The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-19
Roosevelt Saddened by At-
 tacks Upon Him.
LETTER TO COLONEL MosBY
Interests of This Section Not
 Secondary with President.
He Declares That the South is as Dear to Him as Any Other Part of the United
 states.

Washington. Nov. ls.--tSpeciaL)-- Last summer Colonel Thomas R. Roulhac, United States District Attor- ney for the Northern District of Ala bama, by appointment of President Roosevelt, having occasion to write to Colonel John s. Mosby. the famous Confederate partisan scout commander. who is now an assistant attorney in the Department of Justice. took occa- sion to express regret at the tone of Southern speakers and newspapers to- ward President Roosevelt and pointed to the fact that he had appointed former Confederate soldiers to office and cited his praise of General Robert E. Lee as evidence that he had been too harshly judged by the Southern people.
 Roosevelt's Answer.
 Colonel Mosby forwarded the letter to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and immediately received the follow ing reply:
 Oyster Bay. N. r.. Sept 10. 1904 "(Persoual.)
 My Dear Colonel Mosby-That is a fine letter of Roulhac's and appre- ciate it. have been saddened rather than angered by the attacks upon me in the South. am half a southerner my self and I say with all possible sin- cerity that the interests of the South are exactly as dear to me as the in- terests of the North.
 sincerely yours.
 Theodore Roosevelt.
 Colonel John s. Mosby, Department of Justice"
 As Colonel Mosby received the letter from President Roosevelt during the Presidential campaign, he refrained from any attempt to make 1t public for what he deemed was the obvious reason that It's publication at the time would be construed as done for political pur- pose.
 Colonel Mosby today obtained permis- sion at the White House to let the let- ter be published.
 You can send it." he said to thls cor respondent. with my love to the folks"
 Rnmors from white House. Reports continue to come from the White House. borne by daily visitors, that President Roosevelt Is eager now to prove that he has been most unjust ly handled by the partisan press of the South and by Southern campaign orA- tors.
 Feeling, 1t is said, quite keenIy tha injustice of their attitude towards him, he has determined nevertheless to proceed deliberately in whatever stop he may take respecting his Southern | policy.
 He will not mention the subject in his forthcoming annual message. A Southern admirer of the President, but who is a Democrat and evidently l anxious that MT. Roosevelt should be accorded credit for sincerity in his ac- l tton. remarked today touching the | Crum case:
 T believe President Roosevelt's in- sistence in the nomination is solely to compel the Senate to meet the issue and reject or confirm without shunling | or evasion.
 The Case of Cruna. T believe that he thought he was not offending anybody when he first nominated Crum, after having heard him well spoken of by Charleston peo- pie and when. at the same time, he ap- pointed the negro Lewis Assistant Dis- trict Attorney in Boston.
 T believe he would long ago have been glad to be done with the Crum case even with Crum's withdrawal, but hs was determined that the Senate should not leave him to shoulder the responsibility alone I believe that time will prove that he is sincerely de- sirous of having the good will of the good people of the South, and that he Is even above resentment of the hot- heads" R. H. Watkins.