Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-22

night spent in the canebrakes and
looking bronzed and vigorous, Pres
ident Roosevelt paid a flying visit to
| Vicksburg this afternoon.
The president arrived at Delta,
| just across the river, at 1 o'clock.
He was met by the steamboat Belle
of the Bends with a reception COM
mittee of 100 representative citizens
on board. The president Immediate
ly embarked and, followed by doz,
en- boats, yachts and other river
craft. made his entry into the city
The bluffs overlooking the river were
lined with people who gave the chief
executive a hearty and noisy well
4 come. # so
President Roosevelt entered the
forward carriage and with Mayor B.
NJ. Griffith and General Stephen D.
Lee. headed the parade that passed
through the principal streets to the
National cemetery. .s
| Arriving at the cemetery the par
ty drove slowly through the National
burying grounds, the president evil
dencing a lively interest in the his
toric place. From the cemetery the
party drove to the court house square
| where an immense crowd had gath
cred to hear the speechmaking. Pres
ident Roosevelt was introduced by
Senator John Sharp Williams.
In his. speech here the president
said in part: 4 saizss
tMr. Mayor, Mr. Williams and you
my host of fellow Americans, it is
indeed an honor for me to be today
the guest of yicksburg and of Mis-
sissippi and was inexpressibly
touched by the greeting over that
great arch of cotton bales as ] came
up from the boat, which said tMissis-
sippi Greets the President
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= 81 should not be fit to be !:
: president at all If / did not, with Z.
| : all my might and main, with all !:
: my heart and brain, seek to be =
: in full sense president of Mis- =
!: sissippi, president of every state :.
:. in this union. III I.
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/ 81 am glad to be here in this his
toric city, this city forever memora-
Bile of the conflicts in which the victor
land vanquished alike showed such
splendid courage, such splendid fea1.
Ity to the light as 1t was given to
each. Even before the civil war Mis-
sissippi's sons had shown that they
knew. how to fight. til was from
IVieksburg that company of that fam
Eous Mississippi regiment went which
/ won undying renown in the Mexican
war under the gallant leadership of
4 its colonel, who afterward became
4 fayorite son, not only of Mississip-
4 pi, but of all the south, Jefferson
Davis ESft
"Oh, my fellow citizens, think how
Il III INNATE; we +diS,;= iullh WudI SOpu
4 fortune is ours as nation, sthatsit
/ is possible for president of the ma
+ ton to come here today to be con-
Quoted through your National park
by a surviving lieutenant general of
| the confederate army, and to feel
that every instance of heroisn rec
| orded by the monuments alike I'M
/ ion and confederate dead on that
4 battlefield is subject for just pride
i to every citizen of this nation, no
matter where he lives. #
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4 :: I shall go back to Washing !:
4 = ton with set purpose to do ey- /:
/ = erything that in me lies to see !:
4 = that the United States does its I:
i : full share in making the Mis- !
:: scissippi river practically part !:
/ & of the sea cost. III making TT a !:
!: deep channel to the great lakes !:
i = from the gulf. 4: