The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-10-04
This Mother Of PresIdons Roosa,
Welt loved the South
AND THE "LosT CAUSE" Z"
Hung q Confederate Flag From
The Window of Hor Nav
York Home During
tha civit.War

President Roosevelt his indomitablo
spirit, but oortain it is that tho mator-
nal branch was rich in that Quality
that marked tho Bullocbs Of Geoegia
for their resolution, por.inaoity and
strength Of will, No better exponent
Of those traits could bo found than
Martha Bullooh Roosevelt, the mother
Of tho president, says tho Savannah
Morning News.
Not long after the OWL war Mrs,
Roosevelt was on visit to Savannah,
where she had many friends. She was
Georgia woman of distinguished an.
ceatry, the Bullooh family being ono
Of tho best in tho state, and its distipo
tion in tho highost positions. It was
but natural, therefore, .hat sic should
have boon we'll received upon her visit
to this city, and that thero should have
been rare pleasure to her, and unrooon
with her own people, those who had
fought and bled upon the fold Of battle
or fought tho greater fight Of waiting
and watching,
Reunion with her southern friends,
after tho years of tho war that sho had
Dpent at her homo in New York, was q
pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt, and it was
with tho keenest reliah that she roooun.
Cd stories Of tho times and Of the trials
that she suffered in the city Of her
adoption through her upswerving loyal
ty to, tho CAUSE Of the south-a cause
IN which one brothor, 1rvino I. Bullocb,
fought as An officer aboard tho cruiser
Alabama, and which another brother
represented at Nngland's capital CITY.
Oae OF these ctofies oloarIy revealed
tho character of tho woman and leaves
little difficulty in determining whence
the president gets some of those quali.
ties that havc tonded to his prefer
| mont. 5'p,S N.
1t was at a dinnor given in Mrs.
Roosovelt'a honor by Mrs, Honrietta g.
Cohen, that sho told tho story. OF
late years, because Of Theodore Roosa.
velt's rapid advancement, it has been
recalled by his mother old ftionde.
who feol prid in having known the
IS smother Of tho B president, and gladly
ssss 1aay4 !, sbss AyS
the spirit Of peaoo, unoertain as to
whether it should alight, was hoyering
over tho land, Now York was aflsmo
with passionate patriotism, and any
thing smacking Of the Oonfederaoy was
not tolerated. Feoling ran high, and
voc was it for any who bravod the pop
ular tide and showed loaning toward
the cause Of the south. Z (,
Theodore Roosevelt, tho oldor, do
! cided at about that timo to give somo
great social function. The Roosevelt
mansion was accordingly bravoly dook-
cd in bunting and with American flsgs.
From evory window, savo ono, few Che
Stars and Stripes. That ono was Of
Mrs. Rooseyolt's boudoir. Hor hus
band had not designed to omit it from
the decorative sohome, but she would
hsve mono of it. Instoad, she hit up.
on plan that would clearly reveal hor
sentiments. Stopping not to consider
tho poril in which it might place her
and her husband, but determined to
show that oil in that house wero not Of
tho oauso Of tho north, she drew from
among her most cherished treasures the
stars and bars, the emblom Of tho south,
Going to the window, she firmly fixed
its staff and allowed its folds to futter
from the broezo.
On tho instant, almost, the hostile
ensign, vas noted. A passerby in the
street bolow described it. In hot in.
dignation, no pointed it out to another.
AS mobs will, SO ono began to grow,
ard soon the street was ohockod with
angry people, who shook threatening
fists at tho Confederate flag and invoi
ghod most bitterly. Alarmed by tho
gathering, that was awolled every NOM
ont and that dirootod it's @rath again
his homo, Theodore Roosevelt sought
the cause that had stirred the poople
to anger. Flo was not long in finding
1T. Fiorce ACCLAIM direotod his gsse,
which roBtad upon the he,futtoring embi.
ON OF the south. The Roosevelt mai.
uro haa never quailed before a crowd.
Theodore. tho eldor, saw that imminent
danger could probably bo averted only
through his .porsuading his wife to re-
move the Objectionable flag. With a
word to tho crowd, ho loft, entering tho
houso and finding his wife. Ho told
hor what she already know that the
anger Of the mob had boon excited BY
her indisorcot display Of her oolors, and
that it would bo we'll for hor to take in
the flag.
II shall not do so," declared tho
mothor Of the president. The dag 10
mino; the boudoir is mino. l lovo the
ilsg, for it roproaonts my native land,
No ruffian hand shall invade tho pri.
yaoy Of my boudoir to drag down that
flag, nor shall rutfian shouts force me
to remove it from tho window of room
that 10 wholly mino. Explain to them
that ana a southern woman; that
love tho south. Do anything you like
except touch that flag. 1t shall not
como down." And it did not. Theo.
dore Roosevelt vent again to faco tho
crowd. He made q Bpeeoh, dwelling
with tinesse upoh his wife's love for
her own land and moulding the mob to
his will an to an indulgence Of Mrs.
Rooseyolt in hor deoiro to fl !, the flag Of
hcr beloved south. Tho croI va diB-
porsed, but tho atory romans to show
q maternal quality that has made a
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