The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-05-13


My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees;
Sweet Freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake
Let all breath Partake,
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound proiong.
Our fathers God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To the / sing,
long may our land be bright,
With freedoms holy light;
Protect MS by thy might,
Great God our king"
Youths of this Institution, as you
learn lessons under the folds of this
beautiful, flag may you not forget TO
learn to love, honor and forever
defend it.
The band en- struck up the
"Star Spangled Banner" and while
the air was being rendered, the
flag was run up amid the cheers of
the crowd.
The children then sang the "Star
Spangled Banner, when Mr.. Hogg
was introduced by the Principal OF
the school, and accepted the flag on
behalf of the Board of Education,
the children and the public schools.
Below is Mr.. Hogg's speech in full:
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A more appropriate gift could not
be made to our school than that OF
the American flag, because it is the
ensign of a free people that believe
in free schools whose chief pride is
to cherish and maintain both.
Wherever the American flag
waves over its own soil there an
education is guaranteed toall of our
boys aud girls, however humble
may be their home or abject their
poverty-it has brought the means
of cultivating the mind and heart
within the reach of all, and though
our boast is of the freedom of our
institutions, none is freer than the
poor boys scat in cozy school
room.
Our territorial reach is from ocean
to ocean, and from gulf to lake, in
which have been founded forty four
sovereign States with the full power
to regulate aud control their own in
ternal affairs, yet all looking to this
flag for protection and the preserva-
ton oftheir own autonomy. There
is no such feature of government
as this of ours in all the world be-
sides. If an insult should be offered
to this flag on the coast of California
the shock would be instantly felt on
the coast of Maine, so close and true
are the indissoluable bonds of our
Union.
Whatever may be our political
difference on questions of foreign
and domestic policies = wi atever
asperities may be engendered by
the heat of party warfare-what-
ever turbulence may obtain in the
councils of our own people, let but
one star in the folds of that flag on
it's blue field be threatened, and all
differences are at once healed, all
asperities softened and the widest
turbulence smoothed.
This is not that we are an emo
tional people, but because we are a
patriotic people, and patriotism is
born in the home and sustained by
the form and free principles of our
government. History has recorded
the patriotism of the Roman citizen
as the highest type known to. the
world; but his was the offspring OF
personal pride and the love ofglory
inspired by the magnificence of en-
pire. Ours comes from the happi-
ness which reigns in the hearts of
our people and the high preroga-
tives of citizenship under republi-
can government.
One of the great aims of our
country to- day should be an earn
est endeavor to have the present
generation of youth to fairly appre-
ciate the form and beauty of this
government and the incompatible
advantages which it offers for the
up building of human character
and the formation of true manhood.
OF course large share of this re-
sponsibility rests upon our fathers
and mothers, whose influence in
shaping the destiny of the offspring
is UNNECESSARILY great. still it must
be shared by the great army of
teachers in our land to whom we
look with fondest hope for the eme-
nation of a noble manhood and wo,
manhood when our innocent boys
and girls shall have passed from un-
der their instruction.
Our people have given an ample
testimonial of their appreciation OF
the duties of the hour by the cree
ton of this magnificent school build
ing, commodiOus as it is beautiful,
ample in all its apartments, and
healthfuI in all it's appointments.
They have builded for themselves
a monument of unfading glory, 10
which future generations will point
with happiness and genuine pride
and which marks an era in the ed
ucational histry of our town.
The Board of Education were un-
daunted in their high resolve to lay
the foundations of this glorious
structure, and never ceased or weari-
ed in their labors until they guard.
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