiehdment We recall with pieasure and pride thé fact that for nearly two hundred years Connecticut was the home of your Puritan anccstors, The people are assem- bilng ¢n this glorions day by tens of thousands to t thelr ghititnde to Fon, sir, for the inestimab'e services you have rendered sour country. May God biesé rat Mr. Fg on and = you rege and ace to reat people on to @ atill larger Hert pu ae We iJ yi ization. Again, on benoit out ¢,tizehs, RoR NS welcome you and your lends to Windham ty. Ac Me hh daar farina BUA ier Waa ine ‘ THE PRESIDENTS RELY. The President replied—l feel undef great obitga- tions to tie people of Connecticut and Wiodham county for the kind reception they have given me. J have meta werm we come in my entire joyrney tnreugh the State, and I find also that Windham eounty iano exception. I than jor the recep. ton, and J am glad to be among you. THE PARTY REINFORCED BY SENATOR BUCKINGHAM. Tho President then shook bands with a number in h’s vicinity. Here the train was switched on the Norwich and Worcester railroad. Before leaving Plainfield an extra car, containing Senator Bucking- ham, Mayor Blackstone, of Norwich, and a delegation of citizens of Windham county, was attached. The rong. train then resumed its journey to Putnam station. At Danielsonville the train halted for a moment to give the President an opportunity to appear to the crowds of men, women and children who were gathered from tne country far and near. ARRIVAL AT PUTNAM—RECEPLION BY THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. + Atten o’clock the train arrived at Putuam. Here it was proposed to leave the cars and proceed in carriages to Woodstock, tive miles distant. All the arrangements had beon previously made, and admirably so, too, by the Committee of Arrangements, The members of the Grand Army of the Republic formed in open ranks facing inwards and extending from the President’s car to the carriages. Afier a few moment’s delay the President, escorted by H. E. Bowen, whose guest he ‘was, and who now came on the train, alighted and proceeded to the carriage in waiting. In this car- tage were seated the President, Mr. Bowen, Mr. Catacazy, the Russian Minister, and Mayor Black- stone, of Norwich. The remaining carriages, num- bering about fifteen, were occupied by other mem- bers of the party. In the viciaity of the depot at least 3,000 people were assembled, As the chief magis- trate ‘ appeared the people man{fested their feelings in prolonged shouts of welcome. The Presicent’s carriage, followed by the others as quickly as possible, left the depot and drovea short distance on the road to a Place designated by the committee and previously planned in the arrange- ment of the procession. Almost immediately after ‘the Presiaential party took its place the procession, which had already been formed, moved out, consist- ing of an escort and cavalcade of citizens, | school headed by Gilmore's Band, the Third Regiment Band of Norwich, and a great number of other citi- mens in every sdrt of vehicle, ‘was profusely decorated with fags, banners and evergreens. Ver- nou the tram made another halt, Tho citizens The town of Putnam | wasted: NEWYORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1970—TRIPLE SHEET. Bowen. The road along which the President passed was literally packed on both sites wivh the muscuar men Gud rustic’ beauties of the counitry, It seemed as if the Littie Nutwdog State nad emptied herself, for this day at least, into the village of Weodstock. _ THD GREAVEST! ENTHOSIASM prevailed along the road, festoons of fowers and triumphal arches had been erected, Even the ‘ridge across MIN river was #0 profusely covered’ ab the entrance and ¢xit and interior with evergreens and flowers, that i appeared as if the processton ‘was passing throngh an immense wreath. ‘On the way also, but a Short distaieé from Putnam, anum- ber of girls dresaed in bineand white were assembled ou platforms, and sang songs of welcome and re- Boys, also dressed in biue and gitt, with nelmets, were posted ena pyra- midal framework and produced satngularty striking | ‘of the mi effect. But in Woodstock the ‘quantity of flowers and flags and bowers of eyeryfeed, oak aad laurel was beyontl conception. The decoration, it could be jolcing a3 the President passed, seen, Wus the work of days. ARRIVAL AT THE WOWEN MANSION, tioned inside-the fence to keep out the crowd. groufds. to meet the President the fotlowdng members of the and daughter, Mr. Plummer and George C. Holt. national Union, of the Gistingmished genexais of the war. vided for the rest of the company. from the operas, AT THE SPEAKER'S STAXD. At one o’clock jae Lyons Guard, with music, escorted tie Town. Committee, the General Commit- tee and the distinguigked guests to the speakers stand onthe Common. Here an immense tempo- tary structure was erected, with background of seats sin tiers. The President and his party ook their seats upon the platiorm. Senator Buckingpam occu- Pled the chair. On his right sat President Grant, on Whose,rightsat the Rey. Mr. Beech, paster of the ; Congregational church of jWoodstock. To the left of the chairman sat the Baron Catecazy, eral Pleasanton and General Hawiey. Russian Mipister sat ex-Governor Woodford aud General Butler, Cheer upom cheer went up as the party took their places on the plat‘erm. Senator Buckingham briefly introduced the Prest- dent, who was enthuslasticully received. After mu- sic by the band the Declaration of Independenc: was read, then Seuator Buckingham, with brief preiaciag remarks, introduced ex-Governor Woodford, who spoke as follows:— MB. CHAIRMAN AND CITIZENS :— Grateful for the prtvilege of meeting you among the green hills and pleasant farms of the stave wherein my tatners dwelt aud died, and seusibie of the disunguished presence ia witch I stand, lei me, without further introduction, speak wo you of the lessons Which the occasion suggests. We meet as c.bizens of 4 free republic to celebrate our nation’s birthday, to honor the memory of our patriot sires, to pledge anew our fidelity to fatherland and fag. I Would speak to you, then, of our . AMERIGA CITIZENSHIP, dignified by noble duties, burdened by solemn re- sponstbilities. Citizenship 1s @ condition attaching itself of necessitysto every man. We are all at birth c)tiwens to OwFs country, as We are children to our parents. According}, , the responsi)liiies and duties or citjzenship depeud largely upon the form of the government, and pracuoally vary according to the relations wigch, under diferent systems, the indivi- dual sustalng W the State. i OUR POLITICAL SYSTE, when considered not terely wit: regard to ils theo- ry, but also to the theatre and cond:tions of its ope- raiton, is widely diferent from amy that has ever pc- fore or elsewhere existed. There have been otner iemocracies, as free, perhaps, it whoo , but none have occupied @ continent, none hate possessed such imperial power, none have pecn blesséq with such possibiiities of peaceful growth, of industifa: production, of Weaith and culture, OUK RESPONSIBILITIES. As we are the sole powerful represeutative of pop- ular