Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-05
BISHOP kElLEY,s SPEECH.


the caustic comments which Bishop Kelley
made on President Roosevelt in his Me-
mortal day speech delivered in Savannah.
The Baltimore sun has published letter
from its Washington correspondent which
contains a very interesting statement OF
President Roosevelt's sentiments toward
the south as gathered from his writings
and public utterances.
The correspondent says of the president:
He is half northerner and half south
erner. His splendid sentiments are those
associated principally with the north, but
he credits the southern people with sin
certify and patriotism, and while not in
sympathy with the separationists, wheth-
er OF the south or of the north, whether
OF the period when Mr.. Davis was leader,
or OF the period forty or fifty years earlier,
when Cabot and Quincy, Of New England
were separationists. yet he does not deny
to the people who sacrificed every thing Tor
the Southern Confederacy the sentiment
OF patriotism. Their patriotism was d.
rected toward what they believed 70 be
right. Some Of his own people were on
the side OF the Confederacy. and he at
tributes TO them motives of lofty patriot
ism and a sense of duty as they saw II.
He does not hold TO their opinions as TO
the right or wrong OF the cause; If he
theirs he would not now be Repubh-
can president Of the United States and
there would have been no occasion for him
TO visit the south and speak as he did AT
Charleston.
yet he feels that without adopting
southern ideas he can admire the south
ern people and praise their courage, self
sacrifice and self-abnegation, and can
recognize in them a patriotism worthy OF
people OF their character. II. in his opin-
ion, Mr. Davis was not an admirable per-
sonality. ne does not feel that this opin-
ion reflects upon the southern people or
upon the southern character"
In his Life OF Thomas II. Benton Mr.
Roosevelt declares that the armies Of the
Southern Confederacy were superior to
those Of the north and that General Lee
was the greatest soldier that has been
produced by the English speaking people
at any period OF their history. The his
tory of Benton was written fifteen years
ago but to show that Mr.. Roosevelt's
estimate Of the southern people has not
changed since that time, the Suns cor
respondent says:
ssThe sentiments expressed by him at
Charleston, in speaking to the southern
people. were voiced by him in an address
at the veterans reunion at Burlington,
Vt, in September, 1901. In the Vermont
address he said:
- in the first place, you have left us the
right of brotherhood with the gallant men
who wore the gray in the ranks against
which you were pitted. At the opening Of
this new century, all Of US, the children
OF a reunited country, have right to
glory in the countless deeds o. valor done
alike by the men of the north and the men
OF the south. We can retain our ever
growing sense of the all-impOrtance, not
merely to our people, but TO mankind, Of
the Union victory, while giving the freest
and heartiest recognition to the sincerity
and self-devotion Of those Americans, our
fellow countrymen, who then fought
against the stars in their courses. Now
there is none left, north or south, who
does not take Joy and pride In the Union;
and when three years ago we once more
had TO face a foreign enemy, the heart OF
every true American thrilled with pride to
see veterans who had fought in the Con-
federate uniform once more appear under
uncle Sans colors. side by side with their
former foes, and leading to victory under
the famous old flag the sons both or those
who had worn the blue and of those who
had worn the gray
Attention is called to the fact that his
book on American Ideals" said concern
ing the civil war:
s.But besides this, besides the material
results Of the civil war, we are all, north
and south, intellectually richer for its
memories. We are the richer each grim
campaign, for each hard-tought battle.
We are the richer for valor displayed alike
BY those who fought so valiantly for the
right, and bY those who, no less valiantly,
fought for What they deemed the right"
The book from which this extract is
faIren was pubiished in 1897
The Suns correspondent says that Mr..
Roosevelt has condemned the New Eng
land separationists Of 1872 quite as severe
Is as he condemns the southern separa-
tionists Of 1861, and to sustain this state
ment he quotes as follows from Mr.
ROosevelt's work, The Winning of the
Vest"
'sThe separatist feeling, has at times
been strong in almost every section Of the
Union, although in some regions IL has
been much stronger than in others. Cal
houn and Pickering, Jefferson and Gouver-
neur Morris, Wendell Phillips and Will
liam Tanney, Aaron Burr and Jefferson
Davis-these and many other leaders Of
thought and action, east and west, north
and south. at different periods Of their
own careers, have, for various reasons,
and with widely varying purity of motive,
headed or Joined I'm separatist movements.
Many Of these men were actuated by high
minded, though narrow. patriotism; and
those who, I'm the eliminating capacity of
the separatist agitation. appealed to the
sword. proved the sincerity of their con-
victions by their resolute courage and self
sacrifice. Nevertheless, they were war
ring against the right and strove might
ily to bring about the downfall and UNI
doing of the nation"
AS The Journal has published Bishop
KeiIey's structures upon President Roose-
welt, we give the evidence that is ad-
duced to show that the President does
not cherish animosity or prejudice against
the southern people.
cArnE ANN TIE soIITH