The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-25
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PROSTATE.
Four wears OF war had stripped her; her
labor was metemorphased into an incubus !;
her institutions were oyerthrown; her debts
ond burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values were annihilated; her
energies were paralyzedi her very existence
was suspended.
This was twenty-three years ago. DUNG
large part Of this period the problem Of
existence. the paramount question Of simple
beino engrossed al her powers. Misunder'
stood and Stunned by all without. threat
ened and burdened by many within 81 Dad
70 devote all her facilities to the imperaliVe
demand of the hour, the preservation oi her
being as a State and people.
AT last she stands upright again IN the
Vioor Of renewed strength. in the joy OF re-
stored health, in the full power of q sovereign
state and the pride of a hale and prosperous
people. ,.n,
AS such her Capital City, her beautiful
Richmond on the james now sells her
house IN order, prepares her feasts' sets out
her wares and stretching out her hands unto
her sister cities, gays to them
GONE AND SEE ME-
Richmond. the Capital Of Virginia Is the
Oreen oftbe South enthroned upon her tree
o,ad hills and crowned with the diadem oil
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau at the
Falls ofJames River once the Powhaian' she
Glands at the gateway between the upands
Of the Piedmond and the lowlands OF the
Tidewater. The breath Of the mountain
fans her brow, the tides Of the Ocean wash
her feet
Ola William Byrd of Westoyer' whose
historic mansion not many miles leo" Is
ono of the landmarks Of the continent ana
ono of fhe heirlooms of American history
gentleman of Virginia. member of the Kings
Council. Representative of the Colony bur
cess Of his County. was entrusted TO run the
much questioned line between Virginia anu
her sister North Carolina. Thus occupied
living awake one night in the juniper FeceSeS
Of the Dismal Swamp, came TO HIM thoughts
If his home. and with them one Of those IN
snirations which may be the whisper oil
pas.ipg angel, and may be the emanauoh OIL
aeo;us He would found a city, nay he
would foundtwo; one should be on the APP
ponaattox. but the other should be on a yet
fsirer snot on a queenlier river, bis own
majestic James.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the site-a more ski.lIul en-
gineer than he had drawn the plan-s diviher
architect had laid the foundations.
1t was already city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must IN
evitably come in time. Indeed that most
rash but most brilliant and farseeing young
man who had been once his fathers neigh
Dor, had chosen the spot with his rare WIS
dom ard had there a plantation or quarter
and when the Indians had come down ana
killed his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
clsmored for revenge until he had started
revolution which came deuced near up citing
His Majesty's Government, and played the
devil generally. 1t would be the Chief city
in virginia, the largest in the Southern
colonies if not Oh the continent, If the peo-
ple would but recognize it's advantages and
build it up. What spot it was
An elevated plateau right at the falls OF
the river. above malaria and ague' with
the fresh air Of the mountains keeping II
cool in summer, and incompatible climate
and pureSt water from unpopulated
springs, view Of the foamnng
waters, glancing and dashing over
immense boulders for nearly two miles,
made a landscape whose beauty was I'M
rivaled as place ofresidence fora beauty-loy-
ing people. this side ofthe oak clad reaches oil
the Thames. The river front was easily ac-
cessible and evenly distributed and at the
same time so immense that it would grind
the grain OF a continent, and run the factor
les of a nation. Behind it was the rich Pied
mont running up to the Blue Ridge and yet
further back behind the azure mountains an
unexplored region which stretches TO the
French territory, Louisiana. Before it was
the
HEAD OF DEEP WATER NAVIGATION
with its diurnal tides which could float any
vessel that His Maiestys marine could send
across the seas.
How could it be otherwise than q. city,
Thus must have thought Colonel VIM.
Byrd lying under the stars reading the future
with prophetic vision for on the completion
of his mission, be laid out the streets and
squares Of city, on the fair spot at the Falls
of the James, and 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 it after
that Incompatible spot upon the loved and
winding Thames,
RICHMOND.
This was in 1871 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 homie delightful, or place of bust
ness desirable Richmond stands supreme
Since it was founded the most momentous
events Of the nation have clustered around it.
focusing it IS it were in the focus of a sun