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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN CHARLESTON. Groat Crowds Greet the Chief Magistrate. Tribute To The South In War And Peace. Presentation of Sword to Micah Jenkins. The v? elcomo to the President of the United Stntes in the (Juocu City of tho South was not only notablo for the royal ontcrtaiumenl hy a most gener ous host, but for the gracious and bo coming utterances of tho distinguished guest. The Presidential purty was met at Summervillu by the special commit tee, headed by Mayor Smyth, who wore invited aboard the special train, which in a short time reached a station live miles north of Charleston, whore trolley cars were in waiting to speed tho guests to Chicora Park, near the sito of the naval station soon to be built, where tho revenue cutter Algonquin was lying at tho wharf. The President, tho com mittee and their other guests went through tho park while salutes wore being iired in honor of their arrival, and then boarded the revenuo cutler for a sail down the river and around the harbor. Tho day was spent ou tho water and the President made a visit to Fort Surater, when there was a run up the Ashley, and iu returning as the Algonquin passed tho cruiser Cincin nati and tho training ships, ? salutt was iired in honor of the- I'nsidout. Boyco'8 wharf was reached u -1 .*{<) o'clock, where carnages were in w ait ing to take I he party to the St. John's Hotel. The banquet tendered to President Roosevelt at the Charleston hotel was a Utting close to n day full of incidents, and served to gather together men prominent in tho affairs of the State, having solely in mind a gn cling to tho President which would prove tho (sin cerity aud the warmth of feeling ex isting for him a? the chief executive of the nation. The banquet hall was a bower of roses, pinks and smilax, ar tistically arranged, while loosely strewn over tho tables were thousands of violets, whose fragrance could only but suggest that springtime had arrived. Over three huudrcd specially invited guests were present and tho President was at his bebt. In a few well chosen remarks Mayor S n\ th welcomed Presi dent Roosevelt u> t. lilt lesion, whose response was listened to wuh ihu closest attention and which were in terrupted by loud and continuous ap plause. The President's remarks were as follows : 41 Mr. Mayor, aud you, ray hosts and ray fellow American citizens : (Great applause.) 1 should indeed be but a poor American myself if I were not deeply touched and gratified by the way you have greeted mo today, m this your beautiful city ; and of courso I feel at home here. (Applause.) I think that an American who is worth his salt has the right to feel at homo in every part of the United States (Applause) " Around this table I seo many men who took part in the great war. The war in which ihc younger among us here took part was a very little one . because it didn't havo to be any big ger. (Applause) Rut it had one thor oughly good effect ; it put the cap on the structure that had been building while wo were almost unconscious of it, and it taught us how thoroughly at one we were. When we got through that war it did not raako a bit of dif erence to us whether it was an admiral who came from Vermont or r> lieuten ant who came from Alab iraa (ap plauso,) if the man had done his duty in such shape as to rnako us each feel an even more generous thrill of pride in our common nationality. The debt that we owed him had little to do with the section from which ho came. (Applause) 44 Aud now, a special word to you of Charleston ami of South Carolina. Just 12 years ago when 1 first wont to Washington to take part in govern, mental work I was immediately thrown into siugularly cle^o contact and in timacy with a South Carolinian, It was my good, fortune to work with him for three years and for tho nine years sinco and for as long as 1 shall con tinue to be in public life, it will be to me ever a spur to try to do decent duty for the republic, because I have been thrown intimately iu contact with as fearless and as higbminded a public servant as this country has ever had, my old friend, your former Governor, Hugh Thompson. (Groat applause.) 44 And from what 1 have known of you and of your representatives it was in no sense a surprise, but it was a keen pleasure to be greeted with tho hearty and generous hospitality, the more than hearty and generous hospi tality which you have shown mo today. (Applause) ??Tbc wolfaro of any part of this country is in a certain sense an index of the wolfaro of nil, and I think, gen tlemen, tbnt on the average as we all tend to go up, it seems to be a liltlo belter to go uniformly rather than at a sharper gait, for the time being, and then down and then up agaiu and then down. South Cnrolina seems duiing the last two decades to have definitely entered upon the path of steady pro gress in things material as well as in other things. I was much struck in looking over some of tho flguros of the census quile recently published, to see the astonishing progress that has been made hero in your Stale. I was pre pared to aeo that tho valuea of your farm products had risen as Ihey have, a htlle ovor 25 per cent. I was pre pared to see that your farms themselves had increased in a still larger propor tion ; that the value of your lands and buddings had grown up, but 1 did not realize the way in which your manufac turing enterprises had increased, both as shown in the fact that your manfac t urine products had gone up over 130 per cent.; that for instance the number of spindles had about quadrupled, from less than half a million to more than two million in the State. I did not realize that the wages paid