"Rededication" is defined as redoing the process of consecration, of hallowing, of sanctifying. It assumes a renewal of the purpose for which the original dedication was made.
We, therefore, go back to August 22, 1899, and listen to Congressman Robert Hitt, the former reporter for the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, who served as the Charge de Affaires to the French government, and who served in Congress representing this area from 1882 to 1906. [more]