New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-19
QUOTES PATRICK Hen
The President spoke as follows:

Mr.. Mayor, Governor. and you, my hosts:
One among the very many great NIrS1nI2ns at
the tine when this nation born (and
quote, gentlemen Patrick Henry said: We
are no longer New-YOrkers or New-England-
Americans" And surely Ny Mayor, the man
would be but d poo- American who was not
touched and stirred 10 the depths by the recep-
ton THAI I have met Nth to-day in this great
historic city of America Coming to-day by the
statue Of StOnewalI Jackson. in the city OF Leas
felt what q privilege it is that I, as AIlAs--
lean have IN claiming that you yOt%<sslves hav4
no more right to kinship in Lee and jackson
than I have I can claim TO be q m1ddIlng gooo
American. because my ancestry was half south
ern and half Northern; l was born IN the East
and have lived good while in the WesC-so
long, IN fact. that do not admit that any man
can be a better Wesuerner than am
There was an uncle OF mine, now dead, my
mothers brother who has always been among
all the men have ever met the man who. IT
sserned TO me- came nearest to IMPLYING in the
flesh that most beautiful Of all characters in
Action Thackersy's Colonel Newco1ne - my
7-Dcla lanes Dun pyOody Bulloch. admiral IN
the Confederate navy. IN snort set1tLStL-7-L'
claim to be neither NOrtherner nor Southerner,
nor Fastener, nor Westerner, nothing pur
good American, pure and simple Next Only 10
. mans having worn the Blue comes the TACT
Of the mans having worn the Gray, as emitting
him 10 honor IN my sight Last year told
C-e-arsT F4rzhI1zh Lee that I wanted 10 add 10
my collection OF autograph letters or great
Americans - Lincoln. Grant Clay, Jefferson
turning 10 the GOVERNOR, your namesake,
Andrew Jackson-1hat of General Lee with his
monograph I got from General FttZhugh Lee
1a-re Of 5.
hin handed 10 me- after General FttZhugh Lees
death was not able TO thank my old and
valued friend the father. but put the son on
nv staff and now have the grandson OF Cen
eraI Grant and the granddaughter OF General
,Aa and the son Of Phil Sheridan on my stan L
mink II is a niddIng good star, too
In nv regiment, organized at the beginning
If +Ta Spanish American War. I think that there
Z-aTa more men whose fathers wore the gray
rlor there were men whose fathers wore the
bITa The only rivalry that ever entered their
loads was rivalry as TO which man could show
1jr7sa1T best entitled TO the praise Of having
5oTa ali hat IN him lay for our country and our
flag. e e,-,, -,
so-, bad been raised as gift by certain English
-@a77 The best biography Of General Jackson
u-ae Fv an EnglishnsE. Colonel henderson l.
fs = curious and rather lanertab bic fact that he
Ffa6 lust as he was about 10 undertake another
Tior-a-7v which I had earnestly asked him TO
51rdar+a Ke had written him urging that he
gForT4 finish his very reuarka bic military study
~ -cronewau Jackson by writing military BIZ
ographv of General Lee, and he had written me-
r7ecIl that he intended TO do so Shortly after
ward / learned of his death.
Gentlemen, I cannot sufficiently express 10 you
nv deep appreciation of the way in which YOU
have greeted me to-day You cannot De nearly
a. glad 10 see me as 7 TO see you Let me-
saw once more what I said in my more FORMAL
address Think OF the good fortune that Is ours
as a people in having, each Of US, whether we