out had in creased 75 per cent. Gentlemen, you talk of progress in the far West, but I think South Carolina can give points to some of the States. (Applause.) I think that with such a record for the previous decade you were well war ranted upon insistim; on holdiug your Exposition horo. (Applaus?.) ?'And genllemeu, I was very glad that in arranging for your Exposition you not only took in the Soulhorn States but thai you specially Included the islands lying south of the Uuiled States, those islands with which the evont8 of the last few years have made it evident thai we are bouud in the i futuro to havo closer rclatious. (Great applause). Closer relations for our ad I vantage und our advantage can ouly be socured by making it for thoir ad vantage also. (Loud applause.) Aud about all that 1 have said applies to tho greatest and richest of those is lauds, the island with which we havo becu brought into tho most pecu'iar intimacy and relationship?tbo Island of Cuba. (Applause) And I ask that in our trade relations with Cubn we give hor a marked and substantial advantage, not merely because it will redound to our interest to do so, al thougli ilmi ill o i-. i tie, especially be cause tho cv> ill' hav? so d them, .-elves tb.it it is nur < nl> n a great und inigbty nation in In lp Ciba and 1 hope to sen in d > out i!u v. (Cheers and a;>pl iuse.) if hill not lr> to tnako you any speech tonight, because for your bins y< u will have i" li-!en to mo ?nuke one l. morrow (Laughter.) I nil-ill mcr :ly thai k \t>u again with all my heart and t-ay 10 }ru that I want you to appreciate that 1 uu an every word I say, ard mean it d< eply when I tell you I have htm touched, inoie than pleased, touched and stirred by tho warmth and bcaitincss with which you have made me feel today ihal I am one of you." (Loud appl iiisc and chcerb.) The President was followed by (iov. McSweeney, who prefaced his prepared speech by a few words in which he as sured the President that he was us safe from bodily harm in South Caro lina as he was in Washington. Con tinuing he said: <iOV. M'8WKbNEY'8 SPKKCII. Governor Miles B. McSwoeuoy, ol South Carolina, was then introduced and made a very happy and cloquont speech. The Governor first paid his respeci8 to the President of the United States, and assured him that ho was "safe in the hoarts aud thoughts of tho people of tins State." The Gov ernor then spoke as follows: " The history of man is a series of great pulse beau, whose Hood over whelms his future and fixes his life. Like the dammed torrent on a moun tain side, it breaks the conservatism that holds it stagnant for generations aud Hoods tbo world with its sweep. Theories, creeds and institutions hal lowed by ago arc cast as rubbish on the scarred hills that mark its course. The old world is buried and a new one appears. u Tho Anglo-Saxon is entering the new century with the imperial crown of the ages on his brow and the sceptre of the in?tute in his hands. " The old South fought against the stars in their courses?the resisting lidc of the rising consciousness of na tionality and world mission. The young South greets the new era and glories in its manhood. Ho joins his voice in ihe cheers of triumph which aro ush ering in this all-conquering Saxon. Our old men dreamod of local supremacy. We dream of tho conquest ot the globe. Threads of steel havo knit Slate to S: .ue. Sleam and electricity have silently transformed' the face of tho earl h, annihilated time and space and swept tho ocean barriers from the path ot man. Tho black stoam shuttles of commerce havo wovcu continent to contincutl" " These words are taken from a speech delivered at a momentous cri sis in the b,story of a sinter State. " Civil liberty and religious frcodom have been placed in our keeping as a trust and it is our duty to be faithful to that i mat. and move on and upward I until tho peoples of all lands shall en joy the same blessings which aro ours. Threads of steel havo indeed knit us closo together and now wo know no North and no South, no East and no West, but hand in hand wo are striving for the uplifting and bctlermont of mankind. " I want to say in this presence, and in the presenco of the President of the United States, that while we may not agreo on many questions of policy, that we are all American citizens acd the hoys of tho South will respond to the call of their country, which is tho call of duty, as quickly and readily as those of any other section. When tour years ago America * let slip the dogs of war' ] and sent her armies and navies to drive the tyrant from Cuba's wasted shores, together ? in tho gloom ol the I gory treuches, and the ramparts wrapt iu ilimu ' stood the sons of tho frozen North who wore the blue, with those of the sunny South who wore the gray, to dofend the honor of their common country. Side by side and ahouldor to shoulder they fought, till the broken power of Spain in the Weste, n world attested the fact that the men who niado and withstood Pickett's charge at Gettysburg could clasp hands over the graves of their fallen heroes and together shed their blood iu defouso of human rights and their country's cause. It was a Southern boy who first planted the Stars and Stripes on for i eign soil, it was a Southern boy who first gave u; his fair young life in this cause, and the cold still form of Kn sign llagloy, wrapt about with the aiiken folds of hie country's flair, was laid to rest1 mid the lamentations of a reunited people.' Anl in the salf-same sepulohres where lie the braves who gave thmr lives in that conflict, is bur ned the last remnant of any antagon ism which might have existed be tween the sections. " I am glad that President Hoosevelt I has come to this