The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-07

erty and for God In the language of
one of her own great poets.
Their names are the shining arrows
Her ancient CULVER bears;
Its splendid sheaf has thickened
Through the long march Of the
years.
And her great shield has been burn
ished
BY her chiIdrens blood and tears"
She has furnished the world states
men who laid deep the foundations OF
this republic. ard who. without pre-
cedent or model. builded govern
mental fabric which was d radical de
parture from all known forms Of gov
eminent. and the voices OF her sons.
Jefferson, Madison and Patrick Henry,
were the voices Of heraids and fore
runners crying in the wilderness;
Make way for the new dispensation
IN government
She is the only State in the Union
which can never hope to win a greater
glory than that which already covers
her as with garment.
She gave the world Washington, Lee
and jackson, and. "hearsed in the ma
jestic dignity Of DEATH they sleep on
her soil. and, therefore. her cup Of
honor is filled to OVERLOOKING and she
has Toasted glory till pity cries no
more"
How her sons bore themselves half
century ago. when their mother called
to them, saying. MY sons. have need
of thee is written on history's page
in lines of inefaceable glory. and that
record will If possible. grow more ra-
he OF the CeOLU-
ries
He who "spake as never man spake,
said. BY their fruits ye shall know
them" and that divine deliverance finds
confirmation in nature. in philosophy,
in science and in human experience
The. higher qualities and character
istics and elements OF character "hlch
eagle plume mems souls ma express
sion in communities. in states and In
nations in like manner as they DO IN
individual personalities
The Virginia spirit springs from 4
love of Virginia which is immeasura-
bIv deem. and from an imperlshaole
pride in her past Of glory IN her
present. and of a confidence OF me
fulallrent in the future of the splen-
did visions that fill the waking dreams
Of her people.
II defies analysis or definition be
cause IL is born of the abstract and
ideal and lives in the realm Of the
spiritual As the great cardinal states
man of France said Of his country.
every Nirginian is ready TO say OF MS
beloved state: In thine unseen ana
abstract majesty l have bodied forth
thing 20 love
tn. cause Of constitutional govern
nent never vet needed Champion
that Virginia was not prepared TO fur-
nish him ,,
The DEGREES Of her jurists have ouiid-
ed A system Of national Jurisprudence,
the mems of her statesmen have phrased
and formed declarations of human
rights and pleas for human liberty
which will live as long as the Deca-
loguc: the songs of her poets have
thrilled the hearts Of men like ougie
cau to battle. chisels Of her SOUP
tors have shaped works OF art which
vie in artistic beauty with the noDfest
nroducts Of that ancient land where
art has found its truest. noblest ex-
preston.
IL II were possible. her people have
in mace won Victories more renowned
than those Of war" for they nave
wrought a work Of restoration and OF
rebuilding and Of establishment OF
material prosperity absolutely without
p-eccdent or parallel in the annals OF
human achievement The enemies
who's march they stayed ana whose
oroeress they baficd with SURPRISING
stiil and courage for four bloody years
made a solitude and called u peace
They ravaged the fairest land Goo
ever gave to man for a haoiiation. ana
left ruin and gaunL cruel bitter. bltinS
poverty along the pathway % th'r
march. and Virginia was ieft aivn'
mid the ashes 81 her desoiation- No
hand was held out 90 help her' Det
many cruelty smotc her as snc FAY
nrosfrats. and there came no 5000
samaritan 20 bind her wounds OF "iPe
away her tears
she vent down into the very sIaN,
and gate ~ political and commere'a
death. hut she has been the anger 81
her own resurrection The virginia
shirt rose o. meet every trial 70 cor
ager every obstacle. 20 uplitI 10 re-
build. % redeem.
While toiiing 90 bring about her u'a.
tcriaI redemption her people 90 ~
allow the sordid spirit 81 commercial
isr, 70 crush out those higher Ideals
or lower those exalted standards WI"
they had always cherished and mali
tanned They I'D not permit the eve
insisfent demands 81 the pr u"
Danish the memories % histoFl an"
heroic past. but a. they opened fnints-
...a.ft-A.a h.ola and builded lac