The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-29

of the Union.
: One cannot walk the streets or take turn
: about the enyirons without stumbling o'er
recollections'
: Here, as has been said. the first settlers
stopped, here Nat Bacon, the Rebel, sprang to
horse and rode hence c'amoring to James
town with revolution aud liberty armed for
individual rights at his back.
Here came the representative branch Of
the Colonial Government in the time when
revolution again brooded over the land, and
when men were grayely weighing their
liberties against their heads and lands.
Here met the great convention whose
members here devised this Government and
formulated ordinances which till hen un
known. have since become inalienaDle heri-
.age of mankind
Here, in old - Joh"'s Church, still stand
ing amid the trees and graves ON Church
1 Hill thrilled forth ia. watchword of the
revolution, that birthrght of the unborn
nation, Owe me Liberty or give me Death"
Here took shape those state papers al
ready referred to, the Virginia Bill Of Righ 5
and the first written Constitution the world
ever saw.
Here George Washington lived and moged,
and his headquarters still stands. He'e
Jeffcrs u, the Lees, Nelson Ben Harrison.
the Tylcrs. Madison. Monroe. Pres dents nd
fathers of Presidents spent their line, and
pondered their problems Of state-ard many
Others of the giants lived and loved and
strove. Here Tarleton, the Raider, swept
everything before him TIL young Lafayette
Gro ,ed his ath.
Here John Marshall tncgr q, Chief Justice.
lived. His house yet stands, an object Of
veneration 60 every man whose soul is higher
than a beasts Some day viii belong to
the citv unless SOME sharper shall trade or
the Indifference Of tLc South. t. it, highest
memory and turn it Into second rate tene-
ments.
Here was brought Aaron Blrr after being
indicted by a grand Jury of 'hich John
Randolph was foreman, TO be tued before
Judge Na-shan, with Vim. Writ. Luther
Martin, John VIC ham and John Hay of
counsel.
Here the great Daileys Of old Hines framed I
the c1icts whic. made and uunade Pres.- /
dents and Cabinets.
Here General Winfield scott. the Com /
mander.in-Chef Of two wars !yed and /
married.
Here Lafayette came a. young soldier
vi h sword drawn for liberty and heart fired
with dreams of tn Cid. ana 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 tprsce'ye, he applause and
affection OF people he had done 50 much
10 save.
Here lived Ell ar a. Poe Americas
grea est literary Genius The hous- which
was his home has so far survived, noble
old pile tit for p cts home lto'erlookS
the reaches Of the james for miles and Is the
envy of every speculator.
Here when Civil War with half drawn
sword glowered on the land when common
wealths stood face 10 face ready TO spring,
took place the Inomen'ous, but unsucceSs-
ful effort of Virgini . the Mother of States
and statesmen. 10 aver the ca amiiy, and
here at last she adopted the ordinance OF
,eceSs on and flung herself acrosi the path
If war.
Here was est blish d the Government OF
hat child Of war. the Confederate States OF
America.
He Z the leaders of the Coniederacy had
heir hons, and Jefferson Days ; house,
General Robert L. Lees, Judah i. Benja-
MINIS. James \ Siddon's and other Southern
eaders' houses are object Of inte' est To the
Northern visitor il Of intiItnce to the resi- {
lent
Throughout the fo'u years of the Civil d
Var. Richmond wa. the point If attack, the
prime object Of e..deayor Of the Federal
armies. I
1t was tie heart of Virginia and Virginia
vas the heart of the Con;ed rate army, after )
he army was dispatched against it, General
Ifter General flung himself desperately
lpon it. Hundreds Of thousands OF men ana !
hundreds of millions of money W re lost in I
he endeayor to capture the Confederate Cap :
tai, defended as it was by a gallant army L
nd devoted people. For two years it was
Practically beleaguered city.
In three different campaigns the guns OF
be enemy could be heard from her hill c
ops. G
Almost within walk Of the city are the bat q
lie fields of two OF the bloodiest campaigns
f modern warfare. and within easy ride OF I
hose OF two more. l.
Thus stand Richmond fun of memories, the q
'ecca Of the historian, every road associated
Nth events whose recall must kindle the i'm II
gins, ion, every pot fr grant with recOliec- u
ions which must elevate the mia =.
As regards its CONNER, ial impurtanc' Rich u
lond's y, sitiOn is no less remarkable Is ;
lotto sic itur al astrI j. not unfouni d The =
nexplored country, which when Colonc !,
Iyr,i. wi prophetic soul, laid out this city
csde the rari6s nf the James. stretched be L
ond the mountains through an unknown =
iildcrncss. across trackless forests e. the "
'rouch pos, ssiors, then twenty ines as dis /
ant az France itself is now, have since that a
~ been opened up. His dream has been
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