Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-30
TOday's Telegraphic News
The Preside Mt at Hampton.

Norfolk. Va. Nav 30 rhe yacbI
Mayaower. with the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt aboard, passed Norfolk at
a. m. today. When the Mayhowel
passed Old Point the guns from the fort
| fred salute OF 81 guns.
Portsmouth, Va, May 9O.-The Pres
ideut and Mrs. Roosevelt reached Ports
mouth on the Mayhower at S:z5 O'Clock
this morning When the President
landed from the MayhOwer a: the navy
yard at 1925, little Joe Vets, aged Z,
dressed 10 the uniform of an Army and
Navy veteran, presented huge bouquet
To Mr.. Roosevelt, which was graciousiy
received amid the plsudits of the as9em-
bled multitude. The start Tor the Naval
Cemetery was promptly made aud The
procession wss stopped by the President
in order that he might have an oppor-
tunity to shake bands with Col. w. ID.
Stewart, an officer of the Confederacy,
the last ranking officer yet numbered
among the living of the famous Malone
Brigade. The Presidents act aroused
the greatest enthusiasm, Col. Stewart
being popular figure in the State, and
the old sympathizers of the dead cause
not having all vanished.
Just before the exercises began at the
Naval Cemetery white headed Confed-
crate veteran attempted to reach the
Presidents stand Upon being stopped
by the secret service guard, the old man
asked that note which he carried be
delivered to the Chief Magistrate. The
note was as follows:
can old Confederate veteran wishes
you much Joy aud pleasure. | AN sup
porting the republican cause, every time
the resdjuster party came into power.
! wish to speak to you but will desst now
on this occasion. Hope you will be
some help to me. T. A. LACY,
S2l Washington st. Portsmouth, Va.
The writer of this note is member
of Stonewall Camp, Confederate Vet
Grams, VII ch took prominent part 10
today's welcome TO The President.
The President began his speech at the
Naval Cemetery at / q. %.
President Roosevelt 10 his address
said;
This day is hallowed aud sacred in our
history, TOR on this day throughout the
land we meet to pay homsgeto the mem
DRY of the valiant dead who fell 10 the
great civil war. No other men deserve
so well of this country as those to whom
we owe it that we now have country.
Moreover, the men to whose yalor we
owe it that the Union was preserved
have LETT US a country reunited in fact as
we'll as in name. They have left us the
memory of the great deeds aud the sell
devotion alike Of the men who wore the
blue and of the men who wore the gray
ia the contest where brother fought
brother with equal courage, with equal
sincerity Of conviction, with equal fidelity
TO high ideal, as it was given TO each
to see that ideal. We can not
too highly honor the memory OF the
leaders in the civil wsr-of Grant and
Lee, OF Sherman and Johnston, OF Stone
wall Jackson and Sheridan, of FsrrsguI
aud OF the captains who fought under
aud against him. But after all the man
upon when the chief credit must rest
was the plain man in the ranks, the man
in blue or in gray who went in to see the
war through, and who did see it through.
He had the courage TO stand without
tinching the pickering Of the skirmishes
and the hammeTing Of the great fights
he had the steadlast endurance 10 bear
with accomplishing resolution the hunger
and the heat aud the cold, the scOrchiog
days and the freezing nights, the grind
ing, heartbreakiDg fatigue of the marches
the wearisome monotOny OF the camps,
and the slow suffering of the field hos
pitfalls"
Immediately upon the conclusion OF
the Presidents speech he pulled the rope
which released the flag that draped the
monument erected there by the surviy-
ing comrades of the Army aud Navy
Union. The attendant crowd was a vast
one and the unfurIing of The flags was
received with tremendous cheers.
The President lunched with Admiral
Harrington, commandsnt Of the navy
yard. He will depart for Hampton at
2:30, where he is scheduled TO deliver
a short sDeech