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Honors For Hie Editor.
A newspaper editor has been
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Virginia journalists, observing National Newspaper Week last week, and southern historians gathered at Fort Monroe Saturday, October 6» -.4© dedicate a^ bronze plaque to John Mitchel, outspoken editor who championed the Confederate cause —even in New York.
The plaque jwas affixed to the ; walls of Casemate No.' 6, where Editor Mitchel was imprisoned^ from June to October, 1865. Mitchel had flaunted pro-Dixie writing in columns of the old New York Daily News in defiance 6t northern statesmen and military leaders who had warned him to soft-pedal his fiery editorials. Confederate President Jefferson Da? vis was confined in a casemate nearby. - *
A newspaper man from Newport .News made the address of the occasion of the unveiling of the plaque and paid this tribute: “•What he did in defiance cdf oppression in resisting any control
leans and countless other millons for whom we are the last and ' only hope.
They see us unconscionably piling on to the backs of our children yet unborn burdensome debt foolishly incurred in the extravagant and profligate waste of public funds. - ~~ -
They see us countenance and allow to go unpunished those who traffic in deep freezes, mink coate and free Florida vacations.*
At a time when the world is smouldering with the fires of Communistic destruction that may break forth at any moment, they •see u* like Nero, “reaching for the fiddle.” --
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