The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-15
,vR Sgi7 OF THB GREAT EXPOSITION
The Most Interesting Citv IN
the Union.
Historical sketch.

tinent was on O peninsula Jullinb Jul INV
lanes river a short distance below kich-
xnond. The English had already established
themselves in Virginia and had explored
the country far above the site Of Richmond,
and had taken it in the name OF their goa
and their King, and had representative as
sembly when the Pilgrim Fathers SET 100.
ON Plymouth Rock. Powha'an had traded
oorn with the Virginia settlers had made
r.aoe and war with them for years and had
rs,;rad from the scene amid his native forests
on the banks Of the Powhatan (by the
ho,oss;ck colonists foolshly changed to the
james, long before Massasoit and samose'
~ the Wampanseys made their treaty with
Governor Carver and taught the hall starved
remnant Of the pilgrims TO raise corn.
James river from Richmond TO Old Point
Comfort was the highway for Virginia boat
men. and jamestown, Newport News Der
,nnda Hundreds and Henrico were flourish
ING colonies. when New York was Dutch
trading post and Boston was forest
No, many mics below Richmond are the
rnins OF the Oldest Christian church which
the Saxon race built in America and the
Peninsula is the scene Of the first struggle
.,etween the English race and the forces Of
tbe wilderness and the savage. Every 1901
of ground is more directly associated with
the settlement of this continent than IS his
toric Plymouth Rock.
Thus Virginia is the Oldest Of all the states
IN the Union. nee that time she has re-
tanned her historic prestige.
The first representative assembly whioh
ever met on American soil convened al
Jamestown. The last Of the British Domin'
ions which held true to the Crown was Nir-
ginia. which gained thus the right to be
ouartered on British Arm. The first armed
resistance made against yice-r'gai tyranny
was made in Virginia, and was headed by
Young planter who owned the very spot on
which a portion Of the city of Richmond
now stands. one Of the boundaries Of the
cjty being named in incidental commemora-
ton of the fact Pacons Quarter Branch.
On Virginia soil 'ook place the long strug-
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 tins nation and esiab-
Ished the American Union.
Along the banks Of the James 1rished
race which has had no parallel in This land,
4 race of Engli h gentry who added to traits
inherited and transferred from their British
ancestors. a love of freedom and passion
for the rights of the individual born Of the
liberty of the forest. The splendid man
sions fallingto decay yet dignity and adorn
the banks of the historic river; their work
can never decay. It's fruit is the American
Union.
Thus Virginia is historically the most in
teresting Of the States Of the Union. From
the settlement Of the continent to the end of
the great Civil War she retained uninter-
Yapted her prestige
Ii was Virgnian. Henry, who first flung
down.the gauntlet at the feet of an armed
and mailclad tyranny and declared for ho-
erty or death. Ii was a Virginan, Nelson,
who first moved in general assembly that
the Delegates Of the colony the Colonial
Congress be instructed to declare us free and
independent States. 1t was a Virginian, Ma
son. who drafted the great Bill CT Right. twas
Ayirginian, LEI, who was selected 20 draw the
Declaration of independence, and in his un-
ayoidable absence, the task deyolved upon
enother Nirgnian Jefferson.
IL was Virgnians who first in the worlds
history ord ei writ EN- Constitute as a
compact between the Governor aud tn gov
c-,,.i II Was sNnpnian vino trok rom-
c,,nd of the arnnes Of the Reyolui 90. AMI
uaer comparing Freedom for the new land,
tNnk and ed the hem OF state steady
thrnus n e rough seas which pre- ee'ied the
launching oi nation. II WAS r Virgin sn
~hn presided for nearly half n century over
t,,. Su,senr ench of the lluit,d states aud
there ealpnund,d the laws and laid down the
principles upon which The new government
~a~ founded with wisdom which WAS
th-,r vindicstion and Ie,ss n which Vas
their pr'oi.
At the ,imr uf the War Virginia had held
the nihce IS President during hslf the ier',d
which hsh ssaI,Sri since the formation Of the
gvernmeni, ,ipsnisns had Commanded
the armies of the country in the only twu
~nr~ which had ken piace. snd 'ipiuians
snd tskeu the leti in nearly every Ad IN
nav ng the welfare snd pr,grees Of the
e,untrV.
Ia iSiI. Virginia n ter long and Ianful
c..iiheration and doubt NJ ~ her duty, and
rd-r -xha,istiug every efo 70 efe'tsft-
c"mihaii u between the hostile sections,
u-a hrr pare ~ III S~ioner~ hang treated
with d,~lain Il uIrn Pr~id 1T Linooin's
c,il Tor IT nls~.aiid cruani fora Yas,rg, way
,nr"sh Tier lsrdrr-. dermmg this ii final
vuiaiinii 81 her nn~irtitiun rights, with
e'..~ fr.nn Tie i'uon aud prepared for war.
h~iumeiisie., hesnuc the battle-ground.
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