The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-12

Ill.,. Il IL d bcO0 AAAAl mat NAEAt
should be a large body Of u fellow
citizens who exercise the old Qualities
of courage, daring and rcsolute. unfiich-
ing. willingness 20 meet danger at need
and hat there should be q profession
whose members display the qualities OF
a man. 1 hope TO sec all our people de-
veloping the softer, gentler virtues OF an
ever increasing degree. but / hope never
to see them lose their sterner virtues
that make men, The roblem OF good
citizenship is a problem of producing
good men and women All the orgaEi-
cations in the world won make a cow
ard and a shirk out OF q gooi engineer
or a God fireman, and the best consti-
tuition will work but i'll IL we have not
in the average citizen something hat
stands as far above intellect as intel
lect does above mere brute strength
character that is composed of honesty,
OF courage and hard common sense"
The president told OF his trip over the
battlefield of ChickamaUga yesterday
and drew a lesson Of the keroisln shown
by the armies Of the north and south.
The men Who composed these armies"
he said, possessed the requirements of
which good citizens are made" He re-
ferred 10 the inscription on the monu-
ment raised by Kentucky to the union
and confederate soldiers from, that state
who fell OF that battlefield.
L fail to see" said he. "how any
American can come to Chattanooga and
go over the great battlefieIds in the
neighborhood, the battlefieId5 here in
his state, INC just across the border in
my mothers state of Georgia CHEERS
and a~pplause). How any American car
come here and see evidence of the
mighty deeds done by the men who
wore the blue and the men who wore
the gray-I fail to see how any man can
come here and look upon these evil
dences and not go away a better Amer
lean, prOuder of the country. prouder
Of the valor displayed on both sides in
h contest, the valor the se~lf-devotion,
the loyalty to the right as each side saw
the right (ApplauSe). Yesterday l was
presented with a cane cut from the
Chickamauga battlefield, by some young
men of northern Georgia. On the cane
were engraved the names of three union
generals and three confederate generals.
On of these union generals, was at that
time showing me over The battlefield
Boynton Applause). Under one of the
confederate generals, Wheeler, L myself
served (ApplauSe). In my regiment
there served under me IN the ranks a
son of General Hood. who commanded
at times the confederate army against
General Sherman. The only captain
whom L a the opportunity CO promot-
ing to first rank and to whom this pro-
motion was given for gallantry on the
field was Micah Jenkins, of South Car
DINA, the son of a. confederate general.
whose name you will fiEd recorded
among those who fought ct C~hickamau-
ga. Two of my captains. and by a
strange fatality, the best two captains
were killed at Santiago-one. was Allyn
Capron, the fifth in a line who from
father to son had served in the regular
army of the United States; who had
served in every war in which our coun-
try had been engaged. The other, Buck
O'Neilly. His father had fought under
Meagher, when on the day at Frede-
ricksburg, his brigade left more men I'M
der the stone wall than any other bril-
sade. 1 had in my regiment men from
the north and south; mcr from the east
and west: men whose fathers had
fought under Grant, and whose fathers
had fought under Lee; college gradu-
ateS; capitalists sons. wage workers,
the men of means and the man who all
his life a owed eaca days bread to
the days of toll. 1 had Catholic, Pro-
t~estant, Jew and Gentle. Among my
captains were men whose f~orefathers
had been among the first white men to
settle on Massachusetts bay and on the
of the James n others whose
parents had come from Germany. They
were all Americans M nothing else,
and each man stood on bis worth as a
man to be judged by it and to succeed
or fall accordingly as he uid.' AS the
president concluded he was roundly
cheered.
After the auditorium meeting the
presidential party took carriages and
led a magnificent parade through the
principal streets of the city. Compos-
ing the parade were citizens in car
riages, representatives of the brother
hood of locomotive firemen, the entire
cavalry regiment mounted, details of
mounted police and the local contingent
of the guard. The procession stopped
at the county court house, where from
an improvised platform in the yard the
President delivered a short address to
ten thousand people. TIL exercises to
we're cut short by rain and the presi-
dental party fastened to ine central
depot, taking the train at l:30 o'clock
over the Southern Railway for Knox
vile, Tenn.
Cleveland, Tenn, September S.-The
o'clock. The president appeared upon
the ear platform and q beyy of girls
from the Centenary female college pre-.
scented him with a handsome bouquet OF
lowers. The president made q brief ad.
dress. thanking them for the gift. He
was greeted by about 1900 people.
Athens, Tenn, September S.-Presi
dent Roosevelt arrived here at 3:15 p
M. after a brief stop, the presidential
train continued on to Knoxville. He
was greeted here by a large crowd.
At Riceville. where a stop was made
for water. the president for the frs
time since he started on his southern
trip shook hands with those about hi:
car. 1t has been his custom to refrain
from h~andshaking, but when a man il
the crowd asked him to shake hands
president said:
We'll, this is a small crow and 1 will
shake o hands"
He told the people he had seen owe,
the battlefield Of C~hickamauga and sait
that IL a man were a nalf decent Amer
lean he III not help becoming a bet
ter citizen from such q trip.
The crowd that greeted the presiden
at Athens wanted a speech. 7 am gla,
to be at the seat of Grant University,
he said. Before he could proceed tn
train began to back Ind d man in tn,
crowd yelled Why don't they stop thi
train?"
THAT is a very proper question" an
swered the president.
At this point a boy mad to be pushet
aside to prevent him from being ru
over
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