Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-18
The Presidents Southern Trip
Great Thing for the Country.

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When the President decided to take
a trip through the southern states he
evidently knew how far such thing
would effect the feeling of the section
of the country that he would visit,
coming as it does just after the sue
cessful close OF the war in which the
men of the South and the men of the
North fought side by side for the COM
mon cause of humanity. The war was
an opportune thing to cement the in
terests of the people of The South who
have long felt sort of diffidence re-
garding the feeling they imagined to
exist in the North aginst them be-
cause they thought that they were re-
garded as not having the real interest
of the country at heart simply because
they had at remote time been mis-
taken as to the natural rights of peo-
pie and had the courage of their con-
victions sufficiently strong TO bear
arms in defense of the cause they
thought right
The Nations Chief well knew the
feeling that has been manifest ed, in
that section of our own beloved land,
in the Spanish war to have been from
the purest motives that could move
the heart of any American, no differ
once where he might call his home
The people of the South responded
readily, yes, with alacrity, to the call
for volunteers, and were glad of an
opportunity to show their loyalty to
country and their ever-present natural
desire to show hospitality to a needy
human being.
The visit of the President is looked
upon by the people where he stopped
as q sort of appreciation of their
worth, and it certainly does show that
the interests of one section of this
growing republic are the interests OF
all sections. His speeches have showr
an intense patriotism and have met
with the unbounded admiration of his
hearers everywhere. The persons tt
whom he has spoken have felt them
selves reassured that there are no jeal.
ousies tnat cannot be readily disposed
Of and no one looks upon them as in
terlopers yin the country where some
had shown their unswerving loyalty
while others had failed to always
think that the government was right
The people of the North are glad tC
have this visit occur, as they have
hong felt that something was necessary
to cement more closely the bond OF
union which has suffered a sort OF
high tension between the North ant
South.
The zine has come when it is nee,
essary to lay aside all prejudices; anC
any i'll feeling that may have existed
at one time has been swept away il
the recent grand and glorious wave o
patriotism that has been so proudly
sweeping throughout all the state.
within the past year.
1t has been suggested that had tn,
Presidents trip and speeches beer
made under the same circumstances
excepting that it had been in the inetr
est of himself as a candidate for re
election, that it would have had
greater effect on the southern vot,
than even the most sanguine coult
hope for, but we think that it woulc
not be well to consider the case il
that light 1t has been a good thinl
that it should come at this time. 1
was a wise thing to do, and may W,
still have many Presidents who will
show their wisdom in times of peac,
as grandly and nobly as the presen
incumbent