The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-12
CENTENNIALS.
PASSING YEARS KEEP RECORD VI
EVENTS.
ANNIVERSARY or 4 NOTABLE
EVENT RECALLED
THE WHITE MANS FIRST VISIT TO
KICuTO>D.
Interesting Historical Matter About Nir
ginia-Whst Attracted the H"gnrno'
and scotch Irish Race TO the 'id
fnminion in Early DAYS.


Ceniennsls ard anniversaries have
been epidemic of laie. They have NOR
significance in The minds Of meh. men
from ihe W0rli's hOrnlOye Is sounded OUT
the recurring anniversary OF an event.
which bad begun nn era noi'ceaDie IN HI
time. mankind stop 90 listen ana lake
heed thereuntO. II Is only the matter ~
uncommon import that they give alien
lion Although each day Of the year u
sn auuivsrsaiy or even centenhla oi
something, IL does not, therefore, demand
recognition. Were IL worthy OF pa
yeaid. the honor should De bestowed, hn'
itia ONLY 10 great events that such homage
ia dine Niagara wears away Just so
much Of the resisting rock each hundred
wears that time has kn0iched her cen
tnri,. there So IL Is that the passing
wears keep record of events until some
elimination shall demand a new depai-
fure and this iuaugur ties new era IN
tie worlds history He have just Wit
,.,.ssed the closing scenes OF such cele-
IL ron ~ reminded MS of the birth oil
i.onnr nation. whose extraordinary in
llueuce uDon the world could not have
h,en auticipatcd 20 that time. II was.
thereto becoming that mankind SHOULD
Dee reminded of the great fact, and that
oar own people should themselves be- Tor
tilted in the faith of their faihe's, and ln
tncir yeneraiion for The system whose
/ founder wes Washington.
Important as may appear The 0bser-
vance 10 which all eyes have been lale'y
urue9. there nfe 0'her annivcrsf ries of
even centenniais to which our attention
.honld also be- directed That 10 which We
are about io refer is not inferior 10 sig
nifcsnce 90 ary that can be sugg sied on
chi. continent. The events which brouehf
IN about and the results flowing from iis
final accomplishment far excel in impor-
lance all others that have entered into
The construction of American history
We will MOI stop 20 dwell upon the per
sisient rerloct with which Virginia has
treated her own affairs her prestige, aud
her birtnrighf, nor Will we attempt a IT,
aearsa Of The causes of such neglect
our chief desire IS 40 least 10 enforce
upon Tie minds of our readers some Oh
fse reasons for what We have just an
nounced. and tO remind them OF The
claims the State has upon their c0nsldeia.
ion. This l2,n day cf May, exactly TWO
hundred and eighty two years ago. three
email vessels, af ar having been for more
han two weeks making their way from
the canes AZ Virginia 20 point forty
. miies from She mouth of James river
anchored near the neighb0fiug shore
The LARGEST of these vessels was az only
one hundred tons buiinen, another of
only i0ify-two, and the smallest
of twenty tGs burihen. They
nad an aggregate 90 only one hundred
and five men ON board ] hey were laden
wnh provisions. arms. and such goods
aud trinkcts AZ might bee useful IN The
Intercourse If the crew with The
people they might discover, and car
red guns hesides They had left Lon
don ON The eO,h of December of the pas
wear. 1906. md after hufleuing Will
-foims and head winds, snd having beer
DELAYED in the West Indies. they had n
vsiszattompied 90 make their way &.
Roanoke. on the coast Of North Caro-
lima Falling in This, they determined O
return 10 England, and the officer %
command bad just given bis orders ac
. cordingly when violent tempest aros
and drove them unWitlingly into CLesa
, peake bay This proyidential interier
. cnce more than probably settled the des
tiny of ihe North American continent
The neat day, on the 18Th, the crews o
the "Susan Constant, the discovery,
and the "G0odspeed' made the hrst pen
, manent English settlement on this CONT
. nent at jamestown When the Puritan
s landed al Plymouth thirteen years after
wards good care WAS taken iO lei th
world know an about what they did
even 90 tine preservation Of the name o.
4 the vessel which had brought then. liell
across the Atlantic amid the tempesis %
/ winter Hence every child in The lane
knows That the Maynower, by a sort o
+ paradox i'm terms, WAS the fOriunat
vessel She has ever since that time b'el
the subject of historical notice. has heei
} canOniIrd la song and pOesy and beer
/ made he cXhaustless theme of New
England folklore. Her poetic nam
. symb0liZes the sternest OF religion
! creeds and The most eXacting OF pOlitica
systems For more than two hundred
, and fifty years the name OF this sing
vessel has been not only religious. ant
e political shibbOleth, but has been assO
cated with the rigOrs Of war and thi
D graces Of chivnlry. The Puritan "mOni
b. tor is now no less willing 10 meet he
foes in the gage a battle than was the
gallant yacht 10 join in friendly contes
} for the prizs of tue seas. On the Othe
hand. how many children, or even adults
. in Virginia can, even al this late day, tel
q ...tN j. d..
{ brought 20 the shores OF their State th'
s founders OF the American Republic
Let us trace them hurfiedly on thei
] perilOus voyage across the seas In Orde
4 the better 10 appreciate the dangers hel
/ had 90 encounter Leaving LOndon OF
the 2Oih December they boldly lauhche,
{ out into the stormy North sea, and wer'
butieied about for weeks before the,
{ could yet clear Of the land. After
! rough experience OF nearly ninety day
they reached The West India islands, anl
{ il Nas a lull month before they saw fo
J the first time, one morning about day
break, the shores of Virginia II is harl
e 10 realize that these insignificant speci
} mems of marine architecture could hay,
5 successfully weaiherod the gales of To,
-AAAdUAlAs RNA rAl lAA'I d" Au'lli-'Ni " tl'i
we find that they were generally bu
] half dccked over, and that their crew.
, were almost constantly exposed TO Oh,
b. rigOrs of the morcilrss seas The stOr,
/ OF their adventure does not end here
! They had scarcely put foot on land Id
search OF fresh TODD and water when they
+ were attacked by tie saysges. One OF
r their leading men WAS cruelty wounded
and the Others forced 10 return TO theil
/ bOals II Was only after their enemic,
/ had been made 20 experience The sharp.
. ness of slot that they had any feeling OF
security. Before entering the mouth OF
. james rigef they built boat with which
10 explore ho uncertain waters around
them. CoasiiDg along The Southern
{ shores they c0ul not hnd channel deel
! enough for harb0r. but upon crossing %
. he Lorh side they came into deep water
behind a point of land forming a small
bay This afforded them such graihca.
ton thai they called The pace Point
D. Comfort Siiil following ih. north side
Of what Is now Hampton Roads. they
70 nj an Indian village where Hampton
now stands called kiquotan. After
alternate peace making and lighting with