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may have more, but those dead were brought from many far-off fields.
XII.
There clusters around Fredericksburg a wealth of memory and sentiment.
It was the home of Governor Spotswood, the Tubal Cain of America; it was the playground of George Washington, and here is the ashes of his venerated mother.
Not only do the memories of 1861-65 here abide, but as a Revolutionary war spot it will ever be hallowed by all Americans.
The Free Lance, in view of the thirteen colonies, has no superstition about the No. 13.
And so if a thirteenth reason is needed for the establishment by Congress of the Fredericksburg park, the Free Lance calls upon the Dispatch to supply it, and it does not believe that it will call in vain on the Dispatch to yield Richmond's claims for the present, at least, and give old Fredericksburg, which, during the war of 1861-65, stood as a bulwark for Richmond, its best help at this time, to the end that the Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotyslvania Courthouse battlefields may be established by Congress into one great memorial park, a credit alike to Virginia and to the nation.
(The Dispatch favors a concentration of the efforts of all Virginians upon the scheme which seems most likely to succeed.
Our Fredericksburg friends need not fear that we will play the part of the dog in the manger.
Furthermore, we must say that Spotsylvania seems ahead in the race, and unless other competitors pick up a great deal in the course of the next few months, it will distance them all.—The Dispatch.)
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