The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-10-25

wall, to the home Of my motner art
my mothers people, and to see tn
pot which I already know SO vel
from what my mother aud my aunt'
told ne. 1t has been exactly as If
we're re-visi5irg some old place Of my
Childhood It has meant very much Il
me to be introduced by Senator Clay
Senator Clay has been altogether tct
kind in what he said about me. NV
[ am going to say nothing whatever
tut the bare facts abe ut Senator Clay
and these facts amount to this: II the
average man I had to deal with il
publ c Life possessed Senator Clay's firm
devotion to what he deems right my
task would be so easy that it would
not be worth mentioning. I have gore
to Senator Clay for advice and counsel
and help ever sincs I have been ir
Washington. just as I went to Senator
Cockrell of Missouri while be was II
she senate, with the certainty that al
had to do was to convince hlm that
st he wanted done was right
uld not always convince hin-but Il
| did convince him that was the end
OF 1t-ie went thai way.
HIS EARLIEST RECoLLECTIoNs.
'Oamy friends, I hardly like tc say
how deeply my heart Is moved by
coming back here among you. Among
the earliest Tecollscsions I have as a
child is hearing frcn my mother and
my aunt, Miss Annie Bulloch as she
was thea, about Roswell; Of how the
Pratts and Kings and Dlnwoodys and
S1llochs cana here first to settle,
about the old homestead, the house on
the hill, about the Clattahooche,
about all kinds and sorts OF incidents
that would not interest you, but inter-
ssted me a great deal when was a
child.
r wish I could spend hours here to
look all through and see the different
places about which I have heard all
kinds Ct incidents. AL those anecdotes
looking back now. csn see, taught
me an enormous amount, perhaps all
the more because they were not in
tended to teach anything. think per-
haps we are very apt to learn most
when neither We nor the people talk
irg TO US intend 10 teach anything. II
anybody starts to teach US something
We are a little apt to resent 1t AID as
sumo a rather repellent attitude. AL
those stories OF the life OF those days
taught me what real home life, a
real neighhcr Life, was and snould be.
Looking back now at what learned
5nrcugn tina stories Of the childhood
OF my mother, my aunts, my uncles, l
-an und erstand why the boys and girls
OF RosWell OF that time grew up to be
men and women who were 60 d ser
wants OF the community, who were
good husbands, good fathers, good
wives and mothers; how it was that
they learned to d. their du5! Alright
IN peace and in war also.
1t has been my very great good
fortune to have the right to claim that
my blood, is halt southern and halt
nertnern, and I would deny the hight
Of any man here to feel greater pride
in the deeds Of every. SOU sherner than
I feel. OF the children, the brothers
and sisters OF my mother who we're
born and brought up In that house
on the ill there, ny Two uncles after.
wards entered the Confederate ser
VIC, and served in the Confederate
navy. One, the younger man, served
On the Alabama as the Youngest OH
Ger aboard her. Hs was captain OF one
Of h.r broadside 81 FOUNDERS In her
faal fight and when at the very END
toe Alabama was sinking and the
Kearsarge passed under her stern and
came up along the side that had not
been engaged hitherto, my UNCLE, 1cv
ing BulIocn, shifted his gun from one
side to the other and fred the two last
sno:s fired from the Alabama.
A PROUD KNsHIP.
"Jas. Dunwood Bullock was an ad
miral in the Confederate service. Or
all the people I have ever mat he was
the one that came nearest to that
beautiful creation OF Thacke1y-Col.
Newcome. Men and women don't
you think thai I have the ancestral
right to claim proud kinsh,p with
those who showed 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 OF the other, provided
only that each did with al his might
and soul and mind his duty as it was
given him to see his duty" /"
The president next was driVen to
the old Presbyterian church 10 which
his grandfather, James Bullock, was
once a leading menbsr. Mr. Bulioch
SDpsd dead in this church while
sgacoirg a Sunday school class in l84s,
and among those presen5 in tine
church tcdsy were three members OF
tnat class who were present st the
time. Toe venerable pastor OF the
chuIch, R:Y. DR.. ". E. Baker, offer
I'd prayer and the rr:sicent and Mrs.
Roosevelt then shook hands with a
number Of the townspeople, many OF
whom had known the presidents
mother. On the way 20 the train
the president stopped for a moment
a. tie home OF Df. Baker, where he
net the pastors wife, VINO was one
of his mothers bridesmaids.
In the escort, which conducted the
president from his train to the differ
emit points he visited, was Warren E
Crockett, who was member OF Cji.
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