The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-09-20
THE NEW PRESIDENT.


man. He has written two or three
books, and at least two are OF literary
value and cleverness- His Life OF
Thomas Hart Benton, native OF
North Carolina who was born some two
miles from the historic town Of Hills
boro, in Orange county, and attended
the University of North Carolina, and
his work on "Oliyer Cromwell have
been we'll praised in the north. He is
much of a speaker with versatility, ag-
gressiveness, intense earnestness, and
much resource as his extraordinary
campaign last year established. How
much of political wisdom and sagaci-
ty he possesses we will not here under
take to say. He made a fairly salts
factory governor of the great state of
New York. and pleased the people bet
ter than he did the politicians of his
own household. The new president
knows how to be magnanimous and
appreciative as he showed iE his life
of Benton. The Messenger has before
given what he wrote of the south, its
warlike spirit. it's mode of life, and it's
great leader, Lee. We reproduce a
part here as it gives some idea of the
temper and manner of the man:
1.-The militant spirit of these last GER
tainly stood them in good stead in the
civil war. The world has never seen
better soldiers than those who followed
Lee; and their leader will undoubtedly
rank as without an exception the very
greatest Of all the great captains that
the English-speaking peoples have
brought forth-and this, although the
last and chief Of the antagonists may
himself stand as the equal of Marbor-
-Ough and wellington"
The new president is in part of south
-ern blood. His mother was a Georgian
and is said to have been remarkably
handsome and intelligent. He was born
of good ancestry. She was the daughter
of James BullOch, u captain in the first
var of independence of both Virginia
and Georgia troops. The Atlanta
Evening News gives his ancestry The
following will interest:
The father OF James Bulloch was
--Archibald Bulloch, the first revolution
Try governor OF Georgia, and his fam
lily was named James Bulloch also, a
Scotchman. who settled in Georgia in
l715, and was member of the Georgia
provincial congress. He was closely
related to the heroic Douglasses of
Scotland. Thus Theodore Roosevelt
comes of illustrious stock, Scotch as
well as Dutch. He has Hugenot
blood, too, by reason of the fact that
the wife of Archibald Bulloch was Mary
de VauX, granddaughter of a distin-
guished HugenOt, who fled from
France after the edict of Nantes was
revoked"
The old Bulloch mansion where
Roosevelts father wooed, won and
married still stands in Roswell. The
News says: Theodore Roosevelt has
been married twice. His first wife was
Miss Alice Lee. of Boston, who died two
wears after her marriage, leaving a
daughter.
In 1886 he was married again to Miss
Edith Kermit Carew, of New York.
They have six children, four sons and
Two daughters"
In Atlanta he has several relatives.
His grandfather Archibald, it is stated,
was the Georgia delegate to the con-
tinental congress of 1775. He was elect
ed to same in 1776, and could have
signed the declaration of independence,
as he was elected to the congress and
could have remained until the consti-
tuition was framed. He attended both
meetings of congress in 1775 and 1776.
and was a prominent and conspicuous
member
The presidents father was also named
Theodore and was of New York state.
He is the youngest president being
43 years of age on 9th October next.
He has held many offices. He was po-
lice commissioner; assistant secretary
of the navy; governor of New York;
vice president and now president. He
was also colonel in the Cuban war
and won some distinction. He is a man
of mental force and much will power,
and is reported to be some what arbi-
trary and assertive. The country will
be sure to give him a good working op-
portunity. The south is almost always
generous and fair in it's judgments, and
much less addicted to passion and pre-
judice than the dominant north. 1t
will look on ard watch Developments
and the new president will be judged
by what he shows himself to be, by
his political actions. He knows that
the way to popular approval, as we'll
as to command his own conscientious
approval is not by walking in the way
OF strife and sectionalism, but in the
straight road of prudence, conserva-
tism. patriotism and wisdom. Let all
the ends thou aimest at be they coun-
try's, they Gods and TRUTHS
He has given out that the policy of
the late very greatly lamented presi-
dent shall be his policy. 1t ought to
resemble closely for they were elected
on the same platform of principles by
the same party. There may be a natur-
al inclination on the part of newspa-
pers of all parties and sections to in
dulge in eulogy that may be excessive,
: but all can be thankful that the as
Suranc0 OF a policy not at variance