Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-11

M PRESIDENT looSeyeltS Georgia Dny
speech. delivered at the reviewing
stand on Lee Parade before q tire.
mendous crowd. yesterday morning
shortly after IL O'clock, Is given IN
full below;
III i cannot express low deeply touch
ed am Mt the action OF tile state
of Georgia. my mothers State, the
State from which draw half the
blood In my veins, In erecting us the
Georgia State House at the James
town Exposition Il replica OF my granu.
fathers house ut Roswell. Ga; the
mouse In which my mother pnssy,.
\ her youth and where she was married
to my father. 1t is an act of gracious
courtesy aud considerations, which
very deeply appraciatc; and through
the Governor and other representa-.
3tives OF Georgia | desire from my
heart to thank nll her citizens. Goor-
gfa's history Is unique. for she alone
among the original thirteen colonies
aud the subsequent new States added
thereto. was founded with II con
sciously benevolent purpose, with the
s,leliberate Intent to paneflt mankind
by upbuilding commonwealth along
carefully planned lines of social, po-
Slitical. and religious liberty and JUS
tice. Oglethorpe, the founder of Geor.
gia. was true apostle of philanthropy
( and of equality OF opportunity for I'LL
HIS set purpose was to found Il
s,ate the gutes Of which should be
open to tho oppressed of every lan,,
and creed, and closed To every form
of political, religious, or Industrial
bondage or persecution. His colony
welcomed alike those who fled from
political or social tyranny. nnd those,
whether Christian or jew. who sought
liberty for consciencc's sake. 1t was
n high and honorable beginning. ana
am proud, indeed, of my Georgian
ancestry, and of the fact tnnt my
grandfather's gran1.ather, Archibald
Bulloch, was the first Governor. or MS
the title then went, President, OF the
new State. when the Continental
Congress, of which he was also n
member declared that the Thirteen
States had become new and indc-
pendent nation. Since then Georgia
has grown ut ratio even more
astounding than the rate Of growth
of the nation ns whole; her sons
have stood high In every field of nc
tivity, intellectual or physical, and
rapid though her progress has been
i III tl1 puSi, Nv DiuS lutI W l'S OVEN
greater In tho wonderful now CEN
tury which hns now fairly opened.
Half Soutnern; Half Northern.
Perhaps the very fact thnty nm hall
Southern and hall Northern in blood
and that for many years I was brought
into peculiarly close association Win
the life of the great West, makes II
natural for mo to feel with Intensity
tho asrong ,Renso OF 'lalnship with
every portion OF our great common
country. which should hc the birth
right Of every true American. Since
& | have been President | nave visited
every State ana Territory within the
borders of the Union, save such as
can only be reached by sea-. | have
travelled from tho Atlanlc to the
s Pacific, from the Great Lakes TO the
aGulf. have spoken at county fairs,
to colleges, to commercial and bust
neas organizations, ~ associations
OF professional men. to labor organi
sationc. to men Of every creed ana
parentage Tie thing that has struck
me most has been the essential one.
ness. tile essential unity of our PEG
pie.
In tho fundamentals have rounu
American citizens TO he Just about the
same everywhere. In whatever local
ity OF the country we live. whatever
4our fortune or occupation In life,
there exist just arout the same es-
sential good qualities and much the
same shortcomings in any gathering
of our citizens. or course, each com
munity has It's especial temptations.
its especial shortcomings: and if IL
Z is wise each community win try to
cure itself ra,ncr than to cause
Ehearthurnings by railing at the short.
comings of sister community.