The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-21

and which she left a happy bride
That the visit was fraught with many
tender recollections was evident ana
as his carriage drove away from me
old Bulloch mansion where his moth
er lived and married the Presidcnt
murmured to Mrs. Roosevelt, II can
hardly bear to leave here
The President reached Roswell at
1870 O'Clock this morning ana was
joined here by Senator and Mrs. Gay
who were his guests at breakfast. he
then entered a carriage ana was
driven to the mansion. This me ora
homestead is now the property OF D.
d. Wing, a lumber merchant OF TINS
section, who lives in it with his sis
ter, Mrs. Wood, the postmaster or
Roswell Here the President was
greeted by two old servants VINO Nv
ed on the place during his mothers
young womanhood. One of these is
Aunt Grace" VINO acted as maid TO |
Miss Martha Bulloch, who afterWafd,
became Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,
and the other is William jackson,
who decorated the mansion on the
occasion of the marriage of its young
mistress. The President was deeply
touched as he shook the hands or
these old survivors. In company with
Mrs. Roosevelt he then Inspected the
house, calling to the attention of The
company many incidents connected
with his mothers childhood. Before
leaving the mansion he posed with
Mrs. Roosevelt for a picture which
included Aunt Grace" and Daddy
William
Speech at Roswell
From the homestead the President
was driven to the town park, where
a stand had been erected from Wnlcn
he delivered an address. He was
welcomed to Roswell by Charles NJ
Reed a student Of Mercer University,
who, in the course of a well chosen
address. said the only reason he could
see for the selection of himself To de-
liver this welcome was because OF TIE
Presidents well known fondneSs for
having young men identified with pub
lie affairs. Senator A. ). clay IN
troduced the President, who was en-
thusias tically greeted as he arose TO
speak. He said
Senator and you, my friends whom
it is hard for me not to call my neigh
bors, for ] feel as if you We're
You can have no idea of how much
il means to me to come back to Ros-
well to the home Of my mother and
my mothers people, and TO see the
spot which / already know so Wen
from what my mother and my aunts
told me- 1t has been exactly as il |
were revisiting some old place of my
childhood. 1t has meant very much
to me to be introduced by Senator
Clay Senator Clay has been altogeth-
err too kind in what he said about me.
Now | am going to say nothing what
ever but the bare facts about Senator
Clay. and those facts amount to this:
IL the average man | had to deal with
in public life possessed Senator Gay
firm devotion to what he deems right
my task would be so easy that it
would not be worth mentioning. /
have gone to Senator Clay for advice
and counsel and help ever since L have
been in Washington. just as | went
| to Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, While
| he was in the Senate. with the GER
| tainty that all / had to do was to
convince him that what | wanted done
| was right could not always con-
vince him.-but if / did convince him
| that was f,c end of it--he went that
way.
| ION my friends, I hardly like to
say how deeply my heart is moved
| by coming back here among you.
| Among the earliest recollectionS have
| as a child is hearing from my mother,
nv aunt, Miss Annie Bulloch as she
was then. about Roswell; of how the
| Pratts and Kings and DunwOodyS and
! Bullochs came here first to settle,
about the old homestead the house
! on the hill; about the Chattahootchee,
about all kinds and sorts of incidents
! that would not interest you, but inter-
ested me a great deal when | was a
| child | wish I could spend hours
here to look all through and see the
| different places about which | have
heard all kinds of incidents. All those
! anecdotes looking back now l can
| see, taught me an enormous amount
| perhaps all the more because they
| were not intended to teach anythlns'
] think perhaps we are very apt 10
learn most when neither we nor the
| people talking to us intend to teach
ms ANYTHING. If anybody starts in to
teach us something we are little APT
to resent it and assume rather re-
| nellent attitude. All those stories Oh
/ the life of those days taught me Wlat
a real home life, a real neighbof lie
was and should be. Looking pack
now at what / learned through the
/ stories of the childhood of my moth-
er. my auntS, my uncles / can UNDER
stand why the boys and girls of Ros-
well of that time grew up 10 be MI
and women who were good servants OF
the community who We're good nus
| bands, good fathers, good wives ana
mothers; how it was that they learned
10 do their duty Alright in peace and III
4 war also
Last Shots From the Alabama.
! at has been my very great sood
fortune to have the right To claim Una.
my blood is half Southern ana nan
| Northern, and | would deny the flght
of any man here to feel a greater
| pride in the deeds of every Southernef
| than | 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 afterwards entered the ConLeu-
crate service and served in the Conled-
| crate navy. One, the younger man.
served on the Alabama as the young
est officer aboard her. he was cap
tain of one of her broadslde 90
Founders in her final fight and whel
at the very end the Alabama was
sinking and the Kearsarge passed I'M
der her stern and came up along the
side that had not been engaged hltner-
to, my uncle, Irving Builoch, shllted
his gun from one side to the other
and fired the two last shots flred from
the Alabama. James Dunwoody Bull
loch was an admiral in the Confeder-
oto ear1,ioa Of all the people whom