The Pellewburg Post | Umahanan Fifteenth State

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THE TENACOMA STAR

SATURDAY • APRIL 13 • 1953​

UMAHANAN STATEHOOD

With a quill pen, fashioned from the war-eagles’ plume of the last Umahan Chief, President Pendleton-Waller at twelve o’clock upon the Lord’s day will sign the proclamation that will make Umahan Territory the fifteenth State. No grand ceremony will attend the signing in the Prohibitionist territory, the effect of which will be to put in motion the machinery of the republican state government at Degataga, Umahanan. The especially manufactured quill pen will be transported from Pellewburg to Degataga, with other particulars, to be turned over to the new historical society of the State of Umahanan-to be.

With the dash of a pen tomorrow the territorial-frontier status of Umahanan will be obliterated. The territorial form of government will be annulled. Those fine gentlemen who have held office by virtue of confederacy favouritism will retire, for they will be succeeded by officials chosen by the democratic grace of the people of Umahanan. Then Umahanan’s battle for recognition as a true sister of the other fourteen republics will be at an end. At twelve o’clock tomorrow, George Pendleton-Waller, President of the United Republic, will affix his official signature and presidential seal to the statehood proclamation and the news will be flashed over the wires and waves that there are two new Stars upon the standard of the Confederacy.

The declaration in Umahanan will be greeted by the booming of Brigadier General Joseph L. Pendleton’s Eastern Umahanan Artillery, and the shrieking of the Grand Western rail horns. In Fort Isaac, the most populous city in Umahanan, there will be subdued celebration, but the enthusiasm will be none the less pronounced. Fort Isaac has given way to Degataga, the state capital, where the inaugural ceremonies will take place and it will send two thousand of its citizens there to witness and participate in the event that has been anticipated and fought for by those good gentlemen who have grown grey and their numbers diminished in the battle for recognition during the years of nearly a decade.

Umahanan will be the first United Republic territory to be proclaimed with statehood since 1896, when the State of Illeghany ascended to the standard of the confederacy.

The presidential train carrying more than two-hundred-fifty persons will leave Pellewburg immediately after the president assigns his signature to the proclamation. The work of forming the ‘welcoming committee’ was finished on Wednesday, with all two-hundred available tickets sold by the Dean of the House of Representatives. A special luncheon will be held in the United Republic Capitol, by the committee, for those of Pellewburg that wish to partake in the welcoming of Umahanan but were unable to secure tickets. The presidential train will return from Degataga after the inaugural ball at the Governor-General's Residence tomorrow evening.

The Pellewburg Post correspondent in Degataga, Umahanan, writes that, everything is in readiness for the inauguration of the first officers of the new republic state of Umahanan tomorrow. Thousands are arriving to attend the ceremonies; hotels are crowded, and private homes were thrown open this week-end to accommodate the visitors. Governor-General Glen D. Cole will take a reserved part in the ceremonies, as he and his wife depart on the earliest train for Pellewburg upon invitation of the President and the First Lady, for a private dinner on his departure from office. The inaugural ceremonies will begin promptly at 13:00 at the Governor-General residence, where the oaths of office to all officials will be administered by Edward P. Orville, son to the late campaigner for statehood – Robert ‘Jackson’ Orville. Governor-General Durant’s inaugural address will consume an estimated thirty minutes, and the inaugural parade to Degataga city hall will follow; the inaugural picnic, including the feast of forty-nine registered pit-barbeques, will begin thereafter.

Governor-General Durant will then name Charles P. Bartlet and Frank E. Durant as the United Republic Estate-Majors from Umahanan, and will likely name a number of state appointees.

The new officers of the republic state are as follows :-

Governor-General – Elliot C. Durant
Lieutenant-Governor – Adam F. Biggs
Secretary of State – Thomas W. Pendleton
Attorney-General – John D. Waller
State Treasurer – Jeremiah T. Hart
United Republic Estate-Majors – Charles P. Bartlet; Frank E. Durant
United Republic Represenatives to the House will be elected April 15.

THREE HUNDRED DELEGATES AT MORMON MEETING

Stockton, Tenacoma, - With more than three hundred delegates present and many more visiting Mormons here from neighbouring States, the Tenacoma State Mormon convention was opened in Stockton was opened here on Friday afternoon with Presiding Patriarch Owen McBride. A hard fight is being waged for the location of five new temples, with Georgetown, Tenacoma, amongst the strongest candidates for the honour. Final action will be taken on that matter on Monday, April 15. The convention will be in session until Monday morning, but the larger part of the business will have been transacted by Saturday evening and many of the priests will leave for their meetinghouses in order for Sundays business. The meeting is being held in the Stockton Temple.

