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in process of construction. It were irrational to expect that all the 

 bitterness engendered by twenty years of sectional collision, in- 

 cluding four of bloody war, should be effaced in a day, and of course 

 it is not ; but the tendency is right, and Time will exert its healing 

 influence if no untoward event should interpose to prevent it. With 

 a mingling of firmness in upholding the right, with kindness to those 

 who were miseducated into wrong, the re-cementing of the Union 

 will be thorough and enduring. H. G. 



RECEPTION OF MR. GREELEY, N. Y., JUNE 12Tn. 



Horace Greeley was welcomed at the Lincoln Club-Rooms, in 

 Union Square, by a large number of friends who were assembled 

 under the auspices of the Union Republican General Committee, 

 and who severally congratulated him upon his safe return from his 

 journey to the far South- West, and through the Lower Mississipjii 

 Valley. The rooms were profusely decorated with flags and 

 flowers, and tables well provided with refreshments were set. 

 A large oil-painting of Mr. Greeley occupied a conspicuous place 

 in the main room, and in the others were varioixs photographs and 

 lithographs of him. A plaster bust of Mr. Greeley, cast some 

 twenty years ago, also attracted much attention. On the balcony 

 outside was placed a large bust of Lincoln, wreathed in bunting. 

 In the street, in front of the Club-Rooms, a platform was erected 

 for speaking, and around it were assembled, by 8 o'clock, many 

 thousand peojile. Calcium lights made the scene almost as bright 

 as day. 



Among those present in the Club Rooms and upon the platform, 

 were Wm. M. Evarts, Gen. N. P. Banks, D. D. Conover, Marshall 

 O. Roberts, Dr. Geo B, Loring, Lloyd Aspinwall, Gen. P. H. 

 Jones, Gen. Geo. W. Palmer, Gen. John Cochrane, Sinclair Tousey, 

 Waldo Hutchins, Charles Ston-s, A. W. Leggatt, Joseph Howe, 

 Wm. P. Richardson, Rufus F. Andrews, Thomas E. Stewart, Gen. 

 H. A. Barnum, John V. Gridley, Benj. F. Manierre, Ira O. Miller, 

 Enoch L. Fancher, L. H. Knapp, Geo. F. Coachmon, J. S. Ritter- 

 band. Judge Slosson, Geo. P. Bradford, H. M. Williams, B. F. 

 Mudgett, Geo. H. Van Cleft, Col. Willis, Major Haggerty, Morris 

 EUinger, C. H. Cooper, Col. Fairman, and others. Mr. Greeley ap- 



