The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-29
TRIBUTE To SOUTH
ROosEVELT's SPEECH TO UNION
VETERANS AT THE WEIRS.
FELLOWSHIP WITH OLD FOES.
NOT LEAST VALUABLE AMONG
UNION VICTORIES.

ident's New Hampshire Speech.
"AmODg the Greatest Benefits of
What You Did Was the Fact That
You Have Also Left Us the Right
of Hearty and Loyal COmra deship
With Your Gallant Opponents"
All Loyal Americans Now-Presi-
dent the Guest of Hay.
The Weirs. N. H., Aug. 2S.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt to-day delivered an in
spring address to 10000 persons gath
cred here. where the New Hampshire
G. A. R. is encamped. His speech
dealt largely with the services of the
soldiers who fought for the Union, but
he paid a graceful and gracious trb-
ute to their gallant opponents. who in
| fighting for what they conscientiously
| deemed to be right, fought against the
| stars in their courses"
The Manchester batteries sig
by the first gun of presi
dental salute. An escort made
up of two companies of the National
Guard, together with a large number
| of Civil War veterans, were drawn
up at the station.
| The column escorted the President
| to the Hotel Weirs, from the steps of
| which the President held a review.
After luncheon the party was escort
ed to the camp ground, where the
speaking took place. President Roose
welt was introduced to the veterans.
and when he could make himself heard
he began his address, speaking as fol-
| lows:
Services to the Union.
Amy American who has a proper
sense of the relative proportion of
| things must realize that to the men
who fought for the Union in the dark
| days of the Civil War there is owing
! greater debt of gratitude than to
| any others. Great were the deeds you
| did ana vital the need of doing them.
ave have encountered many crises
of Importance, and from time to time
have been brought face to face with
great problems, upon the rightful So
luton of which most of the nations
| future welfare depended. But to you
alone twas given. to face with vic
toTioDs valor the one crisis in which
not merely the nations well-being, but
You it was given to solve the
one problem, which If not solved
Alright meant death for our country.
All the work of the men who founded
this republic would have gone for
nothing had you not done your part
well. 1t was the craftsmanship of Lin
coin, the soldiership of Grant and the
loyal valor of those who upheld the
arms of the one and followed the
sword of the other which made per-
manent the work of Washington, of
Marshall and their compeers.
The Nation Preserved.
1T would have profited little to us
or to mankind. at large, If the expert
ment of free government, by the Eco
pie and for the people, had been found
ed upon this continent only to go down
in bloody wreck on the question of
slavery. You saved the Union and you
freed the slave and thereby freed the
slaves master from the worst of all
thralldoms. You did us the service of
struggling in cause and for a :eward
in that war based upon naught that
was merely material.
1--WE pride ourselves, and properly
| so, upon our great Industrial capac-
ity, and our great industrial skill. We
| need such success and such capacity
| to make broad and stable TIE founda-
p.
there are things higher than any pos
| sible material triumph. We are now
in time of abundance, peace, and not
| In time of war. But woe to us if in
peace we do not have ideals as lofty
as yours, and if we do not live up to
them as you lived up to yours in the
dark days of defeat and in the
golden glory of the hour of triumph
Courage and loyalty. the stern deter
| mination to do exact justice, the high
| purpose to struggle for the right and
the common sense to struggle for it in
practical fashion-all these qualities
we must show now in our civil and
| social and business life as you showed
them.
"YOur Gallant Opponents.v
Among the greatest benefits of
what you did was the fact that you
| have also left US the right of hearty
and loyal comradeship with your gall
liant opponents. who in fighting for
what they conscientiously deemed to
be right, fought against the stars in
their courses.
1--WE are all loyal Americans now
North. South, East and west-an
alike Jealous of the nations honor and
welfare, proud of the nations past
and resolute that her future shall
stand higher even than her past
I'VE need to learn Alright and to ap-
ply thes great lesson of brotherhood
which you taught and practiced in the
four years that began with Sumter
and ended with Appomattox. In the
! old simple America of our forefathers
| the America which still for our good
| fortune exists in country districts
there was comparative freedom from
certain dangers to which the country
as a whole is now necessarily expos ed
The growth of great cities and of in
dividual and corporate fortunes the
tendency in great cities to divide men
into groups and classes-naturally d.
minishes the realization of that es-
sential underlying brotherhood which
American. Looking into the mists Of
the future we see dark problems loom
ing before us. We can solve those
problems Alright only If we keep con-
stantly in mind that each must work
for all and all for each. In other words
we need 10 feel in our being the sense
Of brotherhood"
The President concluded his address
with a defense of the army in the
Philippines, saying II had brought the
peaceful light OF civilization into one
OF the worlds dark places.
Soldiers Who Fought for the Union.
Newbury. ". H.. Aug 2s.-President
Roosevelt tonight n the guest OF Sec
] rotary OF State Hay, whose summer
4 home IL situated few miles from here
| along the shores OF Lake sunapee.