hberty among tie nations of the world, so do we become respousible to all lands and times for the su ful solution of the problem that a truly tree and democratic government inay answer the needs of dense population and vast territory, and may also be stable and enduring. ‘these ate familiar words, almost wofn threadbare in their constant use; bus they are none ihe less trué, none the less binding jn the obligations which they teach, Ok out over the lands, Be hopeful tor them, and solemnly mindfal of our own duty ana re- sponsibility, During the dark days of our own re- cent rebellion, when government of the people seemed to Perishing from oiff the earth, how kingly brows were lifted up and kingly hopes grew How did the tory statesmen and nobles of gland mock at our moneeert vith how did a shipyards of tory ¢ ers ying wit nMer Ay! axe until the ‘Atdoastt Bink Trou oy Wage Aud salitd on her cruise of piracy and wrong! How did impe- vialism wax stronger In tair France, and reach out over the ocean to graft itself upou our weak sister republic of Mexico! How did the Bourbons of Spain proffer early recognition to the slaveholders’ rebellion, and intrigue for armed intervention against Our ulaty | CUBA. While I have not the sigitest sympathy with any violation of law, Whether by criminal or iiibuster; while I honor the administration for its effort to en- force our neutrality obligations; while I detest with unspeakabie horror the reales outrages and as- sassinations that have disgraced the hostilities in Cuba, still I frankly say that my heart goes ont with warmest sympathy towards the poor, ignorant and crushed creoles, blindly struggling ior liberty, I remember that so long a8 we are free and happy here they will yearn and pray to be free and happy there. So long as the emancipated slave here stands with broken shackles, a man and a citizen, so long the dream of manhood steal into the poor ne- gro’s brain as there he toils in bondage. So long as the shadow of our flag falls across the nar- row intervening sea upon the cathedral walls where sleep the ashes of Columtus, will those ashes stir, imstinct with life, will those dead lips move, pleading with Cnba to be free, The in- surrection of to-day may not have embraced within itself suflicient strength to eniitle it to recognition under the accepted law of nations, It may fail ana its adherents be scattered and slain. But 80 long as tis land remains and yonder fing floats as now in power and freedom, our example shail speak with resistless ministry to ali this continent, mainland and island alike, “Outbreak shail foliow outbreak, prayer for annexation or protection shall follow prayer, until popular self-government shall be esta- blished among all the islands of the Gulf; until New England civilization] aud enterprise shall occupy those garden spots, and carrying thither these won- drous agencies of New England. growth, the free presa, the free church, the free and the township Bol shall ennoble the debased = manti of those bn ag islands; shall restore Its virgin fertility to the soil which siavery, tyranny and indolence have nd with patient industry and intelligent will shall discover and develop amore enduring and better wealth than Columbus dreamed of as he gazed from the Pinta’s deck or than De Soto and Keeping a slow gait while passing through Put- | Ponce de Leon ever sought amid flowery evergiades nam, the movements alter were more rapid. AT SOUTH WoopsTOCK the Lyon Guard, drawa up, saluted the President and beside fountains piashing upon golden sands with waters of eternal youth, ‘The war of reyulvtion, whose formal opening we commemorate to-diy, demonstrated to all thoughtful men that, surrounded acess sinc tritaninancanoncianant and wheélea Into column, taking the advance. Tha | as we are Procession noW again got into motion, under the |, ¥' irection of Miréiul Greensit and assistants, and Moved \hid.igh tue village to the residence of H. 0, Salutes of cannon and the. telling of hella also an- Dounecd the enirée,the - proecssion: having reached the eztrance to the ‘groundly sarrouading the resi- accompanied by Governpr-Jewell | deaee of Mr. tBowen, the Lyon Gmard were! ste }.embodinent and expression of their will, Other aud Fighkill Railroad a few ‘Wefore the departure of the-spectaltrain for cartiages ccataining the-party then ‘passed in, Pps (Might diyviue of kings to rule, upon the superior but the Town Committee, the General Committee |. oeage tyra nny, that God has fashioned some of Huer Putnam, and Immediately embarked. A large crowd | @uil, invited guesia weve allowed to enter we Entering the mansion the party were shown to *@partments whure the ese of water, towels and ‘clothes brushes were vigorously applied, soon re- ‘is tofict, the Presifont,accompamicd by J Mr. Howen, again matte his appearance in te pariors of the pa- dng gentiemen were in the Prestdcut'srain on its latial residence of Mr.’Bowen, where were assembled |)zoned with long memories of kingly Uues, of departure:—Governor Jewell, Governor Hawley, Re- presentativé Strout, H. A. Bowen,, EH. Robinson, Bowen family and a'few frienas, all of whom were sGenerals Pieasonton and Weodford, Postmaster | Presented by H. C. Bowen:—Mrs. H. C. Bowen end three daughters, Mary, Grace and Alice; Mr. and General Harlan, | Mrs. H. E. Bowen, R. A, Bowen, E, H. Bowen, E. Bowen, Clarence Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs, Richardson, Prefessor and Mrs. Fisk each containing thename of-one of the States of the A number, of smail flags were aise posted about the lawn, each bearing the name of one After a brief time passed in eonverastion in the parlors the Presilent and a few selected friends were invited'to @ richly gotten up lunch. The following persons Were seated at the taile:The President, -on his right hound Mr. Catacazy, on his left Mr. Beecher, and the following sat around:the table on the left of ; Mr. Beecher:—Ex-Licutenant Governor Steward L, Woodford, General Pleasanten, Mayor Blackstone and J. T. Norton, of Norwich; Lieutenant Governor the people. The President was here introduced by | Averill, Mr. Bastoll, of Providenge; , your correspon- dent, Governor Hawley, General Porter, Secretary this placc, At Willimantic another large crowd | tothe President; Governdr Jewell, Governor Buck- ingham and Count Orioi, A Janch .was then pro- During the presence of the President.at the resi- dence of Mr. Bowen the General Committee and Town Commutice called to pay their respects, and during these proceedings indoors Giimore’s band, on the lawn, discgoursed some charming selections Genera: Gorioff, Governor Jewell, A. H. Bowen, fien- Behind tho and throned uphn a continent, are sale oun alt or assault aud domination. BRI ON ‘shrough which. we have’ just passed moi ted that so long as ouc people remain faith- ful to the ideus of our system, neither treasou nor domestic discord shall disrupt our oy or tear one wtar from our honored flag. veached tha. point in our, vational developinent Whorg it is evident that the future sieves or failure ) mEncsreay is to depend solely upon ourselves. Hf we fall in our discharge of our personal duties is » We may even yet overthrow the govern. against Which noither foreign assault nor omestic treason has been able to prevail, r Ihave bite ap that the dutiea‘aad.responsib!l. ities of citizenship were determined by tne tori of the government and the relations waich the ciilzen occupies towards the State, Bear with me one mo- ment while I refer with more aetati to the form and character of our governmental system. it ackuowl- edges that it derives its primary authoriy from the consent of the governed, and cliims that It was es- tabdished tor thelr good, security and growth. 