The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-31
CALLS ON APPOMATTOX
FOR PEACE JUBILEE
George O Round and Other Fathers
of 1911 Jubilee Want Ceic-
bration on April 0.
TO BIZ ANOTHER LOVE FEAST
Historic Tableau of the Re-United
States Called tn Nind--Suggest
Celebration as Example Of Peace
to n World I'm Arms.

George c. Round and his associ-
ates who tLauguyated tho great Ma.
nassas national jubilee of 1911 have
issued o. clarion call to Virginia to
celebrate In a BETTING manner the
Birthday of Peace the day on
which the gallant Lee yielded up his
army 10 a magnanimous foe April
9, 1865.
Mr.. Round declares that the cele-
bratlon Is more a celebration of de-
feat for the Confederates than was
he Manassas celebration one of the
defeat Of the Union arms In 1911.
The call follows:
To the citizens of Apomatoox. Va.
The undersigned ION the tenth day
or the seventh month" in the year
Of our Lord 1911, sounded the
trumpet" Of national jubilee OF
peace on the historic plains of Ma
nassas
In response there. the veterans or
the great war of 1s6f-1Ss5 met on
the first battlefield and exactly fifty
wears from the most desperate hour
OF that desperate conflict between
brothers. lined up on the North and
South, shook hands in friendship and
ate and drank together in love feast
The latest school history of the
United States records this as the first
instance In the annals of the human
race, ard publishes q full page Illus
tration of the same. as one Of the
four most significant events of Amsri-
can history.
The same day the historic tableau
of the rc-Un,ted States was enacted
on our Courthouse lawn at the cor
rer nf Grant and Lee Avenues Our
Pre- }ent ard Governor, with lead
ing soldiers and statesmen were "dra-
matis personae" And the forty
eight Comm of the Amer'-
ca Union we're represented by their
own people and by forty-etght Ma
nassas rnaidens. In white raiment.
hand in hand. singing together Mrs.
MERGERS national hymn. The New
America
Two years later at Gettysburg the
blue and the gray. $4,000 stronN met
under official sanction Of States and
nation. On that occasion for seven
DAYS the banner of the Manassas ma
tionai Jubilee was unfurled In the
Virginia camp, And the great Get
tysburg Jubilee Sras brought TO q
close July 4, 1918 by another Presi-
dent. as Little Round Top" and
Seminary Ridge" exchanged signals
of peace and proclaimed GLORY to
Cod In the Highest. Good Will to
Men"
Similar seni-centennia1 gatherings
have been held at other times and in
other locations throughout our land.
Now we submit to our fellow c'ti-
gems of Appomattox that this great
est Jubilee of the worlds history. be-
ginning on the first battlefield of the
war and eliminating on its greatest
battlefield. should be brought to an
close In your historic
town. on the f1ftieth anniversary of
the day when great-hearted Grant
and the smm ortal Lee shook hands
and accedad TO the arbitrament OF
battle. Such recognition would be q
perpetual testimony to an eternal
Truce of Cod between the States
of the American Union.
The jubilee on Henry HIP in
1911 was not celebration Of the BIT
terest defeat recorded In the chroni-
cies OF war Nor with a jubilee in
1915 on Glover Hi,r' be n celebra-
ton Of any cne's triumph o. any ones
defeat Neither will 1t he considered
In ages 10 come. as celebration OF
any event In the distant past. but a