Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-14

visitors, United States artillerymen,
| United States marines and jackies,
| there We're soldiers from various states
and cadets from two military acade
mics.
The formal ceremonies occurred at
the auditorium Addresses were made
by Captain +. w. WAGNER president
| Of the South Carolina Interstate and
West Indian Exposition company; Gov
error McSweeney of South Carolina,
| Governor Aycock of North Carolina.
Mayor Smyth of Charleston. and the
president of the United States. Mr..
Roosevelt said:
1t 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 century in South Carolina, and
therefore l can claim your state as mine
by Inheritance no less than by the stron-
ger and nobler right which makes each
foot Of American soil in sense the prop
erty of all Americans.
Charleston Is not only typical southern
city: 1t Is also city whose history teens
with events which link themselves to
| American history as whole. In the early
| colonial days Charleston was the outpost
| of our people against the Spaniard 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 civil war
opened.
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you originally asked me to come to this
exposition on the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln The invitation not only showed
| fine generosity and manliness in you, my
hosts. but it alsoRemphasized as hardly
anything else could have emphasized how
completely we are now united people.
The wounds left by the great civil war, in
comparably the greatest war of modern
| times. have healed, and its memories are
now priceless heritages of honor alike to
the north and to the south. The devotion
the self sacrifice, the steadfast resolution
| and lofty daring the high devotion to the
right as each man saw 1t, whether north
erner or southerner-all these qualities of
the men and women of the early sixties
now shine luminous and brilliant before
our eyes. while the mists of anger and
hatred that once dimmed them have pass
ed 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 10 Its terrible finish the giant
| struggle between the hosts of Grant and
Lee. TO US Of the present day and to our
children and childrens children the val
! liant deeds, the high endeavor and abnega-
| ton of self shown in that struggle by
those who took part therein will remain
! forevermore to mark the level to which
ma in, t,,rv, Wis yrt,nr h.,
| hour of the nations need may come.
Union Shown In Spanish War.
| When four years ago this nation was
/ compelled to face a foreign foe the COM
! pleteness of the reunion became instantly
and strikingly evident. The war was not
one which called for the exercise of more
than an insignificant fraction of our
| strength, and the strain put upon US was
slight indeed compared with the results.
But it was satisfactory thing to see the
| way in which the sons Of the soldier of
| the Union and the soldier Of the Confed-
sracy leaped eagerly forward, emulous to
| show in brotherly rivalry the qualities
| which had won renown for their fathers,
| the men Of the great war. 1t was my
| good fortune to serve under an ex-Con-
| federate general, gallant old Joe Wheeler,
| who commanded the cavalry division at
| Santiago.
In my regiment there were certainly as
| many men whose fathers had served in
| the southern as there were men whose ia
| theirs had served in the northern army
Among the captains there was opportu-
| nifty to promote but one to field rank. The
| man who was singled out for this promo
ton because of conspicuous gallantry in
| the field was the son Of Confederate
| general and was himself citizen of this
| the Palmetto State, and no American Off
| Ger could wish to march to battle beside
| a more loyal, gallant and absolutely fear
| less comrade than my former captain and
major, your fellow citizen, Micah Jenkins
| few months ago owing to the enforc-
| ed absence of the governor of the Philip
pines. it became necessary to nominate {"
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