The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-04-17
ALL SECTIONAL WOUNDS HEALED
Declares President Roosevelt in His
Address at Charleston.

The speech of President Roosevelt
1t the Charleston exposition was as
follows:
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, be-
fore the revolution, in the days Of CO.
lonial rule, they dwelt for nearly cen
sury in South Carolina; and, therefore,
can claim your state as mine by in
heritance no less than by the stronger
and Iobler right which makes each
foot of American soil, in sense. the
property of all Americans.
"Charleston is not only a typical
southern city; it is also city where
history teens with events which link
themselves to American history as
whole. In the early 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
vitally affected the outcome of the
struggle for independence, and which
impressed themselves most deeply
upon the popular mind. 1t was here
that the tremendous, terrible drama
Of civil war opened.
A United People.
with delicate and thoughtful coup
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
liness in you, my hosts, but it also en-
phasized how completely we are now
united people. The wounds left by the
great civil war, incomparably the
greatest war of modern times, have
healed, and it's memories are now
priceless heritage of honor alike to the
north and to the south. The devotion,
the selfsacrifice, the steadfast resolu-
ton and lofty daring, the high devotion
to the right as each man saw it, wheth-
er 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 chem have passed away for
ever.
Call Of us, north and south, can glory
alike in the valor of the men who wore
the blue and the men who wore the
gray. Those were iron times, and only
iron men could fight to its terrible fin
ish the giant struggle between the
hosts of Grant and lie. To us OF the
present day and to our children and
children's children the valiant deeds,
the high endeavor and abnegation CT
self shown in that struggle by those
who took part therein will remain for
evermore to mark the level in which
we in our turn must rise whenever our
nations need may come.
when four years ago this nation
was compelled to face a foreign foe,
the completeness of the reunion be-
came instantly and strikingly evident.
The war was not one which called for
the exercises Of more than an insignif-
icant fraction Of our strength and the
strain put upon us was slight indeed,
compared with the results. But it was
a satisfactory thing to see the way in
which the sons Of the soldier of the
Union and the soldier of the Confed-
eracy leap eagerly forward, emulcus to
show in brotherly rivalry the qualities
which had won renown for their faith
ers, the men of the great war. 1t was
INV 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 south
ern as there were men whose fathers
had served in the northern army.
Among the captains there was oppor-
tunity to promote but one to L field
rank. The man who was singled out
for this promotion because Of conspicu-
Gus gallantry in the field was the son
of a Confederate general and was him
self a citizen of this, the Palmetto
State: and no American officer could
wish to march to battle beside more
loyal. gallant and absolutely fearless
comrade than my former captain aid
major, your fellow citizen, Micah Jen-
kinS