Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-06-05
ROOSEVELT ORATOR
President Makes a Memorial
Day Address
TALKS OF INDIANA SOLDIERS
The Executive Pays Warm Tribute
to Oliver Morton, the War Govern
or Of Indiana.

to Oliver Morton, the war GoVern-
or Of Indiana.
Indianapolis, Ind, Special. -Presi-
dent Roosevelt delivered the principal
address here at the unveiling of a
monument to Gen. Henry W. Law
ton. BE discussed railway problems
and incidently paid a warm tribute
to Oliver Morton, the war Governor
of Indiana.
At the conclusion of the address
the President and Vice President
were driven to Grove Hill Cemetery,
wheer the President placed wreath
on the grave former President Ben
jamin Harrison.
The programme Of exercises i'll
cluded an invocation by. Rev. D. II.
Lewis an address by Gov. J. Frank
Hanly, music by the Seventh Regi-
nent Band, the reading of a poem
dedicated to General Lawtca by
James Whitcomb Riley, the introduc-
tion Of the President by Governor
Hanly and President Roosevelt's all
dress. The President said in part:
TIE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
"For more than one reason l am
pecularliarly glad that this year l
speak on Memorial Day in the State
of Indiana. There is no other class Of
our citizens to whom we owe so
much as to the veterans of the great
war. To them it was given to per-
form the one feat with which no
other feat can be compared, for 10
them it was given to preserve the
Union. Moreover, you men who wore
the blue, blessed beyond the victors
in any other war of recent times,
have left to your countrymen more
that lie material results of the
triumph, more even than the achiev-
ing the triumph itself. You have
left country So genuinely reunited
that all of us now, in whatever part
of this Union we live, have right
to feel. the keenest pride, not only i'll
the 5valor and self-devotion of you,
the gallant men who wore the blue,
but also in the valor and self-devo-
tion of your gallant opponent who
wore the gray. The hero whose mon
ument we to-day unveil, by his life
bore singular testimony to the COM
pleteness Of the reunion. General
Lawton in his youth fought gallantly
in the civil war. Thirty-three years
afterward he again marched to war,
this time. against a foreign foe, and
served with distinguished ability; and
success as general officer, both Ii,
Cuba and in the Philippines. When
he thus served it was in an army
whose generals included not only
many of his old comrades in arms,
but some Of his old opponents also,
as General Wheeler and General Fitz-
hugh Lee. Under him, both among
the commissioned officers and in the
ranks, were tnany men whose fathers
had worn the blue serving side by
side with others whose fathers had
worn the gray; but all Americans
now, and nothing but Americans, all
united in their fealty and devotion
to their common flag and their COM
mon country, and each knowing only
the generous rivalry with his fellows
as to who could best serve the cause
for which each was ready to lay down
life itself. To General Lawton it be-
fell actually to lay down his life; a
tragedy, but one of those noble trage-
dies where our pride rises above our
sorrow. For he died in the fullness
CT time, serving his country with en-
tire devotion "a death that every
man may well envy.'
At Other Points.
National Memorial day was gener-
ally observed throughout the country.
In the principal cities, both North
and South, the graves of the dead
were srown with flowers, and all the
public addresses breathed of patriot
ism and with kindly references to
the fallen heroes who fell upon both
sides of the memorable struggle.