grand old city, that he may see and know us as we aro. That I he may know and realize that though wo may not agreo in politics, wo know how to welcome tho President of our common country. That ho may know and appreciate what Southern hospi tality means and right here in Charles ton ho will llud tho highost typo of this old time Southern hospitality. Wo hope that his coniiu,.j will bo beue licial to all of us." EX-GOVERNOR 1IUOH 8. TIIOMTSON. Mayor Smyth brielly introduced formor Governor Hugh S. Thompson and spoke of him as the frioud and ad. mirer of the President. Governor I Thompson was recoivedwith much ap plause by his many South Carolina ad* mircrs pud when he arose there was another round of applauso, in which the Presidout joined. Governor Thompson said that when he looked around aud recognized his many old friends it was rather diftlcult for him to realize that ho had been in Now York for ten years. Ho picas antly sun I that ho begged to differ with Govornor McSweeney as to his rank in tho liichlaud Voluntoors, and bug. gestea that iu the days wheu tho club was orgauized it was dangerous to bo known as captain, but that tho position was first known as president of tho club, aud that it was only after the great Hampton redoemed tho State that he was tho captain of the Hichlnud Vol unteers. (Great applause for Hamp ton. ) He said that wheu the President went around tho harbor he asked about tho various places of interest. Tho President asked about many details of tho fighting around Charleston aud ex pressed familiality with tho magnifi cent fighting of Stephen Elliot, John Mitchel, Iluguenin, Alfred lihott, T. M. Wageuer and others in this har bor, and it also reminded him of the remark Lincoln ouco made iu com menting upon tho desperato fightiug at Gettysburg. An officer, in poiutiug out the line of battle, remarked: " Arnoricans held theie linos," and President Lincoln roplied: "Yes, ami Americans charged these lines." Such was the fighting hero and such was the spirit in which President Roosevelt viewed tho fighting in this harbor. It was as an American that tho P. csidonl looked at tho Americanism of the armies of tho South, auu their patriotism was a tribute to American valor. Governor Thompsou spoke with feeling of tho trials of Charleston and said that through it all the city was always invincible. (Applause) For ihree years he was intimately Associated with the President in the civil service commission, and at no time during these years did ho ever hear him oxpress a sentiment not worthy of the highest patriotism and iu every way fit to bo tho President of the United Stales. Not very many years ago, as president of tho Southern So ciety in New York, he presented tho 11 in. Theodore Roosevelt, and spoke of him as a son of Holland, New York and Georgia. His subject was Washington and he did not thou think that ho would so soon fill the place Washington once occupied, and that lie would now have to in troduce him as tho Hoa. Theodore Roosevelt, of Holland and tho United States. (Much applause.) President Roosevelt represented the best blood of tho North and South, and rounded off his little talk by saying that the President's visit horo in many ways recalled Chase's great saying that this was a Union of indestructible States? one Hag, oik country, one destiny. (Applause.) Capt. Wagoner, Gov. Aycock, of North Carolina, and scvcial others made short addresses. It was mid night when the party broke up and as the President left the room he was cheored to tho echo, n >i. only by those who had been fortuuato enough to at tend tho banquet but by tho large num bers who had pationtly waited in the hotel parlors and outside to catch a glimps eof him. Upon arrriviug at Iiis hotel he immediately retired. PKKSIDENT'S DAY AT TIIK EXPOSITION. The Great Military Parade?For mal CcreiiioiiicB ut Exposition ?The Sword for Jenkins. Wednesday was set apart as Presi dent's Day at the Exposition, and sixty thousand persons wero in attendance, the largest crowd evor known in the history of Charleston, and equivalent to its entire population. The parade was unusually large and attractive, in cluding artillery, marines and sailors of the Uniled ?States, the militia from various States and cadets from two military academies. The procession marched from tho St. John hotel to the grounds of the Exposition, and tho recoptioo to the President along the route was more than enthusiastic. Tho weather was perfect, the air brac ing with a ploasant breeze from the ocean, and the sky was cloudless. The. President reviewed tho troops from a platform in fiont of the auditorium, and on his entranco to the grounds a saliteof twenty-one guns was fired. At noon tho President proceeded to the auditorium, where the formal cero raonies occurred. Addresses were made by Captain F. W. Wagoner, president of the South Carolina Inter-Stato aud West Indian Exposition compauy ; Governor McSweeney, of South Caro lina ; Governor Aycock, of North Car olina ; Mayor Smyth, of Charleston, and the President of the United Slates. President ltoosovelt spoke at some length of the remarkable progress which has been made by the 8ouih. and especially South Carolina since the late war. lie emphasized the neces sity of unity of action between all of the people of the United Slates in order that the marvelous era of pros perity which is now upon the country might be perpetuated. The iXu-iion of his address which was listened to with the closest attention and which called forth the most un stinted applause, waa that which treat ed of the absolute disappearance of all sectional lines in tho nation's feelings and affection. In this connection lie said : " It is to nie a peculiar privilege to speak