citizens, I am not asserting anything; I am merely asking questions for you to consider. And now allow me to bid you farewell.

ADDRESS TO THE MAYOR AND CITIZENS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, February 12, 1861

Mr. Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen: Twentyfour hours ago, at the capital of Indiana, I said to myself I have never seen so many people assembled together in winter weather. I am no longer able to say that. But it is what might reasonably have been expected-that this great city of Cincinnati would thus acquit herself on such an occasion. My friends, I am entirely overwhelmed by the magnificence of the reception which has been given, I will not say to me, but to the President-elect of the United States of America. Most heartily do I thank you, one and all, for it.

I am reminded by the address of your worthy mayor that this reception is given not by any one political party, and even if I had not been so reminded by his Honor I could not have failed to know the fact by the extent of the multitude I see before me now. I could not look upon this vast assemblage without being made aware that all parties were united in this reception. This is as it should be. It is as it should have been if Senator Douglas had been elected. It is as it

Mr. Bell had been elected; - if Mr. Breckinridge had should ever be when any citiStates is constitutionally of the United States. Allow think what has occurred here have occurred in any other of the globe, without the ininstitutions which we have for three quarters of a sne country where the people y this day precisely as they the benign influence of the ocr land.

ugh we have some threatenes now-I hope that while s shall continue to be in the ons of free people of the we will see repeated every four Now witness.

years I, and every other indiis now living, will pass away; I aational difficulties will also pass hope we shall see in the streets of good old Cincinnati-for centuries ce every four years, her people give ception as this to the constitutionally

President of the whole United States. I You shall all join in that reception, and

that you shall also welcome your brethren from across the river to participate in it. We will welcome them in every State of the Union, no matter where they are from. From away South we shall extend them a cordial good-will, when our present difficulties shall have been forgotten and blown to the winds forever.

I have spoken but once before this in Cincinnati. That was a year previous to the late presidential election. On that occasion, in a playful manner, but with sincere words, I addressed much of what I said to the Kentuckians. I gave my opinion that we as Republicans would ultimately beat them as Democrats, but that they could postpone that result longer by nominating Senator Douglas for the presidency than they could in any other way. They did not, in any true sense of the word, nominate Mr. Douglas, and the result has come certainly as soon as ever I expected. I also told them how I expected they would be treated after they should have been beaten; and I now wish to recall their attention to what I then said upon that subject. I then said, "When we do as we say,-beat you,—you perhaps want to know what we will do with you. I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. We mean to treat you, as near as we possibly can,

and Madison treated

rene you alone, and in no your institutions; to abide

camomise of the Constitution;

4 vara caring back to the original VANYON A TE you, so far as degenerate KORNA generated-may, according NAAMAAN of those noble fathers, WashTerbs and Madison. We mean to O AR are as good as we; that there h between us other than the differconstances. We mean to recognize always that you have as good 84 your bosoms as other people, or as we have, and treat you accordingly." & sweaters of Kentucky! — friends! — gogo way I call you in my new position? I SPA APRON, and feel no inclination, to recay a wood et this. If it shall not be made ave de soured the fault shall not be mine.

Now, follow-citizens of Ohio, have you, w No go so with him who now addresses you in Nye sont ment-have you ever entertained

Mass toward our brethren of Kenavit eher those I have expressed to you? If 8. Not why shall we not, as heretofore, be wygod and acknowledged as brethren again, Ang it peace and harmony again one with * I take your response as the most re

liable evidence that it may be so, trusting, through the good sense of the American people, on all sides of all rivers in America, under the providence of God, who has never deserted us, that we shall again be brethren, forgetting all parties, ignoring all parties. My friends, I now bid you farewell.

ADDRESS TO GERMANS AT CINCINNATI, OHIO, February 12, 1861

Mr. Chairman: I thank you and those whom you represent for the compliment you have paid me by tendering me this address. In so far as there is an allusion to our present national difficulties, which expresses, as you have said, the views of the gentlemen present, I shall have to beg pardon for not entering fully upon the questions which the address you have now read suggests.

I deem it my duty-a duty which I owe to my constituents-to you, gentlemen, that I should wait until the last moment for a development of the present national difficulties before I express myself decidedly as to what course I shall pursue. I hope, then, not to be false to anything that you have to expect of me.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working-men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more