Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
Roosevelt Delivers Decoration
Day Address at Memorial Ex-
ercises on Battle Field
VISITS THE HISTORIC SCENES
President Takes Long Drive Over the
Famous BattI. Field and Delivers
Grafton Later - Draws Lesson From
the Great War The Day Generally
Observed.

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Roosevelt and party reached the his
toric battle ground at eight thirty to-
day.
At Penmore, where the special train
was sidetrackei during the night. a
crowd began to assemble early this
morning and before leaving the presi
| dent appeared on the rear platform Of
his private car and was given an en-
thusiastic reception. He spoke briefly.
saying: II will not attempt to speak
now as / am to speak later in the day.
shal merely repeat how glad ! am
to see all of you who wear the button
that shows you have right greater
than any of the rest of us to be here
and to rejoice III all that this memorial
/ day means
| When the train stopped in Gettys-
burg the presidential party entered
carriages and started on drive over
the battlefield.
| AS President and Mrs. Roosevelt
alighted from the car they were greet
ed by Governor Pennypacker and I.
reception committee. The drive over
the battlefield occupied three hours and
! a quarter. Frequent stops We're made
to enable the president to study at
close range Some OF the more important
features of the historic field. He man
ifested a familiarity with the details
of the battle and expressed the deep
est interest In the various incidents
recounted by General o. c. Howard
and General Daniel f. Sickels, both
of whom participated In three days en- :
gagernent ON Little Round Top. While
Howard and s,atkels were talking. Ma
jor Robbins. VINO served us major in
the Fourth Alabama in Laws brigade,
during the second and third days
| fighting, joined the party and was
greeted by the president. He was rec
ognized instantly by Sickels. who re-
marked eagerly; There is the fellow
who tried to take the hill. but found
| 1t too high
Eyes" responded Robbins. 1--WE
charged up this hill, but you moved us
down like grass. We could not stand
1t and had to get back
The major then recounted some
interesting details of the part OF the
contest in which he participated. At
ter hearing oss-fire OF graphic de-
scriptions from both union and con-
federate participants Roosevelt re-
marked:
This country is all right SO long
as we can have this kind of talk on
Little Round Top
The presideir. was escorted to the
cemetery on the battlefield by body
nf ha
Civil war and several military organi-
Zations. Governor Pennypacker presid-
ed at the ceremonies which We're held
on the rostrum on Cemetery hill. After
the memorial services of the G. A. X.
had been completed and the school had
strewn flowers over the graves of the
thousands of dead DR.. Edward Everett
Hale, chaplain OF the senate. pro-
nounced an invocation. The president
was then introduced by Governor Pen
nypacke and was accorded an enthu-
siastic reception. The president said:
The place where we now are has
won double distinction. Here was
fought one of the great battles of ALI
time, and here was spoken one of the
few speeches which shall last thru
the ages AS long as this republic
endures or it's history is known, so
long shall the naemory of the battle of
Gettysburg likewise endure and be
known: and az long as the English
tongue is understood. so long shall
Abraham Lineoln's Gettysburg speech
thrill the hearts of mankind.
"The civil war was Il great war for
righteousness; war waged for the
noblest ideals. but waged also in thor
ough- going. practical fashion. 1t was
one of the few wars which mean, in their
successful outcome, il life toward bet
ter things for the nations of man
kind. Some wars have meant the trf-
umph of order over anarchy and licen-
tiousness masquerading as liberty;
some wars have meant the triumph of
liberty over tyranny masquerading as
order: but this victorious war of ours
meant the triumph of both liberty and
order the triumph of orderly liberty,
the bestowal Of civil rights upon the
freed slaves, and at the same time
the stern insistence on the supremacy
of the national law thruout the length
and breadth of the land. Moreover.
this was one of those rare contests
In which 1t was to the trnmeasurable
interest of the vanquished that they
should lose, while ut the same time
the victors acquired the precious priv
ilege of transmitting to those who
came after them, as heritage of honor
forever, not only the memory of their
own valiant deeds. but the memory
of the deeds of those who, no less
valiantly and with equal sincerity of
purpose, fought against The stars in
their courses.
..But the soldiers who won al Gettys-
burg. the soldiers VINO fought to a
finish the civil war and thereby made
their countrymen forever their debtors.
have left us far more even than the
memories of the war itself. They
fought for four years in order that on
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