The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-09

THE SElT OF TIE GREAT EXPOSITION.
The Most Interesting Citv IN
the Union.
Historical sketch.

English speaking -ace On TIE American '"H
tjpent was on a peninsula juiting out INTO
lanes river a short distance below kch-
,nond. The English had already established
themselves in Virginia and had explored
the country far above tbesi Of Richmond
and had taken it ID The name Of their God
and Their King. and had representative as
.emblv when the Pilgrim Fathers set foot
nm Plymouth Rock P0whatan had traded
corn with the Virginia settlers had MADE
reace and war with them for years and had
retired from the scene amid bis native forests
mn the banks Of the Povhatan (by the
bomesick colonsts foolshly changed 70 The
James, long before Massasoit and Samo'e'
Of the Wampanseys made their treaty WIN
Governor Carver and taught the ball starved
remnant Of the pilgrims toraise corn
james river from Richmond 90 old Point
Comfort was the highway for Virginia boat
men. and jamestown. Newport News. Der
muda Hundreds and Henr.co we're flourish
ing colonies. when New York was a Dutch
trading post and Boston was forest.
Not many mics below Richmond arc ihe
ruins OF .he Oldest Christian church which
the Saxon race built in America and he
Peninsula is the scene Of the first .uuegie
.,etween the English race and the forces oi
the wilderness and tie savage. Every foot
OF ground is more directly associated "ilh
the settlement of th., continent than s his-
ioric Plymouth Rock.
Thus Virginia the Oldest Of ail theoial's
IN the Union. Since that time Size has rc-
t,ined her b..torct1e.tiee.
The first representative assembly which
over met on American SOIL convened at
jamestown. The last ofthe British Domino
ions which held traetothe Crown was Viz
ginia. which gained thus me Itn' TOD ''
ouartered On British Ann The first armed
resistance made against yicerea tyranny
was made in Virginia and was headed by %
rnnnc Manic, WHO owned the very spot ODD
which a portion q the city Of Richmond
NOW stands one Of the boludarie' of the
-;.v bei,- named in incidental c0mmemoIa-
ZION of the fact Bacou's Quarter Branch.
IN Vir,,iuia soil took place the long strug-
ole he,ween the colonies and the crown. be-
,uaen iiler.vard OPPRESSION. and finally from
v;~.,;,,;a 1.,r., forth that ma'chiess galaxy of
,,srs which s.snded THIS nation and elab-
rshed tho American Union.
Along the banks Of the James f0urished a
race which has had no parallel in This land.
. race ofFneH b gentry who added 90 traits
inherited and transferred from their British
ancestors, love o: freedom ana a passion
for the rights OF the individual born oi 'he
liberty Of the forest. The splendid man
sions falling TO decay YET d'fnily ana """'"
the banks Of the hIsiouc HNer' theT "oiA
can never decay Its iIai is The American
Union.
Thus Virginia is historically the most IA
teresting Of the states Of the lmon FROM
the settlement of the continent I" the end oil
the great civil war she retainer "ni"''i
rppted her p'esuse.
IT was Nirg.nian' Henry, who hrsi flung
down the gauntlet at the feet oil an armed
and mailclad tyranny ana declared Tor I'D
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