An early reply to this invitation, with an indication of the time
you may reach our city, will greatly oblige,
Yours very respectfully,
The Charleston Daily Gazette, The Daily Mail-Tribune; G.W.
Atkinson, Governor; E.L. Boggs, Secretary to Governor; Wm. M.O.
Dawson, Secretary of State; L.M. La Follette, Auditor; J.R.
Trotter, Superintendent of Schools; E.W. Wilson, ex-Governor;
W.A. MacCorkle, ex-Governor; John Q. Dickinson, President Kanawha
Valley Bank; L. Prichard, President Charleston National Bank;
Geo. S. Couch, President Kanawha National Bank; Ed. Reid, Cashier
Kanawha National Bank; Geo. S. Laidley, Superintended City
Schools; L.E. McWhorter, President Board of Education; Chas. K.
Payne, wholesale merchant; and many others.
This invitation, coming as it did from the City Council, the
state officers, and all the substantial citizens of both races of
the community where I had spent my boyhood, and from which I had
gone a few years before, unknown, in poverty and ignorance, in
quest of an education, not only surprised me, but almost unmanned
me. I could not understand what I had done to deserve it all.
I accepted the invitation, and at the appointed day was met at
the railway station at Charleston by a committee headed by
ex-Governor W.
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