The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-19
PRESIDENT BEGINS TOUR
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 are responsible to the law; for each Is entitled to be fairly dealt with by his neighbor and by the State; and If we as citizens of this nation are true to forefathers such fair measure of justice shall always be dealt to each man; so that as far as we can bring 1t about each shall receive his dues, each shall be given the chance to show the stun wronging others. Mere than this no man is entitled to, and less than this no man shall have.
 At the luncheon at the Masonic Temple, the President spoke as follows: Boasts of His Americanism.
 "Mr. Mayor, Governor and you. my hosts: One among the very many great Virginians at the time when this nation was born-(and qquote, gentle men, Patrick Henry) said: We are no longer New Workers, New England CTS, Pennsylvanians or Virgipians. we arc Americans and surely MT. Mayor the man would be but poor American who was not touched and stirred to tho depths by the reception that I have met with today in this great historic city of America. Coming today by the statute of Stonewall Jackson. in the city of Lee. I felt what a privilege 1t is, that I, as an American have In claim ing that you yourselves have no more
 
 than I have. can claim to be good, a middling good, American. be- cause my ancestry was half Southern and half Northern, l was born in the East and I have lived a good while in the West-so long in fact. that l do | not admit that any man can be better | Westerner than l 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 whom it seemed to me came nearer to typifying in the flesh that most | beautiful in all characters in fiction. Thackerys Colonel Newcome-my
 uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch. an admiral in the Confederate navy. In short, I claim to be neither Northerner | or Southerner, or Fastener or Vest erner. but nothing but a good Ameri- | can, pure and simple. Next to a man s having worn blue comes the fact of | the mans having worn the grey. as en- | titling him to honor in my sight. Last year I told General Fitzhugh Lee that | I wanted to add to my collection of autograph leters of Great Americans- Lincoln, Grant, Clay. Jefferson Burning to the Governor) your namesake and Andrew Jackson. that of General Lee with his photograph.
 | Lee, n Grant and a Sheridan.
 "I got from General Fitzhugh Lee a | letter of General Lees and photograph | of him was handed to me after General | Fitzhugh Lees death. l was not able to thank my old and valued friend and father, but I put the son on my staff and now I have the grandson of Gen eral Grant and the grand nephew of General Lee and the son of Philip Sheri- dan on my staff. I think 1t is a mid ding good staff. too.
 | "In my regiment, organized at the beginning of the Sanish- American war, | I think that there were more men whose fathers wore the gray than there were men whose fathers wore the blue. The only rivalry that ever entered their heads was rivalry as to which man could show himself best entitled to the praise of having done all that in him lay for our country and our flag.
 q noticed that the statue of Stone wall Jackson had been raised as a gift bv certain Englishmen. The best bi- ography of General Jackson was by an En nglishman, Colonel Henderson. It is l a curious and rather lamentable fact | that one died just as he was about to undertake another biography. which I had earnestly asked him to write I had written him urging that he should finish his very remarkable military study of General JackscD by writing a military biography of General Lee and he had written me back that he intend ed to do so. Shortly afterwards l | learned of his death.
 "Gentlemcn. I cannot sufficiently ex- press to you my deep appreciation of | the way in which you have greeted me today. You cannot be nearly as glad to see mo as I am to see you Let me say once more what I said in my formal address, think of the good for tune that is ours as a people in having, each of us. whether we in our own per sons or through our ancestors. wore the blue or the grey the proud right to challenge as our own all of the valor all of the self devotion. all of the steadfast adherence to right as God gave to each man to SC the right. shown alike by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray. in the great contest that was waged from '61 to 65"
 The President in North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 1S---Thc Presi- dents train reached Millbrook, four miles from RalAlgh. on the Seaboard | Air Line. at 12:55 this morning. It will
 remain there during the early morning
 hours and pull into Raleigh at $50 | a. m.
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