Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-08-18
HISTORIC ADDRESS,.
Ds,tvered by mr.. =. 4. uPsh"f' '""
18Th, 1900. Dxv "f Dedi"~'t"" "'
New Courthouse OF Ae' omsc

De,,yerea by Mr. =. n. UPsh"'' 1""'
18Th, 1900. Dxv "f Dedication "'
New Courthouse OF Ae' omsc
You all know that Virginia Is called
the Old Dominion and that she was
the first OF the British possessions
which proclaimed Charles Ill TO be
the King OF England &c, which
canned her to be called the Olu
Dominion, but you may not have
heard the part which the Eastern
Shore OF Virginia took in the matter.
now give it verbatim from our court
records 1t is captioned:
"A Proclamacon by the Comandr
and Comissionrs of Accomacke
Mense, Decenbr Ano l649.
Whereas it hath pleased Almighty
God. to suffer us to bee deprived OF
or late dread sovraigne OF blessed
memory, wee the Comandr and Com
issionrs of AccoInacke doe by these
p'Tents p'clayme Charles the I'M
doubted heyre OF our late sovraigne
of blessed memory, to bee Hinge OF
England, Scotland, France, Ireland
Virginia and all other remote prov
inces and collonys, New England and
the Caribda Islands, and all other
ereditamts and indowmts belong
ing unto or late sovraigne OF blessed
memorye. willinge and requiringe
all his Ma'ties Leigh to acknowledge
their alledgence, and with gen'rall
consent, and applause, pray God to
blesse Charles the Second, King OF
England, Scotland, France, and Ire
land, Virginia. New England. we
Caribda Island, and all other prov
ines, and subjects, to the English
Crowne, and SOC God save Hinge
Charles the Second. Amen, Amen,
} Amen
"Recordats primo die Mense
Ffebrur Auo 1910, pine Edm: Mathew
Cler Cur"
And now my friends we have been
wandering for 292 years over this
Peninsula. You have right TO feel
, fatigued, il you are not. We have
: seen the infant Colony in its cradle
, rocked by our sea breezes, and have
laid away our Indian friends, to sleep
the sleep that knows no waking
with the ripples of our waters AS AL
everlasting requiem. "Reqniescan'
in pace." 1t is all that is renaini ne
OF their inheritance. We have beer
accused ourselves OF having beer
asleep, for 10! these many years, by
some of our more grasping, hustling
far off cities, and Of living in sleepy
!, hollow, but the taunt hurts us not
Our records will show fewer crimes
, labor strikes. dynamite disasters
native tramps and paupers in proper
, ton to population, than elsewhere
We have asked few favors Of the out
. side world. "Dales Gift" has beer
rich, aud is yet generous to her ten
ants. Her table, is the gourmand''
Heaven, and always full. Her daugh
tors are as lovely, as good, and a
great in their womanly ways, ant
= their womanly hearts, as any In tai
l., world, and as proof that her som
have appreciated them, and that the.
= have honored her sons, they hav
~ married and intermarried so much
u that an eminent Englishman SOM
: years ago said, that the purest Angl
Saxon blood in the world, was doubt
10 less to be found on the Eastern Shor
o of Virginia, and local wag said
10 He had been at work hard for thre
weeks to find his ancestors, and tina
at the end of the first week, by tn
sustaining aid OF six glasses Of appl
81 toddy per day, he discovered that Ii
was his own grandfather. The secon
81 week he worked harder yet, and va
helped by ten apple toddies day, q
he might never have been 30 fortu
, nate as to learn, that he was his ow
~ father. And during the third wee
"he let himself go"-he never la
worked 80 hard before in his life, an
~ yet he only took dozen apple too
dies q day, just to help carry hit
tbrouoh his aesrch. and WAS abOt
:. succeeding. when he ran up again
a snag" and was about proving hin
self to be his own sister, when
stopped short, for said he. blessed
ar wanted to have to wear hoe
skirt and a Dolly Warden polonaise
d 1.-THE End