The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-25
Richmond
,xx sgir or THE CHEAT EXPOSITION
The Most Interesting CIV III
the Union.
Historical sketch.


English speaking race on the American Uon-
u,ent was on peninsula jutting Out in.o
80 river a short distance below klch.
.nond The English hadalready estapnsnen
. .ao1 in virginia and had explored
the country far above the site OF hcnnaoiu !,
nd had taken it in the name OF Their 0oo
.na their King. and had representative az
.rmb,v when the Pilgrim Fathers SET 100,
ON Plymouth Rock. Powhaian mao uaus ,a
,orn with the Virginia settlers mao maui
80. and war with them for years and hau
..t,rs.d from the scene amid bis native iores's
,be hanks of the Powbstan tby the
homesick colonists foolishly changed 10 'he
lanes, long before Nassasoit and safaose'
~ the Wampanseys made their treaty WIN
noverpor Carver and the half starved
r,mpant of the pilgrims TO raise corn.
lanes river from Richmond to oid ROM
oomsort was the highway for Virginia boat
non and jamestown, Newport News per
r,nds Hundreds and Henrico were hourish-
ing colonies, when New York was a D"''n
trading post and Boston was forest
No, many miles below Richmond are ,ne
minis Of .he Oldest Christian church "hich
,hs saxon race built in America ana lne
Peninsula is the scene Of the hrs' struggle
.,stween the English race and the iorccs .,
w,lderness and the savage Every 1901
ground is more directly associated WIN
~, of this continent than is his
toric Plymouth Rock ,,o.....
Tins Virginia is the oldest Of all the States
IN the Union. Since that time she mas re-
tanned her historic prestige
The frs. representative assembly whlch
.vsr met on American soil conVeneo at
Jamestown. The last Of the British Doinlh-
,ons which held true to the Crown was VIZ
oin;a which gained thus the night 10 De
n,artered ON British Arms. The hrst sriheu
resistance made against Vice-rPgai tyranny
was made in Virginia, and was heaoeo ny
voung planter who owned the very spot oi,
wb,ch a norton Of the city of Richmond
,ow stands one of the boundaries OF the
city being named in incidental commeinora
lion Of the fact Bacon's Quarter Branch
On Virginia soil took place the long strug-
ole between the colonies and the crown DE-
tween liberty and oppression, and finally from
Virginia burst forth that matches galaxy ol
mars which founded this nation and eStao-
iished the American Union.
Along the banks Of the james nrlSheu
race which has had no parallel in 'his ianu'
= race of Engli h gentry who added 70 TRAITS
Inherited and transferred from their BLUSH
ancestors a love of freedom and passion
for the rights of the individual born OF the
,,bertv Of the forest. The splendid man
mons falling TO decay yet dignity and acorn
Che banks Of the historic river their worR
can never decay. Its fruit is the American
Union.
Thus Virginia is historically the most in
tsresting of the States of the Union. From
the settlement of the continent to the end oil
the great Civil War she retained unln'er-
,apted her prestige.
II was Virginian, Henry, who hrst hung
down the gauntlet at the feet of an armed
and mailclsd tyranny and declared Tor lid
erty or death. II was Vifginian, 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 Nirginian Ma
son. who drafted the great Bill OF Right. 1t was
a yirginian, Lee, who was selected to draw the
Declaration of Independence, and in his un-
ayoidable absence the task deyolyed upon
another Virginian, Jefferson.
TWAS yirginians who first in the worlds
history ordained written Constitution as
COMPACT between the Governor and the gov
erned. 1t was Virginian who took COM
mapd of the armies of the Revolution. and
sf,er conquering Freedom for the new land,
took and held the helm Of State steady
through the rough seas which preceded the
launching of nation. Ii was q Nirginian
who presided for nearly half a century over
the Supreme Bench Of the United States and
there expounded the laws and laid down the
principles upon which the new government
was founded, with wisdom which was
thei. yindication and reason which was
their proof.
AT the time Of the war Virginia had held
the office OF President during half the period
which had elapsed since the formation Of the
government; Virginians had commanded
the armies Of the country in the only two
wars which had taken place, and Nirginians
had taken the lead in nearly every act in
yolying the welfare and progress of the
country.
In 1861, Virginia after long and painful
deliberation and doubt as to her duty, and
after exhausting every effort to efec, a re
Cancellation between the hostile sections,
upon her peace commissioners being treated
with dsdain, aud upon President Lncolns
call for troops. and demand for a passage way
through her borders, deeming this a final
violation of her Constitutional rights, with
drew from the Union, and prepared for war.
She Immediately became the. battle-ground
Within three mont some Of the bloodiest