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 I ),n the auspicious day: "Greeting to Confederate Memorial Literal \ Society; regret I am not with you." In this connection it may !>< ^tatfd that a telegram was also received from Mrs. Barton Haxall Wise, now in attendance upon the Congress of " Daughters of tin American Revolution" in Washington. This stated that her motion to make an appropriation to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities was greeted with acclamation.

THE GOVERNOR INTRODUCES THE ORATOR.

Governor O'Ferrall here arose, and introduced to those assembled General Bradley T. Johnson as the orator of the day. The Gover- nor spoke substantially as follows:

Ladies of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Ladies and

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I think I can say boldly that the bloody strife of 1861 to 1865 developed in the men of the South traits of character as ennobling and as exalting as ever adorned men since the day-dawn of creation. I think I can proclaim confidently that for courage and daring chiv- alry and bravery, the world has never seen the superiors of the Southern soldiers. I think I can assert defiantly that the annals of time present no leaves more brilliant than those upon which are re- corded the deeds and achievements of the followers of the Southern cross. I think I can proclaim triumphantly that, from the South 's beloved President, and the peerless commander of her armies in the field, down to the private in her ranks, there was a display of patriotism perhaps unequalled (certainly never surpassed) since this passion was implanted in the human breast.

But, as grand as the South was in her sons, she was grander still in her daughters; as sublime as she was in her men, she was sub- limer still in her women.

DEVOTION OF WOMEN.

History is replete with bright and beautiful examples of woman's devotion to home and birthland; of her fortitude, trials, and suffer- ings in her country's cause, and the women of the Confederacy added many luminous pages to what had already been most graphi- cally written.