here in your beautiful city. My mother's people were from Georgia ; < but before they came to Georgia prior the Revolution, in the days of colonial rule, they dwelt for nearly a century in South Carolina, ar.d therefore I ' Claim your State as ruioc by iuhori tanco, no loss than by tho stronger aud noblur rig?t which makca each loot of Ainuricau eoil in a senso tho properly of all Americans. M Charleston is not only a typical Soulhern city, it is also a city whose history lecms with events which liuk themselves to American history as -a wholo. In Ihe early colouial days Charleston was tho outpost of our peo ple against tho Spauiards in the South. In the days of tho Revolution there oc curred here some of the events which vitally affected the outcome of tho struggle for indepeudeuco, aud which impressed themselves most deeply upon the popular mind. It was hcio that tho tromoudoiH, terrible drama of tho civil war opened. " Willi a delicate auil l?oughlful courteHy you originally asketl mo to como to this Exposition on tho birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The invitation not only showed a lino genorosity nud manliness in you, my hosts, but it also emphasized how completely we aro now a united poople. Tho wouuds loft by the great civil war, incompar ably the greatest war of modern tinus, have healed aud its memories aro now priceless heritnges of honor aliko to tho North and to tho South. Tho de votion, tho aelf-saorilioo, tho steadfast resolution and 1 >fty daring, the high dovotiou to tho right as each saw it, whothcr Northerner or Southerner, all these qualities of tho men aud women of the cat ly sixties now shiuo lumitious and brilliant before our eyos whilo the mists of anger aud hatred that ouco dimmed them have passed away for ever. " All of us, North and South, can glory alike in the valor of tho men who woro tho gruy. Those wore iron times, and only iron men could light to its terrible (luish. Tho giant struggle bo tweou the hosts of Grant and Leo, to us of tho present day, and to our chil dren and children's children, the vah iaut deeds, tho high endeavor, and abnegation of self shown in the attug gle by those who took part therein will remain foievermore to mark the level to which we, in our turn, must rise, whenever tho hour of tho nation's need may como. " When four years ago this nation was compollcd to faco a foroigu foe, tho complutnes8 of the reunion became instantly and strikingly evident. Tho war was not one which cnllcd for tho v ? ? h .-!? of more than an maiguilicant fraction of our strength and the strain put upou us was slight indeed com pared with tho results. But it was a satisfactory thing indeed to see the way in which tho sons of the soldier of tho Union and tho soldier of the Con federacy leaped eagerly forward, emul ous to show in brotherly rivalry tho qualties which had wou renown for tbeir fathers, the. men of the great war. It was my good fort um: to serve under an ox-Confcdoratc gonoral, old Joo Wheeler, who commanded tho cavalry division at Santiago. ?' In my regiment there were cer tainly as many men whose fathers had served in the Southern as there were men whose fathers had Berved in the Northern army. Among tho captains there was opportunity to promote but one to ileld rank. The man who was singled out for this promotion because of conspicuous gallantry in tho Held, was tho son of a Coufedjrate general and was himself a citizen of the Pal metto State, and no American ollkur could wish to march to battle bc*ide a more loyai, gallant and absolutely fear less a comrade than my former cap tain and major, your fellow citizen, Micah Jenkins. " A few mouths ago, owing to the enforced absence of the Governor of the Philippines, it becamo necessary to nominate a Vice Governor to take his place, one of the most important places iu our government at this time, and I nominalvit as Vice Governor an ox Confcdorate general, Luke Wright, of Tennessee. It is, thoroforo, an ex Confederate who now stands as tho exponent of this government and this people in that great group of islands in the Eastern seas ovoi which the American Hag floats. Geueral Wright has taken a leading part in the work of steadily bringing ordor and peace out of tho bloody chaos in which wo found tho islands. Ho is now taking a load ing part, not merely in upholding tho honor of tho flag, by making it respect ed as the symbol of powor, but still more in upholding its honor by un wearied !abor for the establishment of ordered liberty, of law creating, law abiding civil government under its folds. The progress which has been itiado under General Wright and those like him has* been indeed marvellous. In fact, a letter of tho general's the other day & corned to show that lie con sidered there was far more warfare about tho Philippines in this country thau there was warfare in tho Philip pines themselves. It is an added proof of the completeness of the rounion of our country that one of the foremost men who havo been instrumental in driving forward tho great work for civilization and humanity in the Phil ippines, has been a man who, in the civil war fought with distinction in a uniform of Confederate gray. " If evor tho need comes in tho fu ture, tho past has made abundantly evident the fact that from this time on Northerner and Southerner willin war know only the generous desire to strivo how each can do the more offcclivo sorvico for tho (loa of our common country. Tho same thing is true in the ondloBs woik of peace, the never ending work of building and koeping the marvellous fabric of our industrial prosperity. The upbuilding of any part of our country is a benoflt to tho whole and every offort, auch as this Exposition, to stimulate the re sources and industry of a narticular section is entitled to the heartiest sup port from every quarter of the Union. | Thoroughly good national work can bo done only if each of us works hard for himself, and at the same timo keeps constantly in mind that he mutt work in conjunction with others." " You havo made a particular effort in your exhibition to get into touch with the West Indies. This is wise. The OASTOHIA. events of tho lust four years havo shown us that tho West Indies an 1 the Isthmus in ihe future occupy a far larger placu in >u;- n'ltioual policy than iu the past. Tnis is proved by the negotiations lor the purchase of the Dauisb islands, tho a< qilisitioil of l'.