Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
MAJOR sTRlNeFELLows eULoeY.
At the Banquet He Delivers a Beautiful
and Chaste Address.

At the Banquet He Delivers q Beautiful
and Cheste Address.
The programme of the day was con-
cluded last night at Sanger Hall with a
banquet.
Ats O'Clock Lee Camp and numerous in
vited guests, in all about $50, sat down TO a
splendid spread of choice viands.
These were discussed with earnestness
and for about three fourths of an hour
knives and forks did good service. At the
end of that time Commander Archer intro
duced Mayor Ellyson as toast-master, who
announced that he had communications of
regret from w. A. Smoot, of Il. Z. Lee
Camp, Alexandria. Va. Hugh r. Smith, of
A. ?. Hill Camp, Petersburg; Captain Sol.
Cutchins. of the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues. and Captain @. Gray Bossieux, Of
the Grays.
"Thc Day We Celebrate"
The first toast Of the evening was "The
Day We Celebrate In the worlds great
calendar the advent of moral heroes is de-
signsted by white stones, the birth
of mighty con9uerors, IS writ IN
ruby red. let the 10th o: January,
1907, be marked with an imperishable
diamond to flash from different faces all
the colors of the bow Hpon the natal-day
of one who in peace and war, in success
and reverse, has for his single watchword
Duty" the noblest term IN the English
language. :,
Major Charles s. Stringfellow responded
to this sentiment. He said:
What meaneth the noise of this great
shout?n was the question which the vic
torious Philistines asked of each other
some three thousand years ago when the
defeated Hebrews saluted the ark OF the
o hrof trht
ing-place at Shiloh to their camp at Eben-
ezer. and the significant question we ask
of ourselves this evening is: What mean
eth the noise of this great shout?" with
which this assemblage of so many OF the
representative men of Richmond have
greeted a sentiment in honor of
chieftain whose hag was furled at last in
the gloom OF defeat and despair.
The day we celebrate The four and
eightieth anniversary OF that on which, In
an Old Virginia homestead by the blue
waters of the broad Potomac another son
was born unto our dear old Mother State,
destined in the fulness of time to write his
name beside her Masons, her Henrys. her
Madisons, her Jeffersons-nay, beside that
of Washington himself-on theroll of those
immortal few that were not born TO die"
Forever and forever, bonored be the
natal-day of Robert Edward Lee; forever
and forever, upon its return as the years
pass by in the long procession OF the ages
may Virginia's mothers teach their chill
dren the story of his matchless Christian
life and virtues. and Yirginias sons mark
that day with drum and fife and all the
pomp and pageantry of grand parade. and
gather in public meeting and banquet hall
to celebrate and honor il
And right 10 is, my friends, that we
should so do, for of all the events that his
tory takes note of one of the most notable
is the coming of truly great man to do
his work amongst men, TO wisely govern
and control by the force OF o mighty intel
lect and imperial will, to labor for them,
and by his genius add 10 their comforts
and promote their material welfare, TO
think for them and increase their stock of
knowledge and clear away the nists of
doubt and error that obscure the light OF
truth, TO act for them and by deed and
bright example point out the path Of duty
and stimulate TO high endeavor.
END TO KINDLY BuLE.
When on the 7th of June, 177e, Richard
Henry Lee moved in the Continental Con-
eress that "these united colonies are and
Of right ought TO be free and independent
States.n and when on the &th day of July
following that Congress adopted and pub
iished TO the world the Declaration Of In
dependenca which Jefferson drew and the
good people of tloe colonies under the
lead OF Washington maintained with bayo-
net and sword for themselves and their
posterity, they put an end TO kingly rule
forever.
But the kings they detbroned were these
who rule by the accident Of birth or cir
cumstances, and not those kings Of men
who rule by right IN very truth divine
the right Of God given powers 40 grand IN
their proportions and 80 honestly used for
promotion Of truth and justice and the de-