The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-21

and help since have been in washing ton, Just as went to Senator Cockrell of Missouri while he was in the Senate with the certainty that all I had to do was to convince him that what want eo oone was right. I could not all ways convince him. but if did con vince him that was the end of it-he went that way.
 Heart Deeply Moved.
 ono. my friends. hardly like to say now deeply my heart is moved by coming pack here among you. Among child IS nearing from my mother and my aunt. Miss Annie Bulloch as she was then. about Roswell; of how the frats and Kings and Dunwoodys and buliochs came here first to settle; about the old homestead, the house on the hnl; about the Chattahoochee; about all kinds and sorts of incidents that would not interest you, but inter- ested me great deal when I was a child. wish could spend hours here 10 look all through and see the differ ent places about which have heard all Kinds of incidents. All those anecdotes looking back now I can see taught me an enormous amount, perhaps all the more because they were not intended to teach anything. think perhaps we are very apt to learn most when neither we nor the people talking to us intend to teach us anything. If anybody starts ir to teach us something we are little apt to resent 1t and assume a rather repellant attitude. All those storie> of the life of those days taught me what a real home life, real neigh Dor life, was and should be Lookin g back now at what I learned through those gtnriec nf "a nf mother. my aunts. my uncles. I can un- derstand why the boys and girls of Roswell of that time grew up to be men and women who were good servants of the community, who were good hus- bands. good fathers. good wives and mothers; now it was that they learned to do their duty alright in peace and in war also.
 Tt has been my very good fortune to have the right to claim that my blood Is half Southern and half North ern. and l would deny the right of any man here to feel greater pride in the deeds of every Southerner than feel. or the children. the brothers and sisters of my mother. who were born and brought up in that house on the hill there. my two uneles afterwards en- tered the Confederate service and served in the Confederate anvy
 Served on the Alabama.
 one. the younger, man, served on the Alabama as the youngest officer aboard her He was captain of one of her broadside 32 pounders, in her fight, and when. at the very end. the Ala bama was sinking and the Kearsarge passed under her stern and came up along the side that had not been en- gagged hitherto. my uncle. Irving Bull loch. shifted his gun from one side to the other. and fired the two last shots fired from the Alabama. James Dun woody Bulloch was an admiral in the Confederate service. Of all the people whom I have ever met. he was the one creation of Thackary, Colonel New comb.
 Men and women, don't you think that I have the ancestral right to claim proud kinship with those who show ed their devotion to duty as they saw the duty. whether they wore the gray or whether they wore the blue? All Americans who are worthy the name feel an equal pride in the valor of those who fought on one side or the other. provided only that each did with all his strength and soul and mind his duty as 1t was given him to see his duty"
 The President next was driven to the old Presbyterian Church. In which his grandfather. James Bulloch. was one Of the leading members. MT Bul- loch dropped dead in this church while teaching a Sunday-scho class in 1S40. and among those present in the church today were three members of that class who were present at the time. The venerable pastor of the church, Rev. pr. W. E Baker offered prayer and the President and Mrs. Roosevelt then shook hands with a number of the town people. many of whom had known the President's morh- CT On the way to the train. the Presi- dent stopped for a moment at the home of Dr. Baker where he met the pas tors wife who was one of his mothers s bridesmaids,
 In the escort which conducted the President from his train to the diff ferent points he visited, was Warren E. Crockett, who was member of Colonel Roosevelt's regiment during the Spanish war.
 The reception of the President at the old home of his mother was cordial one. The people greeted him both as President and as the son of one of their neighbors. Many were the kind references to his mother from those who knew her and many were the ex- pressions of good will toward her dis tinguished son. .. .-. ..
 The Presidents train left for Atlanta