The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-27

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 citizens of New Orleans had to meet the
 President was while the parade was pass
 ing the Iroquois club, and the President stopped there to receive an engrossed address expressing the sentiments or the
 coored people towards him. The Presi- dent made the following short speech to
 them:
 ,.I want to thank the colored citizens
 of the city of New Orleans for this ad-
 dress and to say it is peculiarly pleasant
 to have it presented by one of the school
 children, and 1 congratulate not only the
 colored people of the whole city of New
 Orleans. but the people of the state for
 what you are doing and for what the
 state is doing in the cause of education.
 Withal good will and good wishes and good luck to you, adieu.'
 Holds Series of Receptions. After short rest in his hotel the President held a series of receptions. The first was to a group of Confederate vet erans, who presented him with watch
 charm of crossed Union and Confederate flags as d souvenir of the trip. Gen. A.
 B. Booth, commander of the United Gen. federate Veterans. made the presentation. To the Confederates he said:
 "Gentlemen-if you will permit man
 who has served in a very small war tc call YOU SO-cOnlTaueS-l accept your pre- sentation with pleasure. Although some times we have difficulties in this country that we have to battle against and some times things that we are not well satis- fled with, yet we are pretty good peo- pie. I have felt this as almost never before during the past two weeks. Now think what 1t means to us as nation, for
 the President of the nation forty years after the civil war to be able to come
 nd cpaalx n S I smoke in inc mi n
 of the southern Confederacy and to feel
 that I was addressing people as loyal to the flag of our reunited country as could be found in this broad land of ours. passed under the shadow of Admiral Semmes' monument under whom one of
 my uncles fired the last gun from the Alabama. Another of my uncles built her and the sister of that admiral is the wife of our governor in the Philippines. Gen. tlemen this is an honor l appreciate. thank you not only for the gift. but for | the spirit and the words which accompany it."
 | The second of the receptions was to a group of Grand Army veterans. To them l he said
 Talks to Grand Army Veterans. "Comrades, I want to thank you from | my heart for coming here and greeting l me- I cannot say what 1t means to me tc | be greeted as I have been greeted by l the men who wore the blue as by the men l who wore the gray on this trip through l the southern land. At Little Rock my es- l cort was composed of Union and Confed ! crate soldiers riding side by side in pairs | As l said at Richmond. next only to the l men who wore the blue l hold the mer l who wore the gray. We should indeed con.
 slider ourselves fortunate as nation tha l forty years after the civil war we fine l all our people can challenge as theii | own every memory of valor left by botl sides. Now there is but one rivalry-th' | rivalry to see which can do the most fol l the flag of the reunited country. Representatives of the various 'women'i associations had five minutes with thu