270 HISTORY OP OHIO. 



named DeWitt Clinton; adorned with his bust, a most per- 

 fect Ukeness of the Governor of New York. He then passed 

 rapidly across Pennsylvania and New Jersey to New York city. 



During all the time, while Mr. Clinton was in this state, 

 from the first moment he touched our soil, at Cleveland, until 

 he left the state, neither he nor his aids, ever paid a single 

 cent, for whatever they needed. They were every where 

 treated as Ohio's invited guests. From one shire town to ano- 

 ther, Clinton was attended by all its county officers, and the 

 most distinguished citizens of each county, to its line; where 

 the governor was received by a similar escort, from the ad- 

 joining county, and, by them conducted to the next city or 

 town. In this manner, he passed across the state. As soon 

 as he appeared in sight of any town, the bolls of all its 

 churches and public buildings rang their merriest peals; the 

 cannon roared its hundred guns, and a vast crowd of citizens 

 huzzaed, " Welcome, welcome to the Father of Internal Im- 

 provements!" 



The grave and the gay, the man of grey hairs and the 

 ruddy-faced youth; matrons and maidens, and even lisping 

 infants, joined to tell his worth, and on his virtues dwell ; to hail 

 his approach and welcome his arrival. Every street, where 

 he passed, was thronged with multitudes, and the windows were 

 filled with the beautiful ladies of Ohio waving their snowy white 

 handkerchiefs, and casting flowers on the pavement where he 

 was to pass on it. Every town where he went, gave him a 

 public dinner. 



He, on his part, visited all the public institutions, wherever 

 he went. He visited also every family with which he was 

 personally acquainted, and these were many. To all who ap- 

 proached him, he was kind and conciliating. Even the children 

 went, in crowds to see him, with whom he shook hands, and not 

 unfrequently addressed them. They all knew his history; that 

 he had always been Ohio's friend, and had now come on a visit 

 to see us and our country, from motives of kindness towards us. 



The moral effect, of this visit, on the citizens of this state, 

 was great, and that effect and its consequences, on the pros- 