1s form is based upon the declaration that ail men are created free and equal in their rights to Iife, liberty, that there may come into Bil bosoms purpose of a hobier aud more f DEVOTED £0 has also de- BY YALTY, ed by the holy memories of this us be magnantmous in victory, ern heart let ali !ingeriug disloyalt, = Saratoga, Valley Fo Stare nor section, but to all shall be justly known and honored, woula’seck longerin any manner [0 a! alates the frecdom of the individual for the good | gree foretell. Chastene: any, and according to the will of Frcvotsly we have suite! the whole, Ji starts with a formula of brogd prin- rt aiples that would have more than gausiled the Wiidest dreamer of the Athenlan democracy, yet rears thereon @ structure of constitution and ordl- nances that would Aave met the ideal of the most ne, of Roman lawyivers. It recosnizea the indi- vidual citizen a8 the source of atl its power, the peer of its highest officer aud the final Judge of all its action, and yet compels his acknowisdgment of its authority and his obedience to its laws. Ina word, as it was born of the people It continues the wer of Unis day, let us 4 ilithes; let us seer oy) “do our duty as cttize: therland. Which were adopted by the meeting:— REGOLUTIOND, The citizeus of Wincham county assombled and gider govermehta) systems are based upon the of certain classes, upon the idea, as old a8 | Menis:- Firat—We believe “that all: me: by their Croator with certain inallenabie rights, arellfe, ilberty:and the pursuit of happines secure these righta governments are losiituted clay aud purer. blood, in whom, through long de- scent, should still Innere the royal rightio possess and to rule, wiitle in otners, in constant dine from sire to son, should still remain the privilege of toil and servicude, ‘Chey are based upoa tie old idea that might makes right, that the sword 28 te | upon ite increase from 3, to 40,000.00. seeptre of authority, aud that strong arms and | expansion of territory; upon its growth In wi trusty steel aud skiliul fence are the fling steppin, ari nee, cducation and religion; upon stones to throne and coronet, Hoary wre they. with glory in war and its r love OF peace, the aye, and proud with the pomp of centuries, con- | ™!se of ® yet more glorious tuture secrated Wiih the oll of priestly apointing, and bia- | Porrekial oo clvlilze: teal aad relizus {Sing eg for. po Third—We rejoiced and give than ton from the prolonged and awful Hou; for the emancipation of 4, ration to full citizenship ; for t God upoathe marvellous progress of our beioved knightly deeds, and ued classes. Among them stands our simpler system, ier and yet older, for it is an embodied truth, sand ail -truth reaches back to eternity and Ged, We never create a new truth, eliher in physics, morals, or in government. We sometimes discover an Old one, aud thus we make new applications of od forces. The same sieain power that pulsed in the cyitnder gid throbbed along the engine's irou sinews, bearing us trom many cities to ‘this quiet hamlet, simmered over the couk pots and hissed froin the good wile’s kettles a thousand years ago. ‘The same eiectricity that dashes the word nere spoken to yonder metropolis, and that this morning Whispered across the desert, over the mountain and under the sea, bearing tidings irom hoary India to the far Golden Gate, sparkied in the sumbeams that: Jay on Eden’s roses, and kindied in the lightnings | the altars of liberty from that flashed around Sinai’s brow, The,great truth | baa noscr measured its share nor counted the cost when the that all men are created free and are egal i their rN natural rights was not born of Jefferson's pen, nor | Who. was it carved into being by Washington's sword. It | 6): him of our enthusiastic appreciation of ‘his great the gloriously succeusi ui Mberty Jn the most momentous war in hia! him to-“fight it out on that Ime” whe doubly honor the great warrior who: Let ve yoace.” Observing with and stateamansinp of ration,” we express full confidence in his continued and triumphs Fi The nnilve county of Putnam and Ly great honor to lay ita ready tribute of ‘if and treasure upon honor was in question. ve their ves that the nation might live, Ltcate ouraeives to the work they #0 nobly carried grand idea of man’s equality and his rights by vir- tue of his simple maniood, upon the idea that to seach eitizen belongs the privilege and the duty of .Seif-governinen\; upon the idea that he surrenders to the State only so much of th's privilege as 1s need- ful for the iitgiest good ot all. ‘Lhe responsibilty wf the Individual may be embodied tn one sentence: Every citizen, a the expression of his wall through the Daliot pox, determines, so far as bis vote bears -broportion to the entire body of votes, the kind ot Zulers Whoare W administer the government and the public policy by them to ve pursued, THE MASSES VURE. dbelieve that tue masses are in their purpose and achou pure. Miszuided they may be, bulthey do not.design wilful injury to the Stare. Such must be the beliet of all wno have faith in our democrane system, for 1M we conclude that if the masses of our citizens are Impure In morals aud corrupt ip pur- pose we must of necessity despair of mainialning jusiiee, securing private rights and upholdivg na- tional .uonor under our democratic system. So soon a3 the peopie, the source of power and the fountain-head of ae become corrapt, there tendered to Hon. Heavy ©, Bowen for hw indef labors and great’ Mberality in preparing thigmagni: monatration, and for a long series of most though! aut religious hiterests of this town and county. . ADDRESS OF REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER. and spoke as follows:— make the maia speech upon tils occasion. I was expected ta do something supplementary; but wien Of the speating on hin—(laug: conveyed to dum this informacd: pared humsell accordingly. (( laughs himself, as if to tury away ihe force of tuls re- mark; but he will not dare gay that on Sacurday iast he left New York with us, anc after learnmg this fact he sheered oif heme to make his preparalion over Sunday. (Laughter.) I have no doubt it will an- swer the expectation of ai! sssembled here on 43 no possibility of pure aud Aouest popular goyern- | this occasion. Fellow citizens, I am sorry ment, for you; but there is one other party that POLITICAL FRAUD. suifers more, aud that is he who is gbont Still there 1s much in the condition of public | to speak to you, We are all miserable wore this afairs