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Rappahannock News
Published Thursday Morning at
Washington, Rappahannock
County, Virginia
iDial Washington 2851
LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE
Publisher
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Washington, Virginia.
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America Of Yesterday
(by Kate Flint Perry)
The outstanding event portraying the gTeatness of America’s past, was the Yorktown Sesquicentennial, which was held in October of 1931, marking the 150th anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis. This was the greatest .historical event ever staged upon American soil. The pages of history were rolled back and Colonial Virginia was presented to representatives of almost every nation upon the earth. So real was all of this that the echo of the voice of Patrick Henry was ever present. You remember how he spoke for the people in the famous Parson’s Case. And again when he spoke . . . and vehemently . against that law passed by the King which said that the Colonists must liuy "stamps from England. These' stamps to be placed on all newspapers, published books and all important documents. Henry declared that the right to tax Virginia did not belong to the King but to Virginia’s •own legislative body—the House i f Burgesses. All history scholars remember this. They remember . too, that Henry so impressed the people about this taxation without representation that he sounded the clarion call which brought upon the stage of action the soldiers of 1775. And it is to their memory and their deeds of valor that the U. S. and other nations still look to Ycirktown as the cradle of American history.'
Ever present in that great pageant of October 1931 was the spirit of the men of ’75 marching cn the same old battle fields. Marching with soldiers who had cast aside the tragedies of former cavs . . . Yet marching on a soil already made sacred by the blood < f other years. The old ragged uniforms and the old torn hat had been replaced by military splendor. And hunger and nakedness were only a memory. Even
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