Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-05-01

burg, and Students Of William and Mary
College, at the Raleigh Tavern, for The
purpose of making arrangements, for the
celebration of the 18th of May, the Sc
cond CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY of the
Judgement of our forefathers at James
Town, Samuel Tyler was appointed
Chairman, and Robert Anderson Score.
tary.
ReSolUed, That this meeting be adjourn
ed until tomorrow evening, four O'Clock,
and that the Right Reverend James Madi-
son, and Messrs. Girardin, Cabell and Ro
binson, be appointed committee, to draft
resolutions, appropriate to the occasion,
to be submitted to the meeting.
williamsburg, .4trH %, 1907.
At an adjourned meeting of sundry inha-
bitants of williamsburg, on Thursday, A
pril 23d, 1907. to which the students of
William and Mary College were invited,
Samuel Tyler in the chair. and Robert
Anderson Secretary, Messrs Girardin, Ca
bell and Robinson, three of the committee
appointed yesterday, (the Ri. Rev'd Jas.
Madison being absent when he was uppoin-
ted member of the committee, and ha-
wing declined to act,) made the following
report:
Considering, That the practice general
ly prevalent among nations, of celebrating
the great and interesting epochs of their
history, is highly WORTHY of our imitation,
inasmuch as it necessarily tends to carry
the mind back to carly and eventful peri
DDS; to present to it a wide range of obser-
vation and reflection to perpctuate the
admiration and gratitude due to the foun-
ders & active benefactors of states to re-
he al
OF society, and to stimulate the present
generation to transmit those improvements
not only unimpaired but increased to pos
terity, and especially, by producing an as
semblage of citizens from the most virtu-
Gus motives, to diffuse information, to inspire
unity OF thought and to create harmony Of
sentiment among all the members of the
national family;
And considering, that the settlement of
our forefathers at James Town, on the 18th
May, 1607, an enterprise planned with adj
mirable wisdom, conducted with a noble
and daring spirit, and achieved with un-
eXampled courage and perseverance,, is
one OF the greatest aeras in the history of
Virginia, since it happily led to the trans
formation of wide world of savage wilder
ness, into an abode of the arts, the scien-
ces and other blessings of civilized life
and since 1t was an suspicious, though dis
tant prelude to our great revolution by which
these United States have risen to the dig
nifty OF independence, and been enabled to
exhibit to mankind the sublime spectacle
OF a nation OF freemen, governed by equal
laws, flowing from equal sutirages of the
whole mass of the citizens.
Resolved, Therefore, that we will ioy-
fully associate with our fellow citizens of
other places incelebratmg at James Town
the memorable day on which our loreta-
theirs there laid the foundation OF that ia
brio which has since become one Of the
brightest ornaments and trmest support of
a great and Furnishing repubnc.
Resolved, That Messrs. CabeI, Semple.
Greenhow, Girardin, a. Mason and Cole
man be appointed a committee to Cores
pond with other committees for the purpose
OF making arrangements relative to the
celebration, OF this National Jubilee.
Resof1ed, That the Right Rev'd Bishop
Madison, be requested to offer on that day
to the Divine Benefactor of Man, PRAYER
expressive OF the deep and fervid gratitude
OF the people for the signal protection be-
slowed OH their forefathers and OH them
sllves.
Resolved, That William Writ, ESQ. now
in this city, be requested to deliver on the
same day, an appropriate Grafton.
Resolved, That one of the students of
William and Mary College, be invited to
prepare, and deliver, at some suitable pc
Rod of the festival, an address adapted to
the occasion.
ResotUcd, That the sense of our fellow
citizensbe taken as to the propriety of cree
ting by subscription, on the very spot where
our forefathers first landed, $50 far as that
spot can now be ascerta1ned,) a modest,
but durable monument, of the granite of
our country, with inscriptions expressive
Of their merits and of the generation fell,
towards them by grateful posterity.
RESOLVED, That this proceedings of the
meeting be signed by the Chairman and
Secretary, and that with the resolution of
yesterday, they be transmitted to Rich
mond, Norfolk and Petersburg for publica-
ton.
SAMUEL TYLER, Chairman.
RO: ANDERSON, Secretary.
COMMENCEMENT.