to fl the observer with apprenension. Atl { afternoon. (Laughter.) We are gathered together throuvh thedand political fraud is bold and offen | upon our agnual patriotic boastipg day. successful, W.res are pulled, conventions packed and nominations often sold. Brokerage in political influeace and yotes has become au estubliehed branch of traitic, and principies are traded off for power and piace. The very shrine of our liberty, the ballot box, bas been invaded by bold hands, ant too often, especially in our large cities, the shoulder hitter and the biliof-stutfer form the chosen body ard of aspirants for oles. The holy names of iper.y and Justice are prostitated to selilsh uses, and our leaders are only scrambling for patronage and plunder, But is not tn these things themselves that we find deepest cause for sorrow and fear. It ts in the growing want of interest in public affairs on the part of our best citizens, which dese things unmistakably indicate, that the real springs.of danger jie, if our government shal! prove luadequate for its high trasi, Wf tue hcense ef the mob shall override the restraints of law and the vugranties of our social systein, it will be becanse our people nogtect the salegaurds committed to thelr kecping; because good men and responsibie men absent tremselves from caticus, conventton and poll; because able and uprigit men refuse to assume ihe respeystbiliiies and uischarge tue duties of public station. Yet there are very maay men who leave to others all discharge of political duty, They are perfectly content to enjoy themselves all like, We clegently ieave it be inferred what sons our fathers had, (Great laughter.) We read again tho Deciaration of independence, as we keap the old Quecn Anue’s drearms over the manvelpieces of our chimneys toshow what sort of guis our fathers shot, though 1t be flity years past. So we exhibit again the old copy of the Deciaratioy of Indepen- dence, willch was good at the beginping and was good at the end and was good in the middie. Bat that was gone by longago. What do you care and what do J care what our fathers suffered be- fore they Jicked Great Britiin? They settled ail “that long ago, and the only good of such rehearsal on this occasion 18 {0 hear it read by a good voice. AS a ii-turical document It 18 interesting. J expected to hear, and was not dis- appointed, some ailusioa made to the great contlict which has cently been concluded. After all. the figktiog Was the least part of that business, al- though General Grant 1s ere present aching to make a speech toyou on the matter, (Great laugh- ter.) I have no doubb he Uunks there was sole fighting; yet alter all, measure it as you please, make the diameter coequal with that of the earci’s and then double it, aud !¢ was the least part of all that was done ip that great four years thus elapsed ; for Wiule we were sighting this couniry was eaavied the protection, ail the opportuniiies, which | to unield an example and to make a ucmonstration our governuent affords, perfectly pendy to | Of government which it never made before and could git beneath the vine and fig tree of our | not bave made except under some such father’s planting, and so busliy engaged 1n gather- | pressure as that, Any yacht will stand weather ing the purple clusters and satisfying their own greed that they can spare no time to dig about the roots, to prune the branches, to pluck olf the dead Jeaves, to prop up the falling trellis. And thus they | Blows you how she 1s made and wiat stuil she is live on in uier disregard or duty, until corruption | mede of, So with a great people spread on a greit wls into party and State, until vice dictates to | Continent, almost rier abundance. Why shjuid nment and langhs at anthopity, and until de- | not she de prosperous? said this 1s no tes of signing tricksters creep into high places of trust and | republican goycrament, aud .no test that its people honor. Others over as excuse for thew neglect of | were the gregaiest in the worlT and its government duty that politica have become so corrupt that honest | the greatest. ‘Tiere aré two governments m the when it 1s moored in New York harvor; but send it out to sea, where the tornado catches i', and then she is brought to her moorings, aud she men cantot, without. forieiture of gelf-ré ct, en- | World—tne imperis democra ic, every: gage therein. You will nea? this daily fom well | thing between them being bastard, It 1s an experi- Meaning and conscientious men. Any yet how muon | meus I would not say Wat republicatiqm was not of real validity is there in such excuse? You must first prove that none of the responsibiitiy of govern- ment rests upon you before you have the right to suit your ta te and consult your personal comfort by bo Serie from these disagreeable duties of citizen- ship. the best form of gover the one that suiis the American people, and I will not determine wrether it would not be a better form of government for monatchies than that they hold. Wheu I spoxe in London, in Exeter Hall, in 1893, on this ject, several;Americans nudged me and said, xpluin how Its liberty-loving demo- ‘ats are hobwobbing with the Russian oilicers rk,”? aud my reply was—'1 have found more aigent in ihe world, byt i NONEST MEN IN POLITICS, Jf therg ke as jugh wickery ag you are wont to Tees ¢ 6 ity stages of political | New ¥ aces clinging fo th prlmaty. stag Y 8) ampathiy from mankind for action, then that 1s just the place whéré You and all 1 the enslaved aud more honest men are needed. If to secure the nonulatiey Iiberty in the heart of the F 1sslap government than attaching to the advocacy of noble principles ahd | 1 did in the heart of the English government, which had its face against us in the altemp: to cuancipate the slaves, (Applause.) BatI am not here this a!- terncon ta make outa one ae his Majesty the hee his Master, Uaen.it should be your desire and pride, | peror. 1 am to speak tis afternoou for your majes- as itis your bounden duty, to guard your party ac- | ties, the demecrai Thold that the great con- tion from corrupt influence at its very inc on, | fict through which we Raye passgd—the great (en ag the builder looks to his corner stone, | years whica is now roundiig Out and ripening as the motley phields the ipfant purity of her child, | \tsel{—nas done a great «eal more than to show We Such excuse fs fimsy and slidllow. It is the com oyercging thé South, That is the least, { am wretched washing of Pliate’s hands; the cowardly giad it has do! é tiat—ihat we were able to doit. I choice of personal ease. It is 26 fitch as though, | knew we shouid; we knew we should, I knew it in a feariul storm, when spars were snapping and | for this reason: that Unts peopie are slow, tunbers siraining, when the heavens were black cautious, mighiy pariicuiar and ore to mot with tempest and the wavéd ware white wlti foumi, | a going; but, like # ‘aete heat of green one should sit m his stateroom bays 2 his coin, or | hic! ue when they et ago log potiba gap Rus fem be carelessiy clicking his glass to genifemaniy com- | oul; fh 50 We és up mchtun dally as We went ov; the