The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-04-28
WilAiaw@Hrg, EPrH %, 1907.

At an adjourned meeting Of fundry inhabitan,s of
Williamsburg, on T~hurfday, April 23rd, lsoy, to
which the Students Of William & Mary College were
invited, Samuel Tyler in the chair, and Robert An
derlon Secretary, Mehrs. Girardin, Cabell and 70
binlon, three of the members of the committee ap
pointed y~elerday, (the Rt.Rev'd. Jas Madi;on being
abient when he was appointed i member Of the COM
ulittcs, and having declined to se,) made the follow
ing report:
Csgfdying, That the practice generally prevalen,
among nations, of celebrating the great and interef-
ing epochs of their hifory, is highly worthy of our
imitation, ipaimuch IS it neceflar,ly tends to carry the
mind back to early and evcntlul periods; TO preient
to il a wide range of obiervatiou and reflection, to
perpetuate the admiration and gratitude due to the
founders and active benefactors of Rates, to retrace
the phydcai and moral improvements of foc;ety, and
to ltimulate the preient generation to tranimit thofe
improvements, not only unimpaired but increafed to
poiterity, and Especially, By producing an anemblage
u! citizens from the mott viriuous motives, to dilute
Information, TO inipi-e unity of thought and to create
harmony of ieltiment among all the members of the
national family ;
And eOgf8rins, that The fettlemeu. Of our forefa-
| theirs az lanes Town, on the 18th NAV, 1907. an
enterprise planned with admirable wildnm, conduct
ed with a noble and daring ipirit, and achieved with
unexarp!ed courage and perseverance, is one of the
greateit eras in the hillory of Virginia, fnce il happi-
lyled to the transformation of a wide world of iavage
wilderness, into an abode of the arts, the licences and
other blefing, of civilized life and fince it was an au-
ipicious, though diftant prelude to cur great reyoluti-
on by which theIe United States have rlien TO the d;y.
nifty Of Independence, and been enabled TO exhibit to
mankind the fubli ne fpe9acle of a nation Of freemen,
governed by equal laws, flowing from the equal Gf-
frages OF the whole inafs OF the citizens.
seFg1ivsd, Therefore, that we will j%oyfuliy afociate
with pur ieilow-citizens oil other places, in celebrating
at James Town The Vulnerable day OH which our
foreiathsrs there laid the foundation Of that fabric
which has iince become one of the brigb,eR ornaments
and ffmet lupPort Of a great anI nourihing repub-
lie.
Rs6ivnd, That McAr,. Cabe!!, Semple, Greenhsw,
Girardin, A.. Mllon aud Coleman be appointed a
committee to correipond with oiher committees for
the purpoie Of making arrangements relative to the
celebration Of this National Jubilee.
R1EfveA, That the Right Rev'd. Biaiep kTadiCon.
be rsqueaed 70 offer on chat day to the divine beue.
faSor Of man, n prayer expreiive of the deep and
fervid gratitude si toe people Tor the irnal protection
befowed on their foreiatners and'on themielees.
R16fyef, That Wm.Wirt, Eiq. now in this CITY, be
requeited to deliver on the fame day, an appropriate
Grafton.
R.6fvcJ, That one Of the nudents of William and
Mary College, be invited 20 prepare, ard deliver, at
iome fuitabie period Of the %iei,ival, an addrtfs adapt-
ed 10 the OccalIOn.
ReEIved, That the fenfe Of our fsiIov-citizens he
taken as to the ~Propriety Of ereGing by fubfcrjption,
Oh the very lpot where our forefsthets EfG landed.
70 far as that ipot can now be afesriaiued0 = modde,
but durable monument, ofthe graui;e OF cur country,
with Interruptions expreii,e Of their merits and of the
generation felt towards them, by a graceful ppierity.
R9olved, That the proceedings oi this meeting be
Ggned by the Chairman and Secretary, and that " in
the refoluiion Of yesterday, they be t~raufmitted to
Richmond, Norfolk and Petersburg for publication
SAMUEL TYLER, Cbaiymoa.
no; ANDERSON, 5%aysfary.