>rto Kico, the preparation for building au isthmian cannl and dually by tho changed relations which these years have produced between us aud Cuba. Am a nation we have an especial right to take honest pride iu what we havo douo for Cuba. Our critics abroad and at home have iusisted that we nover in tended to leavo the island. Hut on tho -'?uli of next month Cuba becomes a free republic, aud wo turn over to the islaudcrs tho control of their own government. It would bo very dillicult to lind a parallel in the conduct of auy great Suto that has occupied such u position us ours. vVo have kept our word aud douo our duty just as an honest individual iu private life keeps his word and does his dutv. " Bo it remembered, however, that aflor over throo years' occupation of the island, we turn it over to the Cu baus in a hotter condition than it ever has been in tho centuries of Spauish rule. This has a direct bouring upon our own welfare. Cuba is so near to us that we can never bo indifferent to miagovurnment and disaster within its limits. The mere fact that our ad ministration in the islands has mini mized tho danger from tho dreadful scrouge of yellow fover alike to Cuba and to ourselves, is sufficient to empha size tho community of interest between us. But there arc other interests which bind us together. Cuba's position makes it necessary that her political relations with us should differ from her political relations with other powers. This fact has been formulated by and accepted by tho Cubans in the Plait amoudmonts. It follows as corol lary that where tho Cubane have thus assumed a position of relationship to stand in a peculiar relationship to our economic system. 44 We havo rightfully insisted upon Cubfi adopting toward us an attitude differing politically from thntshe adopts our political pvstem thoy must similarly toward any otlurpower; aud iu return, as a matter of right, we must givo to Cuba a different?that is a bettor? position economically in hei relations with us than we give to other powers. This is the course dictated by sound policy, by a wise and far-sighted view of our own interest and by the position we have taken during the past four years. We are a wealthy and power ful country, dealing with a much weak er one; and the contrast in wealth and strength makes it all the more our duty to deal with Cuba as wo have al ready dealt with her, in a spirit of large generosity. 44 This Exposition is rendered possi ble because of the period of industrial prosperity through which which we are passing. While material well-being is never ull-sulHcient to the life of a na tion, yet it is the merest truism to say that this absence means ruin. We need to build a higher life upon it as a foundation; but we can l>uild little indeed unless this foundation of pros perity is deep and broad. The well being which we are now enjoying can bo secured only through general busi ness prosperity and such prosperity is conditioned upon;the energy and hard work, tho sanity and tho mutual ro epeet of all classes of capitalists, large aud small, of wage-workers of every degree. Ab is inevitable in a time of business prosperity, some men succeed more than others and it is unfortunate ly alRO inevitable 11 lal when this is the ease some unwise people are sure to try to appeal to the envy and jealousy of those who succeed least. It is a good thing when these appeals are mndc to remember Dial while it is diffi cult to increase prosperity by law it is easy enough to ruin it and that there is small satisfaction to the less pros perous if thoy succeed in over-throw ing both the more prosperous and themselves in tllO crash of a common disaster. m Every industrial Exposition'of this typo necessarily calls up tho thought of tho complex social and economic questions which are involved in our present industrial system. Our as tounding material prosperity, I ho sweep and i mil rather than the mere march of our progressive material develop ment havo brought gravo troubles in thoir train. Wo cannot afford toblink at these troubles any more thnn becauso of them we can afford to accept as true the gloomy forobodlnga of the prophets of evil. There are great probloms be fore. us. They are not insoluble, but thoy can bo solved only if wo approach thom in a spirit of resolute fearless ness, of common senso and of honest intention to do fair and equal justice to all men alike. We are certain to fail if wo adopt tho policy of tho domo gogue who raves against tho wealth which is simply tho form of embodied thrift, foresight and intelligence; who would shut tho door of opportunity against those whoso energy wo should especially foster by penalizing tho qualities which tell for success. Just as little can wo afford to follow those who fear to recognizo injustice and to endeavor to cut it out because tho task is di 111 cult or oven?if performed by unskilled hands?dangerous. " This is an area of groat combina tions botb of labor and of capital. In many ways these combinations have worked for