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

A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS PUBLIC ADDRESSES FROM FEBRUARY, 1888, TO FEBRUARY, 1892, CHRONOLOGICALLY CLASSIFIED; EMBRACING ALL HIS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES, LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE, INAUGURAL ADDRESS, AND THE NUMEROUS SPEECHES DELIVERED DURING HIS SEVERAL TOURS; ALSO EXTRACTS FROM HIS...

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35. Part 35

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...

45. Part 45

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...

34. Part 34

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...

31. Part 31

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...

36. Part 36

_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...

44. Part 44

_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...

32. Part 32

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...

46. Part 46

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...

51. Part 51

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...

52. Part 52

_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...

39. Part 39

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...

24. Part 24

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...

43. Part 43

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...

16. Part 16

_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...

33. Part 33

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...

4. Part 4

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...

48. Part 48

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,...

50. Part 50

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...

42. Part 42

_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...

40. Part 40

_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...

5. Part 5

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...

26. Part 26

_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...

27. Part 27

_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...

47. Part 47

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...

3. Part 3

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...

14. Part 14

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...

29. Part 29

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...

6. Part 6

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...

11. Part 11

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...

30. Part 30

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...

25. Part 25

_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...

54. Part 54

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...

41. Part 41

_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...

28. Part 28

_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...

13. Part 13

_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...

7. Part 7

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...

19. Part 19

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...

38. Part 38

_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...

15. Part 15

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...

49. Part 49

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...

55. Part 55

_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...

20. Part 20

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...

22. Part 22

_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...

12. Part 12

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...

37. Part 37

_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,...

53. Part 53

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...

2. Part 2

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...

1. Part 1

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

17. Part 17

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...

21. Part 21

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...

23. Part 23

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...

8. Part 8

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...

56. Part 56

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...

18. Part 18

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...

10. Part 10

_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...

9. Part 9

_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...

57. Part 57

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...