Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-01-31

dress made by Hon. Henry St.
George Tucker in Cincinnati re-
Gently:
To an accompaniment of Dixie"
sung by 500 enthusiastic members
Of the Cincinnati Commercial Asso-
citation, Hon. Henry St. George
Tucker of Lexington, Va. was
greeted at the annual meeting of the
organization tonight. He made a
brilliant address, in which be re-
ferred to the relationship existing
between Virginia and her first
daughter, Ohio. He touchingly re-
ferred to the provision in Virginia's
deed OF gift to the North western
Territory forever prohibiting chat
tie slavery in that section. He de-
clared that so, 600 Virginians came
to Ohio in the decade before the
war, and said that many of them
have been prominent in the devel-
opment OF the State, laughingly re-
marking that even Cincinnati re-
form Mayor was willing to listen
with interest to the talk of his old
Virginia ancestors. He said:
The stories Of your progress,
which we have this night heard, are
not surprising to Virginia. In
every field of development we share
your pride. because we have helped
to furnish the producers of our won
derful civilization. Allen G Thur
man, the noblest Roman of them all.
first saw the light beneath the
shadows Of the Blue Ridge Noun
talns OF Virginia. Hoge, the great
divine. who led your steps along
the straight and narrow way, came
to you from the mother State; and
when you sought the cultured mind
and highest character OF one TO lead
your children into the paths o
higher education, you took from
, Virginia one of her proudest jewel:
in the person of Charles W. Dabney
president of your own university
= In the law, Edward Colston of you
own city; in municipal reform, New
ton Baker OF Cleveland in the fell
, of manufacture, Oscar Huffman {
Cincinnati; these and many other
. have all contributed to the advance
e ment of the State.
= Another fact to Virginian az
counts largely for your prosperit
Y AMI progress. In the fifteen year
l. prior to the Civil War it is est
, mated that $4,000 Virginians lie
their State to aid in the upbuildin
It OF Virginia's proudest daughter,
, say nothing of the freed slaves, VIZ
D by hundreds of Virginians wei
y sent, prior to the Civil War,
r make their homes in Ohio, soms
% whom Il may say parenthetically),
q am told, we're not allowed to renal
y for reasons which shock the sens
ir bilities of,native Virginian.
You are the daughter of old Vi
ginia. With loving hands she ga
YOU with others t6 the Union. VII,
yo1 were not yet unborn. en- vent
sa mere. but when the maternal i
stinct led her to know that her hol
! was approaching, she prepare
with her own loving hands bask
for your coming that would ha
: excited the admiration OF any your
= mother, however careful and tende
containing your swadling clothe
y. beautiful in material, lovely in fl
- ish and impervious to diseases
=, death. Alb, my friends, Virginia b
: had slavery thrust upon her
North and South. as well as o
!. England. She had struggled for
a century to rid herself of it. S
had experienced it's blighting etfe'
She knew it's evils. but thank G.
10 she was unwilling that her progel
- should suffer as she had done, al
y, in her deed of gift of the Northwe
= Territory TO the Union, embracil
80 your great State, she, of her oS
-, volition, wrote into that instrume
- that slavery should never ex
49, within the length or breadth OF
&c broad domain"