Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States

As the President passed through the crowded streets of the city, escorted by several hundred G. A. R. veterans, he encountered a veritable rain of flowers at the hands of severa...

I visit your great State for the first time. When this journey has been completed only two of the States of the Union, and only its most distant Territory, will have escaped my...

Governor Carrillo stood beside President Harrison during the reception. After the distinguished Mexicans had paid their respects and greeted our Chief Magistrate, Gen. A. G. Mal...

The presidential party travelled over the Western and Atlantic route from Chattanooga to Atlanta, passing through historic battle-grounds with which the President and other memb...

_Gentlemen_--I beg you to accept my thanks for this banquet spread in honor of this community of strangers who have dropped in upon you to-night. We come to you after dark. I am...

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--This rare, pure atmosphere, this bright sunshine, the national colors, this multitude of lifted, smiling faces to greet us is a scene that shoul...

After the parade the President's party, the Governor and staff, and the citizens' Reception Committee sat down to luncheon. On the right of the President was Mrs. Jones, wife of...

I hope you will allow me again to thank you very sincerely for your most cordial and magnificent welcome, and wish for you and your State all prosperity and for the country of w...

You have been particularly fortunate, I think, in your representatives at Washington, as I had occasion to say the other day at Bennington. I am glad to be here at the site of t...

_Mr. President and Gentlemen, the Legislature of the State of Vermont_--I am grateful to you for this cordial reception, which crowns a series of friendly demonstrations which b...

A presidential salute at 8 o'clock announced the arrival of the Chief Magistrate, who was welcomed by Hon. W. D. Comstock, Mayor of the city, at the head of the following distin...

And so to-night we may gather from this magnificent spectacle a fresh and strong sense of security for the permanency of our country and our free institutions. I thought it alto...

The great characteristic of our American institutions--the compact of our Government--is that the will of the majority, expressed by legal methods at the ballot box, shall be th...

_Gentlemen and my Ohio Friends_--The State of my nativity has again placed me under obligations by this new evidence of the respect of her people. I am glad to meet you and to n...

The magnificent and cordial demonstration which you have made in our honor to-day will always remain a bright and pleasant picture in my memory. [Great cheers.] I am glad to hav...

It was no sordid impulse, no hope of spoils that induced these men to sunder the tender associations of home and forsake their business pursuits to look into the grim face of de...

Ohio has always maintained a magnificently conspicuous place in the sisterhood of the States--peopled, as she was, by the great patriots of the Revolutionary period; receiving,...

This scene, these tables so bountifully and so tastefully spread, was one full of beauty when we entered, but it seems now to have taken on some of that "dilapidation" which Gen...

_My Friends_--I have spoken at all times of the night and all hours of the day, and under conditions much less auspicious than those around us this morning. We have here a brigh...

_Mr. Simon and Gentlemen of the Committee_--I esteem it an honor that the Legislature of the State of Oregon has taken this notice of my visit, and I receive with pleasure this...

General Harrison received four delegations this day. The first was a committee of veterans from John A. Logan Post, No. 99, G. A. R., of North Manchester, Wabash County, who cam...

_My Fellow-citizens_--Speaking this morning in the open air, which since my official isolation from campaigning has made my voice unaccustomed to it, will make it impossible for...

_My Fellow-citizens_--I am strongly tempted to omit even an attempt to speak to you to-day; I think it would be better that I should go home and write you an open letter. [Great...

I have studied it and have been filled with wonder and admiration. His life was an American product; no other soil could have produced it. The greatness of it has not yet been f...

There is another question to which the Republican party has committed itself, and on the line of which it has accomplished, as I believe, much for the prosperity of this country...

The last visitors of the day were 200 delegates, in attendance upon the sessions of the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War. They were led by Gen. W. H. Powell, of...

It is well that your interchanging industries and pursuits lean upon and help each other, increasing and making possible indeed the great prosperity which you enjoy. I hope it i...

The States of Indiana and Illinois are neighbors, geographically. The river that for a portion of its length constitutes the boundary between our States is not a river of divisi...

That is to be the effect of it. It is, not worth while to stand upon nice definitions as to free trade. Some think it enough to say that they are not free-traders because they a...

