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of expansion beyond the Pacific. There have been 

 Presidents of the United States for but one hundred 

 and thirteen years, and during sixteen of those years 

 Tennesseeans sat in the White House. Hardihood, 

 and daring, and iron resolution are of right to be 

 expected among the sons of a State which nurtured 

 Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston ; which sent into 

 the American Navy one of the most famous fighting 

 admirals of all time, Farragut. 



There is another reason why our country should 

 be glad that it was General Wright who rendered 

 this service. General Wright fought with distin 

 guished gallantry among the gallant men who served 

 in the armies of the Confederacy during the Civil 

 War. We need no proof of the completeness of our 

 reunion as a people. When the war with Spain 

 came the sons of the men who wore the blue and 

 the sons of the men who wore the gray vied with 

 ene another in the effort to get into the ranks and 

 face a foreign foe under the old flag that had been 

 carried in triumph under Winfield Scott and Zachary 

 Taylor and Andrew Jackson. It was my own 

 good fortune to serve under that fearless fighter, 

 old Joe Wheeler, a memory of which I shall always 

 be proud. But if we needed any proof of the unity 

 of our interests it would have been afforded this 

 very year by General Wright, the ex-Confederate, in 

 his administration as Acting Governor of the Philip 

 pine Islands. Upon him during the months of sum 

 mer rested a heavier burden of responsibility than 

 upon any other public servant at that particular 



