The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-02

Newbury, y. H, August z3.-President
| Roosevelt tonight is the guest of Secre-
| tary of State Hay whose summer home
| is situated a few miles from mere along
| the shores of Lake Sunapee. The secre-
| tary and his daughters met the presi-
| dent upon his arrival and joined with
| the assemblage in extending him a
| hearty welcome.
| The president delivered a brief ad-
| dress to the townspeople in which he
thanked them for greeting. He then
| entered Secretary Hays launch Nomad
| and steamed to the Falls
| New Hampshire's arms were open to-
| day in readiness to receive tine presi-
lent. At Nashua, Manchester, the
| Weirs and Concord the President made
| speeches to great crowds The day was
| replete with the miscarriage OF arrang
| ments. Al the Weirs, wnere the grand
| army reunion was held the people, In
| the excess of their desire to accord the
| president a fitting reception. came near
| causing a crush which might have re-
suited disastrously. As it was the
| president was for a time in the midst OF
I a bowling Surging mass land was all
but carried off his feet. A great crush
| occurred at Concord as h train was
| pulling out, n for a time 1t was fear
| ed people would be hurt.
With the G. A. II.
The Weirs, N. H, August 2s.-Fully
| $4,000 people joined in welcoming the
| president of the United States on his
| visit of the United States of the New
( Hampshire G.. A. r. here today. The
| Manchester batteries signalled the ar
| rival Of the train by the first gun Of a
| presidential salute. An escort made up
of two companies Of the national guard,
| together with a large number OF civil
war veterans were drawn up at the sta
ton. The column escorted the Presi-
| lent to the Hotel Weirs from the steps
where the president had a review. At
ter luncheon the president was escorted
to the camp ground where the speaking
tool place. President Roosevelt was
introduced to the veterans and when he
could make himself heard he began his
I address, speaking as follows:
ANY American who has a proper
sense of he relative proportion of
things must realize that 10 the men who
fought for the union il the dark days
of the civil war there is owing a great
er debt of gratitude thu to any other.
1t was the craftsmanship of Lincoln,
the soldiership of Grant and the loyal
valor Of those who upheld the arms OF
the n and followed the sword of the
other which made permanent the work
of Washington, of Marshall and their
ompeerS.
1t would nave profited little to us or
to mankind at large if the experiment of
free government by the people and for
the people had been founded upon this
continent, only to go Town n bloody
wreck on the question OF slavery. You
saved the union and you freed the slave
and thereby freed the slaves master
from the worst of all thfalldoms.
We pride ourselves and property so,
upon our great industrial capacity, our
great industrial skill. We need sue sue
cess and UGH chance to broaden and
stable the foundations of our national
wellbeing. Yet there are things higher
than any possible material triumph.
1--WE are now in a time of abundance,
peace, and not in time OF war. Courage
any loyalty, the stern determination to
do exact justice, the high purpose to
sense to struggle for it in practical
fashion-all these qualities we must
show now in u civil and social and
business life as you showed them.
Among the greatest benefits of what
you did was the fact that yoC have also
left us the right Of hearty and loyal
comradship with you gallant opponents
who in fighting for what they conscien-
tiously deemed to be right fought
against the stars in their courses.
w are oya Americans not north
south, cash and west-al alike jealous
} of the nations honor and welfare, prouc
OF the nations past and resolute thai
her future shall stand ever higher har
her past.
w need to learn Alright and appIy
the great lesson of brotherhood which
you taught and practiced in the -four
grim years that began with Sumptel
and ended with Appomattox. In thu
old simple America of our forefathers-
the America which still for our good
, fortune exists in country districts
there was comparative freedom from
: certain dangers to which the country
as a whole is now necessarily exposed
The growth of great cities aid Of in
dividual and corporate ~fortunes-th,
tendency in great cities to divide mel
into roupS nd claSSes-naturally di
j minishes the realization of that essen
tiaI underlying brotherhood which ough
: to be deep in the heart of every Ameri
can"
The president concluded his address
with a brief defense of the army in tn
:: Philippines, saying it had brought tn,
peaceful light of civilization into on,
Of the worlds dark places