The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-22
From our speeisl reporter
WASHINGTON COLTEGE.

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From our speeisi Reporter j
WASHINGTON COLTEeaE.
x,,nonson and e-Arurnnt Meeting
K1Ic and Eloquent speech, OF Major
=. Horace Lacy. - q ~ y
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TIN Town eontinuesyto GIL up with visit
80 .Roston, New. York, New Jersey, Phil
odnlnhia, Nashville, Sc, &C., are allrepre-
sented. General Hampton arrived last
. night, and is staying with General Lee.
The two chieftains were on the street to
cefher to-day, and attracted great attention.
Some Of us thought Of other days, when We
used 10 see them, amid scenes very dissimi-
lar from these quiet, classic shades. We
must not grow rebellious-we must be good
loyal citizens, obedient to the @powers that
be"; but we must confess that as we re-
membered that in the estimation OF our
rulers these TIVE noble men are not 70 be
trusted, while that drunken negro that
stsecers along the street is worthy to vote
and to hold office, we thought--wen, no
matter what we thought--but we heartily
wished that things were different. sIs that
treason to the Governmental r ssEYY
The Society Of Alumni to-day elected
General John Echols president, Colonel j..
C, Burks, of Bedford, and Major j. b. Dor
man. yice-presidents, and Colonel 81 H.
fletcher secretary. They elected as their
orator for next year General J.sWarren
Grigsby, Of Kentucky. The church was
again crowded tonight to hear the address
: OF Major +. Horace Lacy before the Alumni.
Major Dorman gracefully introduced the
speaker as "one whose eloquent utter
ances had been heard among them IN
PALMER days" @ ..., 800 sl':. : = IS
Major Lacy touchingly alluded TO the
gathering of the Alumni aroand the feet OF
their Alma Mater, and the absence Of many;
noble brothers of whom it could be written,
tsDied on the field Of glory. But he pro
posed not to linger on memories thus awak-
ened. 20 To woman's gentle ministry We
commit even the care and keeping OF our
honored dead. We must work while 1t Is
day." - = .itsFs gs2%,SL+g
Again, on another and not less noble field,
the stern word of command rings along the
line, broken and thinned though it be, close
4tp the ranks and prepare to charge. Got
grant that each one Of you may respond to
the command as readily as when ct the first
bugle note you sprang to arms for liberty
and country. From her ruined homes and
desecrated affairs, from her desolated; fields
and oppressed, impoverished people, CONG
the solemn appeal to you, her educated
sons, to build up her waste places, to give
her beauty for, ashes, and by your united
energies to create material prosperity and
: mower which shall be commemorate with
the heroic achievements Of her mighty
dead. and the proud 4renown of her great
historic past. Then, in her august name,
summon each man to do mems work while
. II is called to-day. Go forth and fight the
bloodless fight of freedom, science, and the
truth of Christ. ssss - !..ss hse-ss.el.. =
he cited the example Of Eneas Of old
bravely battling with adversely and
striving to build a ne,e Troy as an example
of hope and cheer for us, and passed to take
hopeful view Of our future. He had hest
tated in the selection of a theme, at one time
thinkingof speaking on Thorough CLASH
cal learning as the best means to counteract
the unitarian tendencies of the age" He
wanted theme remote from the exciting
passions Of the hour; 81" but when Liberty
as o theme suggested itself to my mind, |
z thought here was something rs foreign to
and remote from us as could be reasonably
demanded, and something which had in this
(our) land even less vitatity than the dead
languages. He announced, then, @Liberty''
rs his theme, and proceeded to an able refu-
tation of the false theories Of liberty which
had obtained in the world. He stated and
defended his own theory Of liberty, and
briefly sketched the origin, growth, de-,
velopment,, and seeming decay and
death of liberty in aour s own land.
He made many hard hits OF the state
of things in this boasted g land of the
free and home of the brave" AS illustra-
ting the corruption of the times, he said OF
Congress "That vile crew, with o due re-
gard for the fitness of things, recently in
, the most solemn and imposing judicial trial
the world ever saw, selected as their fore
most and representative man one who has
been not only solemnly pronounced infa-
nous on the floor of Parliament blythe
Premier of England, but "a wretch upon
whose brazen brow they well knew thief
and robber could be written in o hundred
proven indictments for petit and grand lar
ceny." He then took o. hopeful view Of
the future, and argued that all would in the
end come out right. The points in his ar
gument were Governments of God con-
situations, laws, institutions, which make 1t
executive and efficient for the safety and
good Of the governed, are the work ofsmen.
These all, by the eternal law Of the Creator
and Governor of the universe temporary
alterations, from the ordinary rule ex-
ceptedf are exact reflections of the intelli-
eence and virtue of the people who make
and execute them. He eulogized the OLD
Constitution of our fathers, and argued tha'
the true men Of the North would rally WITH
the brave sons OF, the South to its defence,
Z. and that IN the end its principles would DC
: gloriously triumphant. He drew hope from
the yrapidity with which Virginia is reeu,
perating-e loquently and feelinggly picturin2
the desolations made by Sheridan in this
lovely valley and by the armies about
fredericksburg and other sections OF oul
State, and drawing vivid picture Of oul
returning prosperity, despite the cruel
weight which hangs like q milestone about
us. He pictured in glowing language the
future of the Old Dominion when, re-
ieyed of, present tyranny and oppression,
she can enter upon her career OF material
I prosperity. He closed with an eloquent
appeal to the sons of this noble, old Alma
Mater to be true to her historic past, and
meet the crisis brayely. And if at last we
mustgo down, do as did the brave British
sailor when he saw FIAT his vessel must
certainly sink, After the women! and
children had been saved in the life
boats, he drew his sword and cried to his
men, sssAttentions!.:D Dress the, line h Be true
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