The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-31
ON FIELD OF
 GETTYSBURG Roosevelt Delivers Memo
 rial Address. RAIN FALLS STEADILY Assembled Thousands DiSre- gard Drenching to Listen. Governor Pennypacker Fiannbouyant, EuIosistic, sophomoric and soft- soporiic in His Introduction of the Executive.

Semetery hll, oVerlookin8 ground nal lowed by the blood of half a hundred thousand brave men and in the pres ence of a concourse of thousands, Pres ident Roosevelt today delivered q nota- ble address. On nearly .he same spot on November 1s. 1868. President Lin- coin delivered the immortal address annunciating principles which have rung around the world for more than a third of a century
 Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale. chap lain of the United States Senate, pro- nounced the invocation. The President was then introduced by Governor Pen nypacker.
 The Governors remarks were euIo- gistic in a superlative degree. The woods. boundless prairies, mountains even the clements were coined into similes to articnlate the chief execu- tive's greatness. Part of the Penny packer enconium follows:
 'No people can look forward to the fulfllnent of such destiny as events seem to outline for US save one alert and eager with the enthusiasm and vigor of youth. No other President has so stood for that which after all typi- fies all our life-the sweep of the winds over broad prairies, the snow capped mountains and the rushing rivers, the seauoia trees, the exuberance of youth conscious of red blood. energy and power, painting our bow of promise as does Theodore Roosevelt.
 RooseveIt's Achievements.
 He has hunted in our woods; he has enriched our literature; he has ridden in the face of the enemy; he has main tained our ideals. Upon this day de- voted to the memories of the heroic dead---in Pennsylvania, a sad Decora- xt.xw .k@ DF life past and the promise of the teem- ing future confront each other. Today for the first time Theodore Roosevelt tread the fieid made immortal by the sword of Meade and haliowed by the prose dirge of Abraham lincoln" As President Roosevelt rose to speak. a downpour of rain began and contin- ued throughout the time he addressed the great assemblage. He was accord ed an enthusiastic reception notwith- standing the rain. and the crowd of 10, 900 people in the cemetery remained | to hear the address despite the thor ouEh drenching received.
 Following in the beginning of his speech to an allusion by Governor Pen nypacker to the death of Senator Quay | the President said:
 Governor Pennypacker alluded tc | the fact that today Pennsylvania mourn its senior Senator. The regl- ment which Senator Quay was instru' mental in raising took part in this bat tie of Gettysburg-the battle in which Governor Pennypacker shared. Sena' | tor Quay was not with 1t. He had gone with another regiment and 1t Is ap propriate at this time to recall tho | fact that, when the term of service o that regiment expired. just before Fredericksburg Senator Quay declined to accept the discharge, and continued as a volunteer with the army tha fought at Fredericksburg and won thi medal of honor on that bloody day.
 The Presidents address follows: The place where we now are has woI a double distinction. Here was foughl | one of the great battles of all time' ano here was spoken one of the rev speeches which shall last through tns ages. As long as this Republic eh- dures or it's history Is known, so lone shall the memory of the battle oi Gettysburg likewise endure ana pc known; and as long as the Engilsn tongue is understood, so long shail Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech thrill the hearts of mankind.
 A War for Righteousness.
 The Civil War was great war ioi righteousness: war waged Tor the noblest ideals, but waged aiso i T, Ithoroughgoing, practical fashion. II
 
 in their successful outcome, lift to- ward better things for the nations ol mankind. Some wars have meant ths triumph of order over anarchy aho llicentiousncss masquerading as llperIy some wears have meant the, triumph ol liberty over tyranny masquerading as order; but this victorious war or ours meant the triumph of both nperty ahC order, the triumph of orderly liberty the bestowal of civil rights upon th' I ot,A at Eu m stern insistence on the supremacy o the rrationI law throughout the lengtt and breadth of the land. Moreover this was one of those rare contests II which 1t was to the immeasuTaple Tn lterest of the Vanquished that the! should lose while at the same tim' the victors acquired the precious privi llege of transmitting to those wh' came, after them, as a heritage Of homo forever. not only the memory of thei own valiant deeds, but the memory O the deeds of those who. no less valiant lIv and with equal sincerity of purpose
 fought against stars in their courses lThe war left to us all. as fellow lcountrymen. as brothers. the right t'
 retoioe that the Union has been restor
 ed in indestructible shape in countr!
 where slavery no longer mocks th'
 boast of freedom, and also the righ
 to rejoice with exultant pride in tn Icourage the self-sacrifice. and the de
 
 iblue and the men who wore the gray
 He is but a poor American who, look
 ing at this field. does not feel within
 himself a deeper reverence for the na tion's past and a higher purpose t' make the nations future rise level t' iher past. Here fought the chosen som Of the North and the South the Eas land the West The armies which or
 this field contended for the master!
 were veteran armies. hardened by loni lcampaigning and desperate fighting in to such instruments of war as no othe nation then possessed. The severit! of the fighting is attested by the pro lportionate loss-a loss unrivaled il lanv battle of similar size since tn close of the Napoleonic struggles; loss which in certain regiments wa
 from ee-fourths to four fifths of tn men engaged. Every spot on this fiel' has it's own associations of soldierl,
 duty nobly done. of supreme self-sacri
 fee freely rendered. The names O , the chiefs who served in the two armie
 form a long honor roll and the enlist