The Penny Press

The Welcome Speech to Kentucky and Tennessee.

The signs by which Cincinnati and Ohio manifested their sentiments to the visitors from Kentucky and Tennessee were such as to make a deep impression; the endeavor of the orator was to convey our ideas to them in words. They were addressed as fellow-citizens of the American Union, whose soil is the common property of every American citizen; whose history is a common heritage; whose prosperity is a common blessing, and whose honor it is our sacred duty to vindicate. It was emphatically pronounced, that there can be, there will be, there must be, no dissolution of the ties that bind us together. It was maintained that each State should in letter and spirit have under the Constitution the exclusive regulation of its own concerns-that there should be mutual concessions, as also mutual respect; and, in the orator's words we say, God grant that in our day we shall hear no more of dissension, or of sectional disunion, whether of the North or of the South, of the East or of the West, and that whenever we speak of our country we shall utter the sentiment--Our whole country-Union and Liberty-one and inseparable.