The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-26
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YHy SEAT sY TIKI GREAT EXPOSITION.
The Most Interesting OrtJ IN
the Union.



Mgish speaking race on the American Coh-
tinent was on peninsula jutGng o''' into
Lanes river a short distance below Rich
mo a. The English had already estabiisheh
tbems selves in Virginia and had explorer
the country far above the site OF Richmond
and had taken it in the name OF then "od
and their King, and bad representative as
semblv when the Pilgrim Fathers Get foot
ON Plymouth Rock. POwha an had .raded
aorn with the Virginia settlers, had made
neaoo and war with them for years and had
retired from the scene amid his native forests
IN the hanks of the Powhatan (by the
honesck ooionists foolthly changed to The
Jaues) long before Massasoit and Sanosc'
Of the Wampanseys made their treaty win
Governor Cary, ard taught the half starved
remnant of the pilgrims to raise corn
lanes river from Richmond 70 Old Point
Comfort was the highway for Virginia boat
man. and jamestown, Newport News, Der
mnda Hundreds and IIcnrico were flourish
ing colonies, when New York was "A pntch
trading post and Boston was forest
Not MANY mi es below Richmond arc the
ruins of the old st Christian church when
the Saxon race built in America ana inc
peninsu,a is the scene Of The FIRST struggle
between the English race and the forces OF
the wilderness and the savage. Every 1901
NJ ground is more directly associated with
The settlement of this continent than 10 his
toric Plymouth Rock.
Thus Virginia is the Oldest Of al the states
IN tho union. Sncc that time he hes re-
tanned her historic prestige
The first representative assembly winch
ever met ON American soil convened at
Jamestown. The last of the British D0mn-
ions which held true to the Crown was Vir-
efpia, which gained thus the night To he
anatered on British Arms. The t'rst srIned
resistance made against yice-i gal tyranny
was made in Virginia, and was headed ny
young planter who owned the very spot on
which a portion OF the city OF Richmond
now stands. one Of tie boundaries Of the
CITY, being named in incid ntal coInncmora-
lion Of the fact Pacon's Quarter Branch.
On Virginia soil 'ook place the long strug-
Gle between the colonies and the crown, be
tween liberty and oppression, and finally from
Virginia burst forth that ma chlcss GALAXY OF
stars which founded this nation spd estab-
lished the American Union.
Along the banks of the james holnshed
race which has had no parallel in this land,
race ofEugli h gentry who added to traits
inherited and transferred from theii British
ancestors, a love of freedom and q passion
for the rights of the individual born of the
hberty of the forest. The splendid man
mons falling to decay yet dignity and adorn
the banks of the historic river, tbeir work
can never decay. Its fruit is the American
Onion.
Thus Virginia is historically the most in
teresting of the States of the Union. From
the settlement of the continent TO the end Of
the great Civil War she retained winter
upted her prestige
It was Virgnian, Henry, who frst 'iung
down the gauntlet at the feet Of an armed
and maiIcad tyranny and declared for lib
erty or death. 1t was a Virginian, Nelson,
who first moved in a general assembly that
the Delegates of the colony in the Colonial
Congress be instructed to declare us free and
independent States Ii was VirgInian, Ma
son, who drafted the great Bill of Right |, was
aVirginian, Lee who was selected TO draw the
Declaration of Independence, and III his IN
avoidable absence, the task deyolved upon
another Virginian, Jefferson.
,lo S., f,Bu
history ordained writ en- Constitution as n
compact between the Governor and the gov
erned. II was Virginian who took com
mand of the armies Of the Revolution. and
after oonquering Freedom for the new land,
took and held the helm Of State steady
through the rough seas which pre- eeded the
lsunching Of n nation. II was Vlrginan
Who presided for neaylv half a century over
the Supreme Bench of the United States and
there expounded the laws and laid down the
principles upon which the new government
was founded, with a wisdom which was
their yindication and a reason which was
their proof.
At the time of the war Virginia had held
the office Of President during half the period
which had elapsed since the formation of the
government; Virginians had commanded
the armies of the country in the only two
wars which had tiken place, and virginians
had taken the lead in nearly every act in
volving the welfare and progress Of the
country.
In 1861. Virginia alter long and painful
elaboration and doubt as TO her duty, and
after exhsustng every effort to effect re-
Cancellation between the hostile sections
Hpon her peace comm ssioners being treated
with Cisdain, and upon President Lncoln's
call for troops. and demand for a passage way
through her borders, deeming this final
violation Of her constitutional rights. with
drew from the Union, and prepared for war.
She Immediately became the battle-ground.
Within three months one Of the bloodiest