Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-04

though II Is impossible for me TO agree
mat II Is appropriate TO have such Il
meeting az YOU propose at Appomat
toS.
With kindest personal regards. am.
Cordially yours.
u. TAYLOR ELLYSON."
RICHMOND CHAPTER MEETING
BLOCKED ny STORM
On account OF the severity OF the
weather the meeting Of the Richmond
Chapter United Daughters Of the Con-
t"dera"y. which was scheduled TO be
h"'d at IL o'clock Yesterday morning
~ Lee Camp Hall to protest against
ne proposed AppomattaX jubilee, was
Indefinitely postponed
Mr.. Round. in the letter which he
Hddrcssed to former Governor William
lodges Mann, Licutenant-Gove j.
Taylor Eilyson and Jeter j. White,
iofntr commander OF Lee Camp. United
oufcderate Veterans. says in part:
II is my Idea that high noon OF APP
nonattoX Day began a new era in our
rpuntry, and that we could all cele-
vrn,c. not the surrender which occurred
enid The smoke of battle in the MORN
ing. but the birth OF peace. which orig
mated when the great hearted Grant
'hd the immortal Lee clnsped hands at
he Mclean house"
Mr.. Round has offered to recall the
proclamation for the jubilee. II. after
lead!nz carefully the fun text OF the
PROCLAMATION. the Confederate Memo
iial Literary Society remains OF the
opinions that the gathering should
not he held.
TENT OF PROCLAMATION
OF MANASSAS COMMITTEES
The proclamation" issued by the
Manassas committee follows:
TO the Citizens OF AppOmattoS. Va:
The undersigned 'on the tenth day Of
the seventh month" in the year Of our
Lord 1911, sounded the trumpet of n
rational jubilee OF peace Oh the historic
plains OF Manassas
Ia response thereto. the veterans Of
nc great war Of lS6i-iSi5 met on the
lrsi battlefield and exactly fifty years
ron the most desperate hour of that
desperate conflict between brother5
lined up on North and South shook
hands in friendship and ate and drank
'ogrthcr in love feast. The latest school
ristory OF the United States records
ilis as the ;irst instance in the annals
"i The human race and publishes a full
'inge illustration OF the same, as one
The four most significant events Of
american history.
the same day. the historic tableau
Of the Rc-Cnited States was enacted on
our courthouse lawn, ut the corner of
rant ana Lee Avenues. Our President
Nnd Governor, with leading soldiers and
ia:csmen. were "Dramatis Personac"
Nhu the ioFtE-eiRht commemorative Of
&c American Union were represented
hy their own people and by forty-cight
'ianassas maidens. in white raincnt.
Hani In hand. singing together Mrs
MERGERS national hymn. THE New
AuIcricn.
Two years later At Gettysburg, the
Sluc and the Gray, $4,000 strong met
under the official sanction of states and
nation. ON that occasion for seven
days the banner OF the Manassas Ma
tionai Jubilee was unfurled in the Vir-
ginia camp And the great Gettysburg
jubilee was brought to "A close by an
other President. as Little Round Ton
ana Seminary Ridge exchanged signals
OF peace and proclaimed GLORY to God
in the highest. good will to men"
miar semi centennial gatherings
nav been held at other times and in
o'h"' locations throughout our land
i W we submit to our fellow -citiZens
oi pnomattox that this greatest jubi-
Ice II tho worlds history, beginning on
! the rst battlefield of the war, and cul-
| imuiNtins on it's greatest battlefield
should he brought to an appropriate
/ close in your historic town, on the
. nft!cth anniversary of the day when
grsaI hearted Grant and the immortal
! Lee shook hands and acceded to the ar
bitrament of battle. Such recognition
would be perpetual testimony to an
eternal "truse OF God" between the
states or the American Union,
The jubilee on Henry Hilr' In 1911
was not celebration OF the bitterest
defeat recorded in the chronicles OF war
Nor will n jubilee in 1916 on Glover
diftll' be celebration of anyone's tri-
umph or any ones defeat. Neither will
lit be considered in ages to come, as a
celebration Of any event of the distant
past. but celebration of the living
prcsent and n glorious future.
Manassas calls to ADpomattox. Let
lus obey the command Of Moses. the wis
lest statesman in the tide of time. In
profound thanksgiving to Almighty God
for his mercies, let us together pro-
claim liberty and peace. now and ever
more, to world at war.
GEORGE CARR ROUND,
Manassas Picket Post, Union Veterans
WESTWOOD HUTCHINSON,
commander Ewell Camp. Confederate
Veterans.
MRS. MAY DOGAN.
Pres idcnt Bull Run Chapter, y. D. G.
G. RAYMOND RADCLIFFE,
president Manassas Business League.
Manassas. Va, March 81, 1915.
Fined for CrucIty to Mule.
H.. H.