The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-31
TRIBUTES PAID
FEDERAL DEAD
ON THE GETTYSBURG FIELD
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DELIV-
Erred AN ADDRESS.

On Cemetery Hill the President
spoke to Assembled Thousands.
Several Hundred Veterans of the
Civil War Served as HIS Escort.
President Rode Over the Battle
Held and Heard Men Who Had OPP
posed Each other There Talk.
Gettysburg, Pa, May 30.-On historic
Cemetery Hill, overlooking ground hal
lowed by the blood of half hundred
thousand brave men and in the pres
ence of a concourse of thousands who
had assembled to pay tribute to the
memory of the nations dead, President
Roosevelt to-day delivered an address
on nearly the same spot on Nov. 49,
1853, President Lincoln delivered his
memorial address.
President Roosevelt was escorted to
the cemetery on the battlefield by a
body of several hundred veterans of
the Civil War. The President and his
special escort were preceded by several
organizations, including a squadron of
United States cavalry, THE Third
United States Artillery and the Marine
Band of Washington. Mrs. Roosevelt
and other members of the Presidents
party followed in carriages.
Gov. Pennypacker presided at the
ceremonies, which were held in the
rostrum in THE cemetery. Dr. Ed
ward Everett Hale, chaplain of the
United States Senate, pronounced the
invocation. The President was then
introduced by Gov. Pennypacker. The
President was accorded an enthusiastic
reception.
Inspiration from the Field.
In beginning his address the Presi-
dent said:
The place where we now are has
won a double distinction. Here was
fought one of the great battles of all
time, and here was spoken one of the
few speeches which shall last through
the ages. AS long. as this :epublic en-
dures or its history is known, so long
shall the memory Of the battle of
Gettysburg likewise endure and be
known.
He is but poor American who,
locking at this field, does not feel with
ia himself a deeper reverence for the
nations past and higher purpose to
make the nations future rise level 70
her past. Here fought the chosen sons
of the North and the South. the East
and the West. The armies which on
this field commended for the mastery
were veteran armies, hardened by long
campaigning and desperate fighting into
such instruments of war as no other
nation then possessed. The severity Of
the fighting is attested by The proper
tionate loss-a loss unriVaied in any
battle of similar size since the close of
the Napoleonic struggles.
The men who believed that the
Civil War would be ended in ninety
days after it began, the men who cried
loudest ON to Richmond if they had
the right stuff in them speedily learn
ed their error; and the war was
actually won by those who settled
themselves down to fight for three
years, or for as much longer as the
war might last, and who gradually
grew to understand that the triumph
would come, not by a single brilliant
victory but by a hundred painful and
tedious campaigns. In the East and
the West the columns advanced and
recoiled swayed from side to side, and
again advanced; along the coasts the
black ships stood endlessly off and on
before the hostile forts; generals and
admirals emerged into the light, each
10 face his crowded hour of success or
failure; the men in front fought; the
men behind supplied and pushed for
ward those in front; and the final vic
tory was due to the deeds of all who
played their parts well and manfully,
in the scores of battles, in the count
less skirmishes, in march, in camp, or
in reserve, as commissioned officers, or
in the ranks-wherever and whenever
DUTY called them. Just so it must be
for us in civil life. We can make and
keep this country worthy of the men
who gave their lives to save it, only
on condition that the average man
among us on the whole does his duty