The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-10-18
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Nv Associated Press.
WashIngt6ns D. c., Oct. IS
President Roosevelt began his south.
ern Tip at g 80 o'clock this morn
ing, Oh the Southern railway.
He Atopped at Ashland, on the
way to Richmond, where he arrived
at noon, He made an address and
was given a luncheon by citizens on
the Lake Drive.
He will leave Richmond at P
m. for Raleigh.
In the ,arty are Mrs. Roosevelt
Secretary I seb, Surgeon General
Rixey, two other guests, .stenograph-
ers and press representatives.
Mrs. Roosevelt viii leave the party
at AtIanta, after having visited Ros
well the home of the Presidents
mother.
The President shortly after the
noon hour addressed an immense
asseTnbIage as follows, and was given
continuous ovation:
trust need hardly say how
great is my pleasure at speaking IN
this historic capital of your historic
tate the State than which no other
has contributed a larger portion to
the leadership of the nation; for on
the honor roll 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 Nirginia's name
stands above all others. And in
greeting all of you, know that no
one viii grudge my saying special
word of acknowledgment to the vet
Grams of the Civil war. a man
would indeed be but a poor Ameri-
can who could without a thrill wit
ness 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 tangi-
BILE proof that we are all now in
fact as well as in name reunited
people, a people infinitely richer be-
cause of the priceless memories left
to al Americans by You men who
fought in the great war. Last
Memorial Day ] spoke in Brooklyn.
at the unwilling of the statue of q
Northern general, under the aus
pices of the Grand Army of the Re
public, and that great audience
cheered every allusion to the valor
and self-devotion of the men who
followed Lee as heartily as they
scheered 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 its memories remain.
Think of it, oh, my countrymen.
think of the good fortune that Is
ours That whereas every other
war of modern times has left feel
ing of rancor and bitterness to keeF
asunder the combatants, our great
war has left to the sons and daugh-
tiers 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 stead
fast devotion 10 the right ms each
man saw it. whether northerner or
southerner, these qualities render all
Americans forever the debtors Of
those who in the dark DAYS from 81
to '65 proved their truth by their
endeavor. Here around Richmond
here in your own State, there lies
battlefield after battlefield, render
ed forever memorable by the men
who counted death as but little
thing when weighed in the balance
against doing their duty as it was
given them to see it. These men
have left us of the younger genera
ton not merely the memory Of what
they did in war, but of what they
did in peace. Foreign observers
predicted that when such great
war closed it would be impossible
for the hundreds of thousands of
combatants to return to the paths
of peace. They predicted ceaseless
disorder, wild turbulence, the alter
nation of anarchy and despotism.
But the good sense and self-restraint
of the average American citizen fall
siffed these prophecies. The great
armies disbandcd 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
t1,n coll In