good; but they must work under the law end the laws concerning ihem must be just and wise or they will inovitably do evil; and ibis applies as much to tho richest corporation as to the most powerful labor union. Our laws must bo wise, sauc, h. ah by, con ceived in the spirit >?f th ?c who scorn the mere agitator; the mero inciter oi class or sectional hatred: who wish justice for all men; who rccoguizc the need of adhoring so far as possible to tho old Amorican doctrino of giving I the widt st possible scope for the free exercise of individual initiative and yet who recognize also that after combina tions have reached a certain stage it ia indispensiblo to the general welfare that the nation should exercise over them, cautiously and with self-re strahlt, but firmly the power of super vision aud regulation. "Above all the administration of (he government, the enforcement of the laws, must be fair and honest. The laws are not to be administered either iu tho intoresl of the poor tuau or tho interest of tho rich mau. They aro siniply to be administered justly; in tho iutercst of justico to each mm, he ho rich or be he ? poor?giving immunity to no violator whatever foim the violation may as sume. Such is the obligation which every public servant tukes, ami to it he must be truo under penalty of forfeiting the reopect both of himself aud of his follows." JKNKIN8' SWOKD PRESENTED. Immediately after tho addresses, a haudsoino sword was presented to Ma jor Micah Jenkins, tho presentation being made by President itoosevelt. In presenting tho sword to President Roosevelt to be given Major Jenkins, ex-Govoruor Hugh, S. Thompson said: " Mr. President?On behalf of South Caroliua friends of Major Micah Jen kius, 1 have tho honor to offer you their grootings and to ask that you will present a testimonial of their regard and esteom to your gallant comrade in anus in tho war with Spain. That war was worth all it cost in blood, in treasure, if for no other reason than that it aroused a spirit of patriotism which cemented anew tho bonds of union among our once divided peoplo. When tho smoke of battle cleared awny, and honors aud rewards woro distributed, the poople of South Caro lina saw with just pride that Micah Jenkins had won tho laurel loaf and that in recoguition of his sorvicos ho had been promoted, ou your recom mendation, from a junior captaiu to major. His gallantry vividly recoiled memories of his heroic father, Briga dier General Micah Jenkins, whoso name aud fame are dear to South Car olinians. It was the sou of this siro of whom you said that he was a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, upon whom danger acted like wine. " lu action ho was a perfect game cock and he won his majority by gal lantry iu batllo. In token of their re gard, somo of his friends havo had made this Held olliccr's cavalry sabre which has been fashioned with rare skill and taste. Upou ono side tho scabbard bears a palmetto tree aud an inscription showing by whom and why it is given, aud that it is presented by you; upon the other is au extract from the history of tho Rough liidors, in which you commended Major Jenkiua. " Mr. President, the men and wo mou of South Carolina, who greet you today, have come to testify by their presence their esteem for your character, their ndmiration for your achievements and their respect for the oilico which you li 11?the highest in human gift. Thoy will bo animated by sentimcul8 of pride and patriotism hh they see ono a native of their soil who is honored by tho chief magis trate. These sentiments, I know will stir the breast of Major Jenkins; but he will be inspired by another senti ment, uot less noble, which none can share with him?a sentiment of grati tu e that ho receives this sabre from i he hands of his beloved commander, under whoso eyes he fought and whoso warm commendation he won for etil ciency, for soldiership and for gallan try in action. "Permit mo, Mr. President, to hand this sabre, with tho request that you present it to Major Jenkins." In handing the sword to Major Jen kins, the President said: "Major Jenkins, nothing could give mo greater pleasuro than to hand you, my old fnund and comrade, whose courage I saw again and again, and whose courage was of a temper that made it indifferent what the trial was, to hand you this sabre. I am glad to do it as a guest of South Carolina, as tho 1 'resident of the United States, but gladder to do it as your old friend and comrade." With tho conclusion of the exercises at tho auditoiium, the Presidential party was escorted to tho West Indian buildings, from there thoy went to tho South Carolina building and made a tour of the great buildings in the court of palaces. A FEDERAL TRIBUTE TO GEN. JENKINS. Grnphlc Description of the Bat tle of the Wilderness Where He Wuh Killed. Mr. T. R. Lackle, of Detroit, Mich., who was au officer in the famous Six teenth Michigan regiment, writes to the Atlanta Journal a correction of tho Btatemont going tho rounds that Gen. Micah Jenkins was killed at Gettysburg, and gives in detail the cir cumstances connected with his doath iu tho battle of the Wilderness on the Oth of May, 1804, to which is added a glowing tribute to Gen. Jenkins from ihe pon of this gallant F?deral ofllcer: The circumstances connected with the death of that very distinguished olllcer were as follows: All day tho 6th and until about 10 a. m. tho Oth, General A. P. Hill's corps had been contending against vastly superior numbers of Federal troops. On the fatal morning of the 6th Hancock had advanced bis corps on Hill's position, and forced tho latter almost back to his artillery line badly broken and worn out by incessant fighting. Dis aster to the Confederate array