The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-10-25
MOP
QUITS CANEBRAKES.
President Roosevelt's Flying
Visit to Vicksburg.
PRAISE FRON JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS
Town OF stambouI, La, In Honor
of Visit Has Been Henamed Roose-
veItn-Drings Home Many
Fine Bear Pcits.

VICKSBURG, Miss, oct 22.-After
a fortnight spent in the canebrakes
President Roosevelt, bronzed and Wig
orous, paid q flying visit to Vicksburg
and made a speech at the courthouse
square 10 a large assembly.
The president was received with en-
thuslastic acclaim. The streets were
packed with people, who cheered the
visitor nj every opportunity.
Arriving at the national cemetery
the party drove slowly through the
grounds, the president eylncing a live
" interest in the historic place. From
the cemetery the party drove 70 the
courthouse square, where an immense
crowd had gathered 10 hear the speech
making. President Roosevelt was In
troduced by Congressman John Sharp
Williams. who elected tremendous ap-
pause when he said:
1T IS an honor for You and me, fel-
low Mlssisslppians, TO meet and enter
tain with an old time, full hearted
southern hospitality the Hon. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, an honor flowing at
once from his official dignity and from
his many excellent traits Of private
character.
"He IS our chief magistrate, Ameri-
cas- chief magistrate of the reunited
Dixleland and Yankeeland. never so
firmly cemented in blood, opinion and
sentiment as they are today"
The president said;
1T Is indeed an honor for me TO be
today the guest Of Yicksburg and OF
Mississippi, and I was inexpressibly
touched by the greeting over the great
arch Of cotton bales which said. Mis-
slssippi Greets the President /
should not be NJ TO bo president at all
II | did not with all my might and
main, with all my heart and brain,
seek TO be IN the full sense the
president Of Mississippi, the president
OF every state in this Union. am
glad 10 be here IN this historic city.
this city forever memorable OF the con
flcts in which victor and vanquished
alike showed such splendid courage.
such splendid fcalty TO the light as Il
was given TO each. Even before the
civil war Mlssissippis sons had shown
that they knew how TO fight.
1T was from Vicksburg that a COM
pany Of that famous Mississippi regi-
ment which won undylng renown I'm
the Mexican war under the gallant
leadership Of its colonel who afterward
became the fayorite son not only OF
Mississippi. but Of all the south, JEFF
fersOn Davis. came. Think how fortu-
nate we are as n nation that II IS pos
sble for the president Of the nation TO
come here today 10 be conducted
through your national park by the sur
viving lieutenant general Of the Con-
federate army and TO feel that every
instance Of herolsm recorded by the
monuments. alike 10 the Union and 10
the Confederate dead on that battle
field is a subject for Just pride 70 ev-
cry citizen Of this nation. no matter
where he lives"
At Rooseyelta. La, formerly Stam-
boul, renamed I'm honor OF the presl-
dents visit. Mr.. Roosevelt boarded the
special which bore him to Delta and
babe adieu TO the canebrakes.
The same train that carried the pres
ident away also conveyed the skin OF
the big bear slain by him last Thurs
day and the skins Of the two smaller
animals killed by other members OF
the party as well as the skin presented
by the Osborne brothers.
I'VE got three bears, six deer, one
Wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one
duck, one possum and one wildcat. We
ate them all except the wildcat and
tkere were times when we almost felt
ms II we could eat IT," This was Mr..
Roosevelts summary OF the results Of
his hunt on Bayou Tensas and Bear
lake.