Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-20
IN THE LAND O. COTTON
President Warmly Received
in Georgia Today.
VISIIEDMOTHER'S HOME
ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT ROS-
WELL AND ATLANTA.
Many Tender Recollections of His
Early Childhood Awakened by
Visit to the Old Homestead.

Roosevelt today carried out his long-cher-
ished plan of visiting the home of his
mother-Roswell, Ga. One of his reasons
for coming south was that he might see the
old homestead where his mother spent her
girlhood and which she left a happy bride
That the visit was fraught with many ten
der recollections was evident and as his
carriage drove away from the old BulIoch
mansion, where his mother lived and mar
ried, the President murmured to Mrs Roose-
velt II can hardly bear to leave here
The President reached Roswell at 7:3O
O'Clock this morning, and was Joined here
by Senator and Mrs. Clay, who were his
guests al breakfast He then entered car
riage and was driven to the mansion. This
fine old homestead is now the property of
j. D. Wing, a lumber merchant of this sec
ton. who lives in It with his sister, Mrs.
Wood the postmaster of Roswell.
Here he was greeted by two old servants
who lived on the place during his mothers
young womanhood. One of these is Aunt
Grace, who acted as maid to Miss Martha
BullOch, who afterward became Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt. and the other is William
Jackson who decorated the mansion on the
occasion of the marriage of its young mis-
tress.
The President was deeply touched as he
shook the hands of these old servtors. In
company with Mrs Roosevelt he then in
spected the house, calling to the attention
with his mothers childhood. Before leaving
the mansion he posed with Mrs. Roosevelt
for picture which included Aunt Grace"
and Daddy William"
Address In the Town Park.
From the homestead the President was
driven to the town park, where stand had
been erected. from which he delivered an ad-
dress He was welcomed to Roswell by
Charles NJ. Reed. a student of Mercer Uni
versity. who in the course of well-chosen
address said the only reason he could see
for the selection of himself to deliver this
welcome was becausee~of the Presidents
well-known fondness for having young men
identified with public affairs. Senator A. S.
Clay introduced the President, who was en-
Enthusiastically greeted as he arose to speak.
He said:
Senator, and YOU, my friends, whom 1t
is hard for me not to call my neighbors,
for feel as If you were: You can have
no idea of how much 1T means to me to
come back to Roswell, to the home of my
mother and my mothers people and to see
the spot which L already know so well
from what my mother and my aunts told
me- 1t has been exactly as If were re-
visiting some old place of my, childhood.
1t has meant very much to me to be intro
duced by Senator Clay. Senator Clay has
been altogether too kind IN what he said
about me ,t Now W. am going to say nothng
Clay, and these facts amount to this:
Clay and Cockrell
IF the average man I had to deal with
in public life possessed Senator Clay's firm
devotion to what he deems right my task
would be 30 easy that 1t would not be
worth mentioning. I have gone to Senator
Clay for advice and counsel and help ever
since have been in Washington, just as
went to Senator Coekrell of Missouri
while he was in the Senate, with the GER
tainty that all had to do was to convince
him that what wanted done was right
could not always convince him, but If 1
did convince him that was the end of 1T
he went that way.
.'Oh. my friends 1 hardly like to say how
deeply my heart is moved by coming back
here among you. Among the earliest rec
objections l have child is hearing
from my mother and my aunt. Miss Annie
Bulloch as she was then, about Roswell; of
how the Pratts and Kings and Dunwoodys
and Bullochs came here first to settle;
about the old homestead, the house on the
hill; about the Chattahoochee; about all
kinds and sorts OF incidents that would
not interest you, but interested me a great
deal when a child. / wish i could
spend hours here to look all through and
see the different places about which have
heard all kinds of incidents.
IAN those anecdotes, looking back now,
can see, taught me an enormous amount,
perhaps all the more because they were
not intended to teach anything. l think
perhaps We very apt to learn most when
neither we nor the people talking to US in
tend to teach us anything. If anybody
little apt to resent II and assume rather
repellent attitude. All those stories of the
life of those. days taught me what a real
home life a real neighbor life was and
should be- Looking back now at what l
learned through the stories of the child
hood of my mother, my auntS, my uncles,
! can understand why the boys and girls
of Roswell OF that time grew up to be men
and women who were good servants of the
community, who were good husbands, good
fathers good wives and mothers: how II
haT learned hal di,fIy
Alright in peace and in also.
Blood Half Southern.
1T has been my very great good fortune
10 have the right to claim that my blood
is half southern and half northern. and l
would deny the right of any man here TO
feel greater pride in the deeds of every
southerner than I feel OF the children,
the brothers and sisters OF my mother who
were born and brought up in that house
on the hill there. my two uncles afterward
entered the confederate service and served
in the confederate navy. One. the younger
man, served on the Alabama as the young
est officer aboard her.
He was captain of one of her broadside
thlrty-two Founders In her final fight, and
when at the very end the Alabama was
sinking and the kearsarge passed under
her stern and came up along the side that
had not been engaged hitherto my uncle
Irving Buiioch, shifted his gun from one
side TO the other and fired the two last shots
fred from the Alabama.
James Dunwoody Bulloch was an admiral
In the confederate service. OF all the peo-
pie whom / have ever met he was the one
that came nearest to that beautiful crea-
ton OF Thackeray, Col. Newcomb.' Men
and women. don't you think that / have
the ancestral right TO claim a proud kim
saip with those who showed their devotion
TO duty as they saw the duty, whether they
wore the gray whether they wore the
blue? All Americans who are worthy the
name feel equal pride In the vaior of
those who fought one side or the other
provided only that each did with all his
might and soul and mind his duty as IL was
given him TO see his duty"
Visited Historic Church.
The President next was driven to the old
Presbyterian church IN which his grand
fotI.er Ianes BuIlnch was once a leading.