The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
Shown Every Manifestation Of
Respect and Esteem in
South Carolina,
MAKES BRILLIANT SPEECH
ON THE REUNITED COUNTRY
Presents Sword to Maj. Micah Jenkins
On Behalf of the People of the
Palmetto State-Leaves
for Summerville.

Charleston S. c., April 9-Greeted and
| honored by every manifestation of re-
| spect and esteem of enthusiastic thous-
ands, President Roosevelt was the guest
of the South Carolina Interstate and
West Indies exposition today. The wealth.
er was ideal. The events of the day be-
gan with a grand procession through the
streets of Charleston and afterwards
there were speeches in the exposition
auditorium, the presentation of sword
! by the President to Major Micah Jenkins
a luncheon at the Womans Building and
inspection of the grounds and buildings.
The enthusiasm of the people was un-
bounded and there was standing room
only on the sidewalks and porches and
doorways and in the wide piazzas of the
houses along the line of march.
| The parade started from the ST. John
hotel, the Presidents quarters, at 10
! o'clock, and was composed of marines,
seamen, cadets, artillerymen and militia
men of four states under command of
Colonel Charles Morris, Y. S. A., of the
garrison at Sullivans Island.
The order was as follows: Squad of
dismounted city police; Colonel Morris
and staff. Marine corps. under Captain
Henry Leonard with drum corps. Charles
ton Light Dragons Captain Kellock,
special guard to the President President
Roosevelt in carriage with Mayor Smyth.
President WAGNER of the exposition and
Secretary Cortelyou followed by fifteen
other carriages containing Attorney-Gon-
eral Knox, Secretary Wilson, Governor
McSweeney, Governor Aycock of North
Carolina; Murat Halstead, Major M. Jen-
kins, Ex-Governor Hugh 8. Thompson, the
alderman of Charleston and others.
President Reviewed Troops.
Arriving at the exposition grounds.
the President reviewed the lines of troops
| from a stand near the auditorium.
| Mrs. Roosevelt stood at his left and
nearby were Mayor Smyth, Captain Wag-
ener Governor McSweeny, Governor Ay-
cock and others. The President was par
| ticularly pleased with the appearance and
march of the jackies and made several
| complimentary remarks as various State
| troops passed before him.
The President had been in Charleston
more than twenty-four hours and had
been cheered and greeted on all sides.
when appearing. but the eliminating
event of the visit to Charleston and the
| exposition was when he came into the
auditorium and bowed and smiled his
| acknowledgements to the cheering which
| greeted him by 10000 throats
Flags and bunting were draped within
| the building and dais erected for Mr..
Roosevelt was covered with a large flag.
| The audience heard each speaker with
| most attentive appreciation and cheered
| to the echo many of the sentiments ex-
pressed, but the President was the center
| of attraction at all times. President
Roosevet's incisive. clear-cut words
| never fell on more attentive ears.
Mayor Smyth introduced the President.
who spoke as follows:
The Presidents Speech.
The President spoke as follows:
"It is to me a peculiar privilege to speak
here in your beautiful city. My mothers
people were from Georgia; but before they
came to Georgia, before the revolution
in the days of colonial rule, they dwelt
for nearly a century in South Carolina,
and therefore ! claim your state as mine
by inheritance no less than by the strong
er and nobler right which makes each
foot of American soil in a sense the prop
erty of all Americans.
| charleston is not only a typical SOUTH
| ern city; 1t Is also a city whose history
teens with events which link themselves
to American history as a whole. In the
early colonial days Charleston was the
outpost of our people against the Spanlard
in the south; in the days of the revolution
there occurred here some of the events
which vitality affected the outcome of the
| struggle for independence, and which i'm
| pressed themselves most deeply upon the
popular mind 1t was here that the tre-
mendous, terrible drama of the cival war
| opened.
Old Wounds Healed.
with delicate and thoughtful courtesy
| yoI originally asked me to come to this
exposition on the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln. The invitation not only showed
fine generosity and manIiness in you.
my hosts, but 1t also emphasized what
| hardly anything else could have en1pna-
| sized, how completely we are now uni
| ted people The wounds left by the great
| civil war, incomparably the greatest war
of modern times have healed; and its
memories are now priceless heritages of
honor alike to the north and the south
| The devotion, the self-sacrifice the stead
| fast resolution and lofty daring, the high
devotion to the right as each man saw it -
whether northerner or southerner-these
| qualities of the men and women of the
| early sixties now shine luminously and
| brilliantly before our eyes, while the
mists of anger and hatred that once
dimmei them have passed away forever.
"All of us. North and South, can glory
| alike In the valor of the men who wore
| the blue and of the men who wore the
gray. Those were iron times, and only
| iron men could fight to its terrible finish
! the giant struggle between the hosts OF
| Grant and Lee. To US of the present day