The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-03
ROOSEVELT
 AT UNWILLING Equestrian Statue of Mo- C1ellan Uncovered. THE IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES President Pays Equal Tribute to
 Blue and Gray. Nation,s Executive Exhorts People To strive For Peace and To Rise
 To the Ideals of
THE IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES

Washington, May With appro- priate civic and military ceremonies, and in the presence of a distinguished audience, the heroic equestrian statue of bronze of Major General George B. Mc- Ciellan. erected under the auspices of the Army of the Potomac, was unveiled here today. President Roosevelt made the principal speech, and, with General Frederick D. Grant on his right and Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, on his left, witnessed an imposing military parade of regulars and militia.
 Mrs. Mcclellan. the generals widow. Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New York. son of the general. and Dr. George Mcclellan of New Jersey. a nephew, who pulled the string releasing the flags in which the statue was en- veloped, occupied seats on the speak, ers stand. The diplomatic corps and the army and navy and civic and mill- tary. were largely represented at the gathering. Secretaries Taft and Gar field, and Senator wetmore. occupied seats on the Presidents stand. Briga- dier Generad Henry c. Dwight. United States Volunteers, the president of the Society Of the Army of the Potomac. presided.
 Major General J. Franklin Bell, chief of stan of the army. was in command of the military parade. which consisted of three divisions, made up of artillery and cavalry of the regular army. the National Guard Of the District of Col umbia and the 3rd regiment of infantry of the New Jersey National Guard; Bat tery A of the field artillery and two troops of cavalry from that State.
 Roosevelt Speaks
 The President delivered a typical speech in which he touched upon a va~ riety of subjects including war. peace national pride, the family, and the quail ities that make for brotherhood and fraternity.
 After extending a greeting In behalf of the nation to Mrs. Mcclellan and her son, the President said:
 General Mcclellan vas given the comand in some of the hardest fought battles and most important campaigns in the great war of this hemisphere. go that his name will be forever linked with the bright memories that arise when we speak ok Antietam and South Mountain, Fair Oaks and Malvern. so that we never can speak of the great army of the Potomac without having rise up before us the figure of General Mcclellan, the man who organized and first led it. There was also given to him the peculiarity that is possessed by very few men, to combine the qual- tiles that won him the enthusiastic love and admiration of the soldiers who fought with and under him; the dual- ities that, in civil life. endeared him peculiarly to all who came in contact with him.
 We have become accustomed to &C., cept as a matter of course, certain things which would be well night i'm possible fin any country save ours; so that it seems most natural that the president of the United States. when he drives to take part in celebration like this. should have as his personal aides both the sons of men who wore the blue and the sons of the men who wore the gray. AS Americans, when we glory in what was done, under Grant, Sherman. Thomas. Sheridan, Me- Clellan, and Farragut, we can no less glory in the valor and the devotion to duty, as it was given to them to see their duty. men who fought under Lee and sStonewall Jackson, Johnston, Stuart and Morgan.
 Should strive for Peace.
 We have listened recently to great deal of talk about peace. It is the duty of all of us to strive for peace, provided that it comes on the right terms. I believe that man, who really does the best work for the state in peace. is the very man who, in need, will do well in war, If peace is merely another name for self indulgence, for sloth. for timidity. for the avoidance of duty. have none of 1t. Seek the peace that comes to the just man, armed, who will dare to defend his rights, if the need should rise. Seek the peace granted to him, who will wrong no man and will not submit to wrong in return. Seek the peace that comes to us as the peace of righteousness. the peace of justice. Ask peace because your deeds and your powers warrant you in asking it and do not put yourself in the position to crave 1t as something to be granted or withheld at the whim of another"
 The president concluded as follows:
 Must Rise to Ideals.
 "America must rise level to the ideals of the founders of the nation when they staarted this mighty repub- lie. These ideals. in their sum. were to foud here a government of the peo- ple, by the people. where no one man should wrong his brother, where the nation should wrong no outsider and should be able to resist aggression from without. l hope to see this nation play an ever growing part in the af- fairs of the world. It cannot play that part unless it Is willing to ac- cept the responsibilities that go with it. You cannot do your first and pri- mary duty at home unless We strive measureably to realize certain ideals By this I ,do not mean merely 10 talk about them at fourth of July celebra- tions; to speak of them and applaud the speech and go home and have neither speaker no nearer practice what has thus virtously been preached. We should say and applaud only what We believe In. And having said 1t and having applauded only what we believe in. And having said il and having ap- paluded 1t when said, we should try to put it into practice.
 "When We speak of liberty: when we praise it, let us try to see that in actual practice we achieve. When we speak of fraternity, of brotherhood, let us exercise, each for himself the qual- ities that make for brotherhood, for fraternity. When We speak of equah- ty, let us try to realize in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. who pointed out that there was. of course. a certain sense in which men are not and can not be equal. but who realized by his life and his deeds the profound truth that in the larger sense. in the real. the all important sense, this can ana