The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-24

fOiIoIS ~ HIT COpIC.
Roswell. Ga. October 20.-President
Roosevelt today carried out his long
cherished plan of visiting the home Of
his mother-RosweIl. Ga. One of his
reasons coming south was that he
might see the old homestead where
his mother spent her girlh0 ID. and
which she left a happy bride.
That the visit was fraught with
many tender recOllections was evident.
and as his carriage drove away from
the old Bulloch mansion where his
mother lived and married. the Presi-
lent to Mrs. Roosevelt IT
can hardly bear to leave here
Meets Two Old Family Servants.
The President reached Roswell at
1870 o'clock this morning. and was
Joined here by Senator and Mrs. Clay.
who were his guests at breakfast. He
then entered a carriage and was driven
to the Mansion. This fine old home
stead is now the property of j. D..
Wing. a lumber merchant Of this Sec
ton. who lives in it with his sister,
Mrs. Wood. the postmaster Of roswell.
Here the President was greeted by two
old servants who we'd on the place
during his mothers young woman
hood. One of these is Aunt grace
who acted as maid : o Miss Martha
BuIloch. who afterWard became MRS.
Theodore Roosevelt. and the other is
William Jackson. who decorated the
mansion on the occasion of the marrl-
age of it's young mistress. The Presl-
dent was deeply touched as he shook
the hands of these old IL
with Mrs. Roosevelt. he then
inspected the house. calling to the at
tention of the many incidents
connected With his mothers childhood.
Before leaving the mansion he posed
with Mrs. Roosevelt for a picture,
which included Aunt trace ana
Daddy William" .
From the homestead the President
was driven to the town park. Where
a stand had been erected from when
he delivered an'address. He was Wei
coined to Roswell by Charles M. Reed.
a student of Mercer University. who
in the course Of a we'll chosen address
said the only reason he could see Tor
the selection of himself to deliver this
welcome was the Presidents
we'll known fondness for having young
men identified with public affairs.
senator ~. -. MAY HI oouSSo -
President who was enthusiastically
greeted as he arose to speak. He said:
Short Address by the President.
.'SenatOr and you. my friends. Wnom
it is hard for me MOI to call my Helgh-
bors. for / feel as if you We're:
You can have no idea of how much
if means to me to come back to RIOS
we'll. to the home of my mother. and
my mothers people. and to see the
spot which I already know so we'll
from what my mother and my aunLs
told me. 1t has been exactly as ii L
were revisiting some old place OF my
childhood. It has meant very much
to me to be introduced by Senator
CLAY. Senator Clay has been ~altogeth-
er too kind in what he said about me
Now [ am going to SAL thl What-
ever but the bare facts about senator
Clay. and those facts amount TO thlS:
IF the average nan I had to deal
with in public life possessed Senator
Ciay's firm devotion to what he deems
right. my task would be so easy that
it would not be worth mentioning. L
have gone to Senator Clay for advice
and counsel and help ever since L nave
been in Washington. Just as L went 10
Senator Cockrell. of Missouri. Wnlie
he was in the Senate. with the certain
ty that all I had to do was to convince
him that what I wanted done was
right could not always convince
him-but if I did convince him. that
was the end of 1.-THE went that way.
"Oh my friends. I hardly ike TO
say how deeply my heart is moved by
coming back here among you. Among
the earliest recollections 1 have as a
child is hearing from my mother and
my aunt, Miss Annie Bulloch. as she
was then. about Roswell; of how the
Pratts and Kings and Dunwoodys
Bullochs came here first to settle:
about the dc homestead. the house on
the hill: about the Chattahoocnee:
about all kinds and sorts of
that would not interest you. blu inter-
ested me a great deal when L was a
child. I wish I could spend hours here
to look all through and see the differ
ent places about which I have heard
all kinds of incidents. All those eneC-
doteS. looking back now. [ can see
taught me an enormous amount per-
haDS all the more because they were
not intended to teach anything. l
think perhaps we are very apt to learn
most when neither we nor the people
talking to us intend to teach us n.y.
thing. If anybody starts into teach us
something. we are a little apt to resent
it. and assume a rather repellent at
titude. All those stories of the life Of
those days taught me what a real
home life. a real neighbor life a and
should be. Looking back now at what
I learned through the stories of the
childhood of my mother. my auntS. my
uncIes. / can understand why the boys
and girls of Roswell of that time grew
up to be men and women who were
good servants of the community. =