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REMARKS OF EOBERT HOSEA. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Tompkins' address, and after music by the 

 band, C. F. Reed introduced Robert Hosea, of Cincinnati, who spoke as 

 follows : 



Ladies and Gentlemen of Sacramento : I am requested, as Chairman 

 of the delegation of merchants and citizens of Cincinnati, to say a few 

 words to-night. I am grateful for the opportunities which have been 

 afforded us. First, the auspicious occasion upon which we arrived in 

 your State — the anniversary of the organization of your State — and t'he 

 opportunity of hearing the eloquent address which we have heard from 

 the orator of the evening. We have learned more of the statistics of 

 your State than we could certainly have learned in any other way. We 

 have no purpose to subserve in coming among you — I mean to say no 

 business purpose. We have come upon asocial, friendly visit. We come 

 to look at the grand things that you have here in California; to take 

 you by the hand and to congratulate you upon the successful completion 

 of the great Pacific and Atlantic railroad, uniting the two oceans 

 together, and the country, we trust, with hooks of steel. The produc- 

 tions of your country are on so extensive a scale that I, for one, had 

 almost expected to find the ladies and gentlemen not of ordinary stature, 

 but rather, as the Scriptures say, as trees walking. Ladies and gentle- 

 men, I take this occasion to thank you on behalf of myself and colleagues 

 for your courteous attention, and hope that we may meet again in our 

 own goodly city, when we can extend to you like hospitality there. 



