Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-10
AsHEv1LLEs WELCOME GREAT.
Ten Thousand People Hear TIN
Presidents Address.

ASHEv1LLE. N. c.. September g.
Asheville extended a warm greeting to
President Roosevelt to-day. fully ten
thousand people occupying the courthouse
square,, where the President addressed
them The special train arrived here at
$50 o'clock The night was passed at Hot
Springs and the run from there to Ashe-
vile this morning was uneventful A
short stop was made at Marshall the
home of Senator Pritchard, where a
large number of people had assembled.
The President thanked them for their
greeting.
At Asheville. he was met by a reception
committee. of which Charles McNamee
was chairman. Mayor Miller, Senator
Pritchard, and Congressman Moody
were among those who greeted the Presi-
dent, the members of the committee be-
ing introduced to the President in his
car by Senator Pritchard. Carriages were
in waiting, and under the escort of Zeb
Vance Camp, Confederate Veterans, car
ryins battlefags, and two companies Of
State militia, with the First Regiment
band. the party started for Courthouse
Square. At Battery Park, the school
| and sang America as the party passed.
President Roosevelt stood in his carriage,
bareheaded. The city was elabora tely
decorated, and hundreds of people had
come in from the country to greet the
President. When the President was in
troduced by Chairman McNamee, he was
enthusiastically greeted.
Presidents Address.
The President said:
Mr. Chairman Mr.. Gudger, and You,
My FellowAmericans:
1T is indeed pleasure to have the
chance of saying word of greeting to
you this morning. to speak 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 a distin-
guished 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 N
America, that the Mecklenburg Declara-
ton of Independence was formulated
(Applause). The gentleman who intro
duced me spoke of the great deeds of the
men who in the Revolutionary War fol-
| lowed Marion and Mcdowell. My fore
fathers fought under marion. (Ap-
plause). My forefathers fought with the
Georgia and South Carolina troops who
battled throughout the dark days when
CORVALLIS and the Red Dragons Of
Tarleton over-ran the Southern States.
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
th!rtrcD union States. who had been the
thirteen colonies. waved without rival
along the coast and along the foothills
Of the mountains. (ApplauSe).
Pleased to Meet Confcderates.
1T has been great and peculiar pleas
ure to DE greeted as was to-day by men
who served in the Confederate army. Yes
terday and to-day I travelled through a
| region which sent its sons, some to wear
the blue. some 20 wear the gray. all to
serve with courage and self-devotion the
right as it was given to each to see the
right. The day before yesterday went
over the battlef1elds of Chckamauga and
Chattanooga, over that space Of territory
which saw for two months one of the gil
gantic death wrestles of the civil war,
the territory partly In Tennessee. partly
in my mothers State of Georgia CAP
pl.use), and I feel that the man would
be but a Ioor American who did not come
liant deeds Of those men better American
than when he started. While was there
delegation OF young men from the State
of Georgia came to present me cane
cut from the battlefield. with the names
of three Union and three Confederate
generals on 1t. One OF the Union gene
rails, General Boynton, was showing me
around the field. One Of the Confederate
generals, General Joe Wheeler, ha6 been
my chief III the Spanish war. (Applause,)
Yesterday We stopped at little station
III Tennessee. and among those who gath
cred to greet me was an old fellow who
- n xvyNv r
I was one Of Wheelers privates.'
so was y said l." daughter and
applause,]
American Brotherhood.
sit is a good thing for an American
President to have the chance to travel
through the different sections Of the coun-
try. because y Is good thing for any
American to meet his fellow Americans
In different narfa ~ Tho 90, :, t,,,,