The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21

teach the world a new lesson in poll
tics. as well as human achievement and
development. Thomas Nelson Page was
a school boy In old Hanover when the
clouds OF war were gathering, and
the storm of our second revolution,
was about to break over the heads of
people who had exhausted every pos
sible means to avert a calamity pre-
dicted by Patrick Henry, and delayed
by the e~loquence of Henry Clay.
Mode and Inspiration.
The life and character Of Patrick
Henry urn!sh a model and an in
spiration for the youths OF this coun-
try. Well may e numerous posterity
be proud OF his name and fame. May
the youths OF this school and county
who look on this portrait day after
day imbibe the spirit that moved his
heart and fred his ambition. May they
be as strong and helpful In tho lays of
adversely; as loyal TO the right as he
was under ell circumstances, and as
devoted TO his family and kindred.
Most Of Q enjoy opportunities as
great, IT not greater, thar he enjoyed
He helped to solve the problems of
the eighteenth century. For those of
.he nineteenth your fathers and grand
fatherG gave the strength of their
oPiiiih VI lHGl
blood. The greater problems of the
twentieth century you must meet and
help to solve. To equip you for TINS
duty this house is erected. To fncite
you to high endeavor and noble pur-
pose the portraits are hung on these
walls. and your patient and self
sacrificing teachers. point out to YOU.
DAY by day. the road you must travel
and place the sign boards so as TO
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you to pursue. that you may reach the
goal OF you ambition.
But o have another national
character. born here In the slashes OF
hanover. who has often been held up
10 the youths OF Virginia and Ken
lucky as one who overceme early dim
cuities and wrote his name high on the
roll OF fame among the civic heroes
OF the nineteenth century. lie did not
owe his position to wealth or early
euucational advantages. He did not
msSe me ~aovantage Of good training
IN the best of schools as you enioy
he was the mill boy of the slashes
end poorer than most OF you. He was
$3.50 well born. His father was a min.
ister ana q respectable citizen. who
area while Clay was a small bow. He
wes blessed. however. with a good
mother. who trained him we'll. She was
iust IKE your mothers-good. patient
loving and self-denying.
~ fourteen years OF e he was
working in a drug store in Richmond
: ne!e ne met that great man. Chancel
. "ytae, who gave him instruction
and then made him his clerk. 7 wish
We had more men like Wythe. we
nave some now. I wish the LAWYERS Of
Nirsinla would erect a monument Owe,
ms remains in st. Johns Church ward
! an ready to help them do this al any
time. ~ III any
"Clay's intercourse With WINE ,ais
me for m%ethodical study and
application hat enabled him 70 gain
and maintain the eminent position he
afterwar occupied. ,1 -. ~
IN eloquence and statesuansbtn
Gay VIII always rank among the ereat
men of the past century. The pasr ~
Ialhoun and Webster. he has LETT his
IMPRESS indelibly stamped on the for
."ne and progress OF his country ana
i!eh'y earned the enduring fame ac-
corded him. a.
You will look on this portrai, every
u"E mat you attend this school. Make
q mehtai note. each day, and say. |
~, stTive c~ontinually to be right.
.housh may never be President.
We have hastily referred 10 PAT.
rex Henry and to Henry olay. Of whon,
you nave read. and Will read moro yon
must take on faith what we say of
lhese men. but with them here. we
nave a portrait of a man you know
ana love and are proud of. He is stilI
'iVins, n we speak more modestlv
Yet even more lovingly Of him be-
cause he is one of us. He NAV not