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Show GENERAL. The I'resldcut lu Ohio. Marietta, O., 7. When the president presi-dent responded to the mayor's ad-dr"js ad-dr"js it was in the presonce of some 3u,000 people. He said: toadies, fellow-citizens and surciuors 'J 'he greai war, i wish jl was prepared pre-pared to speak suitably. My friend, Mayor Palmer, says that in every rioeech made at this reunion, encouragement encour-agement has been given that a spirit .1 fraternity, which is the wish of those .inaociated with mo in the admistra-tion admistra-tion to do something during our term i m service, to advance. We do not in meeting the people propose to discuss toy great party questions, which divido the people who honor us with i heir attention. Questions ot administration, ad-ministration, .economic j questions. vVe leave these to be discussed before me people by those who may be appointed ap-pointed by the reapnetive parties to cvrry on these debates, but we do feel i unt if in visiting our fellow citizens in different states we can add auy iuiog to strengthen the sentiment itlluded to by the mayor, it ia right .iiid proper that we should do bo. Applause.) All wno are laminar with the history of our country know toat 100 years ago there was no north nor south. The lathers were one ii-.roughout the whole country, Washington and Jefferson were ide by side with Franklin ant . j ty..,:i At., ,.a ui. AdamB. Daniel Morgan and bis Virginians marched from Virginia to Boston. They were at Saratoga, und Nathaniel Green and his centeu liala were in the Carolinas. The whole country belonged to the utbers. It is to that state of bar nony, of fraternal friendship, that we desire our country to return. We ire for the Union as it is. (Cheers.) We are for the constitution as it is, (cheers) with all its amendments. vCheerj.) We want the citizens of very state lo feel at home in every talc. (Cheers.) If a citizen of Ver nont travels to Georgia or Texas, for lusiness or pleasure, we want him tu :eel at home in those states. (Cheers.); f a citizen of Texas or Georgia! travels north we want that citizen to 'eel at homo everywhere throughout the Union. I do not propose to deal de-al u you. I have made a much onger speech already than I intended flhen 1 entered your town, but you luderatand the purpose. We may Gonke a mistake in method, ind mistakes in measures, out the sentiment we wouM anconrage is the sentiment of nation tlity throughout the union (applause). We regard tho service of that four years war; we regard the period ot -tiat four years as the moat interesting it our lives. We fought then, thone J us who were in the Union army (ought, as we believed, to make thic rorever hereafter a united people, and we rejoice to-day to believe that those who were against us in that struggle now are with us on both ot these questions, and will forever remain .vitb the Union on both of these ques nnns flood cheers). The president then introduced Judge Key as the man who. though j ue fought on the opposite side during the war, was ready to fight on the same side uow. Key said: fellow-citizen,! appear before you under peculiar circumstances You have assembled here to reciu-he reciu-he victories which you have won in jormer days, to recount the triumph mt results which you achieved. 1 tppear before you as one of the iuldierB from whom yo.ir victories were won, your triumphs achieved; out, my friends, the cordiality with which I have been received maket .ne forget that we have ever been enemies, and I assure you I would much rather meet you as I meet you nere to-day as friends, than in the conflict of arms, as you have been 'net heretofore. (Applause.) Mv friends, the flag fought for four yearn has disappeared from the face of thp -artb. The government I attempted to establish is no more. We bav-but bav-but one flg and that floats every oot of our territory. (Applause.) vVe have but one constitution and that in the constitution as it is. (Cheers ) Our quarrel, my friends, was slavery. It was established by the constitution if our fatbert, established by men ol the north as well as of the south. Ii na a relic of a former age. As the gfcs progressed, as the country pro rfreeaed, the free states became pro ounoiy impresseu wuu iuo woo slavery was wrong, wb a great ua tional crime, that it was the sin of the rtge, ft Bin against heaven and liberty (A, voice "And it was.") The people peo-ple ot the eouth had been educated under different ideas. Their states- uen upon their platforms defended it and their ministors before holy altars ntugbt the people that it was right, And the people of the southern atatec helteved it was right. A conflict from limo to time, a conflict of opinion, row up ; wo had adjustments, we had tho Missouri com pro -uia?, the compromise of 1S50 ut yet it would not suit. At least free ideas so far prevailed that Lincoln was elected to the presi Jeucy of the United States, thepeople ol the south, afraid that the institution of slavery was in danger, said: "U e iiave debated this quarrel in legislative legisla-tive halls, on the stump, in judiciary tnbuDuls; we have debated everywhere, every-where, now let us right it out," and they took up their arms and they fiiid: "We leave the debatab)e qms 'ions lo the power of arms and the iwurd," and we fought and fought oraveiy. Each section ot the country niugtit for what it thought wws right, jfneers.) What w.is tho result? Why the south was defeated, aud as i mnij and eoldierd thoy were bouud t submit with a goed race to the result and to admit that Inu result wa right, i Hie tribunals they h id selected had i decided the controversy again- them, i Sirs, this is the victory; this is the ; triumph. The verdict ww against us, the judgment wao pronounced agaiust i Ud, and what wan it ? It wns put in the three nra end me tils to the const i 1 lution. The first declared thanlav : ery should no longer exist anywhere in this broad land, l'oe second do iclarcd that every man born in the United States should be a cilizeu of the United States. All men, while or! hluck, were made equal hetoro Mm law. Not only this, hut they di'daml that the publio dnln ol thu Uuited , Slates Bhould never be repudiated.! I'huy declared that no claims bhould I be made for emancipated slaves'.! Tuuy declared, m short, th:it wo fihould be a tree country; that the; fUg of the Union should be tne tltg of j the. people every whtiru, aud to-day wo have but ouu country, hut one flag, but one Union, and tli-it Union is inseparable. (Ur.iul ciienru.) Gen. Devena then tpoke at length rpcrdiog the foundation of Ohio by a Massachusetts colony. Ho paid a tribute to Nathnu Dane, who in 1787- wrote the grout ordinance pro vidmg that in the whole northwest there should bo no slavery. He then made most complimentary ullusionB to the state of Ohio, its wealth, in i! us try, great citied, patriotism, great men, etc. rie closed with an eloquent elo-quent peroration descriptive of the valor oi either side during the rebellion, rebel-lion, and with an ppeal lor union, harmony and strength. He wan greeted with great cheers. The president thuu acknowledged the warm welcome voucbsnled by thu citizens and veteranB. The party then proceeded to the city hall where Colonel Duval presented the president with the battle flag of the 3Gib regiment, regi-ment, that servwd under him. The preeident.Key and Devena made briet speeches. The president leaved tomorrow to-morrow for Fremont, his home, where he stays until Monday. |