The age-herald., 1902-01-30
Washington Day by Day

Massachusetts were naked barbarians roaming through tracxIess forests with no roofs to shelter them mine were the princes of the earth"
 So spoke the late Judah P. Benjamin in reply to an ill-mannered New England CT who had sneered at him because he was a Jew. The story Is familiar, how in the heat of the storming debates in the Senate preceding and leading up to the war between the states. a senator for Massachusetts on one occasion on the floor of the Senate sought vulgarly to answer the incompatible logic of Mir. Benjamin, then a senator for Louisiana, by rude sheer at that Jew''-the great leader of the only race of men on earth that was never barbarious
 is forgot, while "that Jew" lives in his- tory, his deeds and his fame brighten ing in the flight of the years. How MT. Benjamin, a cabinet officer of the Con- federacy, escaped from the country aboard an old sailing hulk after Appo- mattox, in order to avoid imprisonment and possible execution for his devotion to the South: how he found refuge under the British flag in the West Indies; how he finally made his way to London, and friendless and moneyless there he suc- efrt Tod f0r fn he English bar: how he rose to the dignity of Queens counsel and to the head of the great lawyers of the majestic tenn pie at Templebar. and how in dying the Queen and her people mourned him, and how they placed his bust in Westmin- ister Abbey-all this unexampled career of that Jew Is familiar to our school children even mighty master of mighty race, how contemptible was the fling of New England bigotry at Judah Benjamin.
 
 All this is here recalled by the sense less and vulgar fling of a cartoonist of great journal at the historic town of CuIpeper in Virginia. This cartonist- one abhors that term as as ubstitute for arricaturist-pietures many young wo- men, each named for some American town and holding aloft an invitation, scrambling and shouting before the door of the committee on reception and en- tertainment of Prince Henry of Prussia. One girl, short and ill-shapen with large feet, and wearing an ancient rustic sun bonnet above a dress of white with large black spots, Is labelled "Culpepper." The execrable taste of this cartoonist needs no comment, but happily it points happy moral
 In the same issue of the journal which prints this vulgar cartoon is an account of the marriage in Culpeper, Virginia, of Mir Raleigh Travers Green and Miss Lucille Dave, who in themselves repre- sent more of history, more of gentle breeding, more of really noble ancestry than are represented in all Chicago and the whole west, apart from Southerns who may be dwelling there. The best of the history of this nation comes to joyous point in that quiet wedding in Culpepper, the town which was settled by gentlefolk long before ever a pig was slaughtered west of the Alleghanies, and which is so coarsely represented by the cartoonist.
 The bridegroom, young MT. Green, is a direct descendant of the historic figure, Robert Green of Culpeper, whose sev- en sons have representatives from the Atlantic to the Pacific, one of them be- ing pr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which owns more miles of wires than all Europe. One of the sons, General John Green remaining at Culpeper, and organized the first military company, the famous Minute Men, to offer it's serivces for the war of the Revolution. Some of the stones of old Robert Greens original home Liberty Hail," in culpeper, are still standing and the old family burying ground near by is still preserved.
 This bridegroom of yesterday is a lineal descendant of General John Green who did such noble work in the cause of American liberty, and on the maternal side of his father, Major Joseph w. Green of the Confederate army, the young man is descended lineally from Mary Thompson Mason. eldest daughter
  of the Virginia bill of rights. which is the basis for our national doctrine of mans rights on this continent and of the bill of rights of every state in the Un- ion George Mason's wife was Anne Gill bert, daughter of noted family of Maryland. Mary Thompson Mason, daughter of this Union. married John Cooke of West Farm" Stafford coun- ty, who was a descendant of Joseph Ball of Espingforest. Lancaster county, Vir- ginia. by his first wife, Elizabeth Rom ney of London.
 Joseph Balls second wife was Miss Johnson who became the mother of a daughter, Mary Ball. and Mary Ball was the mother of George Washington.
 There are numerous descendants of Jo- seph Ball, material grandfather of the immortal Father of His Country, now living, amongst them being Colonel Charles P. Ball of Montgomery. Ala, and Major George c. Ball, late of Birming- ham, now resident of Atlanta.
 Hannah Ball, daughter of Joseph Ball, by his first marriage, is the direct an- cestress of our Culpeper bridegroom, she having married Raleigh Travers. a des- cendant, by the way of Sir Walter Raleigh of imperishable renown. On his mothers side young Green, who bears the Chris As.. 1t< sa 1-