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Show ' praise ii nmm lislniguished Englishman Chief Orator oi' Celebration at Charlottesville, Ya. f.'J r A K LOT T ES"VI LL R, Va., Apr. 13. he one hundred and sixtfifth. nn-vfrary nn-vfrary of t lie birthday of 'Ehomns jfu .miii iv.j th(i!)::hty-niLh amiivor-ir' amiivor-ir' oi tu inundation -of the Univer-ty Univer-ty of Virjruiiu w:is celebrated :it that ititiition to. lay, .the uliief address be-;jj be-;jj dcliVLitd by the British cinbnss.'i- j )f, Janus Biycc. I President Alderman, in introducing I ie eiiiba'-sador. referred to the fnci; ! uit Tarletiin soldiers chased tho ecu- j :al as3CMtil)ly of Virginia frmnthc tuwu ' Oiarlottpsvillc and caused Mr. Jef-)rson, Jef-)rson, himself, tn leave , Alonticello uncwhat hastily. Tribute to England." "Via are very fortunate-today, " said , r. Alderman, ''in having as our priest representative of our rreat mother npire and of His Majesty, Kiii Jid-urd Jid-urd Twenty-five million people have line to this country sinco tho rovolu-on rovolu-on from all quarters of the world, id very few ot thorn have beeu Eng-shincn. Eng-shincn. It is perhaps fairly accurate i say that rural England and the jiithrrn States are the most English irts of the world today. Still, this, rc-lblic rc-lblic is an English land." ''No one can stand here without inking much and wisliir.ee to say much jout JMiomas Jefferson, the founder ' this famous uuiversity. and, next to corgc W ashington, one of tho two or ircc.mos1: remarkable men that Vir-nia Vir-nia luia given to the United States id to the world." He eulogized others of tho State' load-e, load-e, and concluding said: "May this oldest of sill" your States rt hold high that banner of freedom id enlightenment which her founders anted on the shores of the new world, ree hundred and tuo year? ago." President Alderman followed Mr. rvee's address with an interesting atumcnt concerning rhe life of the lhersity for the present year. |