Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-31
UNION AND FREEDOM
Presidents Address at Slocum
 Memorial Services.
SHOULD HAVE BEST NAVY IN WORLD
"Civil War Has Left No Sears of Bitterness, Dishonor or Shame to O0set the Memories of Its
 Great Glory"


 00set the Memories of Its
 Great Glory"
 NEW YORK, May 31.-Taking la. pans victory to point the moral of his argument, President Roosevelt in all his utterances as the chief guest at the Memorial day ceremonies in Brook lyn used his customary emphasis of word and gesture to insist upon the necessity of large and efficient navy for the United States and of the devel- opment of the fighting quality in their people.
 He declared that congress, realizing this fact, undoubtedly would continue to build up the navy until it became the finest in the world.
 The president at the unveiling of the statue of General Slocum spoke in part as follows:
 "Mr. Mayor. Mir. Commissioner and you, my fellow citizens. and. above all, you who took part in the great war in which the man whose statue is raised won for himself and his country re- nown and honor.
 ''I see before me here men who won high honor serving as comrades of Gen. cral Slocum, and 1 know that there exists in the Union no men who will appreciate more the fact that now. forty years after the war, the crown ing triumph of what they did is to be found In the fact that we have gen timely reunited country, country in which the man who wore the blue stretches out the hand of loyal friend ship to his erstwhile foe, his now de voted friend and fellow countryman, the man who wore the gray.
 "A short while ago passed through the great state Of Texas. Wherever I stopped in that great state was greet ed by representatives of the Grand Army marching side by side with or intermingled with men clad in the gray uniform that showed that they fought in the armies of the Confederacy. men who had tested one another's worth on the stricken fields. men who knew each that the other had been ready when the hour of supreme appeal came to show bis worth by his endeavors and men who leave to their children and their children's children as heritage of honor forever the memory of the great deeds done alike by those who fought under Lee. for we. because of the very fact that the Union triumph cd. now have the right to feel alike pride in the valor and devotion of those who valiantly fought against the stars in their courses and those who finally saw their efforts. their suffer ings. crowned by triumph.
 ''Think of it. my fellow eountrymen. Think of what thrice blessed fortune has been ours. that the greatest war that tue nineteenth century saw after the close of the Napoleonic struggles should have left. not as most wars in- evitably do and must leave. memories of bitterness. dishonor and shame to offset the memories of glory. memories which make the men on one side hang their heads. but which have left. not that. but should have left to the vic tors and vsnquished alike. after the temporary soreness is over the same right to feel the proudest satisfaction fin the fact that the Union was saved and the greatest pride in the honor. the galIantry. the devotion to the right as each side hsd given if the right to see the right done alike by those who over came as victors and those who finally went down in defeat.
 -I congratulate the people of Brook lyn not primarily upon raising this statue. because that they ought 10 do. but upon the opportunity. upon the chance. of having # to raise. con zratulate them upon he good fortune af having the fellow citizen who in gar and in peace alike served the people 90 well as to make fl their duty not 60 much 10 him ss to themselves to erect the statue that it mieh serve ss . le-- sea for the generations to come And. nv fellow citiz21s. I am sure we all realize the peculiar appropriateness Of having the sfstae of General sIocum received on behsH os the city Of New York by its chief magistrate. whose fa- ther was General Ssocum-s iIlusfrious colleague
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