The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-20
Greets the Presidential Party Upon it's En-
trance Into Savannah.
OUR FUTURE COLONIAL POLICY
President His Speech the BanquetHe
Strongly in of Coded
Spanish Color a Grand Military Pa
rade--n Sail Down he Passes
the Transport Chester, Conveying a
ernR

ernment, which will secure to them
peace and order and security in their
life and property and in the pursuit of
happiness? Are we unable to do this ?
Are we to sit down in our isolation and
recognize no obligation to a strug-
Cling people whose present conditions
we have contributed to make? l would
rather have the confidence Of the poet
Bryant, when he exclaims:
Thou, my country, thou shalt never
Seas and stormy air
Are the wide barrier of thy borders,
where
Among thy gallant sons that guard
thee well,
Thou laughst at enemies. Who shall
The date of thy deep founded strength
or tell
How happy in thy lap the sons of men
shall dwell?'
my fellow citizens, whatever cove
nants duty has made for us in the year
1898, we must keep"
Secretary Gage followed the presi-
dent, replying to the toast Com
merce."
Secretary Alger, in responding to
THE Army" said:
lone hundred and twenty-five thou
sand of our volunteers have already
been mustered out and returned to
their homes. One hundred and fifty
thousand, including the regulars-fully
armed and in excellent condition-still
remain in the field ready for service.
Shall they be ordered to further con-
fiict? Let us hope not, but their pres
ence at least, in large part, will be in
dispenSible until peace is ratified and
the regulars are increased in num-
bers to take their places.
IT would say to those still in the
field: Patience. While your sacrifices
great, yet the glory of your lives will
: always be that you wore the blue
while your country needed YOU
"The lessons we have learned, and
| largely from the navy, are: In time
! of peace prepare for war;, an old say
| inb, but forceful and true How little
material the country had to equip its
| great army with when called into SER
| vice, you know. How well, seemingly
| an impossible task was met impartia,
| history Of the war will show. While
we met an army we'll armed with the
| best of modern weapons, and skilled
| in the use of them, the navy, fully pre-
pared for war in advance, we'll skilled
| in gunnery, met the Spaniards and de.
|
| hopelessly trying to adjust theil
range finders"
| General Wheeler, amid intense en-.
! thusiasm, replied to the toast of "Wo.
| man. with a glowing, chivalrous
tribute, which though very brief
| touched the hearts Of his southern au
| dience.
The banquet then concluded.
Tomorrow will be a day Of rest fol
/ ;o1
| hotel. They leave for Macon at mid
night tomorrow.
| When the presidents train reached
| Guyton, Ga, this morning, thirty
! miles out Of Savannah, the reception
| committee of Savanna boarded it ant
accompanied the party on the rest o.
it's journey from Montgomery. D. G
Purse, chairman Of the reception com
| mittee, greeted Mr.. Mckinley warmly
When the train reached Savannah a
| II o'clock a. M, the Georgia Hussars
| reSplendant with silver facings, wer,
| drawn up to receive the president ant
, a salute was fired from guns captured
| at Yorktown and presented to Savan
nah by George Washington.
In twenty-seven carriages drawn b.
white horses, the presidential part.
was driven through the streets, blacl
| with cheering thousands to the cit,
stand had been erected. Ten thousant
troops We're drawn up opposite wher
the president and the members of tn
, cabinet stood. On the outskirts of tn
parade ground, held back by sentries
about 10000 sightseers pressed forwar,
to get glimpse of the soldiers. Mrs
| Mckinley remained in a carriage nea
the reviewing stand. In the SHADOW
of towering monument to the con
| federate dead lay the left of the lon;
line Of the troops. Major General keif
er, in command. gave the signal 70
! the march past to commence. A shee
of steel flashed out against the greer
| background of trees as the bayonet
of the men rose to their shoulders an,
the line began to form. After passins
the president, beside whom stood Ma
jor Generals Wheeler, Shafter an,
Lawton, each colonG came upon tn
stand and witnessed the march pas
OF his own regiment. The sight wa
! grand. Brigadier General Wheton
commanding the first division of tn
Seventh corps, followed General Kief
er. Behind him came the foilowin.
) infantry regiments: Second South Car
:: olina, Ninth Illinois, Fourth Illinois
Third Georgia, Third NehTask Firs
Texas, Forty-Ninth Iowa, Sixth Mis-
souri,; then with their coats on, the rec
flaps turned back. came the Second ar
tillery Tegulars), the First Maine bat
TALON OF heavy artillery, and igh
Batteries f of the Second, c and F OF
the Third, B OF the Fourth, and d OF
the Fifth <regularso artillery. Every
regiment was headed by it's band. The
men marched in splendid alignment
and looked in excellent condition. The
president stood bareheaded acknowl-
edging salutes, while the crowd cheer
ed as the companies marched by. Col
onei Bryan's late regiment. the Third
Nebraska. attracted particuiar attan-