The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-09

The problem of good citizenship is a
problem of producing good men and
women. All the organizations in the
world won't make coward and shirk
a good engineer or good fireman, and
the best constitution will work but i'll
if we have not in the average citizen
something that stands as far above in
tellect as intellect does above mere
brute Observation-Disclosures that is COM
posed of honesty, of courage and of
hard common sense"
An IdyIe ut Chickamaugn.
II fail to see how any American can
come to Chattanooga and go over
the great battlefields in the neighbor-
hood, the battlefields here in this state
and just across the border in my
mothers state of Georgia CHEERS and.
applause); how any American can
come here and see evidences of the
mighty deeds done by the men who
wore the blue and the men who wore
the gray-I fail to see how any man
can come here and look upon these
evidences and not go away a better
American, prouder of the country;
prouder because of the valor displayed
on both sides in the contest,
the valor, the self-devotion, the
loyalty to the right as each side saw
the right (applause). Yesterday I was
presented with a cane cut from the
Chickamauga battlefield by some
young men of Northern Georgia. On
the cane were engraved the names of
three Union generals and three Con-
federate generals. One of those Union
generals was at that time showing me
over the battlefield-Gen. Boynton.
(Applause) Under one of the Confed-
crate generals, Gen. Wheeler, /, my
self, served (Applause) In my regi-
ment there served under me in the
ranks a son of Gen. Hood, who COM
manded at times the Confederate army
against Gen. Sherman. The
only captain whom l had the cp-
portunity of promoting to first rank
and to whom this promotion was
given for gallantry on the field was
Micah jenkins of South Carolina, the
son of e Confederate general whose
name you will find recorded among
those who fought at Chickamauga.
Two of my captains and by a strange
fatality, the best two captains, were
killed at Santiago-one was Allyn Cap
ron, the fifth in a line who from
father to son had served in the regu-
lar army of the United States; who
had served in every war in which our
country had been engaged. The other,
Buck O'Neill, his father had fought
under Meagher. when, on the
day at Fredericksburg, his brig
ade left more men under the
stone wall than any other
brigade. l had in my regiment men
from the North and South; men from
the East and West; men whose IA
theirs had fought under Grant, and
whose fathers had fought under Lee;
college graduates; capitalists sons;
wage workers, the man of means, and
the man who all his life had owed
each days bread to the days toll
had Catholic, Protestant. Jew and Gen
tile. Among my captains were men
| whose forefathers had been among the
first white men to settle on Massachu-
| sets Bay andsena the banks Of the
James, and others whose parents had
| come from Germany, from Ireland,
from England, from France. They
were all Americans and nothing else
and each man stood on his worth as
man to be judged by it and to succeed
or fail accordingly as he did we'll or
i'll. Compared to the giant
death wrestles that reeled over the
mountains. round about this city the
| fight al Santiago was the merest Skin
mish. but the spirit in which we
handled ourselves there, 1 nope, was
the spirit in which the men had
handled themselves in the big war, and
the spirit in which we have got to face
our uulleS as ClLlZenS IL we are 10 make
this republic what it must be made.
Yesterday in passing over the Chicka-
manga battlefield. I was immensely
struck by the monument raised by
Kentucky to the Union and Confeder-
ate soldiers from Kentucky who fell on
that battlefield. The inscription reads
as follows:
"As we are united in life and they
united in death, let one monument
perpetuate their deeds and one people.
forgetful of all asperities, forever
the glories of that terrible conflict
which made all men free and retained
every star on the nations flag"
THAT is a good sentiment, that is a
sentiment by which we can all stand.
Should Know Each other.
And, oh, my friends, that sentiment
has as it's underlying spirit a spirit of
brotherhood. I firmly believe in my
countrymen, and therefore I believe
that the chief thing necessary in or
der that they work together is that
they should know one another: that
the men North should know the South
erners: that the men of one occupa-
ton should know the men of another
cccupation so we may all realize that
the things that divide us are super
fetal, are unimportant and that we
are and ever must be knit together
in one indissoluble mass by common
American manhood"
AS the President concluded he was
roundly applauded
After the Auditorium meeting the
presidential party took carriages and
led a magnificent parade through the
principal streets of the city. Com
posing the parade were citizens in
carriage representatives of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
the entire Seventh Cavalry regiment
mounted, details of mounted police and
the local contingent of the State
Guard. The procession stopped at the
county court house, where, from an
improvised platform in the yard,
President Roosevelt delivered a short
address to 10000 people. The exercises
here were cut short by rain, and The
central depot. taking the train at / 30
Knoxville. Tenn.
Roosevelt on "OId Hickory"
At the Court House the President
said
1.-The state of Old Hickory is a state
of the entire American republic, be-
cause everywhere throughout the I'm
ion we claim the greatest of Tonnes
seeans, Andrew Jackson, as one of the
greatest of Americans and an Ameri-
can whom all Americans delight to
honor. Cheers and applause) There
were differences as to Andrew Jack
sons policies, but the characters of
the man, HIS rugged honesty his a h