The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-26

l IldXl4l1S toll LIASll ucS empty
and sonorous."
The old hundred eyed" Scotch
monthly speaks of strenuous etfi+
cheney" of Theodore T., and thinks his
very elaborate, prolonged message 10
| the Congress 'bears all the marks OF
| imperial genius It thinks 1t is abb
| snlutely unrivalled as yet, and that
| William II. could alone have said SO
| little In thirteen and q half columns
81 solid Type But it has merit for
| with peerless skill he mingled words
! of Tacltus with the homely proverbs
which he learned at his mothers
knee With splendid ingenuity he
proved how iii intelligent aLtocrat
could take both sides in any dispute
at one and the same time; could tight
| with the Same hand for rich and
poor; and could advocate In the same
breath the conflicting causes OF peace
and war" To Americans all this
was not exactly new for they mad the
satisfied assurance that they had
heard it before" 1t was the same old
royal milestone grinding the same
old imperial knife. ''Blackwood'
| reads between the lines, and sees the
twofold attitude Of the President III
his plans and purposes TO rule at
home and abroad. I cite here at some
ln1i'rth:
"Rut the President is not content TO
enforce the 'Deace of Justice upon
| his own country. He is determined
that Il shall prevail throughout all
the world. IN accordance with the
Monroe Doctrine. he will permit no
one else TO interfere with ting West
ern Hemisphere. There he stands.
with bull'S-eve lantern in his hand.
q rcsolute. all-seeing policeman With
an affabiIitY which we'll becomes his
imperial dignity, he declares that any
country, whose people conduct them
selves well. can count upon our
hearty friendship In other words,
there Is no State, beit ever SO humble,
that need fear the interference OF the
United States So long as il keeps or
der and pays its debts. But woe betidc
the evil-doer! If any poor South
American re..ublic dares TO loosen the
ties of civilized society, the President
of the United States will rise uD in
dignant and superb, and show that he,
too, as we!E as any tyrant in played
out Europe, is ready to exercise an
international police power. Yet
while he cries. Hands of! tto) the
Old World In the Western Het1!S-
phere. he Is not dislnclined to- intl!Ct
reforms upon the nations Of Europe.
1t reminds his august presence that
done. For instance, that even he
can not have his cake and eat IL toe;
that if he excludes us from the West
ern Hemisphere. he might reasonably
be asked to keep his flash light cut
of the Eastern Roosevelt will be
amply employed in looking after do
nestle affairs until going out as
bclated knight Errant 10 relieve Ine
expressions of the world at large, ana
to- enforce upon humanity either his
rnaxlms. his philosophy, or his plans
OF reconstruction "Bla ckWoOd"
holds that "Eurppe has already Sc
cured O providence OF its own, and
there is no room within It's narrow
limits both for William II. and his
rival noroyer, IL it may be said
without ofTense, there Is plenty, of
work for the policeman in the United
States. If The President looks near
er home he VIII find not a few. crimes
OF which IL is his manifest duty to
show his 'dlsapproval.' j." 1t rather
warns the first American Emperor TO
leave foolish enterprise" TO others.
and to atteEd 80 the cumniating
matters at homo that 50 much need
reredying. 1t says pertinenuy and
pointedly: But If we may believe
tho Americans themselves. there Is SO
much work FOR them te do at nome.
that 1t will be some centuries before
the President OF the United States
need travel to Europe in search Of
stable for his HercuIean hands TO
cleanse"
No man ever before sat in tire
Presidential Chair that the lllustrious
and admirably poised Washington
was the first to occupy, who had in
him such dangerous elements OF
character--such gushing words and
such destructive principles7Such Il
trend towards despotism and usiirpa-
ton while playing the part OF Only
Cannon and Uncle Toby. AMERICAN
people of the observing. thoughtful
kind may we'll watch the caperings
of His Majesty as he grasps power
and sings after the manner of
Syren.
Mr. Thomas M. Aldrich is q Rhode
Island Federal soldier who served as
a private in q battery that engaged In
ffty-eight battles and skirmlshes He
kept'a diary from June 10, 1851, until
he was mustered out June Is, 1864.
so ne does not write from memory.
In The National Tribune ne writes OF
the Third Day at gettysburg. He oc-
cupied a first rate position for obser-
walton near the angle OF the Store
Wall. He furnishes a diagra mGof that
part Of thu field showing Picketts
famous charge. and also the charge
of North Carolina troops. What he
says has a genuine historic interest.
quote what he says in certain
places: st
The government has placed its
high water mark Incorrectly. The
Twenty sixth, and am quite sure
the Twenty fourth North Carolina
men came from twenty to thirty
yards farther than the so-ealled high
water mark. l nave no other reason
to give the credit to North Carolina
than 10. do simple justice to such
brave men as they proved themselves
on that occasion. The great mistake
of every one who has written of
pickett's famous charge seems 20 be
that they think that the troo1s who
came over the low wall, that part
called the Bloody Angle" were the
ones who went the farthest into the
Union lines" -~'--
Again he writes:
1T has also be en- claimed that the
point where PicI.ett's nien crossed the
wall was the scene of the hardest
fighting. TO prove that this is in