 

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THE PELLEWBURG POST

SUNDAY • APRIL 14 • 1953​

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UMAHANAN THE FIFTEENTH STATE

I do proclaim in faith whereof, that I here have hereby signed my name and set my seal this fourteenth day of April, in the year of nineteen-fifty-three, declared President George B. Pendleton-Waller at noon as he nodded to the spectators in the Red Drawing-Room after he had appended his signature to the now historical document admitting Umahanan as the fifteenth republic of the Union.

The actual signing of the document took place in the Red Drawing-Room at 12:24 o’clock in the presence of a number of residents of the new State of Umahanan who are employed in the government service at the confederacy capital of Pellewburg; the Estate-Majors of Tenacoma, Bullenville, North Georgiana, Illeghany, and Adelaide, with the First Lady, conducted the president to the head of the table, where the proclamation lay on a large blotter, ready to receive his signature. As Pendleton-Waller approached the chair where he sat while writing his name, General Cullen F. Lyn, the Secretary of War, handed the president the quill manufactured from the war-eagles’ plume of the last and defeated Umahan Chief.

As President Pendleton-Waller rose and started to leave the room, Agatha Springfield, of Eddieburg, North Georgiana, who is the department head of the historical artefacts and art archive at the presidential residence, stepped forward and asked the president and first lady for the items he used in the proclamation, such as the quill and blotter. The room shared a joke, and the president then handed the items to Mrs Springfield. The Estate-Majors shook hands with each of those proud citizens of the new state who were present and after a short informal celebration over the ascension of statehood the native sons and daughters of Umahanan withdrew from the residence.

Three-Hundred-Thousand Attend the Inaugural Ceremonies at the State Capital

In Degataga, Umahanan, at 11:32 o’clock Governor-General Elliot C. Durant received a telegram stating that the statehood proclamation had been signed by the president; at 11:45 o’clock, at the Umahanan Governor-General Residence, with only the members of his family, Estate-Majors Charles P. Bartlet and Frank E. Durant, the son of the Governor-General, and the Secretary of State and Attorney-General, Durant’s private secretary and the family housekeeper, where they all witnessed Governor-General Durant privately subscribe to the oath of office, administered by Edward P. Orville of Fort Isaac. The first official act of the Governor-General of the new state was to announce the appointment of Jesse G. Lawson as Adjutant-General of the State of Umahanan. His second act was to wire to the sheriff and county attorneys of those counties along the state border with North Georgiana and Illeghany, orders to prevent, in the name of the state, the entry of further free negro settlers into Umahanan. Governor-General Durant is a known advocate of the supremacy manifesto, to either re-enslave or remove freed negroes of the United Republic.

The weather was warm, the sun shining, and the big crowd that attended, fully two-hundred-forty-thousand people, was good natured and happy. Glen D. Cole, retiring governor-general, took a reserved part in the ceremonies.

The city hall at Degataga was the scene this evening of a brilliant and auspicious event, the first inaugural ball of the State of Umahanan.

The perfumed air was radiant with happiness. Every face was expressive of joy, and softened laughter filled the big ball room. Brilliantly lighted by myriads of electric globes half hidden in the encircling vines, and filled with gaily gowned women and conventionally garbed gentlemen, the hall scene was one of movement and beauty. From the very entrance down stairs, the big building was filled with vines and flowers. All the stairs were entwined with vines, and the big ball room had a lacy wall covering of southern smilax. Against a background of palms and tall bushes the Governor-General, his wife and son, the Estate-Major, and members of the receiving party stood. Governor-General Durant’s address consumed fully an hour and he was followed by his son, Frank Durant, and fellow Estate-Major, Charles Bartlet. The statehood proclamation issued by President Pendleton-Waller today, was read to the crowd by the retiring Lieutenant-Governor of Umahanan.

The inaugural parade more than three miles in length, extended from the Governor-General’s Residence, where the inaugural ceremonies were conducted, to the city hall where the inaugural picnic and barbeque was served by one-hundred-fifty boys and girls of the Young Gentlemen’s and Young Ladies’ Relief Society of Umahanan. Twenty-two-thousand people were red with beef sandwiches and coffee. For nearly four hours prior to the feast a Frontier Guard company kept the big crowd back from the tables where the barbeque was being served. Lieutenant Jackson, of Crocker, Umaha., was in command, but he was successful until the crowd from the residence arrived, and a rush was made on the tables that the entire Fronter Guard of the United Republic could not have prevented. Governor-General Durant and the other state officials were tendered a reception at the city hall and gardens, shaking hands with all the people who attended the picnic and barbeque. Experienced chefs – men who learned how to barbeque beef and buffalo on the plains many years back – had charge of this portion of the program which had been arranged at the request of Governor-General Durant. It was one of the big successes of the day.

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