The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-10
TREATS OF TRUSTS AND CUBA.
President Eloquent in Praisin
NOrth's and SOuth's Reunion.

CHARLESTON, April s In his speech
at Charleston today, President RooseNe,t
said:
1t is to me peculiar privilege tt speak
here in your beautiful oily. My mothers
people were from Georgia int before
they came to Georgia. before the Reyoiu-
tim, in the lays of colonial rule, shey
dWeIt nearly century in South Carolina,
and, therefore. I can claim your STATE as
mine by Inheritance no less than by the
stronger and nobler right when makes
each foot CT American sell in a sense
the property of al. Americans.
With delicate and thoughtful courtesy
you originally asked me to come to this
exposition on the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln. The invitation not only showed
a fine generosity and manliness in you,
my hosts, but it also emphasized " hat
hardly anything else could nave en-
phaSized, how completely we are now
united people. The wounds left by the
great Civil war, in cOmparably the great
est war of modern times, nave healed;
and its memories are now priceless heTlt-
ages of honor alike to the North and to
the South. The devotion, the self-sae-
rifice, the Steadfast resolution and lefty
daring, the high devotion to the. right
as each man saw it, whether Northerner
or Southerner-all these qualities OF the
men and women of the early 5Os now
shine luminous and brilliant before our
eyes, while the mists OF anger and hatfed
that once dimmed them have passed
away forever.
Ali of us, North and South, can glory
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 it's terrible finish the giant
struggle between the hosts Of Grant ana
Lee To us of the present day and 70
our children and children S children. TIE
valiant deeds, the high endeaVor and an
negation of self shown in that Struggle
by those who took part therein VIII re-
main foreVermore to mark the leNel 10
which we in our turn must rise whenever
the hour of the nation S need may come
When four years ago this nation Was
compelled to face a foreign foe, the com
pleteness of the reunion became instant
Nv and strikingly evident. Inc war vas
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 re
Suits But it was satisfactory INNS
TO see the way in which the sons CT the
soldier of the Union and the soldier OF
the Confederacy leaped eagerly forward
emulous to show in bfotherly rlVaHy tl:e
qualities which had won renoWn LOT theIL
fathers the men of the great war. ~
was my good fortune to serve ui LA T De
ex-Confederate general, gallant olo Joe
Wheeler who commanded the cavalry
division at Santiago.
In nv regiment there were C erldIIilg
as many men whose fathers hau SCI SCI W ~
in fhe Southern as there were men whose
fathers had served in the NoftheTn ARMY :
Aneng the captains there was oppofiq-
nitv to promote but one TO HelQ IS1Ith n
The man who was singled OUT 1or IltiS
nrOmotion because of conspicuous SaI-
iantrv in the field was the son OF Con
federate general, and was himself cltl-
zen of this, the Palmetto state; ana 20
| American officer could WISH 10 ndfeh 70
! battle beside a more loyal gallant ana
| absolutely fearless comrade than my
| former captain and major, your fellow
| citizen, Micau jenkins.