Show THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE resident Harrisons Tribute to the High Office After the chief justices address President Presi-dent Harrison introduced as the chief ex cutive arose to speak He appeared tired spak appared tred out and even paler than usual He said Mr President and Fellow Citizens I should be unjust to myselfand what is more serious I should b unjust to you if I did not take this first and last opportunity opportun-ity to express t you the deep sense of obligation gation and thankfunless which I feel for hose many personal courtesies which have been extended many times t me The official offi-cial representatives of the state of New York and this great city have attended mo with most courteous kindness omitting no attention that could make my stay among you pleasant and gratifying From you ana the thousands of those who have thronged the streets of the city today I have received a most cordial expression of goodwill I would not however have gulfharoihe you understand that the loud acclaims have been in any sense appropriated as a persona tribute to myself I have realized that there was that on this occasion and in all these interesting incidents which have made it so profoundly impressive to my mind which was above and greater than any living man Applause I have earned that the tribute of cordial interest which you have manifested was rendered t > that great office which by the favor of the great people I now exercise rather than to me Applause The occasion and a its incidents will be memorable not only in the history of your old city but in the history of our country I congratulate ttfdayas one instru tive and interesting feature of this occasion sion that the thoroughfares dedicated to 1 trade have closed their doors and covered the insignia of commerce with the star and stripes loud cheers that your great exchanges have closedthat in the very heart in Wall street the wall has been carried car-ried and upon the old historic spot men who gave their time and energies to trade had given these days to their country to thoughts of her glory and to to the aspira thoo gih it tionsof her honor da prosperity I have great pleasure in believing thati love of country has been intensified not only in ou who might be called to give witness to your love of the fla g upon the battlefield both of the sea and land but of these homes and among these fair women who look down upon us tonight and in the hearts of these little children who mingled their piping line with the cheers of men as they moved along your streets today and I belieVe that patriotism will be blown into a nighe dt i tJ und holier flame in many hearts These banners with which you have covered your walls these apatriotic inscriptions must come down and the ways of commerce and trade be resumed again here but may I not ask you to carry these banners that arc hung on the walls into your housesinto the public schools of your city applause and into all your great institutions where chi dren are gathered and t drape them there that the eyes pf the young and of the old may look upon that flag as one of the familiar fa-miliar adornments of every American home applause Have you not learned that stocks or bonds or stately houses or land oi aiills or fields are notour country I is the flag and what it stands for its glorious history it is the fireside and home it is the higher thoughts that are in f Jtib dri hL the heart born of inspiration i which come of the story of the father of thcmartyr to liberty it is the graveyard into which our grateful country has gathered gath-ered the unconscious dust of those who unconscous died heroes in these things is that thing we love and call our country rather than anj thing that can be touched or handled Great applause Let me add I the thought that we owe a duty to our country in peace as well as in war Perhaps Per-haps never in the history of our nation have we been so well equipped for war on land as now cries of good good I and yet we have never seen a time iu our history when our people were more smitten with love of peace to elevate the morals of our people to hold up law as that sacred thing which like the arch of God of old may not be touched by irreveren hand t5 frown upon every attempt to dethrone its supremacy to unite our people in al that makes home pure and honorable as well as to give our energies in the direction of our material advancement This service we may render and out of this great demonstration we feel like reconsecrating ourselves to the love and to the services of our country Prolonged and loud applause ap-plause New York did not succeed in retaining re-taining the seat of the national governmen I here though she made liberal provisions for the assemblying of the first Congress in expectation that Congress might find that permanent place here bu though you lost that which you coveted I think the representatives here of all states will agree that it was fortunate that the inauguration of Washington took place in the state and city of New York for wherein where-in oil our country could the centennial of the event have ben as worthily celebrated as here What seaboard offered so mag niflcent a bay on which to display our merchant mer-chant and naval marine Wuat city offered thoroughfares so magniiltvat or a people as great or so generous as New York has poured out today celebrate that event I t have received at the hands of the commit com-mit e who have boon charged with the details ails onerous exacting ant too olten un hanklul of this demonstration an evidence evi-dence of their confidence in my physical endurance Laughter Must I too acknowledge one other obligation t The committee having in charge the exercises at this event have also givea mo evidence of confidence which has been accompanied with some embarassnieut As I have < no iced the progress of this banquet i seems to me that each of these speaker has been made acquainted with his theme before he took his seat at the banquet and that I alone was to mae acquaintance with uiy theme when I sat down t the table I preferred to substitute for its official title which was upon the programme that familiar and fireside fire-side expression Our Country The next toast was Tie Senate sp oken to by Senator Daniel |