Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-27
TEDDY MAKES TIE oGPPfNINGSPEECH
 iT JAMESTOWN
Gives Word of Greeting t0 the Representatives of Foreign Governments and Accounts Early History of Virginia,
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place. represented new ana dlSnnct eth- nic type. This type has never been fix ed in blood All through the colonial days new waves of immigration from time to time swept hither across the ocean. now from one country, now from another The same thing has gone on ever since our birth as a nation: and for the last sixty years the tide of iTnmigra- ton has been at the full The newcom- CTS are soon absorbed in our eager na- tiOnal life. and are radically and pro foundly changed thereby. the rapidity of their assimilation being marvellous But each group of newcomers. as it adds it's blood to the life. also changes it some what and this change and growth and development have gone on steadily, gen. eration, by generation throughout three centuries.
 .The pioneers of oar people who first landed on these shores on that eventful day three centuries ago. had before them task which during the early years was of heartbre2king danger and difficulty The conquest of a new continent is iron work. People who dwell in old ciYiiiza- tons and find that therein so much of plain against the conditions as being solely due to man and to speak as if life could be made easy and simple if there were but virgin continent in which to work It is true that the pio- neer life was simpler, but it was certain ly not easier. AS a matter of fact. the session of a lonely wilderness is so rough. so hard. so dangerous that all but the strongest spirits fail. The early iron days of such a conquest search out soul. In the warfare against the rugged sternness of primeval Nature, only those can conquer who are themselves uucon- dueEabie % It is not until the first bitter years have passed that the life becomes easy enough to invite mass of newcom- CTS. and so great are the risk. hardship. and toiI Of the early years that there al- ways exists threat of lapsing back from civilization.
 The history of the pioneers of James town. of the founders of Virgidla- illus trntes the truth of ali this. Famine and pestilcnce and war menaced the little band of daring men who had planted themselves alone on the edge of a frown- ing continent. Moreover, as men ever find. whether in the tiniest frontier com munity or in the vastest and most high ly organized and complex civilized soci- etN, their worst foes were in their own bosoms. Dissension. distrust, the ina biIity of some to work and the unwilling ness of others. jealousy, arrogance and envy, folly and laZiHess-in short all the 2rapple now. were faced by those pio- neers. and at moments threatened their whole enterprise. with absolute ruin. It was some time before the ground on which they had landed supported them, in spite of its potential fertility, anl they looked across the sea for supplies. At one moment so hopeless did they be- come that the whole colony embarked, and was only saved from abandoning the country by the opportune arrival of help from abroad.
 At last they took root in the land. and were already prOspering when the Pil- grins landed at Plymouth In a few years 2 great inflow of settlers began. Four of the present states of New Eng land were founded. Virginia waX"d apace. The CarOlinas grew up to the south of it, and Maryland to the north which had already absorbed the swed- ish, were in their turn absorbed by the English. Pennsylvania was founded ard, later still, Georgia. There were many wars with the Indians and with the dauntless captains whose banners Lore the lilies Of France. At last the British flag flew without q rival in all eastern North America. Then came the success full struggle for national independence
 For haIf a century after We became a spearate nation there was coInDara- lively little immigration 10 tniS country. Then the tide once again set hithcr. and has flowed in eVer-iTcreaSing size until in each of the last three years greater number or people came to these shores than had landed on them during the en- tire colonial period. Generation by gen erat tion these people have been absorbed into the national life. Generally their sons. almost always their grandsOus. are from their fellow Americans descended from the colonial stock. Tor all alIke the problems of our existence are funda- mentally the same. and for all alike these
 
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 Tn the colonial period. and for at least 2 century after it's close. the conquest of the continent, the expansion Of our pcO- pie westward. 70 the Aileghenies. then to the Mississippi, then to the Pacific was always one of the most important tasks. and sometimes the most import ant, in our national life Behind the first settlers the conditions grew easier and in the older settled regions Of all the colonies life speedily assumed much of
 sE4SV g.F nd though generally it was on a much more democratic basis than life in the Old World, it was by no means democratic when judged by our modern standards; and here and there, as in the tide-water regions of Virginia. a genuine aristocracy grew and flouTished. But the men who first broke ground in the virgin wilder ness. whether on the Atlantic coast. or in the interior. fought hard for mere life. In the early stages the frontiers man had to do battle with the savage, and when the savage was vanquished there remained the harder strain of war with the hostile forces Of soil and ciiu- ate. with flood. fever, and famine. There was sickness, an6 bitter weather; there were no roads: there was a complete lack of all but the very toughest and most absolute necessaries. Under such the men and women who made ready the continent for civilization were able themselves to spend but little time in doing aught but the rough work which was to make smooth the ways or
 
 servers whose insight was spoiled by lack of sympathy always found both the settlers and their lives unattractiVe and repeLlant In Martin Chuzzewit the de- scriDtion of America, eliminating in the description of the frontier town of Eden, was true and lifeiike from the stand point of one content to look merely at the outer shell; and yet it was community like Eden that gave birth to Abraham Lincoln: it was men as were therein de scribed from whose ioins Andrew Jack son spran6-
 Hitherto each generation among us has had it's allotted task, now heavier, now lighter. In the Revolutionary War the business was to achieve independence. Immediately afterwards there was an even more momentous task; that to achieve the national unity and the capac- which our liberty, our independence, would have been curse and not bless ing. In each of these two contests. while there were many great leaders from many different States, it Is but fair to say that the foremost place was of Virginia. and to Virginia was reserv- cd the honor of producing the hero of both movements, the hero of the war. and Of the peace that made good the re suits of the war-George Washington: while the two great political tendencies of the time can be symboiized by the names of two other great Nirgtnians- Jefferson and Marshali-from one of whom we inherit the abiding trust in the people which is the foundation stone of to develop on behalf of the people a CO., herent and powerful government. gen. uine and representatives nationality.
 Two generations passed before the sec ond great crisis Of our history had to be faced. Then came the Civil War. terri blc and hitter in Itself and in It's after