ftoble, refustig to take pis | on jouch ar@ more mercurial. They siart & at ‘te piinps Hecahse his neighbor there was | quicker and stop quicker. ‘Tacy charge we id not red-shirted and rough-handed, Oud upon all such | beat them, but wore them out. {take it £0, for fight excuses, They savor alike of indoicnce, of cow- | ing ineans wearing out; and it does not mean mereiy ardice, of unmgniincss. the bayonct or the bullet, for there are @ great many INDEPENDENCE DAY’? things besides to constitute war. But tue great point comes to us now with fuller meaning and with holter | 13 tits :—They were whipped rie ae ea = joy than ever before, Since last this anniversary | Was saved, and the great line me} — meth peed dawned oli the promiges of ithe Declaration have | put round about the North an: vad 10 fe been fulfilled, and our victories in arms have been | together was not snapped, and it will Aes ee : 7 crowned by the adoption of that amendment to the | Unless we betray those princi, ies On wi ee ty 7 national constitution which has removed the last | pends, Of the few things witch have been on - stain of slavery, and which guarantees to all our cit- | strated by this conflict, one 15, that @ democrat ps izens equal protection in their righis before the jaw, | ernment can contain ull those great functions: oe t without regard to race, color or previous condition | have been supposed to be pecuilarly the property 0! of servitude. Well may the pale mag ou in {Tig ae a at Peete bad {pe ea Appa i. vi y id :) rolced 0] o) el > aes ea inayettie people. setolpermndiake te ts cullon i law, for it must maintain order in the com- munity. I point out the example of the States of the North, to more than twenty mullions of people con- vulsed with civil war, and who devoted them- selves to the struggle of five years’ dura- tion; and I point the world to the examiple of the nation residing in peace, maintatn- ing the structure of society, carrying on the me- chanical arts, carrying forwara education and en- larging and- developing benevolent operations, There never was & time Wien not only the una- nimity of the government was saved during such an intestine convuision, but wilen so many farmers paid old mortgages; when so ere debts were paid; when so inany colleges founded ayw professorships, and so many shops were established for internal in- dustry. More than that, it hag shown strength favorable to armies, It was sald that @ republic might have militiamen, but it could not have a standing army, or expect to excel a3 a military Power. They are huge and strong, but their strength ts so distributed that it cannot be concen- trated. war means concentration of .power; and, therefore, this republic could not be @ warlike na- tion. I refer you to any nation on the face of the globe, no matter how rich of extensive, who could in so short a time muster a million of soldiers, as the North did, ana nearly the same number in the South. When the people thus determine their laws they get them; when they determine their policy they carry it out, and when the people say war there is no other government on the earth like a free gov- ernment to make an army, if you have the officers repared. God forbid that old West Point should go down—tnat is your standing army. Put West Poiut down, and you either become feeble or else you are obliged to enlist twenty thousang men to uphoid the government, Educate officers and you cau dispeus with the army, for it takes but a ittle t ci line the men and put them into perfec: sound mneasures bad men have allied thenseives to a just cause, if Judas has joined the twelve that he may carry te bag and find opporiunity to betray amen. Well may the people rejoice, and all the na- tons of the earth be glad together, At last the flag of the great republic protects no master aud floats above’ no siave, At last the Declaration of 1776 is in exact harmony with tie constitution of 1870, At last tbe law is equal master over all, and the people nd grate- fully before it, equal in their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Sadiy we mourn for the brave men who feli along the bloody ways by which we have come to this day of justice and brotherhood, Reverentfy we recognize the guiding hand of God, who, amid ail the darkness and ter- rible carnage war, was bringing the nation to deal justly by all her sons. Humbiy we ask to be so led that we may wisely use this great lherty wherewith we have been made free, To the eye of faith yonder heavens part, and the great company of those who fell in the long struggies for ltberty and man look down and see the harvest growing where in tears and patience they scattered the seed. Washington dying at Mount Vernon set his own few bondsmen free, as a wise example to the land,and up to heaven in long procession pass the many enfranchised ones, whose shackles at last are broken, and to whom Washington is at last father. In the old Representa- tives Hall at the Capital ong fell asicep who had 80 gallantly struggled Amply for the right of petition In aif of the poor slave. ‘To-day in the Senate Uham- ber at Wasiiington sits one of that long pfoseribed race, and represents his State m the highest council chainber of the nation. Lincoln died beneath the assassin’s bullet. His emancipation proclamation is at last part and parcel of the nation’s constitution. Peace is in all the land, and Ute flelas where brave n fell are green once more With the coming bar- vesis, Will peace hath come that fuller justice which shall give to all equal opportunity for labor end reward, that justice which shall most surely pros tect the nation from fatnre st by denying power ‘ganizanon, iv oppressigh and secusing folv play to the lowly. | Educate the oficers, or you must substitute for them : shed Ju 1 pra ‘Witn returning peace and estabits hed ie cpleic aa ‘Chasten: day, jot us of the North wellberately ‘take fiom our hearts all bit. terness and unkind recollection of the past, and lay @ | them as our peace ofttring on the aliar of our com. mon couutry. As we were victorious in bottle, let From every South- ark be cant, 50 hand in hand, under the flag of our fathers may walk in the appointed ways of freedom and justice. Behind us lies one common herttage. Bunker Hill, ‘eand Yorktown belong tono the, land, ‘The named of Waslkington and Adame, of Jeticrson and Ham- ‘ilton ‘are precious household. words from Maine to the Rio Grande. And the day shall come when not only m the lonely cabin, but In the statehest homes ta‘all the Southern land, the patriotic purpose anc the grand charity of the martyred Lincoln's life ‘The real inter- ests of all ‘his nation are to-day one, aud that isa narrow wisdom and @ false statcsmansnip which ‘ay section the acquisition of property aud tue pursuit of happl- | against section. Before us opens a future whose Bess, at’ Surrounds-the State and tho ciizen | posstbiltties of good for our chiitren and for the op- alike by the most binding provision#of law, and reg- | pressed of all the earih no man canin any just de- cd by the recol!eetion of how as a people when we ve sinned; encouraged by the recollection of how wondrously we have been jet from our feevle in. fancy at Plymonth Kock to the development and $k Lo know our responsi- 1 his piace and sphere, to 4, rraymg that Ileaven may -always bless and silteit from him our Hag and fa- Mr. CLEVELAND read the following resolutions, ‘in Woodstock on the ninety-fourth anniversary of the nation's independ- ence, make (hig renewed declaration of their political sent. t all.men are created equal, endowed ong deriving their just powers from the consent of the fgoveruea? Se ond—We rellect with profound gratitade to Alwighty a tieanost populous and the way toward the 8 nation’s salva. 