The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-21
RICHMOND DELIGHTED.
President Roosevelt Captures the PeO-
 nIe There.

Richmond Journal.
 The Presidents speech this evening was forceful, dignihed, manly, and re- plete with good feeling and kindly sent- iments towards Richmond as the cap ital Of Virginia, and Virginia as the representative State of the South. IL was all that as Virginians we could ask, and as Americans we could desire of our President.
 Ills opening tribute to the greatness of Virginia and the Virginians that are gone, was graceful and gracious.
 His tender reference to the wounds and scars of the Civil War, and his just pride in It's glorious memories, touched and thrilled the assembled thousands who listened to him.
 The proud self sacrifice, the resolute and daring courage, the high and stead fast devotion to the right as each man saw It. whether Northerner or South erner, these qualities render all Ameri- the dark days from '61 to '65 proved their truth by their endeavor."
 But here especially spoke the true son of southern mother in his just and splendid tribute to the character and moral fiber of the race of men that forty years ago, with the crush of de. feat upon them. with the bitterness of death in their hearts, amid the wreck and ruin of all they held dear, con- fronted the cruel problems of a cruel peace with that dauntless courage and tirsless energy that had carried them to victory on so many stricken fields:
 "Only an heroic people could have battled successfully against the condi- tions with which the people of the South end of the Civil War. There had been utter destruction and disaster, and wholly new business and social prob lens had to be faced with the scantiest means. The economic and political fabric had to be readjusted in the midst of dire want, of grinding poverty. The future of the broken and war-swept South seemed beyond hope, and if her sons and daughters had been of weaker fiber, there would have been no hope But the men and the sons of the men who had faced with unfalteripg front every alternative of good and evil for tune from Manassas to AppomettoN, and whose courage and endurance had reached an even higher heroic level thase men and these women set them selves undauntedly to the great task before them.
 For twenty years the struggle was hard and al times doubtful. Then the splendid qualities of your manhood and womanhood told. as they were bound to tell, and the wealth of your extraor- dinlry natural resources began to be shown Now the teeming riches of prosperity of those who are stronger because of the trials and struggles through which their prosperity has come. You stand Loyalty to your tra- iitions ard memories; you also stand Loyalty for our great common country of today, and for one common nag thas sNmDOllHeS all that IS DTlSnleSl anu most hopeful for the future of man kind, you face the new age in the spirit of the age. Alike In your material and your spiritual and intellectual develop- ment you stand abreast or the foremost in the worlds progress.
 Sucn spntimcI ts and such applause do homo, alike to the great prince who utters them and the great people who dcs arvN them.
 Whatever doubts or differences may new exist. or may hereafter arise be tween us and the President, It will be difficult for any to doubt his honest and sincere respect and affection TOT his motherhood. and the race from which he sprang.
 For forty years we have been accus- toned to be ruled, with an exception, hv Presidents of the North and the West. For the first time in all these years a President of the Re-united States has come among us and has broken bread with us, and has said 10 us:
 We be of one blood, you and l; let there be peace betwixt us
 Let there be peace, and-Long live the pasaeanSkAr'