The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-21
Richmond
SII SEAT OF The GREAT EXPOSITION,
The Most Interesting Jitv in
the Union.
Historical Sketch.


English speaking race on the American Coi
tpent was on q peninsula juiting out int
lanes river a short distance below Ricf
moud. The English had already establishe
themselves in Virginia and had explore
.hs countrv far above thesite Of Richmond
and had taken it in the name Of Their TO
and their King snd had a representative as
vembly when the Pilgrim Fathers set ioo
nm Plymouth Rock. Powha,an had trade
coyn with the Virginia settlers. had mad
pesce and war with them for years and MAJ
retired from the scene amid his native forest
on the banks Of the Powhatan (by th
tomesjck colonists foolishly changed to tn.
Jsmes) long before Massasoit and Samose
of the Wampanseys made Their treaty VIII
Governor Carver and taught the hall starved
remnant Of the pilgrims 70 raise corn.
flames river from Richmond to Old Point
Oomfort was the highway for Virginia boat
men, and jamestown, Newport News Der
mnds Hundreds and Henrico were flourish
scv colonies when New York was Dutch
Trading post and Boston was forest
Not manv miles below Richmond are the
Yp,ns n, The Oldest Christian church which
the Saxon race built in America, and The
Peninsula is the scene of the first struggle
..stveen the English race and the forces oil
the wilderness and the savage. Every 1901
of ground is more directly associated with
aha settlement of this continent than is his
toric Plymouth Rock.
Thus Virginia is the Oldest Of all the States
IN the Union. Since that time she has re-
tsined her historic prestige
The first representative assembly when
aver met on American soil convened al
Jamestown. The last of the British Domln'
IONS which held true TO the Crown was VIZ
einis. which gained thus the hight to be
chartered on British Arms. The first armed
resistance made against vice-regai tyranny
v.s made in Virginia, and was headed by
voung PLANTER who owned the very spot On
which a portion Of the city Of Richmond
now stands one of the boundaries Of the
uity being named in incidental commemora-
ton of the fact Pacons Quarter Branch
On Virginia soil look place the long strus
Gle between the colonies and the crown, be
tween liberty and oppression, and finally from |
Virginia burst forth that matches galaxy OF
stars which founded this nation and esia'-
lished the American Union.
Along the banks Of the James 'lrished a
race which has had no parallel in his land
\ race Of Engli h gentry who added TO TRAITS
inherited and transferred from their British
ancestors. a love of freedom and a passion
FOR the rights Of the individual born Of the
liberty OF the forest. The splendid man
lions falling to decay yet dignity and adorn
he banks of the historic river; their WORK
,an never decay. It's fruit is the American
Union.
Thrs Virginia is historically the most IN l
erest;nc Of the States of the Union. FROM
he settlement Of the continent TO the end OF
be great Civil War she retained unin'er-
upted her prestige
Nyss Virginian, Henry, who ilrst hung
Town the gauntlet at the feet OF an armed
md mailclad tyranny and declared Tor I'D
nv or death. 1t was Nirginian, nelson
rho first moved in general assembly that
10 Delegates of the colony in the Colonial
,o,gress be instructed to declare us free ana 9
,ssnendent States. 1t was a Virginian. Ma S
on. who drafted the great Bill Of Right. 1t was @
yirginisn, Lee, who was selected to draw the
,eclara,ion of Independence, and in his I'M Il
yoidsble absence, the task deyolved upon d
mother Virginian, Jefferson.
II was Virginians who first in the world :
;story ordained written Constitution as a
pmpact between the Governor and the gov
med II was Virginian who took COM
,srd Of the armies Of the Revolution, and p
Fssr conquerrg Freedom for the new land u
,ok and held the helm Of State steady
,youph the rough seas which preceded the Il
,nnchjng Of a nation. II was Nirgnian Il
no nres;dei for nearly half a century over n
70 suoreme Bench of the United States and
,ere expounded the laws and land down the e.
-incinles upon which the new government it
AS founded, with wisdom which was g
,ejr yindication and reason which was
,eir proof.
AT the time of the war Virginia had held OF
70 Office of President during half the period
bch had elapsed since the formation ofthe Al
virginians had commanded re
q armies of the country in the only two
AIRS which had taken place, and Virginians 81
.d taken the lead in nearly every act in h'
living the welfare and progress OF the to
untry.
In 1861. Virginia alter long and painful
alteration and doubt as 10 her duty, and IN
ter exhausting every effort to effect re- re
meditation between the hostile sections W
ION her peace commissioners being treated III
nh disdain and upon President Lncoln's
n for troops, and demand fora passage way II
rough her borders, deeming this final 10
olation of her CONSTITUTIONS rights, with XII
ew from the Union, and prepared for war. tai
,e Immediately became thel battle-ground.
yithin three mont one oi The blOodiesi In