Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-09-26

Admiral Bullo0h. of the Confedera te
navy. who succeeded in zending out ting
cruiser Alabama on i WONDERFUL and
historic cruise. was brother or our
Vice Presidents mother.
Theodore Roosevelt was horn not rich
but in comfortable circumstances. with
a proud and honorable family mama
back of him.
He was largely self-eduCated, but af-
ter the high school training he received
in New York he went to Harvard.
where he distinguished himself as
much by strenuous and daring man.
hood as by his excellence in studies and
society debates.
Like Macauley he was looked upon
as a prospective leader in politics long
before he entered public life. AMI he has
more than iustitled the highest of these
expectations.
He was graduated from Harvard in
1880 and after spending year in travel
and study came 20 his home to find
himself in demand for active party ser-
vice and leadership.
From his youth he has been a leader.
Nature made him one ana he has de-
veloped and exhibited powers Of COM
mand which are rarely eQualled.
He vas elected to the New York Leg
islature in 1882 and served there coiI-
spicuously for five years.
He then resigned it to become cham
TiOn OF many reform 'llcttS vi anu -
the real author of New Eork's present
civil service law.
He was dafea' ell fo. the mayoralty OF
New y ork in 1856 as the candidate of
the reform party.
In 1889 President Harrison appointed
him member of the United States civil
service commission, an office which he
held as president of the board until
May, 1898.
He was the author. advocate. pro-
moter and president Of the New York
city board of police commissioners IN
1895.
In 1895 he was elected Governor OF
New York
When the war with Spain broke out
he organized his famous Rough Riders.
Before the expiration of his term as
Governor he was nominated for Vice
President.
ROOSEVELTS TRIBUTE TO LEE.
In his Life of Thomas H. Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt says of General Lee
and his soldiers:
The decline of the militant spirit in
the Northeast during the first half of
this century was much to be regretted.
ITO il il due more than to any other
cause the undoubted average individual
infer GRITTY Of the Northern compared to
the Southern troops; at any rate, al
TIE beginning of the war of the rebel
lion. The Southerners by their WhO'e
mode of living. their habits, and their
love of outdoor sports. kept up their
War-likH spirit, while in the North he
so-callcd upper classes developed along
the lines Of a wealthy and timid bour-
geois type, measuring everything by a
mercantile standard ca peculiarly de-
baeing one by itself, and submitting
to be ruled in local affairs by low for
ei2n mObs. and in national matters by
their arrogant Southern kinsmen. The
militant spirit of these last certainly
stood them in good stead in the civil
war. The world has never seen better
soldiers than those who followed Lee:
and their leader viii undoubtedly rank
IS without an exception the very great
est of al the great captains that tho
EHglish-speaking peoples have brought
for hand this, although the last and
chief of his antagonists. may himself
claim to stand as the full equal OF
Marlborough and Wellington