The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-02

tain Mari lost his life In action at Fair
Tax Courthouse on the FIRST day OF june.
ISsl. Confederate soldiers were killed in
action AZ Phllippi on the third day Of
June. seven days before the battle Of
Bethel but three days after the fight at
Fairfax Courthouse.
The orator very briefly sketci,ed the
career Of Captain Mari. Born at War
rcnton. Fanqu.er county. May 27. 1872
member & tho Secession Convention MS
the colleague OF the celebrated Robert
10. Scott, and like MIR. Scott. was an ar
dent Union man, and like him, also voted
against the proposed ordinance OF seces-
sion. But Virginia had scarcely seeded
from the Union ere young Mari found
himself in command Of the Warrenton
Rifics--a company not then attached TO
any regiment. as the crganiza ton of the
army rad scarcely been begun After
1.-THE death OF Captain Mari the company.
was part OF the Seventeenth Virginia
Infantry, commanded BY Colonel Nor
ton Marye,
BORN A SOLDIER.
Mr.. Anderson said Captain Mari came
from long line of soldiers. His grand
father was a surgeons mate in the Con-
Etinental army, and as such dressed the
wound 90 General Lafayette at Brandy
wine, and remained with him all night
tIHCtS 2ItCElltu Dyh3H Lafayette WIFI MY
visited Virginia in 1875 and again met
the man who had probably saved hiy
life.
Mr.. Anderson used The devotion OF
Mar to the union az the text, In large
MEASURE. of his address. He dwelt upon
the overwhelming union sentiment which
prevailed IN Virginia prior TO the call for
troops to coerc,s the secedinE States. and
showed with what reluctance Virginia
had drawn her sword against the govern
rnent she had done 50 much to establish.
.'Eut we are now an indissoluble union
nf lndestrlctible--of indestructible and
cocrnal States" he said. .'If State
OF New England or the Northwest should
try the experiment Of secession from this
union. ~ would be duty Of the States OF
the South to gcoerce IT."
Mr.. Anderson declared however, that
the South could have acted in no other
why. In honor, and the most ELOQUENT
periods OF his address We're those In which
he defended the justice of the Southern
cause.
Mr. Anderson spoke for about an hour
ard twenty minutes. There was tre-
mendous and prolonged applause at the
conclusion Of the Grafton. more music.
ana then there were loud calls for Mon
fague." The Governor was seated IN
the audience a short distance away, and
ne received an ovation OF applause as he
came forward and ascended the stand.
GOVERNOR MONTAGUE.
Mr. Moore introduced Governor Monta-
que as man who would have made a
great War Governor" had he timed his
arrival on this sphere little different
~.
Governor Montague said he could not
undertake to make addenda TO the re-
,narkabie address, to which he had just
listened He said 1t had been an in
spiration 10 him and he believed the mem
cries of what virginians had accomplish
ed in the great struggle should inspire US
ali ITO keep Virginia at the altitude. to
which she was raised by the Virginia SOL
der"
.The soldiers of the confederacy," said
tba Governor, followed their great com
r,anters ,.ot so much because of bind
love. hut because of abiding faith IN their
genius and their ability to lead them
The Governor paid q tribute TO jack
son-"the silent man." to Lee, the Sir
gr;aIlahad of American chiyalrT" and said
that while the time was pgobablY tar
distant when two such men would be
seer on the earth again, yet the time
might come, when there would be PRESS
ing need OF two SUCH and possibly one
would come from Mount Vernon and one