3 reat revel- eli terowntn g amendment to the maitonal charter, whereby the Declaration of Inde- pendence Is inade a ‘living, universal reality; and for the flowing spirit of barmouy and fraternity througuout the jan Fourth—We heartily thank the President of the United States for coming to meot us here, and we basten to wasure ‘great services ieader of # million of the toldiors oF nergy, pure patriotism unker iftil tv the Appomattox. It Hamenbering the sons we here ‘That trom those honored dead we take Increased de- had its birth far back at the birth — hour | votion to the cause for which they gave the Jast full meagare of the race, when our Father made of one | of devoston;” and “we here highly resvive that the dead blood all ‘men to dweli upon the face | shail not have died in vain, and taut the government of the of the earth, And thus our theory aud form people, by cd Bihawes and forthe people, ebail not perish of government: are based upon the old and |e ete gtncere and beartfelt thanks are heroby gable i des wand ic spirited eiforts to promote tue social, educational and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was them introduced It was axranged that Governor Woodferd should it was undcrstood General Butler was coming up here, General Woodford and I put oar beads to- gether and concluded that we should put the, burden erj—and we have We tell | Wiat great men our fathers were, and, as like begets , to come. Buckingham introduced with some lau marks of the Russian government,Baron Caiacazy, Rome, from 9 her arms, her zation, covered every part of the then known world. body of men less warlike than military officers (aughter), therefore are. we not in danger from them, 1 set out to make that. , Dut Lcould not ate nee rayne Ido roy you Lhad not Meviellan ip (Great laughter.) We have raised @ million a1 f men, and never was an army better served, better clothed and han- died ard better organized just 60 soon as they had learned to adapt their military education to the pat. tern of the magnitude of this continent. And three or four years such fighting as they experienced hope never will again be seen in this land. ‘The pe flict that has been settled could not be avolded, + | methiaks, here has been enough of bloodshed, an: that the sacrifice made should stand for ages before God. Well, it was predicted londly that just a8 soon as our army bevame disbauded there would be no earthiy power to restrain the ambitious officers, and that there would be no peace from the disbanded soldiery who came home with the habits of the cainp. AS near as I can observe itis certain that the camp spoiled @ good many boys, and it is just as certain that the camp saved a good many oihers. great ~=many went into the war good, und broke down under temptation and be came bad, and came home sorrows to their friends; but it 18) just’ as true tat there were hundreds and vhousands of laime-limbed, pur- poseless boys WA0 went into tuat camp—ther patrie otism bevame fired even to their fingers’ ends, and they came home citizens of whom we should feel proud. And as to the demoralizauion of ihe army— the snow that meits on the hillsides fails not to leave @ freshet; nor ty it possible for the storm which bursts over the motintains not to upturn banks and widermine some trees; but you are witnesses that in the disbandment of this ariny, in no city, or county, or town in these States was any complaint mado that any one suered by the incursion or by the miscon- duct of our svidlers (Cheers.) Itis a testimony [ desire Lo have borne over the world, that a million of American soldiers went back to the farm shop, and no order of society ana not one law of the community tarnished by their return, It 1s a testi- mony wiley deserve, It is @ testumony to the institu- tions under which they have had thelr training. It 1s said that a republican government could never pay great debts, The bonds of such a government could not be negotiated, and the people would not pay them if they did not ike to be taxea. Well, I Wil admit that if you had studied and got the devil tohelp you—anu he is a good student—you could not have broughi to bear on this Amcrican people a temptation that would be more trying. This gov- ernment was encumbered with a debt of three thousand millions of dollars, and on its efforts to pay that debi | looked wich Interest. [ prophesied it ‘would pay it. I bave prophested otner things, aud, let me say, that one-half of me 1s as good a prophet ‘as you could tlad, and if you could bring up the other half 1 should be better satisiled with myself, 1 was abroad at the time. I wus aware of the foouiees wiilinvness to pay a national debt incurred in maintaining ihe unity of tue government, and I had @ personal interest tn its fulfliment, Aud how is itnow? 1 not only declare that we have proved ourselves @ great people, but I aver, take it nvin for mi that there is not such a wealth. Producing population on the globe as te American people. We make more money per head than apy oiler people on the globe, and it will be joyfuPtidings to most Fes wica I say we shall continge (o make it. We are@ people to whom isa spur, and it girds usgup and makes us work harder, We have the abilliy and the heart to do it,and when tiis question was made the issue between the great political parties, aud when every inducement was heidi out to repudiate it, this people with one voice said the debt shail be paid, principal and interest, wo the uttermost farthing. (Appiause.) It is the worst possible thing for a nation to have the reputation of dishonesty. It dves not pay for a nation like ours that wants money to butid up a con- tient, and its reputation 13 dearer to it than that of the merchant. Yo people can bear to lose their deputation, apd we iess than any other, Who want mouey a8 a loan. it is our plough, our saw and = our locomotive, and we can’t afford to lose the reputation of honesty. We have it and we shall keep It. We have refased to repudiate our just obligations, expressed or implied, and we bave received the beacfit of our intesrity and honesty, Applause.) L am thanktul for that expression of your approba- tion, but it 1s NOt What expected. I expected to see be go wiid. ‘There is another matter whica I think has been demonstrated by this conf.ct, and that 13, that this nauoa is @ peaceful nation as weil as a wanlike one. Tne capacity of war is in us, but the disposition of peace rules; and it ought to be knowa that, great asour power