Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1899-01-24
RUS IN URBE.
BY COL. FORREST w. BROWN.

nus DhDE.
BY COL. FORREST W. BROWN.
Away with care. away with toll,
Heed not the wind or weather,
No duty now must pleasure spoil,
Tonight well spend together.
Both what we are and what WILDE,
Both present and hereafter,
We cast aside, quite merrily
Tonight, reign fun and laughter.
Our hand is small, but true and tried,
Nor lacking cen devotion.
We scorn defeat, it is oar pride
To win our way in Goshen.
And many lick, on snylls strong,
To aid that high ambition,
Has echoed like incessant song
And bettcrcd our condition.
But now away with toil-clad thought
All selfish aim resign.
Tonight with tender memories fraught
OF days All! ''Aald lang syne"
Those early days, those happy days,
We con them DER aud DER,
Their tender grace abides always,
We love them more and moore,
They speak of home, boy loves and hates,
OF sister, father, mother.
Of long school days and dear school mates
And the fun with one another.
OF the dear old Vale. our native land,
Its woods and glens and riIIs,
And the long blue mountains that command
Its dales and grassy hills.
Then fill the glass and here's a toast
Loved by our sires of yore,
Our native land, we love it most,
The peerless Shenandoah.
After the dinner the speechmaking be-
gan on the toasts. as follows: "Our So
ciety," the President; The Memory of
Gen. Rob. E. Lee" Hon. Jas. L. Cor
don; Down in West Virginia" Hon.
Jos. S. Miller; ''our Duty in the Philip
pines" Hon. BENZ. Trapnell; Some
Characters Have Met" Mr.. A. A.
Gard; "Our History, Chapter X, E. S.
Mcknight.
All the set speeches followed in regular
order, with the exception of the one
which was to be delivered by the Hon.
Jos. S. Miller, who was called away from
the city on important business, and could
not be present. Mr.. Cleon Moore brought
a message from home, and received a
welcome royal. He was asked to convey
a message of love from all present to the
dear ones at home.
Mr.. c. B. Rouss, Col. H D. Beall
Hon. w. De Hertburn w ashington, Maj.
Howard, Mr.. A, w. Stump and others
also made short speeches. At the close of
the banquet an election of officers took
place. Mr.. A. w. Stump was chosen
president for the ensuing year, Rev. John
H. Logic vice president, and Mr.. Harvey
N. Dorsey secretary and treasurer.
We append the. following, from the
New York Times:
In the absence of Joseph S. Miller, who
was to respond to the toast of Down in
West Virginia" Cleon Moore. of Charles
Town, was introduced to speak in his
place. Mr.. Moore said that this was his
first visit to New York, and he interested
his hearers with description of his first
of the city. This called forth
some impromptu remarks from Charles
Broadway Rouss, who, before he had
told of his own first experiences
in New York just after the civil war. He
laughed pleasantly when Mr.. Moore
asked: You walked here. didn't your
He then spoke of his difficulties in his
first endeavor to get foothold in the
world.
Col. Henry D. Beall, of The Baltimore
Sun, was then called upon by Mr.. Rouss
to make some remarks not scheduled on
the programme of the evening. Col.
Beall called up memories of DAYS in
Charles Town before the war. and when
he had finished, President Beall, who is
nephew of Col. Beall, steered the meet
ing back to the regular order and intro
duced Benjamin Trapnell, who was U.
S. District Attorney of w. Va. under Mr..
Cleveland's second Administration.
Mr.. Trapnell responded to the toast
"Our Duty in the Philippines" and Gre
ated the sensation of the evening bv on
posing the principle of expansion. His
listeners evidently had expected him to
take the opposite side of the question.
a. Many seem to be under the impress
sion" said Mr.. Trapnell, that we are
compelled to accept the Philippine Islands
whether we want them or not. 1t is true
that treaty of peace has been drawn up
though it is not yet approved-in which
Spain pretends to grant to us the sover-
eighty of those islands, but Spain herself
had not governed part of the territory
there for several hundred years. The
part over which she had exercised her
military authority had been almost
wrenched from her grasp before we APP
Peared on the scene.
SO it seems that we are granted title
to a sovereignty to which the grantor
cannot successfully show her own title. .
Mr.. Trapnell then argued that a war
of conquest was out of the question. as he