The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-10-27

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'pot which / already know 80 wei
from what my mother and my aunt
told me. 1t has been exactly as If
we're re-visitirg some old place OF m,
childhood. 1t has meant very much ii
me to be introduced by Senator Clay
Senator Clay has been altogether to,
kind In what he said about me. NV
| am going to say nothing whateve
but the bare facts abr ut Senator CLAY
and these facts amount to this: If To,
average man had to deal with !
public life possessed Senator Olay's firm
devotion to what he deems right M,
task would be 80 easy that 1t woult
not be worth mentioning. have gol
to Senator Clay for advice and counse
and help ever since / have bsen IL
washington, just AZ went to Senator
Cockrell Of Missouri while he was ir
the senate, witt, the certainty that al
had to do "a 20 convince HIM that
what he W nt,d done was right
could not always convince him-but Il
did conv ace him that was the enc
Of it-he went that way.
Ills EARLIEST RECoLLECTIoNs.
o my friends, hardly like to say
how deeply my heart is moved by
coming back here among you. Among
the earliest rccollections 1 have as a
child Is hearing from my mother and
my aunt, Miss Annie Bulloch as she
was then, about Roswell; of how tn,
Pratts and Kings and Dlnwoodys aud
Bullochs came here first to settle,
about the old homestead, the house on
the hill, about the Olattahooche,
about all kinds and sorts Of incidents
that would not interest you, but inter,
ested me q great deal when 1 was q
child.
I wish could spend hours here to
look oil Through and sec the different
places about which l have heard all
kinds CT incidents. All those anecdotes
looking back now. o.n see, taught
me an enormous amount, perhaps all
the more because they were not in
tended to teach any thing. l think per.
haps we are very apt to learn most
when neither we nor the people talk
Ing TO us intend to teach anything. II
anybody starts to teach US something
50 are little apt to resent 1t and as.
ume a rather repellent attitude. All
liose stories OF the life Of those days
caught me what q real home life,
.al neiRhbor life, was and should be.
Looking back now at what 1 learned
,hrt ugh the stories Of the childhood
OF my mother, my auntS, my uncleS, L
IAN und erstand why the boys and girls
OF Roswell Of that time grew up to be
men and women who were god ser
wants OF the community, who were
good husbands, good fathers, gooo
wives and mothers; how 1t was that
they learned to d. their duty Alright
in peace and In war also.
1T has been my very great good
fortune TO have the right to claim that
my blood, Is half southern and hail
n9rthern, and would deny the right
ofsany man here TO feel greater pride
In the deeds Of every southerner than
l feel. OF the children, the brothers
and sisters OF my mother who were
born and brought up in that house
on The hill there, my Two uncles after
wards entered the Confederate ser.
yc, and served 10 the Confederate
navy. Ohe, the younger man, served
on the Alabama as the Youngest Oil
Ger aboard her. He Was captain OF one
OF her broadside 30 Founders In her
ii lal fight and when at the very end
the Alabama was sinking and the
K3arSarge passed under her stern and
came up along the side that had not
been engaged hitherto, my uncle, Irv
ing L lllOch, shifted his gun from one
side to the other and frad the two last
snots fired from the Alabama.
| pROJrD I,INsuJp
Jas. nunwood Bullock was an ad
miral in the Confederate service. O..
all the people have ever met he was
the one that clme nearest to that
beautiful creation OF Thackery- Col.
Newcome. Men and women don't
you think that l have the anc c,stral
right to claim a proud kinshlp with
those who showed their devotion to
duty as they saw the duty, whether
| they wore the gray or whether they
wore the bluep All Americans who
are worthy the name teel an equal
pride In the Valor Of those who fought
on one side or the other, provided
only that each did with all his might
and soul and mind his duty as IL was
given him - see his duty"
| L liC plco uclU nt AU W&S driven TO
the old Presbyterian church in which
his grandfather, James Bullock, was
once q leading member. Mr. Bulloch
dropped dead in this church while
teaching a Sunday school class In 1849
and among those present in the
church today were three members OF
that class who were present st the
time. T1e venerable pastor Of the
church, Rev. Dr.. w. E. Baker, offer
ed prayer and the PRESIDENT and Mrs.
Roosevelt then shook hands with a
number of the townspeople, many OF
whom had known the Presidents
mother. On the way to the train
the president stopped for moment
at the home Of Dr.. Baker, where he
met the PASTORS wife, who was one
Of his mothers bri1tsm lids.
In the escort, which conducted the
president from his train to the differ
ent points he visited, was Warren E
Crockett, who was a member OF Col
Roosevelt's regiment during the Span
ish war. The reception of the presl
dent at the old home OF his mother
was a cordial one. The people greet
cd him both as president and as tht
son OF ono of their neighbors. Many
we're the Kind references &c his moth
er from those who knew her ant
many were the expressions of goot
VIII toward her distinguished son