The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-29
PLANNING APPOMATIOx
JUBILEE ON APRIL 8
Union and Confederate Organizations
Want Peace Celebration on
Eifticth Anniversary.

washington, sdarch 2S.--tfeorg0
c. Round, of the Manassas Picket
Post of Urion NetcrQns; Westwood
II ~tchisoa, commander OF Ewen Camp
of Confederate Veterans: Mrs. May
Doganm. president OF the Bull Run
Chapter OF Daughters of the Com
federacy, and G. Raymond Ratciiife,
president Of the Manassas Business
League, have launched movement
for joint celebration OF the Blue ana
Gray on the battlefield of .Appomn.-
tax, Va. On April .. the fftieth an.
niversarY of the end Of the Civil War.
Mir. Round. while In Washington.
said the proposed reunion will DO
lifting climax to the joint reunion at
Gettysburg and AT Manassas, which
was held on the fftieth anniversary
ut first aud decisive battles of tho
War Between the States. He suggest.
cd the Manassas joint reunion. which
followed with the Blue and Gray
gathering at. I,.ts@uurg.
Want IN Invitation.
The appeal. W hich Mr.. Round made
public today for a joint reunion, not
on the propositions Of the Gettys.
burg celebration. is in the nature OF Z
challenge TO the people or appomat.
tox 10 issue an invitation for the jubi-
lee. This appeal in part. Is as fol-
lows:
The veterans Of the great war Of
lS6l-1S65 met on the first battlefield,
ana exactly fifty years from the most
desperate hour of that desperate con-
f1!ct between brothers lined up on
North and South, shook hands in
friendship and ate and drank toGethel
III lovefeast
The same day tho historic tableau
OF tie Re-tnited States was enacted
on our courthouse lawn, at the corner
of Grant and Lee Avenues. Our Press
ident and Governor. with leading
soldiers ana statesmen, were dramatta
pe.sonae," and the forty-sight COM
monweaIths of the American Union
we're represented by the'r own people
and BY forty-tight Manassas madeira
in white rG.lmert. hand IN tana. sag
ing together Mrs MERGERS national
hymn, The New America
Two years later at Gettysburg, the
Blue. and The Gray. $4,000 strong. met
under official sanction OF states and
nation, ON that occasion for seven
days the Bonner of the Manassas Ma
tiUnal Jubtlee was unfurled in the Sir-
gin.a Camp And the great Gottys-
burg jubilee was brought To close
July 1. 1918. hr another President.
as Little Round Top and Seminary
Ridge excha ngcd signals Of peace and
proclaimed Glory to God in the high.
es, good viii to men.
Similar sci i-centennial gatherings
have been held at other times and in
other locations throughout cur land.
L. Fitting Climax.
NOW we submit To ou- feliow-citi.
zens OF Apoomattox that this greatest
Jubilee OF the worlds history. Begin
ming on The first battlefield OF tho
var an eliminating on its greatese
battlefield. should be brought 10 an
a propriatc close In cur historic town
on the fftieth annive- sary Of the cay
VIXEN great hearted Grant and the
immortal Lee shook hands and acced-
ed 10 the arbitrament of battle. Such
recognition would be perpetual tess
t!mony 10 ar eternal truce OF GOD
between the States of the American
Union.
The jubilee ON Henry Hin in 1911
was not a celebration of the biiter-
est defeat recorded in tho chronicles
of war. Nor will Jubilee in 1915 on
Glover Hitl be a celebration of any
ones triumph or anyone's defeat.
Neither will IL be considered I'm agea
To come. as celebration Of any event
OF the distant past, but a celebration
of the living present and a glorious
future
Manassas calls to Appomattox. Let
us obey tho command OF Moses. tho
wisest statesman In the tide OF time.
in profound thanksgiving to Almighty
God for his mercies let us together
proclaim liberty and peace. now ana
eyermnrc, To world at war