The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-29
HE EUlOGIZES VETERANS
They Teach Us Great Lesson of
Brotherhood.
AMERICAN ARMY IN THE PHILIPPINES
The President Declares That it Has Brought
the Peaceful Light Of Civiliz ltion, into
One OF The Worlds Dark
Places.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated PreSS.)
The Wers, n. H., Aug 2S.-Fully 10000
people joined in welcoming the President
of the United States on his visit to the
encampment of the New Hampshire G. A.
r. here today. The Manchester batteries
signalled the arrival of the train by the
first gun of a Presidential salute. An es-
cort made up of two companies of the
National Guard, together with a large
number of Civil War veterans were drawn
up at the stand. The column escorted the
President to the Hotel Weirs, from the
steps OF which the President held a re-
view. After luncheon the President was
escorted to the camp ground, where the
speaking took place. President Roose-
Welt was introduced to the veterans and
when nc could make himself heard he be-
gan his address, speaking as follows:
ANY American who has a proper sense
OF the relative proportion of things must
realize that to the men who fought for
the Union in the dark days of the Civil
War there is owing a greater debt of
gratitude than to any others. Great were
the deeds you did and vital the need of
doing them. We have encountered many
criticises of Importance and from time
TO time have been brought face to face
with great problems, upon the rightful
solution of which most of the nations
future welfare depended. But to you
alone it was given to face with victorious
valor the one crisis in which not merely
the nations well being but the nations
life was at stake. To you it was given
to solve the one problem which if not
solved Alright meant death for our people.
All of the work of the men who founded
this republic would have gone for moth
ing had you not done your part well. 1t
was the craftsmanship of Lincoln, the.
soldiership of Grant and the loyal valor
of those who upheld the arms of the one
and followed the sword of the other
which made permanent the work of Wash
ington, of Marshall and their compeers.
1t would have profted 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 down in 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 If all thraldoIn. You did the
service of struggling in cause and for
q reward in that war based upon naught
that was merely material We pride our
selves and properly so, upon our great
Industrial capacity, our great industrial
skill. We need such success and such
capacity to make broad and stable the
foundations of our national we'll being.
Yet there are things higher than any
possible material triumph.
"We are now in a time of abundance,
peace and not in time of war. But woe
to us if in peace we do not have ideals
as lofty as yours, and If we do not live
UP to them as you lived up to yours in
the dark days of defeat and in the gol-
den glory of the hor of triumph. Cour-
age and loyalty, the stern determination
to enact justice, the high purpose to
struggle for the right, an the common
sense to struggle for it in practical fash
ion-all these qualities we must show now
in our civil and social and business life
as you showed them.
Among the greatest benefits of what
YOU did was the fact that you have also
left us the right of hearty and loyal
comradeship with your gallant oppon-
ents who, in fighting for what they con-
scentiously deemed to be right, fought
against the stars in their courses.
eve are all loyal Americans now
North, South, East and West-all alike
jealous of the nations honor and well
fare, proud of tn nations past and reso-
lutte that her future shall stand even
higher than her past.
1--WE need to learn Alright and to apply
the great lesson OF brotherhood which
you taught and practiced in the four
grim years that began with Sumter and
ended with Appomattox. In the old SIM
pie America of our forefathers-the
America which still for our good for
tune 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 an of individual and cor
porate fortunes-the tendency in great
cities to divide men into groups and
classes-naturally diminishes the realiza-
tion OF that essential underlying broth
erhood which ought to be deep in the
| heart of every American. Looking into
| the mists of the future we see dark
problems looming before US. We can
solve these problems Alright only if we
keep constantly in mind that each must
work for all and all for each. In other
words, we need to feel in our being the
sense of brotherhood"
The President concluded his address