The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-19

SURRENDERED al hfPVih""oN
PROSTATE.
Fo,r wears Of WIZ had stripped her her
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
bor institutions were oyerihrown; her debts.
and burdens were increased, her properly
and taxable values were annihil ated; her
energies were paralyzed; her very existence
was suspended.
THIS was twenty-three years ago. Dunng
A large part Of this period the problem OF
existence the paramount question OF smpie
being engrossed all her powers. Misunoer'
stood and Stunned by all without, threat
ened and burdened by many within, she nau
N devote all her facilities TO the imperative
demand of the hour, the preservation OF hei
being as a State and a people.
AT last she stands upright again IN 'ne
vieor Of renewed strength, in the JOY OF re-
s,o,.d health. in the full power of sovereign
state and the pride Of a hale and prosperous
people. ,or,;sr,
p;cb,nond on the James now sets hef
house IN order, prepares her feasts' se's OUT
her wares and stretching out her HANDS uh'o
her sister cities, rays to them
"coNE ASD SEE sE.'
Richmond. the Capital Of Virginia IS 'he
Oueer ofthe South enthroned upon het 'ree
c,od tiIls and crowned with the diadem Of
beauty and health. ~
situated on the elevated plateau at the
Fills of lanes River once the Powhatan, she
stands at the gateway between the upiahus
~ Tho Piedmond and the lowlands OF me
T;do,,.,er The breath of the mountain
c.ns ber brow. the tides of the Ocean wsh
her feet. H.
old William Byrd Of Westover' whose
historic mansion not many miles below IS
o,e II the landmarks Of the continent ana
mo If the heirlooms Of American history
Gentleman Of Virginia, member Of tie King :
Council. Representative Of the Colony bur
cese If his County, was entrusted to run the
,o.,ch Questioned line between Virginia ana
To- e;ster North Carolina. Thus occupied
wing awake one night in the jumper recesscs
If The Dismal Swamp, came to him 'housn'
ellie home and with them one OF those IN
s,;rations which may be the whisper OF a
nassirg angel, and may be the emananoh OF
genius. He would found city, nay ne
would found ,wo one should be on ihe hp-
romattox but the other should be on yet
fsirer spot on q queenler river, his own
majestic james.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more skiihuI Ell
c;oeer than he had drawn the plan-a OWNER
architect had laid the foundations.
II was already a city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
eyjtablv come in time. Indeed that mos'
rash Int most brilliant and farseeng young
man who had been once his fathers neigh
hor had chosen the spot with his rare WIS
dom and bad there plantation or quarter,
and when the Indians had come down anu
killed his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
clsmored for revenge until he had started a
revol,,tion which came deuced near up'ettlng
His Maiesty's Government, and played the
devil generally. II would be the chiei cry
IN Virginia. the largest in the Southern
colonies if not on the continent II the peo-
ME would but recognize its advantages and
build it up. Whata spot it wasl
An elevated plateau right at the falls OF
the river, above malaria and ague' with
the fresh air Of the mountains, keeping u
cool in summer and Incompatible chma'e
and purcst water from appropriated
enrincs. view Of the foamins
waters. glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles,
made a landscape whose beauty was I'M
riyaled as a place ofresidence fora beauty-ioV-
ing people. this side Of the oak clad reaches Oh
tbe Thames. The river front was easily ac-
cessible. and evenly d siributed and at the
same time 50 immense that II would grihd
the grain of continent, and run ine factor
les If a nation. Behind il was the rich Pied
mont running up to the Blue Ridge and yet
further back behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which stre.ches to the
French territory, Louisiana. Before It was
the
HYAD OF pTEP WATER NAVIGATION
with IFS diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Majestys marine could send
across the seas.
How could it be otherwise than city'
Thus must have thought Colonel VIM
Byrd living under the stars reading the future
with prophetic vision, for on the complexion
Of his mission he laid out the streets ana
SQUARES Of city, on the farspot at the fails
of the James. nd 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 this side the sea whose
beauty was comparable, he named II aitcr
that Incompatible spot upon the loved ana
winding Thames,
RICHMOND.
This was N 1881 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 a homt delightful. or place OF bust
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme.
Since it was founded the most momenious
events of the nation have clustered around H.