268 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



Toasts were drank, in honor of the day, and of the particular 

 occasion, which had called this vast assemblage, together, bat 

 when governor Clinton's health was drank, all the guns were 

 fired, and the small arms also. In addition to the hundred guns 

 from the cannon, and all the small arms, the air was rent, by 

 thousands of voices, huzzaing for the state's guesl. 



On the 5th of July, Governor Clinton was escorted to Lan- 

 caster, where he tarried over night. On the ne.\t day, he and 

 a great concourse who followed and accompanied him, went to 

 Columbus, the seat of the state government. Here, on the 

 next day, in the capitol, in the presence of all the state officers 

 and of a large assemblage of both sexes, governor Morrow 

 delivered an address to governor Clinton, which the latter an- 

 swered in an appropriate and eloquent manner. A public dinner 

 ended the proceedings of the day. Escorted from Columbus, to 

 Springfield, by a large number of gentlemen, either in carriages 

 or on horse back, governor Clinton was received by the peo- 

 ple of the town last named as he had been, by those of Colum- 

 bus. The Governor of New York was addressd by Charlks 

 Anthoxy Esquire, in behalf of the citizens of Springfield. On 

 the next day after partaking of a public dinner, the two Gov- 

 ernors and their escort, moved forward twenty-five miles to 

 Dayton. Here on the next day, surrounded by a vast crowd 

 of citizens, governor Clinton was addressed in behalf of the citi- 

 zens assembled, by the Honorable Joseph H. Cbane, a member 

 of congress. There was a public dinner here, after the address 

 and its answer. On the next day, the two Governors went to 

 Hamilton. Here were an address by the peoples' member of 

 congress John Wood Esquire, and a public dinner, given by the 

 citizens. From Hamilton, the cavalcade moved forward to 

 the city of Cincinnati. Here a dinner had been gotten up for 

 Hexrt Clay of Kentucky. This the governors of Ohio and 

 New York attended as invited guests. 



At the period of which we are speaking, there was no canal 

 around the falls of the Ohio, and there were two parties, near 

 those rapids, or one party on each side of the river, in favor 

 of their own side of the Ohio, for a canal along it, to overcome 



