As a veteran in your noble mission, I say to you, let us work together to bring back the past of our noble Old State, so that the children of the future may gather strength to go forward with brave, firm footsteps, putting their feet into the prints their fathers have left, so that it may con tinue to be the pride of the Old Dominion that her sons grow stronger and stronger, and her daughters more and more beautiful in virtue, until time shall be no longer.