The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-19
Richmond GivesHim Warm
 Reception. SEVERAL SPEECHES MADE
Roosevelt Eul0gizes Soldiers
 of the C0nfederacy.
Among Addresses Delivered is One to Negroes, in Which He CSngratu- Iates Them on Their Progress
 as . Race.

Richmond, Va, Oct. 1s.-Richnond today threw open her gates to President Roosevelt, and during the seven hours of his stay, State and city officials and citizens accorded him a welcome, hearty and sincere The Presidential train ar rived at few minutes after noon and from that moment until o'clock to- night, when he departed for Raleigh. N. C., over the Seaboard Air Line, he was given an ovation. His entry into the city was the signal for wild dem- onstration from multitude, and the welcoming enthusiasm only ceased when his train continued on its jour ney to the South.
 Mrs. Roosevelt shared in the honors. and Mrs. Montague. the wife of the Governor, gave a reception at the Ex- ecutive Mansion in her honor
 The President made several ad- dresses. one at the Capitol Square be- fore one of the largest audiences ever assembled in virginia's Capitol; an- other at a banquet in Masonic Temple. where 400 of the representative people of the Old Dominion were gathered before the boards: again at Lee Monu- ment, where he spoke to large number of Confederate Veterans, and once more to a gathering of negroes.
 His speeches paid tribute to the Con federate Veterans. voiced appreciation of the economic and political progress of the South since the Civil War. point ed to his ancestry in which Southern and Northern blood are iptermingled. and to his berth in the East and his residence in the West, declaring he pe- lfeyed he was a good American ctti- zen; pointed out the preponderance or Southern blood in his regiment in Cuoa; referred to the aid through advice that this Government can give the people In inc coast and islands of the Carib- bean. reiterated the principle of equal justice to all, and. in his talk to ne- xroes, congratulated them on their progress as a race. s'ss5 f
 The President will speak tomorrow at Raleigh, N. C. said:
 I trust | need hardly say how grsa. is my pleasure at speaking Tn tnis historic capital of your historic Statei the State than which no other nas cVh hs leadership of the nation; for on the the honor roil of those American worthies whose greatness Is not only for the taen agS but for all the world, on this noh1i roll Virginias name stands apove aiI others. And in greeting all CT you, ., ins % a special word of acknowledge ment to the veterans of the Civil War man would indeed be but a Pon2II witness the way in which, In etty atter city in the North as in the South. on every public occasion, the men wno wore the blue and the men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to shoulder, giving tangible proof that we are all now in fact as well as m Hnitie finitelv richer because of the priceless memories left to all Americans by you men who fought in the great wal.
 Last Memorial Day spoke In Brook lyn. at the unveiling of the statue of Northern general, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic and that great audience cneerea ,s Savotsay eteoy of the men who followed Lee as neart- fly as they cheered every allusion to the and selfdevStion dnss S6 fns men isft bS the great Civil War have long healed but it's memories remain.
 No RancOr Nor Bitterness.
 t, Tenk nf Se f x6os % oh Fortune Sst 1 ones That whereas every other; other war m of rInod, mod and bitterness to keep asunder sun 1r,, thu tt the sons and daughters of the mer who fought on whichever side they fought, the, sam right to feel the keen, the men who foug ght on one side ant of the men who fought on the other Tas bs ssnr the the hEs steadfast devotion to the right as eacf man saw it. whether Northerner ol feSse e eborr renqef % hos, proved their truth by their endeavor
 Here around Richmond. linl ,t,s,h heFe in you you, battlefield. rendered forever memora' ble by the men who counted death as but little thing when weighed in the was given them to see 1t. These mer have left us of the younger generation not merely the memory of what they peace Foreign observers predicted that when such a great war closed Il would be impossible for the hundreds of thousands of combatants to return to the paths of peace. They predicted ceaseless disorder. wild turbulence, the attenuation of anarchy and despot1sm of the average American citizen falsI- fled these prophecies: The great ar, mics disbanded and the private in the ranks. like the officer who had com manded him, went back to take up the threads of his life where he had drop ped them when the call to arms came.
 A Wonderful, Marvellous Thing.
 It was a wonderful, a marvellous thing, in q country consecrated tC peace with but an infiniteslmal regu- lar army. to develop so quickly the hug' hosts WnlCh ITOHIeu one dhOthSE tween James and the Potomac anC along the Mississippi and It's tributa' ries. But 1t was an even more wonder ful, an even more marvellous thing. how these great hosts, once their worl done resolved themselves into the gen. eraI fabric of the nation.
 Great though the need of praise i: which is due the South for the soldierlJ vaIor her sons displayed during thu four years of war. think that ever greater nraise is due to her for what her people have accomplished in thu forty years of peace which followed For forty years the South has mad, not merely a courageous. but at timel a desperate struggle. as she has striver for moral and material well-being.
 Her success has been extraordinary and all citizers of our common coun- try should feel joy and pride in it: fol any great deed done. or any fine qual. ities shown, by one group of Ameri cans, of necessity reflects credit upoI all Americans. Only a heroic people couId have battled successfully agains inc conditions with which the peopl, oS the South found themselves face tt Ace at the end of the civil war. Ther' had been utter destruction and disas fer and wholly new business and so cIal problems had to be faced with thu seanfiest means. The economic an( noiitical fabric had to be readiustet ir the midst of dire want. of grinding poverty. The future of the broken