Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-18
ELOQUENT ADDRESS
OF THE PRESIDENT

l trust / need hardly say how great
Is my pleasure at speaking in this histor-
ic capital of your historic state; the
state than which no other has contribut-
ed larger proportion to the leadership
of the nation; Tor on the honor roll of
those American worthless whose great
ness is not only for the age but for all
time, not only for one nation but for all
the world, on this honor roll Virginia $
name stands aboYe all others. And in
greeting all of you, / know that no one
will grudge my saying a special word of
acknowledgment to the veterans of the
civil war. A man would indeed be but
poor American who could without a
thrill witness the way in which, in city
after city in the north as in the SOUTH
on every public occasion, the men who
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 well in name a
reunited people, people infinitely rich
er because of the priceless memories left
to all Americans by you men who fought
in the great war. Last Memorial day
spoke in Brooklyn, at the unveiling of a
statue Of a northern general, under the
auspices Of the Grand Army of the Re
public, and that great audience cheered
.eNery allusiOn to the yalOr and self-de-
VOtion of the men who followed Lee as
heartily as they cheered every allusiOn
to the valor and self-devotion Of the
men who followed Grant. The wounds
left by the great civil war have long
healed, but It's memories remain. Think
OF it, oh, my cOuntrymen, think of the
good fortune that is ours! That where
as every other war Of modern times has
left feelings of rancor and bitterness to
keep asunder the COmbatants, our great
war has left to the sons and daughters
of the men who fought, on whichever
side they fought, the same right TO feel
the keeuest pride in the great deeds alike
of the men who fought on one side and
Of the men who fought on the other.
The Victories Of Peace.
The proud sclf-sacrifice, the reso-
lutte and daring courage, the high and
steadtast devotion 10 the right as each
man saw il, whether nOrtheruer or
southerner, these qualities render all
who in the dark days from 81 to 90 prov
ed their truth by their endeavor. Here
around Richmond, here in your own
state, there lies battlefield after battle
field rendered forever memorable by the
men who courted death as but a little
thing when weighed in the balance
against doing their duty as il was given
them 10 see il. These men have left us
Of the younger generation not merely
the memory OF what they did in war,
but Of what they did in peace. Foreign
observers predicted that when such a
great war closed IL would be impossible
Tor the hundreds of thousands of com
batauts TO return 10 the paths Of peace.
They predicted Ceaseless disorder, wild
turbulence, the alteration of anarchy
and despotism. But the good sense and
self-restraint Of the average American
citizen falsitied these prophecies The
great armies disbanded and the private
in the ranks, like the officer who had
commanded him, went back to take up
he threads Of his life where he had
dropped them when the call 10 arms
came. IL was a wonderful "A marvellous
thing, i'm a country consecrated TO peace
with but an infinitesimal regular army,
10 develop so quickly the hagc hosts
which confronted one another between
the James and the Potomac and along
the Mississippi and its tributaries But
il was an even more wonderful AN even
more marvellous thing, how these great
hosts, once their work done. resolved
themselves into "a general fabric of the
nation.
Heroism in Daily Life.
Great thoSgh the need Of praise Is
which is due the south for the soldlerly
valor her sons displayed during the four
years Of war, l think that even greater
praise is due TO her for what her people