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Show LATEST DISPATCHES.! I GENERAL. j I.Ol I.NVILI.E, KY. Tbj I'reHiilent'd Hourly Ue-cepliou Ue-cepliou iu iliu Nuutu. Louisville, Ky. , 17. The president's presi-dent's party arrived at 12 o'clock. E. H. fllurray introduced Mayor Jacobs, who spoke jib follows : Mr. President: The people of Louisville, the metropolis ot Kentucky, Ken-tucky, pr.iud of their grand statcs-niau, statcs-niau, Oid Harry of the West, who uttered one of the noblest sentiments that ever fell from the lips ot mortal man "I wou'd rather bu rluhl than be president," ijret joyously his disciple, that president of tho United States who at a critical poriod in the hirttnry ol affairs had the courage to H.iy "Ilo serves his party best who serves his country best." Irrespective Irrespec-tive of party, race or sect wo welcome your excellency gladly to our home, and bid you godspeed in your labor ot tovn, reconciliation and reform. President Hayes did not reply, except ex-cept only to announce through Mayor Jacobs that he would address the DRonlo later in tho dav. Tho president and escort arrived at the Gait house at 12.40. His excel-lleucy excel-lleucy and Mrs. H-jyes were introduced intro-duced to tbe people by Gen. E. H. Murray. Rev. Stuart Robinson made the welcome address. During the remarks of Dr. -Robinson, which were listened to by a vast concourse, there wero frequent outbursts of applause. Tho speech of tbe president was re ceived with wild enthusiasm, thousands thous-ands cheering themselves hoarse as they- applauded tho sentiments he .uttered. . .. ;( . , , When the applause subsided which greeted President Hayes, ou rising to address the people, he said: ' Fellow Citizens of Louisville 1 I thank ycu for this Kentucky welcome. The penplo of Kentucky and the peo-, peo-, pie of Ohio aro old acquaintances. The early history of the two states ib ' so blended that you cannot writo tho t early history ot Ohio without having i more than half the pages filled about Kentucky, aud I suspect you cannot write the history of Kentucky without ' occasionally mentioning the etate of - Ohio. Eight years ago I had occasion occa-sion to join a welcome to the legislature legisla-ture and members of the lecialature and other distinguished men ol Ken- ' I lucky. I cannot undertake to repeat i the remarks then made, but it Beemg to me not inappropriate to pursue the same general course of remarks with which I welcomed the Kentuckians eight years ago. My earliest recollections, recol-lections, my earliest knowledge of Kentucky is associated indelibly with tho conversations and speeches of that favored aud most eloqueut governor of Ohio and native of Kentucky, Governor Gover-nor Corwin. He was fond in his eloquent speeches and ftill more eloquent conversation of talking talk-ing of Kentucky and Kentuckians. Kentucki-ans. He ' used to say with that habit of hia of drawing illustrations from the scriptures, that th few, if any people since tbe dispersion on the plains of Shinar, were literally in-cradled in-cradled in war, it was the people of Kentucky.: Io childhood' aud iu youth they fought tbe savages in the block house and stockade, by the side of their mothers and sisters, and in maubood they pursued the hostile savages and British invaders from Ohio and Indiana. The common observation ,wa3 that Kentucky, the first and most populous in early times, and by far the most powerful, was always ready to help Ohio when she needed help in every moment and on every occasion of apprehension apprehen-sion Ohio always appealed to Kentucky, Ken-tucky, and never appealed in vain. The bones of Kentuck s sous whitened whit-ened on every battle field in the northwest. When savage invasion occurred no longer ana peace was smiling ovor both. -these states, the cordial and friendly relations between them continued on and on. In 1824 Ohio rejoiced to cast her vote for Kentucky's favorite, Henry Clay, and twenty years afterwards I am glad and proud to be able to say that with the majority of the people ol Ohio, 1 cast my. first vote for Henry Clay' " of Kentucky, and yet this feeling of friendship was not confined . to one - of the politioal parties, for our adversaries rejoiced to vote for Col. R. R. JohnBon for vice president, and afterwards for Itutler for vice-president, and you reciprocated the ' feeling and gave to our farmer patriot, Geu.'. Harrison in 1840, the j iargest majority he received in any , state in the Union. This was the ' course of events in early times, but afterwards there came estrangement ! and then came division and discord, 1 aud the old friendship seemed to be , gradually disappearing and afterwards ' there came war; but for the cause of ' that estrangement and hostility Ken-3 Ken-3 tucky was not responsible. Kentucky . alone could not remove it, neither r could Ohio alone remove it, nor both together could not remove it, and any 5 man -who sees in. the afiairs of men, on any occasion, the finger of r Almighty God, sees in that great struggle the ends of Providence and the difficulties perfectly removed. |