1 8 Presidential Addresses 



firm determination for right that you displayed when 

 you fought to a finish the great Civil War, when 

 you upheld the arms of Abraham Lincoln, and fol 

 lowed to victory the flag of Ulysses S. Grant. 



AT THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION, WEDNES 

 DAY, APRIL 9, 1902 



Mr. President, Mr. Mayor, and you, the Men and. 

 Women of the Palmetto State, Men and Women 

 of the South; my Fellow-citizens of the Union: 

 It is indeed to me a peculiar pleasure to have the 

 chance of coming here to this Exposition held in 

 your old, your beautiful, your historic city. 



My mother's people were from Georgia; but be 

 fore they came to Georgia, before the Revolution, 

 in the days of Colonial rule, they dwelt for nearly 

 a century in South Carolina; and therefore I can 

 claim your State as mine by inheritance no less than 

 by the stronger and nobler right which makes each 

 foot of American soil in a sense the property of all 

 Americans. 



Charleston is not only a typical Southern city; 

 it is also a city whose history teems with events 

 which link themselves to American history as a 

 whole. In the early Colonial days Charleston was 

 the outpost of our people against the Spaniard in 

 the South. In the days of the Revolution there oc 

 curred here some of the events which vitally affected 

 the outcome of the struggle for Independence, and 

 which impressed themselves most deeply upon the 



