The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-09-17
HIS SOUTHERN ANCESTRY.
Tells Of the Taiorous Deeds OF Maroon
and His Men and Of the Heroes
ofLater Days.

Scuirc. where the preSlucuU dUuleoo0N
them from an improvised stand. lie
was met by a reception committee Of
which Chas. McName was chairman.
Nayor Miller, Senator Pritchard and
CONGRESSMAN Moody were among those
who greeted the president, the men,
bc~s Of the committee being intro
Cuced to the president in his car by
Senator Pritchard. Carriages were IN
waiting and under the escort OF Leo.
Vance company, Confederate veterans:
carving battle flags, and two compa-
MES Of State militia and IT, First
regiment band, the party started for
court house square. At Battery Park
the school children were assembled on
the lawn and sang America" as the
party passed. President Roosevelt
stood in his carriage bareheaded. The
city waa elahorately decorated and
hundreds of people had came in from
the country to greet the president.
The president was introduced by
Chairman NcSame: he was enthuslas-
tically greeted.
The President said:
Mr.. Chairman, Mr.. Grudger. and
YOU. my fellow Americans: 1t is in
deed a pleasure to have the chance Of
saving 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 forefathers
have borne distinguished part in
every great military or civic struggle
through which this country has come.
! (Applause.) It was not far from here,
as we measure distance in america,
| that the Mecklenburg declaration Of
independence was formulated. Gap
plause.) The gentleman who intro
duced me spoke Of the great deeds OF
the men who in the Revolutionary
| war followed Marion and Mcdowell.
| TIE Blue AND THE BUFF.
My forefathers fought under Mar
ion. (Applause.} Ny forefathers
fought with the Georgia and South
Carolina troops who battled through
dark days when CORVALLIS and the
Red Dragons of Tarleton overran 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 wrested victory out Of defeat
and when at last the flag OF the l3
Union States who had been the 13 COL
onies waved without a rival along the
coast and along the foothills Of the
mountains. (ApplauSe.) 1t 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 region which sent
it's sons, some to wear the blue, some
to wear the gray, all to serve with
courage and self-devotion the right as
it was given to each to see it. Day
before yesterday I went over the bat
tlefeldS of Chickamauga 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 (applause),and I feel that the men
would be but poor Americans who did
not come from the scenes commemo-
rating the valiant deeds Of those ar
mics a better American than when he
started.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
while was there 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 it. One Of the Union gen
erals, Gen. 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
little station in Tennessee and among
those wko gathered to greet me was
an old fellow who had worn the gray.
He said: I was one Of Wheeler's
boys l said: SO says l. daughter
and applause.O
1T is q good thing for an American
president to have the chance to travel
through the different sections Of the
country, because it is mighty good
thing for any American to meet his
fellow Americans at different parts Of
the country inorder that he may real
ize how trivial are the points Of un-
likeness and how essential are the
points and points of likeness. Zap
plause.) A good American is good
American, and I don't care snap Of
my finger whether he comes from the
north or the south or the east Of the
west. If he is a straight and decent
man | am for him, and if he isn't l
am not. (Applause.)
THE LESSON OF BROTHERHOOD.
"Oh, my friends, the lesson of broth
erhoou, the lesson that is taught by
such a greeting as am receiving at
this moment, the lesson that IS taught
whenever you see 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 it applies just as much in form
ing a judgment between class and
class as between section and section.
We never can succeed it making this
country what it can and shall be made
until we work together, not primari-
ly as northernS or southerners, east
ernerS or westernerS, not primarially
as employee or employed, townsmen
or countrymen, capitalists or wage
workers, but primarilaly as American
citizens. (Applause.) To whom the
right Of brotherly friendship and COM
radeShip with all other decent Ameri- |