The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-03

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and heard him to the close. With rare
good taste Judge Ingram spoke for
comparatively short tlmc. but truths
worth hearing and remembering were
utteredl in the brief space during which
The held his audience. He said:
My Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentle
men:
pleasing act connected with tic erection
Of monument in the memory Of the
Manchester, This monument is intended
TO commemorate the valor. not only of
the .imany who live N, fame, yet who
died in virtues cause but It speaE .s
alike OF the courage and self-denlal or
the few who remain among us OF thal
gallant band who, In response TO the
call Of Virginia, II the lnids, Of peace and
plenty. with their tibarns filed to over
left Of their mirth and their employ;
mcnts and because duty called, hncki I
ton their armor and went out 10 hGht lofi
God and native land. ,
terrified. and which Is so dear t9 us.
Hundreds, ut the confluence of tho
rivers, TO the Hugucnot and, Gcnlto set
been the rugged nurscand Of men; for
t. the cherries and light and heat e.
thousands ana her rich loWsro Wnh o of
their their golden harvests, and her high
lands have. been famed for tho fragrance
Of the weed raised upon them almost since
golden given from the Virgin Queen Eliza
H Re Weighed f In tlis SMOKE ascending in curls
crop Of ST Old Id Chesterfield has always been
men, fullgrown men, Hardly had the
settlement been made at jamestown by
y Smith, fha English settlement
American soil, antedating the one at
plymouth thirteen years., before tho
colonists sought the woods ana ST. streams
& manent hort.s. and. the younger sons OF
3 Norfolk squlses ,tnd the sons of the
men who had sailed the seas with tai
from Devon, In old England, began to
build and clear the forests with axe and
hammer and TO drive back the red man
{ wits buck aud ball; for your ancestors Were
no carpet knghta: nor were they those
who listened to- tho blessings Of a lutte ~
my ladies chamber, Men OF ,nis de-
scrip,ion stayed al home in merry Ems
land. And yet among those who came,
were men OF cultivation some Of whom.
but not many. had the advantages OF
Orfsrd and Cambridge training. TWO.
of God and their native land--thc founda-
ion stones OF this republic.
CRADLE OF THE, REPUBLIC.
should like 10 speak more of the peo-
PIE who first settled this county and
from whom you descend-loNg on every
than the history OF the Genesis OF this
republic. Suffice ii to say that lower Nir-
GINA was the cradle OF the republic and
Chesterfield was in It's very lap IN tho
horsemcn from Chesterfield, then part
OF Henrco who rode with that patriot
j in forcible protest against the tyranny OF
the crown, hundred years exactly be-
he ~ pf the RrSDlltiDn.
which separated US from the mother coun-
try. Chesterfield bore conspicuous part
~ the days preceding the REVOLUTION and
whcih brought i about. ArGMhald Cary,
x OF this county, were among the leaders OF
That '''' great Virginia convention ,l.at IN
structed her delegates 70 vote i2r the
Independence OF tue colonies at Philadel.
phla. Her part In the Revolutionary MAJ
Was u conspicuous one, and II is said thai
her militia at Guilford Courthouse turned
lid tide of battle under the lead OF ''olone
ST. George Tucker, whose resinenee wa
at Matoaca. lier SONS were ~ the iron
also in the war Of 1872, and y you go |,
old BlaNdford Cemetery and read w
proud names on the monument to wan'a,
MeRae and his company, which won X
soubrIquet for gallant Petersburg, Of "
"cockadc City" at Fort Meigs, y9i Wi
find the names of many Chesterhcld me
whose names are household words VII
YOU and always have been, Pardon, N
friends this seeming dIgresslon on NJ
part The monument We nnyeil lo-IaS
10 the Confederate soldiers from laol !
1865, 10 soldiers who took part in IN
greatest war in all the worlds history
But. without the background and sctlinl
which have giyen yon gllnps t',,,, 2,
The men, The actors that Chesterfield tui
,,ished. thcir bravery, their self-dona
their uncomplaining obedience TO orders
tllcii' agony and bloody sweat, we're q
much dependent upon the mould and I'm
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