is, we dou’t desire to in- fringe on the live.ty of any other, or to circumscribe its freedum, God has given us enough, 1a wl con- science. We liave more than we cau attend to, and more than we can give away. We want no more terrHory; we want to disturb no nation in their ter- ritory; we want the world to understand that we are at peace with Mexico and wath Central America, und the West India Islands. I am at peace with Cuba, and 1 wish the Cubans would lick out those Spaniards. (Applause.) I wouid wiillngly Go everytuing 1 couid without violating the proper neighborhood of nations to at- tain thatend, Goneral Grant and I feei about alike on that subject. He would like to see that thing settled in the right way, but we don’t see how our bands are téget into it. We want the world to un- derstand this is no nation of freebooters, Fuibus- teriug has had its millenium. We say to England which Was disturbed at our magnitude and wishe to see us Cut in two, aud to Fraace, who held the babe in one hand while England ratsed the sword to sever its head from its body, America wants no war; she will tolerate no foreign soldier on her soil and she wili put no soldiers on theirs. Peace for them; peace lor us; for we hold that we have ad- vauced in the uve of uations to the period in which we are to show the higher grades of civilization with the nations of the earth. Let. us educate the people; preserve the liberty of the people consistently with the rghts, one of the other; give 1ull toleration in religion, give boundless freedom to commerce, ireedom of thought, of sentiment, free- dom of beiief, freedom of trade, freedom every- where, and that is abundantly suilicient for the wants of the world. J see a man carping there (pointing to a man in the crowd), and it puts me in peril. 1 will shut up, if I iinger any longer 1 shall give the untruia to whatl said in the beginnip, about General Butler, and I know alreaay by ad- vane> that he 1s getiing impatient at ‘iis long speech of mine, and, ihevefore, proud a3 Lain to be associated with General Butler on vuis platform, and, Joyfut asI should be to stand on the platiorm ho one day expects to reach (laughter), 1 do not think 16 is fair forme, asi li ve got @ profession aiicady and have got along preity well in life his way. good chance, and I will stop now, aithough the most to stand in Want nimto have @ fair hearing and @ eloquent part of my spoech was that Which was yeb (Great clicering.) CHEBBING THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. Mr. Beecher’s speech being concluded Senator tory re- he Russian Minister. Mr. Henry A. Bowen, com- Ing forward, casied for three cheers for the linp-rial government of Russia. thusiasm, and the Russian Mintster acknowledged the compliment by repeatedly bowing. ‘These were given with en- SPEECH OF GENERAL BUTLER, The Chairman then indroduced General Butler, who spoke as follows:— Met here to commemorate the birthday of the nation, it is fit to inquire how far the promise of 1a nativity, made in the declaration of this day read aad renewed to s0 many imuilions of freeinen, has been fulfilled in what 1s eyen now, we trust, but the very youth of its manhood. ernment, born in revolution against a parent State and kingly power, founded, by men who, in thetr own pérson or iu:mediate ancestry, had fled from the oppressions and religious thraldom of other lands to establish for equality of rigat in the aayage wilds of a new world, required the very law of its existence to weloome as to an asylum whoever, fleeing from tyranny an‘l the exactions of arviirary power, should prefer liberty in extle to restraints at home; and, therefore, it be- came ils very cardinal prineiple that wnoever came to us as our jathers came here should become a part of us, to share with us not only the benoiits of our laws but the power which enacts them. THB DISTINCTION BETWEEN OUR REPUBLIC AND THAT uman rights, Our gov- themselves freedom and OF OME IN EXTENDING OUR TERRITORY. ‘The pecullar individuality of our system, and which cannot be too carefully examined, is that with the extension of our powers and our ciyil this territory we have what land soever he com institutions he may have been reared, an equal part tyilization over Iso given to every ihan, from and under whatsoever of the power that we possess of governing ourselves, minsular city, in ancient times, by jaws, her institutions and her civili- ape tinctive difference in the extension of Homan power and ours is in this:—While \y countries to her laws she re- ricted right of ctuuzenship or share in the (abi dee power tothe pesyle of Rome and Latium, or ly parted with that franchise of citizenship as an most priceless boon, or later by sale on the most exorbitant terms of purchase, go that her chef captain said unto Paul, “With @ great price obtained I this freeaom;’ to which the Apostle could proudly reply, “But I was free born,”” NEW YORK CITY CONTAINS FOUR LARGE CITIES OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES. On the contrary, from the first we bestow equality of right and equality of power in government on Whoever comes, until the principal commercial city of this country has become the third largest Ger- man city tn ihe world, the largest Irish city in the world, the largest African Ethiopian city in the ward, and the largest American city in the world, wil combined in one; each nationality clothed with full power of self-government never before enjoyed by elther save in this aggregation and an integral and almost controlling element in the government of the most extensive empire on which the sun shines. How far such a city, containing so many, 80 various and so different populations, civilization, prejudices, interests and religions, can of their own volition assimilate together and govern themselves and assist to govern others under @ republican form of government, is the untried question of the future of thi country, undeveloped by any theory of states- manship, unascertained by analogy, undefined by precejent, and untaught by history. THE EFPECT OF SLAVERY UPON OUR INSTITUTIONS. To the success ol this grand endeavor to invest with equality of right and eqaulity of power all men precisely as they come equa into the world there was but one antagonism. Because of the cupidity of the merchants of the mother country and te av- artce of the jand owners, the then capitalists of our own, a system of servile labor was introduoed, whlch the framers of the Declaration of Indepen- dence saw was a bjot from the first and the ungoun’t spot in their organization of government. ‘It was a grievous fault, and grievously have we answered iL” Scarcely two generations away— ) a standing army. ‘They are cheap, too, meetin pe ‘but an hour tu the life of It was ase certained that a Cantal and unpait loboring class Was an clement utterly Mmeony le with the theory of frea_iepresentative republicanism. Still, 80 deeply had slavery taken rout and become tm- ihe very framework of our gover! and its tendriis entwined um every crevice of our socialand industrial relations, thas it-reqaized a gigantic rebellion and @ war of