The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-06-06
ROOSEVELT ORATOR
President Makes a Memcrssi
Day Actress
TAlkS or INDIANA seiDltRs


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10 Oliver Mostsn. tie waF 0usss,rr
of Indiana.
At The eoneiassan of the sadrws.
the rte~ideBt saa Nscc I't~sisIsat
were driven io Grcve Iiili Cemetery.
~heer tie Pg-s4.tcTi rlaesI = wFsaiA
9n tie grave fosGses President len.
lsmin Harrison.
The programme # eEefeises t..
cluded as Invocation bv Rev. il. Il.
Lewis an nidross Is Coy. J. Fszak
Hanly, music by ias SsVcash ReSi-
meni Band. the reading Of a poem
dedicated Ia Geueral l.Awton by
james Whitcou ki'ey. the luirodae.
ton of The pTcsideui by Governs,
Hanly aud President RoosoyelI's II.
dress. The President said in part:
THE PRESIDENT SPEECH.
For more than ,oge teason am
peeulariiagly glad that this year
speak On Memorial Day in the State
OF Indiana. There IL no other class Of
our citizens TO whom we owe %
much ~ ia the veterans Of the great
war. To them IL sas gwen To- per.
form the one fcIt with which $50
other feat can b. compared. for to
them II WAS given ta preserve tie
Union. Moreover, you men who wore
the blue, blessed beyond the Victors
IN any otLer war of recent times,
have left 10 your counirymeu more
iLaf re maie,ial Fesults of tho
triumph, more even than the aehiev.
ing the triumph itself. You have
left country 50 genuinely reunited
that all Of Us row. IL Whatever part
Of this Union we live. have q right
10 feel the keenest pride. not only in
the valor aud seig-devotion of yog,
The gallant men who wore the blue,
but also in the valor and self-deyo.
tion of your gallant opponent who
wore the gray. The hero whose mon.
ument we to-day unyeil, by his life
bore singular testimony 10 the CON-
pleteness of the reunion. General
Lawton IN his youth fought gallsnily
III the eiyi! war. Thiriy-three years
afterward be again marched TO war,
this time against q foreign foe, and
served with distinguished ability and
success as general officer, both in
Cuba and in the Philippines. When
he thus served it was in an army
whose generals included not only
many of bis old comrades in arms,
but some of bis oil opponents also.
as General Wheeler sd General Fitz-
hugh Lee. Under him. both amoug
the commissioned officers and in the
ranks, were many men whose fathers
had worn the blue serving side by
side with Others whose fathers had
worn the gray: but nll Americans
now, and nothing but Americans, all
united in their fealty and devotion
to their common lfay 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 10 lay down
life itself. To General Lawton it be-
fell actually TO lay down his life; q
tragedy, but one of those noble trage-
dies where our pride rises above our
sorrow. For be died in the fulIness
of time, serving bis country with en-
tire devotion "a death that every
man may well envy"
At Other Points.
National Memorial day was genet
ally observed throughout the country.
in the principal cities. both North
and South, the graves of the dead
were srown with flowers, and all ihs
public addresses breathed Of patriot
ism and with kindly references 10
the fallen heroes who fell upon both
sides of the memorable struggle.