The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-27
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND. HIS
OPPORTUNITY.

President Roosevelt has good lineage.
The Messenger has already told of his
excellent Bulloch kin in Georgia, of
genealogy shows him on the mothers
side. descended from President Archi-
bald Bulloch. His maternal ancestry
came to Georgia from Virginia. He is
also reported a. having "royai blood on
the maternal side" and on the fathers
side good kn~ickerbocker stock that
c2me from Holland. The Atlanta Daily
News publishes three coats OF arms
two maternal and n paternal:
Two branches of these Bulloohs now
exist in Georgia. The younger branch.
descended from the two marriages of
Major James Stephens Bulloch, second
son of Captain James Bullcch and Anne
Irvine, the grandson Of President Arch
ibald Bulloch and his wife. Mary de
Veaux; and h senior branch, rev
representing the head of the family,
descended from the eldest son of CAP
tain James Bulloch John Irvine BUi-
loch) who married Charlotte Glen.
Charlotte Glen was descended on her
Noble Jones families: through her
father, Judge John Glen. from the
Glenns Cor Glens) Of Bar" Linlith-
gov. Scotland, a family 1T present rep
resented in America by the descendants
OF this Charlotte Glen. OF Georgia, of
t Z late John Thomas Glenn, of At
nta, and the Gleuns. Of Baltimore
ID Philadelphia"
The president descends from the
younger branch. The ~genealogy fills
two columns in the News. But the
country is much more interested i'll the
descendant than in family trees. If the
president measures up ID public eXpec-
tations he would do most admirably
ard make an executive that will rem
der him very popular and make him an
ho-or to his country. The prevailing
idc2 in all parts of the country and
among intelligent men in all parties,
is. that he will prove to be an excellent
president. not of the north or west or
south, but of the entire United States.
God grant the fulfllment of this happy
expectation. A broad gagged president,
a conservative, wise. patriotic chief Of
fetal is just what the times and the
country call for. The south will treat
him justly and favorably. The genuine,
unfaltering democrats will accord him
friendly support and confidence and will
help to uphold his hands in all h a is
wise, circumspect and American. Let
him see to it that he gives no continu-
ance to sectional antagonisms in any
of it's phases. He will not be prejudged
but judged by the principles and deeds
of his administration. The south is
democratic largely. More than three
fourths of the intelligent white men
are generally democratic and opposed
to the principles of the republican party
as urged, declared n enforced Eor
quite thirty-fve years. The following
we inc in that able democratic expo
nent, and it is to us IN line with some
thing we presented in an editorial OF
YESTERDAY. 1t expresses the opinion no
doubt of many unfaltering. moderate,
but r~esolute democrats. The u had
not been received when the editorial In
The Messenger was written. 1t y
f"Differences of opinion there will be,
OF course, and sturdy opposition from
the south to measures providing Tor
ship subsidies or for the retention OF
ueleSS ana oppressive IdAht UN
The south also stands for the
of constitutional government and re-
publican institution to u dependencies
at the earliest possible opportunity.
| These are questions UPON which the
American people are almost evenly :
rided. and the change in administra-
Su1 will not end the discussion upon
Eafters. which, in the opinion of nearly
Il the voters OF this country, Involve
Iital principles. It would be a sad day
cnssions of the issues which are con-
stantly arising-if the policies OF the
government regardless Of their merit,
were carried out without dissent or pro-
test by the people and their representa-
tives in congress. An intelligent and
vigorous opposition is Indispensable 10
{he EFFICIENCY of government under our
free institutions"