Excerpt from Remarks of Brigadier-General George Richards U. S. M. C. At the Meeting of the Sons of the Revolution, in the State of Maryland: March 15, 1918

I wish to thank you one and all for the honor you bestow on the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, in whose behalf I am asked to Say a word. Our Society is bound to yours by a tender tie. Our first President and founder was likewise your first President. I refer to John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, the great-grandson Of the immortal Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a Signer of the Dec Iaration of Independence. Also, let me say, when the General Society, Sons of the Revolution, was brought forth, John Lee Carroll became the first General President of our national organization. Governor Carroll's attachment to our Society arose from the fact that our birth preceded your own and from the circumstance that his winter residence at the time was in the city of Washington. But when the Society Of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Maryland came into existence we promptly recognized his feelings, for we appreciated that he, as a native son Of Maryland, belonged moreprop erly to your organization. We regretfully accepted his resignation that he might answer your unani mous choice and serve you as President of the Society in Maryland, the State Of which he was a native and a citizen. In his attachment to you, to us, and to the General Society as well, John Lee Carroll will be remembered always as a patriotic gentleman of high and lofty ideals to whom we Shall forever pay a tribute of respect and affection. He was of ancient lineage, heroic name, assured station; he truly exemplified the purpose for which our So cieties were founded. He knew that we were not brought forth to dream of an heroic past, but to act in a crying present. The Sons Of the Revolution is not a family living alone on the former greatness Of its ancestors, without plan or strength for the future. We wear a button or badge that tells the world.

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