soemod assured. General Leo was with tho artillery and directing the re-forma tion of tho broken linos. Ho had sent for his old war horso (Longstreet) end was anxiously waiting his coming ?always reliable and on hand at the right momont, he is aoen coming down tho Orange plauk road, his magnificent men on tho double-quick, reslsilevsa? the oecau ti li I Gregg's t\ x ins .u deployed into line and immediately ad vanco with that uovor to be forgotten yell. The immortal Lee springs to the front to lead thorn; they halt. Ho must go back or there will bo no ad vance of Texans. A bronzed-faced demon of tho battlo front gently takes the bridle rein and turns the head of his chargor. Loo sorrowfully rides over to Long street; on goes the Texans. Loud roar the cannon with shotted broath, OAOTOXIIA. the lh9 Kind You HaYS Always BoujM BIgnatur* //? ^S??SSfel it fcO%>^JL powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome WOYAt QAKINO POWDER CO., hCW YORK. aud more, awful tho yells of battlo de mons. Tho Te x any strike Hancock's exult nut advauce; the shock is tremendous; ueither liue recoils; but the tangled forests tremble, and the tangled-haired ed Texaus and tho vetoraus of Han cock settle themselves down to tho sci ence of butchering one another. The slaughter on both sides is awful. Beu ning's and Law's brigades come to the aid of Gregg and take a hund iu tbo work that is on; with a yell the whole line charges. Tho Federal lino is forcod back, but Wadsworth comes to tho aid of Hancock; the lido of bat tlo obbs aud flows. Wadsworth is killed; Lougstreet strikes the Federal left (lank; rolls it up in a confused mass toward the plank and back on the ilrock road". Everything now in indicated a complete victory for tho Confederate. General Loug streot rode forward to prepare aud take advantage of the opportunity to inllict a decisive blow on Grant's army. With that end iu view Jen. kiu'a fresh brigade is moved forward to tho plank road. Supplemented by Kershaw's brigade, General Longelreet moved forward to reconuoiter tho situation, accompanied by General Jenkins. Mahoue's men seeing a movement in their front and by the indistinct view obtained owing to tho density of the forest mistook them for tho enemy und lired, killing tho gallant Jenkins and woundiug Long Btrcct, a most lamentable mistake. Ab a Federal soldier 1 know that it will not be expected of me within the scope of an article intended foi the cloBe call department, to write a bio graphical t-ketoli of so distinguished an olllcer a8 General Micah Jenkins, were I fitted for tho work, which I am not. Yet the temptation is so great to say something more, that 1 venture a brief retrospective view of that hero's war record, and under my own observation. Ab colonel of the regiment designated, the Palmetto Sharp Shooters of South Carolina, we joined him at the battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, as the Fed erals have it, in tho hottest part of that Held, near tho Henry house, and down the slope, where so many of the Hampton Legion fell, and where vali ant deeds and good generalship crowned the young Confederacy with victory and everlasting famo. To Beaurcgard, Jackson, Bee, Barlow and Kirby Smith, the latter a citizen of Connecticut, under tieneral Ala. gruder, we Und tho gallant Colonel Jenkins within the defenses of Yoik town. Alter the evacuation of that strong hold Jenkins' regiment, with others, covered the retreat and facing about at Williamsburg met the overwhelming advance of the enemy, inflicting terri ble loss in his ranks and checking his advaucc until the Confederate army and subsistence trains are at a safe distance, and proper line of defence established. At West Point and other places his regiment had fought the hard battle of the rearguard until the army was safe on the south side of the Chickahominy river, his regi ment having suffered untold hardships auel severe losses in men and officers, for which he received just recognition for his gallant and meritorious conduct in face of an overwhelming enemy, Next we find him at the battle of Soven Pines, or Fair Oaks, with Iiis gallant regiment ond one other driving before him a whole Federal division, gaining a good position, held the bat tlo field and indicting a loss on the enemy about equal to the number of men in his regiment, only abandoning his position when the army was with drawn to tho former defences of Rich mond, in the dark hours of the Con federacy which followed the battle of Sovon Pines, when Johnston's vague plans and operations puzzled and con tused the President. A new star appeared on the Confed erate horizon. It illuminated the whole American continent. Its reful gent rays penetrated tho remotest bounds of tho Old World. That mag nificent and glowiug orb personified in the wonderful Rotiert E. Leo gnve new life to the Confederacy, vigor and swiftness of movement. Plans were speedily consummated; hostile guns must not cover tho capital; the siege must be raised, the enemy beaten to cover. .Jackson in tho valley receives a message, his foot cavalry are put in motion. He beats Banks and Shields down the valley as with a Hail. Con sternation is in their path. One takes refuge in Harper's Ferry; the other acrose the Potomac. The great (lail er reluniB and brushes Fremont out of his path, drops back n few foot-sore Spartans as pickets for Fremont to gape at until Iii? (Jackson's) return. Loo crosses tho Chickntionuny at Meadow Jtidge and drives the enemy to 1(8 common center about Grape vine Bridge and Woodhury bridge. Tho Seven Days' battle is on. The second day, June '27, 18(12, Longstreot strikes the onomy'a lefi nnd Jackson tho right tlauk. The battlo rages all the afternoon. The