The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-10-26
fichmond's Greeting to President
Roosevelt.

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served-that Of a greeting to the
President OF the United States upon
his visit to that city:
Something more than forty years ago
the President Of the United States enter
ed the city Of Richmond and took
possession of her conquered territory,
and when he came he found sorrow and
desOlation. On Sunday night, April 3,
1863, Richmond was evacuated by the
Confederate government; the troops were
withdrawn from the front and the Off
Gals OF government took train Tor the
South As they departed from Manches-
ter they looked back and beheld the en-
tire lower portion OF the city wrapped
in flames. Practically all buildings en-
braced in that part of the city bounded
by Twenty second Street on the East,
James River on the South, Fifth Street
on the West and midway between Grace
md Franklin Streets on the North
were destroyed and that portion which
survived bore the marks Of poverty and
deprivation which The long and disas-
trOus war had entailed. 1t was a gloomy
sight which the President OF the United
States beheld on that occasion and the
heart Of Abraham Lincoln must have
been touched to the quick.
But while their city had been in great
part destroyed, the spirit OF the men and
women Of Richmond had not been broken
and ere the bricks in the smOuldering
ruins had cooled the citizens pulled off
their coats and went to work with will
and energy unsurpassed to clear up and
rebuild. In time all the buildings were
restored and Richmond entered upon a
new career.
Today the President of the United
States will enter Richmond as our in
vited guest and will see no evidences OF
distress and desOlatiOn, but every evil
dence of happiness and prosperity. He
will see O. city OF 100, 900 inhabitants
with buildings and lots assessed at SJO,-
600, 900, an increase of more than
81 900 900 in a single year, a city OF
factories, warehouses, mercantile estab-
lishments, bonding and insurance build
ings. hotels, churches, schools, parks and
monuments, and as a further sign OF
progress and prosperity, he may know
that.the deposits in the banks have in
fifteen years grown from less than
50, 900 900 TO more than sos, OOO, 900,
being equal in the aggregate to the en-
tire deposits of one of the most pros
porous of the States South OF us. AS he
enters and drives through our streets. he
will receive a cordial welcome from the
people OF the city which was once the
proud capital of the Southern COnfeder-
acy, and whithersOeyer his eyes may
turn. to this side or that, he will see
countless numbers of Federal flags dis
played in his honor, as well as in token
of RichmOnd's loyalty to the national
government.
1t has been said that "they to whom
it has been given to do the really high
est work in this earth have trodden with
bleeding feet and aching brow the hard
rough and thorny life of which the Cross
is the symbol And again that 1.-The
man or woman who has learned to sui
fer well has gotten the highest of moral
victories" 1t was in war that the men
and women OF Richmond learned to sui
fer, and while the cause in which, and
for which they suffered failed, they have
gained in peace a victory more glorious.
Nay. it was this training and discipline
in the school of suffering and daring
which gave them the grit and the grace
to rebuild their Jerusalem and make it
stronger and greater than ever, an object
lesson in enterprise, courage and pat
riOtism and may we not say that it is
| tlllS UOlH VI utNOuU llClIiIS !,
| which enables our people today to for
get those things which are behind and
extend in sincerity and hearty good will
| the hand of welcome to the nation s
| chief magistrate
But our greeting to President ROOse-
welt is no empty Journalism. 1t is the
greeting of a patriotic people who know
| the flag of the Union and the man whose
| high function it is to hold it high and
! preserve its honor at home and abroad.
Moreover we cordially greet the man for
we admire Mr.. Roosevelt. We admire
| him for his courage and manliness, for
his frankness, for his good morals and
| for his righteousness. We believe that he
| has become broader in view and more
| catholic in spirit since his last election.
| We believe that his great triumph at the
polls so far from turning his head has
| sOftened his heart and made him more
and more in love with all the people
| We believe that he has risen above par
tisan prejudice and the bigOty of poll
| tics and that he is endeavOring to re-
deem his promise to be President of the
| nation without respect to person, party
| or section.
We admire him because he walks in
the fear of God, and makes the suggested
morality of the Bible his rule of conduct
| We admire him because he insists that
| all shall obey the laws, no less the high
| financiers of Wall Street than the hum.
BILE citizen of low degree Mr. Roosevelt
is but human and it is human to err. but
in spite of any errors which he may have
made he has convinced the nation that
he is sincere in what he says and does
that his impulses are generous and
chivalrOus, that he has an honorable
sense of duty and that his courage neve,
fails
Richmond is proud to receive and en-
terrain him as her guest and hopes tina,
the acquaintance which is formed today
will ripen into mutual and lasting friend
ship. For one day at least. we shall
forget that there is such a thing as poll
tics, partisanry or sectiOnalism and burr
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