Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-30
PRESIDENT AT JAMESTOWN.
All Nations Welcomed to American
Birthday Celebration.

Ian Nations Welcomed to American
Birthday Celebration.
The feature of the opening Of the
jamestown exposition last Friday, wa!
the address Of President Roosevelt
His theme was international peace
progress of the American nation and
a better understanding Of all interests
President Roosevelt began his ad'
dress by welcoming the different ma.
tions of the world who sent their rep
resentatives to assist In celebrating
the birthday Of the American nation
He paid a tribute to England and Ire
land, as it was of this stock the coun-
try was first settled, and who did
lmost in casting the mold into which
the national character was run.
He also paid special tribute to the
Asiatic nations Of the Newest East,
and hearty welcome was extended to
Japan, which in learning from the
west, has so very much to teach the
west in return.
"The world has moved so far" said
President Roosevelt, that 1t is no
longer necessary to believe that one
nation can rise only by thrusting an
other down. All far-sighted states
men, all true PATRIOTS. now earnestly
wish that the leading nations Of man
kind, as in their several ways they
struggle constantly toward a higher
civilization, a higher humanity, may
advance hand in hand, united only In
generous rivalry to see which can
best do its allotted work in the world.
international Peace.
| II believe that there Is a rising tide
in human thought which tends for
righteous International peace; tide
which 1t behooves us to guide through
rational channels to sane conclusions;
and all OF us here present can well
afford to take to heart st. Paul's coun-
sci; If 1t be possible, as much as
lieth in you, live peaceably with all
men,
Three hundred years ago a handful
| of English adventures, who had crossed
the ocean In what we should now call
cookie boats, as clumsy as they were
frail, landed in the great wooded will
derness, the haunted waste,
which then stretched down to the wa
ters edge along the entire Atlantic
coast. This landing at jamestown
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an altogether peculiar significance. and
this without regard to our several orr
gins. The men who landed at James
town and those who, thirteen years
later, landed at Plymouth, all Of Eng
lish stock, and their fellow settlers
who during the next few decades
streamed in after them, were those
who took the lead in shaping the life
and revolutionary days. 1t was they
who bent into definite shape our ma
ton while it was still young enough
most easily, most readily, to take on
the characteristics which were to be-
come part Of its permanent life habit.
1.-The pioneers of our people who first
landed on these shores on that event.
fpl day three centuries ago, had before
them a task which during the early
years was of heartbreaking danger and
diff. llty. The conquest Of new con-
tine It is iron work.
AT last they took root in the land,
and were already prospering when the
pilgrims landed at Plymouth. In a
few years a great inflow Of settlers
began. Four Of the present states Of
New England were founded. Virginia
waxed apace. The Carolinas grew up
to the south of 1t and Maryland to the
north Of 1t. The Dutch colonies be-
tween, which had already absorbed the
Swedish, were ir their turn absorbed
by the English. Pennsylvania was
founded and. later still, Georgia. Then
came the successful struggle for ma
tional independence"
The president then recalled its colo
NAL period, the expansion Of the ma
ton across the Alleghenies, the Mis-
sissippi river and to the Pacific. The
days Of the pioneers fighting fever,
pestilence and famine, making smooth
the ways for their successors.
In the Revolutionary war;" he con-
tinued, 1T Is but fair to say that the
foremost place was taken by the SOL
diers and the statesmen Of Virginia;
and to Virginia was reserved the hon
or of producing the hero Of both move
ments, the hero of the war, and Of the
peace that made good the results OF
the war-George Washington; while
the two great political tendencies OF
the time can be symbolized by the
names Of two other great Virginians-
Jefferson and Marshall-from one OF
whom we inherit the abiding trust ir
the people which is the foundation
stone of democracy and from the 9TH
er the power to develop on behalf OF
the people a coherent and powerful
government, a genuine and represen-
tative nationality.
The Civil War.
"Then came the civil war, terrible
and bitter in itself and in its after
math, but struggle from which th'
nation finally emerged united in fac
as we'll as in name, united forever
Oh, my hearers, my fellow country
men, great indeed has been our goot
fortune: for as time clears away TIT
mists that once shrouded brother from
brother and made each look a!
through a giass darkly' at the other
we can all feel the same pride In th
valor, the devotion and the fealty to
ward the right as 1t was given to eacl
to. see the right, shown alike by tn
men who wore the blue and by tn
men who wore the gray. Rich ant
prosperous though we are as a people
the proud heritage that each Of us has
no matter where he may dwell, mort
or south, east or west. Is the imma
terial heritage Of feeling, the right t
, claim as his own all the valor and al
the steadfast devotion to duty showl
by the men of both the great armies
of the soldiers whose leader was Gran