Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-18
PRESIDENT IN DIXIE
Address at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, This Afternoon.
TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH
MEMORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR A
COMMON HERITAGE.
Mission of the States to All the World
Now One of Peace-Problems
of Today.
TO THE SOUTH

of Today.
President Roosevelt and party arrived at
Richmond. Va, today shortly after noon
The following is the full text of his adj
dress:
l trust / need hardly say how great is
my pleasure at speaking in this historic
capital of your historic state; the state
than which other has contributed u
larger proportion to the leadership OF the
nation; for on the honor rolls OF those
American worthless whose greatness is not
only for the age, but for all time, not only
for one nation but for all the world, ON
this honor roll Virginias name stands
above ali Others And in greeting all O.
you, 1 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 Amer
lean who could without thrill witness the
way in which in city after city in the north
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 all now in fact as well as in
name reunited people, people infinitely
richer because of the priceless memories
left to all Americans by you men who
fought in the great war.
Last Memorial day l spoke in Brooklyn,
at the unwilling of the statue of north
ern general. under the auspices of the
great audience cheered every aluson to
the valor and self-devotion of the men who
followed Lee as heartily they cheered
every alluson to the valor and self-de-
votion of the men who followed Grant.
The wounds left by the great civil war
have long healed but its memories remain
Think of 1t. oh. my counirymen, think OF
the good fortune that is oursi That whereas
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 keenest pride
in the great deeds alike of the men who
fought on one side and of the men who
fought on the other.
The proud self-sacrifice. the resolute and
daring courage, the high and steadfast de-
votion to the right as each man saw it,
whether northerner or southerner, theSa
qualities render all Americans forever the
debtors of those who in the dark days from
81 to '65 proved their truth by their en-
deavor
Battlefelds Forever Memorials.
Here around Richmond here in your own
state there lies battlefield after battlefield,
rel dered forever memorable by the men
who counted death as but a little thing
when weighed in the balance against doing
their duty as 1T was given them to see it.
These men have left us of the younger gen
GRAFTON not merely the memory of what
lieS uiO III war, Dul u Wudl tUey uiU III
peace. Foreign observers predicted that
when such a great closed it would be
impossible for the hundreds of thousands of
ccmbatants to return to the paths of
peace. They predicted ceaseless disorder,
wild turbulence, the alienation of anar-
chy and despotism. But the good sense
and self-restraint of the average American
citizen falsified these prophecies. The great
| armies disbanded and the private in the
ranks, like the officer who had commanded
! him, went back to take up the threads OF
| his life where he had dropped them when
| the call to arms came. 1t was wonder
| full, marvellous thing in country so
! consecrated to peace with but an infinitesi-
nal regular army, to develop so quickly the
| huge hosts which fronted one another be-
tween the James and the Potomac and
| along the Mississippi and it's tributaries
But 1T was an even more wonderful, an
even more marvellous thing, how these great
hosts once their work done, resolved
! themselves into the general fabric of the
not.cG.
Great though the need of praise is which
| Is due the south for the soldierly valor her
| sons displayed during the four years of war,
| l think that even greater praise is due to
| her for what her people have accomplished
in the forty years of peace which followed
| For forty years the south has made not
merely a courageous, but at times des-
| perate struggle, as she has striven for
| moral and material well-being. Her sue
| cess has been extraordinary, and all citi-
| Zens of our common country should feel
| JOY and pride in 1t; for any great deed done,
| or any fine qualities shown. by one group
! of Americans. of necessity reflects credit
| upon all Americans
| Only a Heroic People.
| Only heroic people could have battled
| successfully against the condition with
| which the people of the south found them
selves face to face at the end of the civil
war. There had been utter destruction and
| disaster and wholly new business and So
| cj11 sDrOblamS had he faced with the
| scantiest means. The economic and politi-
cal fabric had to be readjusted in the midst
| OF dire want, of grinding poverty. The flu
! ture of the broken, war-swept south SEEM
| ed beyond hope and If her sons and daugh-
| tiers had been of weaker fiber there would
| in very truth have been hope
| But the men and the sons of the men who
had faced with unfaltering front every al
| terna ton of good and evil fortune from
Manassas to Appomattox, and the women,
| their wives and mothers, whose courage
and endurance had reached an even higher
heroic level-these men and these women
set themselves undauntedly to the great
| task before them
| For twenty years the struggle was hard
and at times doubtful Then the splendid
| qualities of your manhood and womanhood
| told, as they were bound to tell and the
| wealth of your extraordinary natural re-
| sources began to be shown. Now the tenn
| ing riches of mine and field and factory at
test the prosperity of those who are all the
| stronger because of the trials and struggles
through which THIS prosperity has come.
You stand Loyalty to your traditions and
memories; you also stand loyalty for our
| great common country OF today and for our
| common flag. which symbolizes all that Is
| brightest and most hopeful for the future of
mankind; you face the new age in the spirit
| of the age. Alike. in your material and in
your spiritual and Intellectual development
| you stand abreast of the foremost in the
| worlds progress.
Common Heritage of Memories
| And now, my fellow-ciiizens, my fellow
| Americans, exactly all of us, whether we
| live in the east or the west, In the north or
| the south. have the right merely Ameri-