The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-11

representatives and a number of promi- nent members of the National Editorial association.
 Following a patriotic selection by the exposition band, the programme incident to the Georgia day celebration was .open- ed by Governor Terrell, who introduced President Mitchell of the Georgia com mission the master of ceremonies. MT. Mitchell presented Cardinal Gibbons, who offered the invocation. The band played Star Spangled Banner after which MT. Mitchell in an address, introduced Pres- ident Roosevelt who delivered ms hrst address. The President was cheered throughout his entire speech
 He said in part:
 1 can not express how deeply touched I am at the action of the state of Geor- gia, my mothers state, the state from waich I draw half the blood in my veins, in erecting as the Georgia state house at the Jamestown exposition replica Of my grandfather's house at Roswell, Ga., the house in which my mother passed her youth and where she was married to my father. It is an act of gracious courtesy and consideration which I very deeply appreciates; and through the governor and other representatives of Georgia l de- sire from my heart to thank all her citizens. Georgia's history is unique, for she alone among the original thirteen 
 added thereto. was founded with con sciously tMnevolent purpose, with the de- liberate intent to benefit mankind by up- building a commonwealth along care fully planned lines of social, political, and religious liberty and justice.
 oelethorpe the Founder.
 Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, was a true apostle of philanthropy and of equality of opportunity for all. His set purpose was to found state the gates of which should be open to the oppressed of every land and creed, and closed to every bondage of persecution. His colonly welcomed alike those who fled from political or social tyranny, and those, whether Christian or Jew. who sought liberty for consciences sake. II was a high and honorable beginning, and I am proud, indeed, of my Georgian an- cestry, and of the fact that my grand fathers grandfather, Archibald Bulloch, was the first governor, or as the title then went president of the new state, when the continental congress, Of which he was also member, declared that the thirteen states had become a new and independent nation. Since then Georgia has grown at rate even more astound- ing than the rate of growth of the na- tion as a whole; her sons have stood high in every field of activity, intel lectual or physical; and rapid though her progress has been in the past it bids fsir to be even greater in the wonder ful new century which has now fairly opened.
 Southern Blood.
 Perhaps the very fact that I am half southern and half northern in blood, and that for many years I was brought into peculiarly close association with the life oI the great west makes 1t natural for me to feel with intensity the strong sense of kinship with every portion of our great common country, which should be the birthright Of every true American. Since I have been President I have visited every state and territory within the borders of the union save such as can only be reached by sea. l have tray eled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the great lakes to the gulf. have spoken at county fairs, to colleges, to commer- cial and business organizations, to asso- citations of professionals men, to labor organizations, to men of every creed and narentage. The thing that has struck me