The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-24
SONS or GEORGIA
TRUE TO VIRGINIA
Veterans Of That State Urge tie
Legislature to Make Appto-
priation to Jamestown.
MR.. MITCHELL's FINE SPEECH
\ Son Of the Old Dominion
Makes An Eloquent and
Effective Plea.

Georgia Division, United Confederate
i Veterans, at their recent meeting in Ma
con, adopted resolutions strongly urging
| the Legislature Of that state to mako MI
appropriation for crcditabe display at
i the jamestown Exposition.
j Mr.. w. N. Mitchell, n native of Viz
ginia, and now Georgian, made an eo-
d quent and patriotic speech before the
veterans. He said:
| In this, tho proudcst hour OF my life,
stand In awe in the presence OF the
1 remnant OF the most heroic army that
! Gods sun has ever shane upon. an
army whose members left their homes
and flresltes as ono man. not from sell
fish motives, not for greed, but to battle
for principle and principle alone
The Georgia Legislature of 1W4 at me
| request Of that grand son or Nlrslia.
the late lamented Fitzhugh Lee, passed
an act creating a commission 70 represent
| the State at the Jamestown Exposition
to be held in 1907. was elected to me
nosition OF president of the commission
I am a virgininn by birth, Georgian
BY adoptlon-proud of the State OF NY
birth and the State OF my adoption, p't
/ above all other things prouder or my
birthright as a Southcrner that gives me
the right to say am of the country iron'
which came the Confederate army.
In my dual capacity as a Virgnian anu
| a Georgian, bring to you eeo' 'u''s
an appeal from old Virginia
What It Stands For.
Virginia, in the jamestown E * Xlp%Sredih
ami ~ versarvsof the first settlement Of tho
Anglo Saxon race in Amerc and { !, she no
to aeofga at II fG a time Of
t ~. Grrinai Thirteen states, with the ey-
ception Of Georgia. have already es'S + m anG
empire state Of the South; and as she I,i Is
| greater in her undeveloped ana dcVe!opeo
| ,tuoo SONS Ioulo eul 10 Hun trul tlllseM
| mercialy, she should be represented, as
| the site Of this exposition according 70
I tho railroad schedules and the census OF
the United States, is within tewive no hours
ride OF twenty million people, represent.
ing the wealth and purchasing power OF
Itho country, therefore, commercialy,
! Georgia cannot afford totbe absent, put.
as a virgnian transmit the Old states
appeal from higher standpoint thal'
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
rrdn3 ISL ssfqre t ned her sacred so
500 before men, who have parts SO OF t renr-
selves still resting nn ae that sos shoulder
with Virginia Under the lmmor Wir, WASH
! ington. that grand and heroic NlrS NJ I'LL
n neld 2 i In Mexico. Georgia and Virginia
stood sido. by side and IS storming v }he
Of eaeG da by sda shout
From 1861 to 1856 lead by that other
grand yrglnian. Robert L. Lee. Georgia
ard Virginia carried the stars and bars TO.
victory on every we'll fought field, until.
i The last grandcst victory or them all
Apnomattox, when the Southern cause
went down. not in defeat, but In glory
| and victory, a people unconquered, bul
! overwl1elmed and the world, lead by
/ their enemy, bowed their heads TO the
/ glory Of the Southern soldier.
Did Her Part Proudly.
! For four years Virginia opened her arms
and there was nothing that she haa Ina. ma
! was too good for the Southern soldier
/ Her smokchouses were depleted hff lah lr
! ers were thrown open; her fences were
i used to warm the boys IN grey and ana
thousands of those immortals Iest On ,a,s
j|ly cared for by the noblo women OF VIZ ",
4 ginia. sleeping their last sleep until the
i resurrection to the glorious lie the re
/ ward of those glorious people.
General Garnett. Major General conf
handing the Virginia Veterans, has writ,
ten that at the next meeting Kcn nm nf
is ld, the year of tho Exposition, be held
In Richmond, as on June ard OF .i ma sn I,iia
! The grand memorial erected by the noble
4 Daughters of the Confcderacy 10 the Htst
and only President OF the LOST ,G t,iss
4 will be unveiled. And as MS e ,,,1i is
have branded him as traitor i ~, VIZ ~, "
4 but fitting, that the remnant OF The hosts
i that followed him should be present N the
/. Capital of the Confederacy, ana drawn
Il with their applause the asperS'oil on tIe
so called traitor. Jefferson PAYS; W ,nrs
n the shadow Of those similar TRAITORS,
i George Washington, Robert u. Lee ana
Il StoneWall Jackson.
4 1T is her appeal that bring here and
a ask you to mcmorializc the Georgia Leg
islnturc to make appr9dpriat Ion, N an y,
sWer to the first call or Ola virginia "
A her sister state Georgia
Action Taken. @
The Following resolutions were unanim-
Il w lEHIiAs, The state Of Virginia is to
!, give n great Industrial and historical eX-
4 positi in 1897 to commemorate me lHree
hundredth anniy q fhe tf Anelc s Saxon pal
race in America, and
WHEREAS, Virginia IS sending out an
4 appeal TO Georgia totbe repressitcu, ts oi4c
Z OF the thlrteen original states. ana III,
WHEREAS, The General APpro,p ,lma ho !.
reported unanimously for liberal approI,
printion that Georgia may De propei'S
represented; be II
RESOLVED; That the United Conteaeii
rate Veterans OF Georgia, IN Z heir aAnu.l
cncnmpment In Macon. unanimously urge
J, ihe Georgia LEGISLATURE at Its next ses-
sion. 10 pass this appropriation, thus an,
= swcring the first appeal that the Grand
:, Old Commonwealth of Virginia mas even
made to Georgia; bo 1t further
Il RESOLVED, That we. send our ia ste 60
ings to he Old Commonwealth tHal W.
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