The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-10

| Massachusetts, and the hearts OF New
/ England leap for JOY. ''or'ous VII
| ginia," exclaimed the LEGISLATURE OF
Rhode Island. for its patriotic ana NUS
trious House Of Burgesses' ara or mo-
| ton of Samuel Adams MASSACHUSETTS, re-
turns thanks 10 yirginia's House for
! ITS uniform vigilance. harmony and wis
| DOM" and expresses concurrence. In
this manner Virginia laid the foundation
| of the Union. Massachusetts, organized
province Virginia promoted n confed-
eracy. In December OF this wear brave
Boston men threw the tea or the East
India COMPANY into the harbN. Parlia-
ment hurled back tn, c.'iver fuli OF darts
at Boston and Massachusetts. In l0i
thev passed bills:
IN To close the port OF Boston until
II made indemnity for the Tea 10 TIE
East India Company.
N, To alter the charter OF Massachu-
setts and break up its system Of local
Cover ament.
"a To transport accused persons TO
Nova Scotia or Great Britain for trial.
90 And to quarter troops upon the
people IN Boston.
The Mar.haine In Arms.
Virginia responds. Massachusetts, and
the North spring to arms. Virginia
rushes to their side. A convention Of
delegates is called OF several counties.
and n general congress is Invited. Events
now roll swiftly on 10 crisis and con-
clusion. The clash Of resounding arms
is heard from Concord, Lexington and
Bunker Hill. and is re-echoed from Moui-
trie. in South Carolina, and from the
Great Bridge in Virginia. In quick sue
cession come Independence, the consu-
tuition and freedom.
Now tDok f1DOn the statute BOOKS OF
Virginia. IL you would see the perpet-
ual memorials Of the service OF her
lawgivers to this people. and behold the
the rounded work OF freedom.
There stands together the hrst protest
at Jamestown agairst taxation, save by
the peoples representatives, and the first
nrpihst the stamp tax on the eve Of
revolution. There stand the statutes en-
franchlsing the land, and sweeping away
all the old English systems OF primoSen-
iture and entail. There stands the first
protest made In America against the
slave trade while colony. and there the
first prohibition Of II when State In
the Union There is the statute OF re-
lisious freedom. There is a call for cor
respordence between ell the correspond
ence which bound them together for
their struggle There is high appeal TO
the convention OF the people. There the
II strvctions to move Independence.
Their. is the first Bill Of Rights that
America possessed. and there Is the first
written Constitution Of America. the only
ere adopted before the Declaration OF
independence, and the prototype OF that
adopted by the nation. Look then at the
names uron the roll OF the Virginia
House OF Burgesses, and there indeed Will
you sec, Mr.. CT arm sn. full evidence or
The plastic irffp nee OF that body upon
America and mankind.
Henry, the great conmoncr OF the re-
volution, the steadfast leader In the
House OF Burges ses, I'm the state Con-
vention and I'm the Constitutional Con-
venton, Trainer. the first governor OF Nir-
GINA. as a State, the organizer Of the
expedition which sent George Rogers
Clark here 10 win the West beyond the
mountains and the organizer also Of
civil government in Illinois. There Is
another Burgess, Peyton Randolph. who
became President OF the Continental Con-
gress
There Is Dabney Carr, who organized
the system OF correspondence, and beck
oned the colonies to union.
There is Richard Bland. Of the Com
mlttee OF Safety. and Of the first Congress
whose eioquence was second only TO that
Of Henry, and whose essays cried out
for independence when less bold spirits
were protesting loyalty.
There was Thomas Nelson. signer OF
the Declaration. governor OF Virginia,
who commanded in person the Virginia
troops. and whose home at yorktown
still bears the marks OF his own guns,
shot to destroy It that It might destroy
the British harbored In u.
oh 10
at the Great Bridge. and colonel, whose
regiment stood at Brandywine until half
of them fell around him, and later Chief
Justice Of the United States.
There was Edmund Randolph. aide 10
WashingtCn, delegate TO the Continental
Congress, governor OF Virginia, champion
Of the Virginia plan in the Constitutional
Convention. and Attorney-General, and
Secretary Of State Ia the Cabinet Of
Washington.
There was George Wythe, "the honor
Of his own, and the model Of future
times.Y Member OF the Continental
Congress draughtsman Of many impor-
tant papers Of the laws of his State,
Speaker of the House. and illustrious as
a chancellor.
There was Richard Henry Lee. mover
of the Declaration Of Independence, an
America, and whose varied abilities were
employed in organizing opposition.
There was Benjamin Harrison, three
times Governor of Virginia, serving on
many committees and in many capaci-
ties, member of the Continental Congress.
signer OF the Declaration and ancestor OF
two OF our Presidents.
There was Francis Lightfoot Lee, ac-
complished and retiring gentleman. who
was three times member Of the Continen-
tai Congress. signer Of the Declaration
OF Independence and ever faithful In
works for his people.
There was Carter Braxton. member Of
the council and member OF the Continen-
tai Congress, signer OF the Declaration
and supporter % the statute OF religious
freedom.
There was Edmund Pendleton, scholar,
juris-consult and statesman, the ablest
mar in debate" so Jefferson said. he had
ever known, member Of the first Con-
gress, president OF the Virginia conven-
ton. president OF the convention
to frame the Federal Constitution, author
Of the resolutions in the Virginia conven-
ton directing her delegates to press the
Declaration Of Independence and presi-
dent Of the Supreme Court Of Appeals OF
Virginia.
There was George Mason, first and
greatest OF the moulders OF the funda-
mentals Of liberty, whose Bill Of Rights
Is the basis to-day Of every free State In
America, or in the world, TO whose ex-
position OF the rights Of man the Magma
Charta and the petition Of rights in Eng
land are as moonlight unto sunlight. as
the mist unto the rain" whose language
was copied in the Declaration of indie
perdence. and who was chief fashioner OF
that first free constitution OF Virginia