Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-14
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS PRESENT
Gen. Kuroki of Japan Reviews AS
sembled Fleets== international
Races and Ball and Dinner.

| ana z most distinguished part, in franz
ing the constitution Of 17S7 ana gave to
TN Union four ont Of its FIVE first Pres
| idorts: how ono Of NlrGinia's most Illus
trinuS sons. Chief. Justice Marshall, 50
"ypourd"d and developed that constitu-
| ton as + become almost its second ;iu-
! thereof all this | must not here ;e;.d now
attempt To speak.
| Nearly 20 years ago dark days de-
| seconded upon Virginia. War came with
all tie evils that war brings in its train
| Those were days Of sadness and suffer-
| ing, suffering horne with the char1ctcris-
tic galantry Of Eirginians. ana they pro-
| duccd in Robert +. Lee one Of the finest
characters Of that age. But out of the
storm there emerged n land delivered
| from the curse of slavery. which had
| alas. come down ON early colonial
! days. The republic now began to stand
more truly united than it had ever stood
| before. Today the jcalouSics Of states,
| the antagonism Of North and South, have
| happily vanished Virginia and MasSa
| c;lusctts. tho Carolina Of Calhoun and
! the Illinois of Lincoln. can al look back
without bitterness on those Virginia bat
tlcff"ldS whcr" Ice and Grant won I'M
diving fame. The problems that NOW 0c
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u III Gr,t English settlement
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