enemy hold their ground. Late in the evening Lee makes tho final effort to count th; t day's victory hia own. The Texan brigade under Hood aro hurled liko a thunderbolt against tho left ccntor. Colonel Micah Jenkins with his vali ant l'nlmotlo i o^imont and one other against tho exlremo left. Tho left centor in brokon and shattered into fragmonta. Jenkins fires ono volloy and charges with cold steel. Tho onc my is brokon, el mghtered, and tho sur vivors driven into tho swamps of tho Chtckahominy?and only tho shelter ing wings of night saved us from com plete annihilation. j The writer's regiment, ono of the most magniflcont regiments in the in my, 1-2 companies, 1,140 men, was almost a total wreck and Jenkins held our beautiful banner. Col. James A. Hoyt, editor of Tun GiUiKNVii.r.K Mountaineer, then au olllcur in Col. Jenkins' regiment, hu? told tiio story correctly in the Confederate Veteran, j,Iac is victor. McClcllun is on tho re real to the James river. The Biege of Itichmond raised. The 5th of tho ba tie days, June 80lh, Jenkins takes the advance of the battle at ITrszler Farm. Meats back the enemy. Holds the battle ground. lie has commanded lt. II. Audurson'a brigade in both bat tles. His regimental loss is BOVOro, him self severely wounded. The l'alinctto regiment alone sustaining a loss of ."I7? auu uo prisoners reported. After n march of over two hundred miles on halt' rations, we lind General Jenkins again on the old battle ground of Bull Run, or Mana88as No. 2, on Long Street's right. Porters' Federal corps left, this timo he lights Maxoy Gregg, old enemies of Gainos Mills. Jenkins' brigade has some desperate lighting and again himself severely wounded, and brigade loss about 150. He iu one of the ollicer8 mentioned in Gen. Longstrect's report of this battle for extraordinary bravery and unexcel led heroism. His brigade, now In command of Colonel Joseph Walker, of the Pal metto Sharp Shooters, advances into Maryland and goes into action in the bailie of South Mountain, sustaining a loss ol 20, then back to Sharj urg, or Antietaiu. Their Hold of opt'ation was not far from (Jen. Lee's Head quarters, becoming desperately en gaged and drove the enemy at every point, losing 208 officers and men, holding their battle ground and crown ing their wounded Jenkins with gloiy and sustaining the proud record of the old brigade. Thus Lee had beaten McClollan's army olT the Peninsula, destroyed the grand army of the man whoso head quarters were in the saddle, and had ? ought the combined armies of Antic* tam to standstill. This is the most bloody and desperate of the ages. The only mark of ,victory to bo credited to either was their battle iields. During tho Gettysburg campaign the gallant Jenkins, being assigned to the department of North Carolina, performing valuable sei vice also around Richmond, Poterburg, and the Black Water, he very urgently re quested in his many applications to tho department commander ami the authorities in Richmond to be per mitted to share the battlefields ol Lee's army along with the divisions with whom he had been so long, and often 111 bloody conllict in ilelense of his cherished rights and glorious Stars and liars, but alas, his wish was only granted when Lee and Grant met iu the Wilderness on the Orange Plank road, that fatal Olh of May, ISO I. Although his cause and mine was at war, 1 loved him none the less, tie was noble and brave, and mi. Ii :>> he gave a world-Wide gl? . . 1 the Ameri can held embattled. Tue - t .. il of such men do not sk ,) bv 1 tli th tene ment of clay, but liv - main 01 great deeds. The newer ^ in i.ui. . of the Southland will have thoir L us and Jenkins, but nowhere < . ?? 01 this con vex world. It would ho t id indeed were wo only to tiuu niom in dusty and time-worn volumes aud Oil c< Id mutilated stone. It le pleu: 'ug to note the presence of the din! uiguished Olllct l of whom my feeble pen as written personified in young Mnjo Micah Jen kins, the hero ol Sueia. , one whose, daring deeds have won l;?j applaudits of the Western llemispln r< . T. R. Lacktio, ?lt'?7 VineWOOd AVO., Detroit, Mich. Late a lieutenant 10lb Mich. Vret. Vol. Infantry. The man who is tesponsiblo for the investigation now being carried on by a special committee of the House of Uepresontivcs is Neils Gron. lie came from Copenhagen to Washington to make public Capt Uhristmas's secret report to the Danish Government, asserting a necessity ol bribing Con gressmen and press associations to carry through tho purchase of the West Indies by the United Slates. The Gron family, though not bei >ng ing to the nobility, is very distinguish ed in Copenhagen. Ho is a no of Denmark, but received his education in America and lived here for many years. Ho liaa spent the last two years traveling, and has written a number of articles of a descriptive nature for American and Danish periodicals. In 1 inn > he figured prominently in the 41 expose" ol the alleged plan of the Standard Oil Com pany to buy the Danish West Indies. Dr. George Alexander, pastor of the University IMaco Presbyterian Church, Now York City, is a great lover of Burns, tho Scottish poet, and has coin, initied practically all of his songs to memory. Tho police authorities of Berlin have issued n public warning that if the practice of alighting from electric oars while in motion shall Ik; persisted in it Will be made a punishable offenao. The Wo*; r Greatest Cure for flaiana A, iVirall forms of Malarial poison :t takn Johniun'.i chill and Perec Tonic. A taint of M did rial p?lBOfi ' 1 it jro'jrbioort hiciiiih misery and failure". Wood mrdUlneacan'tcur* Alalnrlal poisoning. The antidote for It In JOHNSON'S TONIC. Get a botllft to-day. fioiti SO Ciotl If It Cores.