Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-12
Miseeltalteolls 8eading.
ROOSEVELT TO THE SOUTH.
President Says Anger and Hatred
Have Passed Away.

Have Passed Away.
| President Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs.
Roosevelt and the presidents official
family, were the guests Of the state Of
/ South Carolina at the Charleston expo
sition last Tuesday and Wednesday,
and the occasion was a most notable
one. The city was filled with visitors
from all parts of South Carolina and
the south, to the number Of between
$4,000 and $4,000. The city officials,
the exposition authorities and leading
people generally, did everything that
was possible to make the presidents
visit enjoyable, and the president
showed by words and actions the pleas
ure it gave him to be thus received at
the hands Of his fellow citizens of
South Carolina. From the time Of the
arrival Of the presidential party early
Tuesday morning until the time Of its
departure Wednesday evening every
minute was filled with solicitious at
tention and evidences Of good will on
the part Of the people. Upon the ar
rival Of the president he made tour of
the harbor, and the salutes from the
war vessels and land batteries an
nounced his presence. The firing con-
tinued until the whole city smelled with
powder smoke, and all the while thou
sands of people made themselves hoarse
with shouting. Tuesday night the
president was entertained at a BAN
quet at the Charleston Hotel, and he
made rousing speech, the keynote Of
which was his pride In the progress
and achievements Of South Carolina
and the fact that as an American citi-
zen he was as much at home In Char
lesion as any good American could de-
sire to be in any other part of the UNI
ted States. His speech was greeted,
at every period with rounds Of ap-
plause. The banquet lasted until IL
o'clock. At IL o'clock Wednesday
morning, the presidential party headed
monster procession Of marines, mill
tary, and civilians to the exposition
grounds, where. after listering to ad-
dresses Of welcome, the president de-
livered the following speech:
Address of the President.
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 a century
in South Carolina; and, therefore, can
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tance no less than by the stronger and
nobler right which makes each foot Of
American soil, in q sense, the property
Of all Americans.
Charleston is not only typical
southern city; 1t Is also city where
history teens with events which link
themselves to American history as a
whole. I'm the early I. colonial days
Charleston was the outpost of our peo-
pie against the Spaniards in the south.
In the days Of the Revolution there oc-
Cured here some Of the events which
vitality affected the outcome Of the
struggle for independence, and which
impressed themselves most deeply upon
the popular mind. It was here that
the tremendous, terrible drama Of civ
II war opened.
A United People.
with delicate and thoughtful cour-
tesy. you originally asked me to come
to this exposition on the birthday Of
Abraham Lincoln. The invitation not
only showed a fine generosity and man
illness in you, my hosts, but 1t also en-
lphasized what hardly anything else
could emphasize how completely we are
now a united 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 to the south. The devo-
ton, the self-sacriflce, the steadfast
resolution and lofty daring, the high
devotion to the right as each man saw
| it, whether northerner or southerner.
all these qualities Of men and women OF
the early sixties now shine luminously
and brilliantly before our eyes, While
the mists Of anger and hatred that once
dimmed them have passed away 1or-
| ever.
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 struggles between the hosts of
Grant and Lee. To us Of the present
day and to our children and children's
children the valiant deeds, the high en-
deavor and abnegation Of self shown In
that struggle by those who took part
therein will remain forevermore to
mark the level in which we in our turn
must rise whenever our natlon's need
may come.
The Blue and the Gray.
when four years ago this nation
was compelled to face foreign roe,
the completeness Of the reunion be-
came instantantly and strikingly evil
dent. The war was not one which CALL
ed for the exercises 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 soldiers of
the Union and the soldiers Of the Con-
federacy leaped forward, emulous to
| show in brotherly rivalry the quantities
which had won renown for their faith
ers, the men Of the great war. 1t was
my good fortune to serve under an ex-
Confederate general, gallant old Joe
Wheeler, who commanded the cavalry
men at Santiago. In my regiment there
were certainly as many men whose
fathers had served in the southern as
there were men whose fathers had serv-
ed in the northern army. Among the
captains there was opportunity to pro-
mote but one to field rank. This man
who was singled out for this promotion
because of conspicuous gallahtry In the
field was the son of Confederate gen.
eral and was himself citizen Of this.
the Palmetto state; and no American
officer could wish to march to battle
beside more loyal, gallant and abso-
lute'y fearless comrade than my FORM
er captain and major. your fellow-citi-
zen, Micah Jenkins.
HOnors For the South.
"a few months ago, owing to the en-
forced absence Of the governor Of the