The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-09
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soil.
When the small remnants Of Lees army
surrendered at Appomattox Virginia wa
PROSTATE.
-Four wears Of war had stripped her bel
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
her institutions we're overthrow; her debts
and burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values were annihi ated, he'
energies were paralyzed; her very existence
was suspended.
THIS was twenty-three years $50. During
a large part Of this period the problem OF
existence. the paramount question OF simple
being engrossed all her powers. Misundef-
stood and Stunned by all without, threat
ened and burdened by many within sh had
10 devote all her facilities 10 the imperative
demand Of the hour the preservation Oh hef
being as a State and people.
At last she stands upright again IN the
yigor of renewed strength, in the JOY OF re-
stored health, in the full power of a sovereign
State and the pride Of bale and prosperous
people. ,
AZ such her Capital City, her beautifui
Richmond on the james now sets hei
house IN order, prepares her feasts' sets out
her wares and stretching out her hands unto
| her sister cities, rays to them
GONE AND ZEE ME-
Richmond, the Capital Of Virginia Is inc
Queen ofthe South enthroned upon he' 'fee
clad hills and crowned with the diadem Oh
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau AZ inc
ra,Is ofJames River once the Powhatan, she
stands at the gateway between the upiaiu'
of the Piedmond and the iowianos u '.''
TSdewater The breath of the mountain
cans ber brow. the tides Of the Ocean WASH
her feet.
Old William Byrd Of Westover, whose
historic mansion not many miles telow Is
ono NJ the landmarks of the continent ana
ono of the heirlooms of American history
oo,.ie,ran of Virginia. member of the Kings
Council. Representative Of the Colony Dur
CESS of his County. was entrusted 70 run tue
r,,cb questioned line between Virginia ana
ber sister North Carolina. Thus occupied
wing awake one night in the juniper recesses
ofthe Dismal Swamp, came to him Thoughts
of his home. and with them one OF those III
spirations which may be the whisper Oh .
nassirg angel, and may be the emanation Oh
genius. He would found city nay nc
10 An
would foundtwo; one should be on the Ap,
nomattox but the other should be on yet
fairer SPOT on q queeniier river, bis own
majestic James.
He knew the spot for it, There Nature
berselfhad laid the site-a more skilliul en-
gineert than be had drawn the plan-a olVihe'
architect had laid the foundations.
II was already a city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
eyitably come in time. Indeed that mosl
rash but most brilliant and farseeine young
man who had been once his fathers nesh-
Dor. had chosen the spot with his rare WIS
dom and had there a plantation or quarter
and when the Indians had come down and
killed his overseer aud cattle, had he not
clamored for revenge until he had started
revolution which came deuced near upietung
His Maiesty's Government, and played the
devil generally. It would be the chief city
in Virginia, the largest in the Southern
colonies if not on the continent, If the peo-
ME would but recognize its advantages and
build IL I'M. What spot 1t was
An ele.ated plateau right at the falls OF
the river. above malaria and ague with
the fresh air Of the mountains, keeping II
cool in summer, and incompatible climate
and purest water from unpopulated
snrinps. view Of the ioaming
waters, glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles,
made a landscape whose beauty was I'M
rivaled as place of residencefora beauty-loy-
ing people, this side of the oak clad reaches OF
the Thames. The river front was easily ac-
cessible. and evenly d stributed and at the
same time so immense that it would grind
the grain of a continent, and run the factor
les of a nation. Behind it was the rich Pied
mont running up to the Blue Ridge and yet
further back behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which stretches to the
French territory, Louisiana. Before it was
the
HEAD or DEP WATER NAVIGATION
with IFS diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Majesty's marine could send
across the seas
How could il be otherwise than city,
Thus must have thought Colonel VIM.
Byrd lying under the stars reading the future
with prophetic vision, for on the completion
Of his mission, he laid out the streets and
squares of a city, on the fa.rspot at the Falls
of the James, and the head OF deep water
which had haunted his dreams IN that then
far distant shore Of the Dismal Swamp, and
as there was no place tins side the sea whose
beauty was comparable, he named il after
that Incompatible spot upon the loved and
winding Thames,
RICHMOND.
This was IN 1887 and from that day TO the
present. Richmond has been the Gem City Of
the South.
For beauty, for salubrity for convenience,
for all the charms and advantages which can
make home delightful or plsce Of bust
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