The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-02
SHE WAS 4 REBEL.
Tbs Molhar Of Prasidsnt Rocss.
Welt Loved the South
AND THE LOST CAUSE"
Hung a confederate Fiag From
the Window Of Nar Nsw
YORK tsoms During
the Civil War

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President Roosevelt his indonitable
spirit, but certain it is that the MISTER
nal branch was rich in that quality
that marked the Bulloobs Of G:oegia
| for their resolution, pereinscisy AID
strength Of will. No better exponent
Of thoss traits could be found than
| Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mothsr
Of the president, says the Savannah
Morning News.
Mt long after the civil war Mrs
Roosevelt Wss en- visit to Savannah,
Whers she had many friends. Size was
q Georgia woman Of distinguished ap.
cestry, the Bulloch family being one
Of the best in the state, and its distiac
| tion in the highest PORTIONS. It was
but ratcrsl, therefore, that she should
have been we'll received upon her visit
| to this city, a1d that there should have
been rare pleasure to her, and unreoon.
stru,ted ''rebel," in her intercourse
with her OWE people, these who had
fought and bIed upon the fsld Of battle
OF fought the greater fight Of waiting
and watching.
Reunion With her southern friends,
after the years Of the war that she had
spent at her home in Nav York. VAS s
pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt, and it Wss
with the keenest relish tina. she reCoun5
| ed stories of the times aad Of the trials
that shs suffered in the city Of her
adoption through her uaswerving loyal
ty to the cause Of the geush-a csuse
in which one brother, Irvine I. Bullocb,
fought es an officer aboard the cruiser
Alabans, and which another brother
represented st England's capita city.
One Of these stories clearly revesled
the character Of the woman and leaves
little difficulty in determining whence
the president gets some of those quail
ties that have tended to his prefer
ment.
1t vss at q dinner given in Mrs.
Roosevelt's honor by Mrs Henrietta 8.
Cohen, that she told the story. OF
late years, because Of Theodore Roose-
velt's rapid advancement, it has bsen
recalled By his mother old ftiends,
who feel pr:d, in having known the
mother Of the president. and gladly
asczibe to her some Of the traits thas
are seen in the son. Il was just when
thu spirit Of peace, uncertain as to
whether it should alight, was lowering
over the land. New York was fame
with passionate patriotism, and any
thing smsckirg of the Coafederaey was
not tolerated. Feeling rsn high, and
woe was it for any who brsved tie pop
u,ar tide ard showed leaning toward
the cause Of the south.
Theodore Roosevelt, the older, de-
oiied at about that time to givs some
great social function. The Roosevelt
mansion was accordingly brsVely deck
ed in buntirg and with American Hsgs.
Flom every window, save one, fsW the
Stars ard Stripes. That one MAS Of
Mrs. Roosevelt's boudoir. Her hus
band had not designed to omit it from
the decorative scheme, but she would
have none oft. Instead, she hit up
on plan that would clearly reveal her
sentiments. Stopping not to consider
the peril IN which it might place ber
SD her husband, but determined to
show that al in that house were not o.
the cause of the north, she drew from
among her most cherished treasures the
stars and bars, the emblem Of the south.
Going to the window, she firmly fixed
It's staff and allowed itg folds tc futjsr
from the breeze.
o. the instsnt, almost, the hostile
ensign vas noted. A passerb7 il the
street below described it. In hot in
digaa:ion, be pointed it out to another.
As mobs viii. so o2s began to grow,
AID soon the street vas checked with
angry people, who shook threatening
fists at the Copfederste hsg ana invei
ghed most bitterly. Alarmed By the
gathering that sas sTclled every mon-
ent and that directed its wrath aga;n
bis home, Theodore Roosevelt sought
the cau,e that had stirred the people
tc anger. He Was net long in finding
it. Fierce acclaim directed bis gsge,
which rested upon the 'autteri1g enbl-
en- Of the south. The Roosevelt nsi.
ure has Bever qusiled before q croTd
Theodore, tie elder, saw that imminent
danger could probably be a7erted only
through his persuading his wife to re-
move tie Objectionable flag. With q
word to the crowd, he loft, entering tho
house and finding his wife. Re told
her what she already koeW-thst the
anger of the mob had been excited BY
her indiscreet display of her colors, and
thst it would be we'll for her to tske in
the iag.
81 shall not do so," declared the
| mother of the president. The flag is
! mine; the boudoir is mine. 7 love the
fag, for it represents my native laad.
! No rufian hand shall invade the pri-
vacy OF my boadoir to drag down that
flag, nor shall ruffian shouts force me
to remove it from the window Of room
that is wholly mine. Explain to them
that I an a southern woman; that l
love the south. Do anything you like
/ except touch that fsg. It shall net
come down." And it did not. Theo-
dore Roosevelt wen. again to face the
crowd. He made a speech, dwelling
with fnesse upoA his Wife's love for
ber cwn land and moulding the mob to
his will an to an indulgence Of Mrs.
Roosevelt il her desire 70 fJ the asg q
her beloved south. The crowd dis
persed, but the story remains to show
q maternal quslitY that has made 6
president. Journal.