The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-05
Richmond
YHE SHAT or TIE GREAT EiPGSllltN.
The Most Interesting Citv IN
the Union.
Historical Sketch.

ENGLISH sueaking race on the American Con
tinent was on a peninsula iutting out INTO
James river a short distance below kch-
mond. The English had already established
themselves in Virginia and had explored
the country far above the site Of Richmond
and had taken il in the name Of thor God
and their King. and had a representative as
rmbly when the Pilgrim Fathers SCI foot
on Plymouth Rock. P0whatan had traded
corn with the Virginia settlers. had made
,eace and war with them for years and lad
retired from the scene amid his native forests
nm The banks of the Powhatan lby the
bomesick c~olonis,s foolshly changed TO the
Jau,es) long before Massasoit and Sainose'
of the wampanscys made their treaty with
Governor Carver ard taughtthe half starved
remnant Of the pilgrims TO raise corr.
lanes river from Richmond TO Old Point
rnmfort was the highway for Virginia boat
men and Jamestown, Newport News, Be-
mnda HUNDREDS and Hennco weFe hounsh-
,np colonies, when New York Was q Dutch
trading post and Boston was q forest
Not many mi es below Richmond ar" the
rnins of the old. st Christian church "hlch
the Saxon race built in America and The
Peninsula ~ the scene Of the first struggle
between the English race and the forces o.
the wilderness and the savage. Every io'i
of ground is more directly associated win
the settlement Of this continent than is his
toric Plymouth Rock.
Thus Virginia is the oldest Of al thcsiaics
IN the Union. nee that time She has re-
tanned her historic prestige.
The first representative assembly when
ever met on American soil convened at
jamestown. The last 0ftbe British Domin'
ions which held tue 20 the Crown was Viz
ginia. which gained thus the right to be
chartered on British Arm-. The first armed
resistance made against yice-I gal tyranny
vas made in Virginia, and was headed 10y a
u planter who owned the very spot on
which a portion Of the city Of Richmond
now stands, one q The boundaries Of the
CITY being named inlncdsrtal conmemora-
ton Of the fact Raoon's Quarter Branch.
On Virginia soil took place The long sirug-
rle between the colonies and tie cro"n, he
tween liberty and oppression and hnaly from
Virginia burs, fortified ma'chicss galaxy %
ptars which founded this nation and osIab
Ished the American Union.
Along the banks Of the James horr-hed a
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a-~~rI.,h - y,-.. Nelson
who first moved .n q general assembly t..f
tho Doi,.aies of the colony f4..e Colonial
Concrcs. be- instructed TO declare. US t,ec and
independent states. l.wa-a N"irea.au. M.-
son whodraftedthecre 1871 cfI..lt. TWAS
aYirginian, Lcs.vlJwa sciec.ctio draw the
Declaration of Independence. ana in his un-
Ayoidablc absence, tie task d~e,ol,ol apon
another Niriuian, Jefferson.
II was Vjrginians who arst in the world
history ordained a writ en- Constitution as q
COMPACT between the Governor and the gov
erned. Il was "a Virgiuian who took conn
maod of the arm.cs ofthc Revolution. and
sner %conouerire Freedom for TIE new land.
took and held the helm Of State steady
through the rough seas which pre- coded the
launching of q nation. Il Wasa Virgin an
who presided for nearly half a century over
the Supreme Bench If the United States and
there e%xpounded the laws and laid down the