The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-24

historical region, Of the most historical State
of the Union.
One cannot walk the streets OF take turn
about the environs without stumbling DER
recollections"
Here, a. has been said, the first settlers
stopped, here Nat Bacon the Rebel, sprang to
horse and rode hence clam oring to James
town with revolution and liberty armed for
individual rights a; his back.
Here came the representative branch OF
the Colonial Government in the time when
revolution again broodsd over the land, and
when men were gravely weighing their
Liberties against their heads and lands.
Here met the great convention whose
members here devised this Government and
formulated ordinances which till then un
known, haze since become inaljenable herr
tage Of mankind.
Here. in old st. Johns Church, still stand
ing amid the trees and graves on Church
Hill thrilled forth hat watchword of the
revolution, that bir,hright Of the unborn
nation, GIVE me Liberty or give me Death
Here took shape those State papers al
| ready referred to, the Virginia Bill of Righ
and the first written Constitution the world
ever saw.
Here George Washington lived and moved,
and bis headquarters still stands. Here
letters Il, the Lees Nelson. Ben Harrison,
the Tylers. Madison. Monroe, Pres dents, snd
,1.arr e nd
pondcred their problems of state-and many
Others of the giants lived aud loved and
strove. Here Tarleton, the Raider, swept
everything before him, till young Lafayette
Gro sed his ath
Here John Marshall, thegr at Chief Justice,
lived His house yet stands an object OF
veneration to every man whose soul Is higher
than beasts. Some day 1t viii belong 10
the city. unless some sharper shall trade on
the indifference of the South. t. IL highest
memory and turn it into second rate tene-
ments.
Here was brought Aaron Bur- after being
indicted by a grand jury OF hich John
Randolph was foreman, to be tired before
Judge va,shall, with VIA. Writ, Luther
Martin. John VIC ham and John Hay OF
counsel
Here the gre; Daileys Of old times framed
the eiicts which made and nmade Presi-
dents and Cabinets.
Here General Winfield Scott. the Com
mander in-Chief Of two wars lived and
married.
Here Lafayette came as young soldier
wi h sword drawn for liberty and heart fired
with dreams of tn Cid, and here an old man
who had seen and had tempered as he might
the horrors Of the most appalling revolution
which shocked liberty with her own
name he returned 10 receive the applause and
affection Of people be had done so much
TO save.
Here lived Ed ar A. Poe Americas
grea est literary Genius. The house which
was his home has 80 far survived, noble
old pile, fit for poets home. toverlooks
the reaches of the James for miles and is the
envy of every Spectator.
mere Wfltil tlNli w VIII
sword gowered on the land, when common
wealths stood face 10 face ready to sprlng,
took place the momentous, but unsuecess-
full effort of Virgin the Mother OF States
and statesmen. 10 avert the ca amity, and
here at las, she adopted the ordinance OF
secess' on, and flung herself across the path
of war.
Here was est iblish d the Government of
that CT lid of war, the Confederate States OF
America.
He.e the leaders Of the Confederacy had
their hons, and Jefferson DAYS house,
General Robert f. Lees, Judah 7. benja-
Minis. James A Siddon' and other Southern
leaders houses are objects of inteie to the
Northern visitor if Of indflence to the resi-
dent
Throughout the four years of the Civil
War, Richmond was the point OF attack, the
prime object of erdeavor of the Federal
armies.
was the heart of Virginia and Virginia
was the heart of the Confed rate army, after
the amy was dispatched against 1t, General
after General flung himself desperately
upon IT, Hundreds of thousands OF men and
hundreds of millions of money re lost in
the endeavor to capture the Confederate Cap
ital, defended as it was by gallant army
and devoted people. For two years it was
practically beleaguered city.
In three different campaigns the guns OF
the enemy could be heard from her hill
tops.
Almost within walk Of the city are the bat
tie fields Of tsoof the bloCdiest campaigns
of modern warfare, and within easy ride Of
those Of two more.
Thus stands Richmond full Of memories, the
Mecca Of the historian, every road associated
with events whose recall must kindle the i'm
agination, every spot fragrant with recoilec-
tions which must elevate the mind.
As regards us commercial Importance, Rich
monds position is no less remarkable Its
motto sic itur al AS ra is not unfounded The
UNEMPLOYED country, which when Colonel
Byrd, wi prophetic soul, laid out this city
beside the rapids of the James, stretched be
yond the mountains through an unknown
wilderness. across trnckleSs forests to the
French Ioss ssiors, then twenty times as dis
M, E.,r.a ,,.eif il now have since that