What hinders us, secure in the market of our own great population, from successful competition in the markets of the world? What hinders our people, possessing every element of...

_My Fellow-citizens_--It is not possible that I should introduce this morning any serious theme. I have greatly enjoyed this trip through my own State and yours, sisters in loya...

It is not my privilege to call you neighbors, but I am sure I may call you friends. This journey in Vermont is crowned to-night by a reception and a good-by that is surpassingly...

_Ladies and Gentlemen_--It is with great pleasure that I meet you here to-night. I would not have a heart if I did not say that I have been touched by this demonstration and the...

_My Fellow-citizens_--I have known this beautiful city of yours and many of the people of this prosperous county for more than thirty years. I have known in a general way the de...

_Governor Rusk, Comrades of the Grand Army, and Ladies_--I did not suppose that the Constitution of our country would be subjected to so serious a fracture by the executive of o...

The Clay County miners had not concluded their reception before a delegation of several hundred arrived from Bloomington, Illinois, headed by the John A. Logan Club, under the l...

There are doubtless here many representatives of great American manufacturing establishments; and who should know better than they the prostrating effects upon the industries th...

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--Our whole pathway through the State of California has been paved with good-will. We have been made to walk upon flowers. Our hearts have been to...

The entire business community turned out to greet the visitors as they marched through the city, performing difficult evolutions, under the command of Chief Marshal Vandever and...

I learn for the first time to-day that you have accepted the invitation of Mayor Manning to stop at Albany on your way to Vermont. If the plan of your journey will enable you to...

_Mr. Minister_--I am glad to receive from your hands the letters accrediting you as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the republic of Chili to the United S...

The State of New York gave Harrison (Rep.) over Cleveland (Dem.) a plurality of 13,074 votes; but for Governor--at the same election--the State gave David B. Hill (Dem.) a plura...

_Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--I should be unjust to myself, and, what is more serious, I should be unjust to you, if I did not at this first and last opportunity express...

The fact of a treasury surplus, the amount of which is variously stated, has directed public attention to a consideration of the methods by which the national income may best be...

_Fellow-citizens_--It is very pleasant for me to meet here, as at all the stations I have passed, a kindly assembly of my fellow-countrymen. We do not need any one to watch us,...

After partaking of luncheon at the residence of Senator and Mrs. Evarts, the President was conducted to the Town Hall, and, being introduced to the assemblage by Colonel Perkins...

But this is not simply a Southern question. It has come to be a national question, for not only is the Republican vote suppressed in the South, but I ask you to turn your eyes t...

A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS PUBLIC ADDRESSES FROM FEBRUARY, 1888, TO FEBRUARY, 1892, CHRONOLOGICALLY CLASSIFIED; EMBRACING ALL HIS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES, LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE, INAU...

Three States did homage to the Republican nominee this date. From Grand Rapids and Muskegon, Mich., came 500 visitors, under the auspices of the Belknap Club of Grand Rapids. Th...

We have happily maintained a policy of avoiding all interference with European affairs. We have been only interested spectators of their contentions in diplomacy and in war, rea...

The Auditorium--the modern Parthenon--typifying the spirit of the age, is largely the conception of Mr. Ferd. W. Peck, and its realization is the fruit of his zeal, supported an...

On the third of August, with the mercury registering ninety-nine degrees, thirty-five hundred visitors arrived from Montgomery and Clinton counties, Indiana. Their parade, carry...

The pretence that our men were fighting "with stones, clubs, and bright arms" is, in view of these facts, incredible. It is further refuted by the fact that our prisoners, when...

I had placed in my hands yesterday a copy of the London News for September 13. The editor says in substance that, judging the purposes of the Democratic party by the executive m...

_My Friends_--The magnitude of this gathering, I fear, quite out-reaches the capacity of my voice. It is so great and so cordial, it has been accompanied by so many kind express...

_Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention_--When I received your invitation to appear for a moment before you I felt that what you asked could not involve any indelicacy, a...

San Francisco, the arrival address, 371 Sutro Heights speech, 372 at Phi Delta Theta banquet, 373 launch of the _Monterey_, 374 reception at Senator Stanford's, 375 Chamber Comm...