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A patriotic demonstration will take place on Friday, May 18, and a flag purchased by the senior class of 1917 will be raised at Monroe Colored City Public School. Speeches by people of both races will be given.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05
Article reporting on the patriotic meeting held April 24, 1917, at Fitzgerald’s Auditorium with Winfield Forrest Cozart, Chairman. This event was seen as an opportunity for “colored citizens” to train with the army or navy – an opportunity that was previously “criminally denied.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-04-26
A meeting is to be held at Fitzgerald’s Auditorium. Winfield Forrest Cozart will deliver an address on “our duty.” The meeting announcement includes an illustration and a poem titled “The American Flag.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-04-24
Joseph W. Henderson calls for justice for “the negro,” by discrimination stopping at West Point and Annapolis. A National Conference of Colored Men to be held in Rhode Island.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-03
President Roosevelt thanks T. Larry Gantt for his letter. He has tried to act as a good American.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-14
President Roosevelt thanks Houghton, Mifflin, and Company for the copy of The Song of Roland that they sent him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-01
Alfred Bishop Mason is sending Theodore Roosevelt his new book, Tom Strong, Washington’s Scout. He hopes to inspire patriotism with Tom Strong and his dependents and hopes to be able to write of Tom Strong’s great grandson who will work for Gifford Pinchot and fight for Roosevelt’s policies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-04
William N. Freeman thanks Frank Harper for his letter. He discusses a possible daily school exercise of a flag honor guard. He recalls a movement to assign a generic name to American soldiers, as British soldiers are called “Tommy Atkins”. He suggests “Johnny Trump”, and hopes that Roosevelt can endorse the idea. He would like to meet Roosevelt and give him a handshake.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
William N. Freeman informs Theodore Roosevelt about New Jersey’s law requiring schoolchildren to salute the flag and asks for his support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
Thomas T. Wright expresses to Oscar W. Underwood that the U.S. needs more American ships in foreign trade and urges Congress to pass a ship subsidy bill to support the merchant marine and boost the southern economy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-11
Horace Curzon Plunkett expresses his admiration for President Roosevelt’s patriotism, which he believes will please Roosevelt’s “friends and admirers the world over.” Plunkett also mentions that he is recovering from an operation by the same doctor who attended Roosevelt after “that lunatic” shot him in Milwaukee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-04-03
Article discusses American patriotism.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1911-11-03
President Roosevelt is glad to hear from Major General Davis that the American National Red Cross is making an effort to increase its membership and efficiency to match societies in Europe and Japan. Roosevelt hopes that patriotic citizens of the United States will support the Red Cross by becoming members.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-04
Secretary to the President Loeb encloses the requested signed quotations from President Roosevelt. The quotations are on Roosevelt’s opinion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and national memory of the Civil War more broadly, praise of white backwoodsmen’s use of guns and axes in North American western expansion and imperialism, ideal gender roles for men and women, and the need for national commitment to “the life of strenuous endeavor.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-09
President Roosevelt congratulates Idaho Governor Gooding on his reelection. Roosevelt asked Secretary of War William H. Taft to visit Idaho because he believes Gooding is “a champion of that spirit of American liberty.” He does not regard Gooding’s victory more highly than that of Charles Evans Hughes in New York but rather applauds them both for helping to work against tyranny.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-27
President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot be present at the reunion of veterans of the American Civil War at Gettysburg on September 15, 1906. He asks John W. Frazier to extend his goodwill to all those present, and comments on the uniqueness of the Civil War, “where the men who fought against one another are now knit together by the closest ties of brotherly love.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-06
President Roosevelt wishes that it were possible for him to be in attendance at the celebration of the memorial to William Conway, but as it is not he sends his appreciation of the occasion through Henry S. Burrage. Roosevelt remarks that Conway (a sailor serving in Florida who refused to lower the American flag on the occasion of that state’s succession in the Civil War), “stands as typical of the best men among those admirable enlisted men of the army and navy to whom this country can never pay too great homage.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-18
After talking with George Horace Lorimer, President Roosevelt went back and read The Plum Tree through all the way, after previously having read only half of it. The ending of the book reconciles Roosevelt to many of the problems he had with it throughout, but he still holds many issues with the book which he lays out for Lorimer. The author, David Graham Phillips, falls into the trap of overstating the sort of corruption that is present in politics, and while Roosevelt freely admits that corruption is present–which, he points out, he is working against–there are also many good people working in politics as well. In a postscript of several days later, Roosevelt comments on several of Phillips’s articles on the Senate, in which he acts similarly by taking “certain facts that are true in themselves, and […] ignoring utterly a very much large mass of facts that are just as true and just as important.” Roosevelt criticizes Phillips for working with William Randolph Hearst to achieve notoriety.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-12
President Roosevelt extends his thanks through Governor Higgins to the New York State National Guard for their attendance at his recent inauguration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-08
President Roosevelt informs Nathan Bijur that Julius M. Mayer will be calling upon him with a suggestion; Roosevelt thinks it is Bijur’s patriotic duty to accept. Roosevelt also asks Nijur to discuss sending the statement on the passport question to the State Department with Mayer and George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-06