The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-10-26
STIRRED HIS HEARERS.


Address at a Luncheon Given Him
Ia Richmond.
An informal luncheon was given
President Roosevelt in Richmond last
week after his reception and address
in Capitol Square, at which he spoke
as follows, as copied from the Times
Dispatch:
The address of the President at the
luncheon given in a beautifully deco
rated hall in the Masonic Temple yes
terday afternoon deeply stirred the
hearts of all who heard it. Mr..
Roosevelt said:
Mr.. Mayor, Governor and You, My
Hosts:
One among the very many great
Virginians at the time when this
nation was born, said: land I quote,
gentlemen, Patrick Henry, Patrick
Henry said: eve are no longer New
Workers or New Englanders, Penn
sylvanians or Virginians, We are
Americans" And surely, Mr.. Mayor,
the man would be but poor Ameri-
can who was not touched and stirred
to the depths by the reception that l
have met with today in this great
historic city of America. Coming to-
day by the statue Of Stonewall Jack
son, in the city of Lee, l felt what a
privilege it is that l, as an American,
have in claiming that you yourselves
have no more right of kinship in Lee
and Jackson than l have. l can
claim to be middling good Ameri-
can because my ancestry was half
Southern and half Northern; | was
born in the East and lived q good
while in the West; so long in fact that
| do not admit that any man can be
a better Westerner than l am. There
was an uncle OF mine, now dead, my
mothers brother, who has always
been among all the men l have ever
met the man who it seemed to me
came nearest to typifying in the flesh
that most beautiful of all characters
in fiction, Thackery's Colonel New
comb, my uncle James Dunwoody
Bulloch, an admiral in the Confeder-
ate navy. In short, gentlemen. l
claim to be neither Northerner nor
Southerner, neither Fastener nor
Westerner, nothing but a good
American, pure and simple.
Next only to a mans having worn
the blue comes the fact of the mans
having worn the gray, as emitting
him to honorin my sight. Last year
l told General Fitzhugh Lee that |
wanted to add to my collection of
autograph letters OF great Americans
Lincoln, Grant, Clay, Jefferson,
turning to the Governor, your
namesake, Andrew Jackson) that of
General Lee. with his photograph. |
got from General Fitzhugh Lee a let
ter OF General Lee's and a photograph
of him, handed to me after General
Fitzhugh Lees death. | was not
able to thank my old and valued
friend, the father, but l put the son
on my staff; and now 1 have the
grandson of General Grant and the
granddaughter OF General Lee and the
son of Phil Sheridan on my staff. l
think it is a middling good staff,
too.
In my regiment, organized at the
beginning of the Spanish-American
war, | think that there were more
men whose fathers wore the gray
than there were whose fathers wore
the blue. The only rivalry that ever
entered their heads was the rivalry as
to which man could show himself best
entitled to the praise of having done
all that in him lay for our country
and our flag.
noticed that the statue of Stone
wall Jackson was raised as gift by
certain Englishmen. The best BIZ
ography of General Jackson was by
an Englishman, Colonel Henderson.
1t is curious and rather lamentable
fact that he died just as he was about
to undertake another biography
which l had earnestly asked him to
undertake. l had written him urg-
ing that he should finish his very re-
markable military study of Stone
wall jackson, by writing q military
biography of General Lee, and he
had written me back that he in
tended to do so. Shortly afterwards
learned of his death.
Gentlemen, | cannot sufficiently ex-
press to you my deep appreciation of
the way in which you have greeted
me here today. You cannot be
nearly as glad to see me as l am to
see you. Let me say once more what
l said in my formal address. Think
| of the good fortune that is ours,
think of the good fortune that is
ours as people in having, each o:
us, whether we in our own persons or
through our ancestors, wore the blue
or the gray, the proud right to chal-
lenge as our own all of the valor, all
OF the self-devotion, all OF the stead
fast adherence to right as God gave
to each man to see the right, shown
alike by the men who wore the blue
and by the men who wore the gray in
the great contest that was waged
from 81 to '65.
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