The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-13

battles OF mcdein warfare was fought on he
soil
When the small remnants Of Lees arm.
surrendered at Appomattox Virginia wa
PROSTATE.
-Four years OF war had stripped her. ne
| labor was metemonhased into an incubus
her institutions we're overthrown; her oeou
and burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values were annihi'ated; hei
energies we're paraiyzed her very existence
was suspended.
THIS WAS twenty-five years ago. Durint
large Part of this period the problem o.
existence. the paramount question OF Simple
being engrossed all her powers. Misunder
s.ood and summed by all without, threat
ened and burdened by many within, sh hao
leo devote all her facilities to the imperative
demand Of the hour, the preservation Oh bel
being as State and people.
Al last she stands upright again IN the
yiror of renewed strength, in the Joy o' re
s,o,.a health. in the full power OF a sovereign
State and the pride Of hale and prosperous
AZ sucb her Capital City, her besutiful
p;chmond ON the James now sets hef
| house IN order, prepares her feasts' sets OUT
her wares and stretching out her hands unto
-~-s to them
her sister cities, cog
"'' ' nross AND syr NE" a..
v,,huccd the Capital Of Vifsfin' Is ' vac
n'."' "e,hs south enthfohed upon Der tree
clad hills, and crowned with 'ne
beauty and health ,,o.r at the
san,ted on the elevated plateau a. -. -.
Fails FLAMES River once the rowna, ',,,nds
.t.nds at the gateway between 'hsup'S"S
s Ava p;odmond and the Iowlands Oh 'ne
% ~ The breath of The mountain
fans her brow, the tides Of the ocean "AA"
her feet. ,u.,.o, whose
- n,ansion not many miles teio" u
-, 80 tho landmarks of the continent anu
-e g tho beIrlooms of American history
,,an,,eman Of Virginia, member OF the hlns >
Gourcil Representative of the Colony Du'
~ 80, 90 his County. was entrusted TO run 'ne
So, Questioned line between Virginia ahu
ho, sister North Carolina. mus oooup'0''
living awake one night in the juniper 49,
nfthe Dismal Swamp, came to hun thousi'S
~. hore and with them one OF those III
snirations which may be the whisper u I"
nas.i-g angel, and may be the emai'A'ioi' %
ron;rs He would found a city, nay nc
lid found,,wo; one should be on tue AP
,a.,ox but the other should be on yet
fa;rer spot on a queenlier nyer' DIS OWN
majestic James.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
isrself had laid the site-a more skiiiiui VI"
moo, than he had drawn the plaza owner
architect had laid the foundations
# was already a city and wanted but the
buildings and the people These must III
evi,ablv come in time. Indeed that most
rash lint most brilliant and farseeing young
man wbo had been once his fathers nesh-
bor. had chosen the spot with his rare WIS
dom and had there plantation or quarter,
o,d uhen the Indians had come down anu
Lid his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
olouored for revenge until be had started a
revolution which came deuced near up'e''lhs
HE Na;estv's Government, and played the
devil generally. 1t would be the chlei Guy
in Virginia. the largest in the sou'hern
colonies If not on the continent, If the peo-
nile would but recognize its advantages anu
build it up. What a spot 1t was
An elevated plateau right at the falls Oh
the river. above malaria and ague' WIN
tho fresh air of the mountains, keeping II
cool IN summer. and Incompatible climate
ona nurcst water from unpopuiated
s,ri,ge. view OF the ioamihg
waters glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles
made a landscape whose beauty was uh-
rivaled as place ofresidence fora oeauty-'oF,
inc ,aonle This side Of the oak clad reaches oil
be Thames. The river front was easily &C
cessible. and evenly distributed ana al 'he
soroa time so immense that it wouid grnd
tho grain of a continent, and run the factor
;es Of a nation. Behind it was the rch fled-
mont running up to the Blue Ridge ana YET
eurber back behind the azure mountains al
unexplored region which stretches TO tne
French territory, Louisiana. Before II was
the .....,o.~,ox
| HEAD or DEEP WAFER NAVl"Aii'N
With lis diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Majesty's marine coula SEM
across the seas.
How could il be otherwise than city,
Thus must have thought Colonel VIM
Byrd lying under thestars reading the future
with prophetic vision, for on the completion
If his mission, he laid out the streets ahu
SQUARES Of city, on the fair spot at the aiis
Of the James, and the head OF deep wafer
which had haunted his dreams IN that then
sar distant shore of the Dismal Swamp, and
as there was no place this side the sea whose
beauty was comparable, be named II aitci
that incomparable spot upon the loved anc
winding Thames,
RICHMOND.
This was in 1877 and from that day to the
nresent Richmond has been the Gem City o.
the South.
For beauty. for salubrity, for convenience