Worcester Daily Spy

Gov. Letcher Revived.

The citizens of Lexington, Va., celebrated, last Monday, the restoration of the statue of Washington which Gen. Hunter carried away in June, 1864, with a battery of bronze pieces presented by France to Virginia many years ago, and placed in custody of the authorities of West Virginia. The statue and field-pieces were restored by order of the President who was invited to be present at the reinauguration of the statue, but declined on account of his engagement at Chicago. Gov. Letcher, who is still under a partial parole, delivered a rambling address in which he said of Gen. Hunter:

The spirit which marked his conduct was in admirable harmony with the spirit which warred on the arts and literature of the fifth century, in the Roman Empire, and has secured for him an immortality that will be as enduring and undying as attaches to him who burned the temple of Ephesus. Some men court notoriety, and are utterly indifferent to the character of that notoriety. Whether General Hunter is one of this class I know not; but certain it is, if he was in quest of notoriety, when he came here at the head of the army, he has abundant reason to be satisfied with the brilliant success which has attended his efforts. No Virginian will ever forget either his nativity or his name,

"While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls a wave."

Gov. Letcher also availed himself of the opportunity to repeat the old arguments in favor of the right of secession, and in the somewhat redundant words of a correspondent, "to drag into the body of the address an outrageously fulsome eulogy of Jefferson Davis without the least necessity therefor."