The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-13
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SDeIightfuI8Lecture Delivered by Rev.
Dr.. McKim.
STORY. DEVvATER COUNTRY.
History. OF this Section Of the Old Do Do
minion and the Great Men LEM, it &.
Produced Reviewed by
tile Speaker.

Rev. T.. AIck1Tr1, H. Lea = s1s'.teass.
Epiphany church. Of Washington. : &c &c
slivered most entertaining and 8inst y ''
tive lecture on the History and and me ne
Homes Of Old Virginia. The lecture
was given under the auspices OF the as.
snciation for the Preservation OF Virginia
Antiquities, and the hail of the House o.
Delegates was crowded with represen-
tatiye Richmond audience
pGoyernor Tyler presided. and in a
happy speech introduced the lecturer.
Governor Tyler took occasion TO refer
TO the excellence of the entertainments
held under the auspices OF the associa-
ton.
Dr. AIcKim. in response. said
Ladies and gentlemen, / realize that l
am tabout to commit a monumental sore
cisrc in appearing in the city of Rich
mond to lecture on the history and the
homes Of old Virginia. The act OF car.
rviug Goals to Newcastle would be q
model of fitness and propriety Itself by
the side of what am proposing 70 90
this evening-tO discourse to an audience
Of ladies and gentlemen on u history they
know far better than do, and to snow
to them pictures of homes and people
as familiar to them as household words
and family portraits
NV apology must be that I am here
in simple obedience to the commands Ct
the ladies of the Association tor Tue
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, VINO
have been pleased to suppose that the
lecture to be given to-nisht might prove
interesting to a Richmond audience
"Will YOU be good enough to rernem-
her. however that it was prepared Tor
the National Geographical Society ana
intended for an audience at the Ma
tional Capitol. Composed in large
mart OF persons unfamiliar with the
places ana personages of the Old Do
rainion, and the incompatible part played
BY the sons Of this grand old Common
wealth in the making of the great re-
public.
VIRGINIA. THE FIRST BORN.
virginia said the speaker; was the
first born OF the English colonies III THIS
Western hemisphere. goodiy com
pany of heroic men stood around us
cradle deeply interested in its welfare,
among whom were Sir Waiter halelgh'
Sir Thomas Drake and Sir julius Caeser.
The child was named Virginia, after the
Virgin Queen Elizabeth, by her own re-
quest but Wingandacon was the lndlaH
name given it by the hardy sailors who
first reconnoitered the coasts in 1851.
THE historians of the close of Eliza
beth's reign draw attention to the ex-
that time about the new and yet unex-
plorel colony. Virginia was the 1<ion-
dixie of that period. a popular comedy,
entitled Eastward, Ho. held the stage in
1865. in which one of the, characters thus
delivers himself concerning Virginia:
q. I tell you gold is more plentiful
there than copper is with US. Why man,
all their dripping pans are of pure gold,
and all the chains with which they cham
up their streets are massy gold; and for
rubies and diamonds they so forth on
holidays and gather them by the sea-
shore to hang on their children's ccats.
..rhese words must have seemed a
bitter mockery to the unfortunate col
onists during the four years that fol-
lowed their landing In Virginia, when they
were repeatedly reduced to the verge Eof
starvation in 'I1arth's only Paradise
TO those who deive in geography it cam
not fail to be interesting to be reminded
that Raleigh and Newport and Smith
sailed for Virginia with Eastward. Hot
at their mast head expecting to find the
orient behind the shore of Virginia ana
believing that it was but matter of a
coupIe of hundred miles to the Pacific
ocean. Yet with all their error and igno-
rance about their new possessions In
America, they rightly OWNED slat Vir-
ginia was to be 4 bright Geti in the
crown of Great Britain. This was re-
fected by Edmund spenser who. early
as 1880. dedicated his Fairy Queen to
Elizabeth, Queen of England, France,
Ireland and Virginia.
.'I.et me remind YOU that the Virginia
Of 1GN was a vast domain, embracing
all the territory between the thirty-fourth
and forty-ifth parallel, in other words
it extended from the mouth OF: the Cape
Fear river to the Canada line. New
England was first known as North Vir-
e.inia, and Maryland, New York and
Pennsylvania were carved out OF Vir-
Ginia''
The speaker then went on to tell Of
the ideas of the extent Of the new colony
that existed at the time and how 1t was