greater propors ons tat any otner ever Waged, wliethor we con. sider the territory it traversed or the expenditure of men and money in carrying It on, to extirpate Raman bondage from the onjy truly free county on ALL SYSTEMS OF SERVILB LABOR ALIKE DiSASTROUS. History ever repea's herself, The Englisa shi that brought over a few African slaves because 0! t ity of labor for raising tobacco on the Vir- [a plantations, aud because white labor demanded h & price, seemed to the men of that day to freight a boon and a blessing. They saw no sign, DO cloud in the pol.iteal horizon evea so large a8. & man’s hand. ‘'be profits for the venture seemed 80 large, the advantages to be aerived from the great increase of weal, irom the inercase in productions, ave argument b Unanaweravle, Reaiember hat an eininent divine tatroduced African slavery into the New World a8 a matter of great humanity. ‘The most far-reaching statesmanship, the most pro- gressive theorist of poliucal economy, saw in thia Undertaking no seed or source of danger to the common weal, But though tne im- portation of African labor Was very early stopped by the niost stringent enactinents, in how short @ thie thut small coud spread itself rolled athwart the heavens, enveloped us In Gi and storm, the consequences of which no Wi ar could forecast, and from which no power coul hield; so terrible, that tae country ulmost went own in night and darknese, and nothing but the patriotism of our peopie, nerving itself toa death struggle with wrong, sin and treason, after four years of war such as inan never fought and the Ike ‘of which never brought woe to woman, saved to Us our pristine state of plenty, strength and peace. CONTROLLED AND UNPAID LABOR INCOMPATILLE WITH REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. What was the philosophic cause for this great effect? The light’ of expeneuce now teaches, because an uilnomogeneous, an unnatural, an unproductive, because Uunexpendtny, systent of, labor aud class of laborers been introduced == anong by volunteer us, not iinmigration, but by forced - importation, rd to Taise up two elasses of society, ihe very rich and the very poor, the industrious, and the idio who % without return, upon indusiry, both incompatiple With true republican institutions, Would it not be wise, then, for our statesmen to examine with care, to foresee, a8 far as Heaven bas permitted men to pierce the suture, What will be the ciiec\, what the result, and where the eud we shall reaca by the importation 4 contract or purchase of laboring men from any land, and, more than all, froin a semi-bare barous oue; men Who ure to be tasked laborers oniv forever, and who are therefore not mea but met chandise? Shatl we watt until tho system of con- tract labor has teken as fog root in our 851i as that other system of servile iavor had done before we fore- see and check the evil? We deal not now wiih the in- dustrial aid eco. omic View Of the question, but with the far broader ani grander one of its uigii political aspects, Let us uot by any means hinder or pro- hivit the voluntary coming to this country of all men who choose to add tien labor, their energies and their industry in aid of ourown. No one ever complained of the negro who camé here of nis own free will, From tis so coming arose neither wrong nor danger to ireecom or the tuity of free tu- stitutions; but the negro, brought here os a com- mercial speculation, «Wi tf the oO great Jimeul- tes from whidh the county has Bo suffered. EX-GOVERNOR UAWLEY ON THE CHINESE QUESTION. At the close of General Butler's remarks Senator Buckingham tuttoduced ex-Governor Hawiey, who alluded to the speech of General Butler, and said he wished to reply to some of the General’s remarka touching the subject of Chinese tmmigvation. “I don’t know,’’ he said, “how to goto work to lock the doors of the United States. We have done what we could and stopped American slavery. I wish the Chinese had a better equcation 11 regard to American insiitutidha. I wish they coula bring with them a better religion; batT believe they all can read. With our flag over me, and the New Testament in my hand, 1 say let them come.” He wished tuat they wore in better co nditivn; but he did not see how he could shut the gates agalost any downtrodden poopie who wished to fice to the Protection of Ame ican institutions. He sald he ‘would occupy the few remaining moments in urging on his fellow ciuzens the great importance of keep- ing open the gateways of the United States to the free access of all emigrating people. He would ever guard our interests against the least approach tothe Slave trade; but could see no injury to any of our useful institutions in encouraging iadusirial emi- gration to our shores from every part of the earth. He would keep the gate open and the stream as pure 4s possible, and let it flow. We must counteract any evil that may (hreaten us by our living examples of good. We must impressa pure and undefiled re- ligion on all who may come to us, and if any go back to their own lands they will carry to their neighbors the blessings of our free institutions, He would not dare to lock the inviting gates of America against & suffering world. General Butler seemed somewhat uncomfortable at these remarks and said to the chairman, “I want to reply to tnat.” Mr. Bowen stepped forward and sald that Mr. Gil- more would now, tu honor of the Russian Minister, perform with his band the “Russian Hymn.” At the conciusion of this performance the Rus- sian Minister returned Lis thanks and spoke of the friendship which had existed between Russia and the United States from the earliest history of this country. He hoped that friendship would be per- petual. In saymg this he expressed the feeling of elghty-two millions of Russians, and he hoped that feeling was reciprocated by forty millions of Ameri- cans, The exercises closod with the singing of “Amert- ca” by the entire audience, accompanied by Gile more’s band. THE DEPARTURE. At the expiration of the exercises the Presidential party took carriages and drove to Thompson’s'sta- tion, where they took the car for Noiwich. As the President was about departing he toox part in thé planting of an elm tree in the rear of Elmwood Seml- nary. The President having shoyelled earth upoa the roots, Senator Buckingham and M, Catacazy, the Russian Ambassador,-did likewise, f MOVEMENTS GF THB PRESIDENT. The Presidential party arrived here shortly after seven o'clock this evening, and was received by Mayor Blackstone and Colonel Seido: Collector of Internal Revenue. At nine o’cloc’ this evening the doors of Governor Buck- ingham’s mansion were thrown = open to the public for an hour, and the citizens thronged in in great crowds, To-morrow morning there will be a reception at the Waugan House and a drive if time Will permit, Several points of interest will be visited. At two o'clock the party will leave for New Lendon, where it is proposed to take a sail on the Sound, The President will arrive in New York om Wednesday, where he willbe joined by Mrs. Gran and daughter. 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