The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-07

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 During his long automobile ride through the city the president was taken past the old Baptist Church where the secession assembled Through the misdrection of native, a Methodist Church was burned by the northern army as the supposed place of the inception of the secession.
 The president also saw the palatial old Preston mansion in which Sher- man established his headquarters, and made brief address to the students of the University of South Carolina on the old campus, surrounded by a hollow square of buildings which have known no outward change since the days of the Civil War
 The many reminders of the conflict of the sixties caused the president to speak at the luncheon in his honor With fervor on the subject of the pass ing of all sectioal feeling, greater than he has displayed at any other city during his southern trip.
 The president also made a speech at the state fair grounds
 Governor Ansel and Senators Till man and Smith of South Caronna were the presidents guests on board the Mayfower during the trip from | Charleston to Columbia this morning.
 Senator Tiilman, however, disap- peared as soon as the party alighted al the state capitol He had been in controversy with those in charge of ] the luncheon arrangements and had declined an invitation, which carried with it an assessment for s10 Senator Tillman said he thought | that was a poor example of South Carolina hospitality and thought the city ought to bear the expense of all | invited guests. The citizens of col. umbia, however, say they tried to make the luncheon a state affair and consequently invited all state officers, including the Lifted tSates senators, | to contribute their share. In hiss beech at the state capitol, President Taft said.
 T am greatly honored to be recefv. l ed by you in this, the house of the | representative sof South Carolina, in your magnificent capitol I am great. ly honored to be received by your rep. resentative men of the state no only by the private citizens, but by the governors, the senators, the chief jus tice and your congressman, and I ap preciate 1t to the full.
 'ilt is the first state in which have been rendered welcome withiE the capitol walls of the state and 1 take 1t as an expression on your part of a desire to show that 1t is the state and the people of the state that welcome me.
 My friends I am not inspired to say much today, because l feel so much more than can say. There is something about South Carolina 1 and her traditions as l look into the faces of her great men, and thinR what she has done and the part she |
 has played in all the great historical crises of this country, that makes me take this reception from you with a feeling that 1 am honored far eyond my deserts.
 T realize that 1t is because 1 rep resent the whole nation for the time being and that you in your loyalty to the flag and country, and with the hospitality for which your state IS noted, express to me the feeling that rises in each of your hearts as you think of your country, and as you think of the patriotism of yourselves and the state.
 T come to Columbia and look out fipm the steps of the state capitol and see a city that rises since the Civil War-not city that did not exist before the Civil War-Dut a city that lby its growth and it's energy in it's taking on life shows that while the Civil War brought to 1t an evidence Of | fra n, at, ,1f,,,e ef~orotL
 The tremendous power of self-sac- rifce of it's people, r did not destroy 1 their hope for the future, or her will lngness again to become a part of the great union and to make that union stronger and that country na- ton greater than ever before in it's history.
 And count 1t a great privilege to come here representing the nation that you love so well, and by this meeting and by your reception and by what see. to testify to the fact that while the past Is as it is and while
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