The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1902-09-19
ROOSEVELT SpEA.IxSS
TO Thousands who Met Hin at ASH
villo, N. 9.
HIS SOUTHERN ANCESTRY.

Tolls OF tho Valorous Deeds OF Marion
and His Men and or tho Heroes
ofLatcr Days.
Ashyille, N. c., extended a warm
welcome to President Roosevelt when
he visited that city last week. Fully
10000 people occupied the court house
square, where the president addressed
thcm from an improvised stand. He
was met by a reception committee Of
which Chas. McNamc was chairman.
Mayor hitler, Senator Pritchard and
Congressman Moody were among those
who greeted the president, the mem
bcrs Of the committee being intro
duced to the president in his car by
Senator Pritchard. Carriages were in
waiting and under the escort Of Heb.
Vance company, Confederate veterans,
carrying battle flags, and two compa-
MES of State militia and the First
regiment band, the party started for
court house square. At Battery Park
the school children were assembled OH
the lawn and sang America" as the
party passed. President Roosevelt
stood In his carriage bareheaded. The
city was elaborately decorated md
hundreds OF people had come In from
the country to greet tho president.
| The president was introduced by
Chairman sIcNamc; he was onthusias-
tically greeted.
The President said:
MI, Chairman, Mr.. Grudger, and
you, my fellow Americans: 1t is in
deed pleasure to have the chance or
saying n word Of greeting to you this
morning, to speak here In the midst
Of your beautiful country OF western
North Carolina in this beautiful city
in front Of the monument raised to
Senator Vance (Applause), and to be
addressing people whose forcfathcrs
have borne distinguished part In
every great military or civic struggle
through which this country has come.
(Applause.) 1t was not far from here,
as we measure distance in America,
that the Meclslenburg declaration Of
independence was formulated. ZAP
plause.) The gentleman who intro
duccd me spoke or the great deeds Of
the men who in the Revolutionary
war followed Marion and Mcdowell.
| THE BLUE AND TIE BUFF.
My forcfatherS fought under Mar
ion. (Applausc.) My forcfathers
fought with the Georgia and South
Carolina troops who battled through
dark days when CORVALLIS and tho
Red Dragons OF Tarlcton oycrran the
Southern States. They were present
at Kings Mountain, at the Cowpens,
and they saw the final triumph when
the men In blue and buff who followed
Greene wrestcd victory out Of defeat
and when at last the flag OF the 13
Union States who had been the 13 col
Onics waved without a rival along the
coast and along the foothills Of the
mountains. (Applausc.) IT has been a
great and peculiar pleasure to be with
the men who served in the Confeder-
ate army. Yesterday and today l
travelled through a. region which sent
itSSons, some to wear the blue, some
TO wear the gray, all to serve with
courage and sclf-devotion the right as
| It was given to each to see it.. Day
before yesterday l went over the bat
tlcticldS Of Ohickamauga and OF Chat
tanooga; over that space Of territory
which saw for two months one Of the
gigantic death wrestles OF the Civil
war, the territory partly in Tennessee,
partly in my mothers State OF Geor-
gia (applausc), and L feel that the men
would be but poor Americans who did
not come from the scenes commence
rating the valiant deeds Of those ar
mics a better American than when he
started.
THE BLUE AND THE GR3f.
while was there a delegation OF
young men from the State Of Georgia
came to present me a cane cut from
the battlefield with the names OF
three Union and three Confederate
generals on IL. One OF the Union gen
cralsIGen. Boynton, was showing me
around the field. One Of the Confed-
crate generals, Gen. Joe Wheeler, had
been my chief in the Spanish war.
(Applause) Yesterday we stopped at a
little station in Tennessee and among
those who gathered to greet me was
an old fellow who had worn the gray.
lie said: L was one OF Wllceler's
boys | said: SO says L. daughter
and applause.")
1T is a good thing for an American
president to have the chance to travel
through the different sections OF the
country, because 1t is a mighty good
thing for any American to meet his
fellow Americans at different parts of
the country inorder that he may real
izc how trivial are the points Of un-
likeness and how essential are the
points and points Of likeness. ZAP
plause) A good American is a good
American, and don't care a snap of
my finger whether he comes from the
north or the south or the east Of the
vest. If he Is a straight and decent
man | am for him, and if he Isn't /
am not. Applause.)
| TIE LESSON OF BROTIIERuOOD.
"Oh, my friends, tho lesson Of broth
crhood, the lesson that is taught by
such a greeting as ] am receiving at
this moment, tho lesson that is taught
whenever you sec valiant and true
men who wore the blue meet valiant
and true men who wore the grey and
shake hands with them, that lesson
applies through all our national life,
and II applies just as much In form.
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