The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-13

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all their officers elected forts guarded.
troops raised and commanded as thel
House Of Burgcsses should direct. I'm
til Cromwell's death thoir rights
crclsed BY the people OF Virginia. Thus
virtually 1t amounted to independence.
When we reflect that these privileges
gd os5aned from TIE most Sef
whose power Europe trembled, we can
form some conception OF the resolute
courage and ardent love OF liberty pos
scssed by the cavaliers of Virginia.
Notable Ycnr.
Tho year 1910 was notable :, one nc In !,
r sPes t hs h1sto'y tms
With yw9ra IN ana r
rights and reform government. Berke-
ley. the royal Governor Of Virginia,
had nrrogated to himself all authority
House OF Burgesses. he continued It's
existence from. year to year, and re-
fused tho people the right to elect an
other. He assumed the right to a aIp:
indians tho taxes and PUBLIC lands,
! were corruptly appropriateu BY nm
the profits OF the, Indian trade, he
| would not protect the people from the
tomnhawk OF the merciless savages.
He stubbornly resisted every effort to
| correct these abuses. 1nflumed by the
eloquence and animated BY the courage
of Nathaniel Bacon. tho people rose IN
arms, drove Berkeley and his adhSr-
seek refuge in their ships and remote
places. seized tho rcins Of govern
mont and held them until the death
moro dramatic and inspiring scene than
| that ut tho Middle Plantation, now
| williamsburg. where, on the Sd OF M
gust. 1876. the cavaliers Of Virginia
1 assemblcl and In stormy session., eX-
1 tending from noon to midnight, final
l Is, under the flickering light Of torches;
| signed nm agreement that they Wouid
/ never lay down their arms until their
King OF Great BritalM should send
1 troops to, try. to SUPPRESS them. THIS ms
| century. While England submitteH to
| tho corrupt and wicked Charles. Vlr-
| ginia resisted the styrannical Berkeley,
and obtained the reforms :, deInnmas :,
the soil of Virginia the seed that after,
wards ripened into the Revolution ana
brought Independence TO- the coionitSs;
i No people ever chung tosindlviduai ], and an :.
/ lpublic liberty more tennciously than
4 the proud and imperious cavalle { I.
I Virginia. Liberty Or death. mas evG !,
| Ito battle and duty. The cavalier, as
i he advanced across the continent, from
. the Atlantic to the Great lakes. from
thence 10 tina Pacific. from the Potomac
4 to the Rio Grande. building communities
and cities, founding great states: has
carried with him fierce love or liberty
and free INSTITUTIONS There Is sea t%e
has not felt the touch of his nlasterful
hand, and whose social and political
structure does not bear testimony 20
I the greatness of his handiwork. The
one hundred thousand persons who emil
Il grated and settled in Virginia have
now increased to five millions. scatter
ed in every State OF this Union. No
! Industry, nc genius. is sufficient to
make an estimate Of their achievements
j in every line OF human cndeavor. or OF
J their gifts to national greatness and
: glory. No nation was ever adorned at
= one time with SO many illustrious men
% as was Virginia during the Revolution
and the ieW years
% Rome ever possessed at once such !, 9
\ prodigality OF genius and eminence. u !
70 is almost Impossible to conceive that 9
". many distinguished men,. Towerine
re above them all was Washington, the
is foremost man of all times and OF al
K. ence for the colonies; whose unselfsl
3. patriotism, strict Justice calm judy
ID mont and great achievements -jsolatt
I'd him from all others and emblaZnn mn
nf with O glory that Is world-Wide ant
A. eternal. Conspicuous in this shining
is galaxy was Jefferson, the immortal au'
10 thor Of the Declaration Of lndepcnd
rs cncc, tho boldest and most success g
" rcformer of all ages: who DEFINED ms
70 true purposes of government better
Of all others, whose party tenets hay'
:! - wisdom purchased Louisiana, witt. IT:
%, vast cxpanse Of territory, and thus
IN made possible our present n 1n,;nnI,
OF greatness. Within TINS GROUP tntmi'i4 ~,
- gentle and philosophic Madison, WIZ
s. when the thirteen colonies. under a., IN
9. old articles Of confederation, were ~ ~
OF Ing into fragments and dissolying my 1
It. anarchy, conceived the Federal Consli
or tuition and thus created our presem ~; . ma
40 tional government, the best ana m na1ia,
~ l ~ ,'p George N Mason the author Of til
en- Virginia Bill OF Rights. the nee 1i mes
deGlaraton 0f hI became q part or Ii
ce Federal Constitution, and of nenrl
r every state constitution ~ ane qnin'
ak OF or virginia, tho first written constitu
re tion Of the world for republic, an
no whose salient features, appear 1 N q
al natins tic Skies OF America with un
IN IN dimmed splendor was Patrick Henry
r. tic forest -born Demosthenes. "Wh
nd smoke as Homer WrOte. .tHc tslchtsa
~ orator Of modern times. whose burnln!
to oioquence and soul-stirrlng appeal
,se called continent to arms and startG
Of a revolution which shall yet encircl
NJ the globe in its onward, march for re
~ iiof ana reform. Residing at Chantill!
,e- in Westmoreland county, q home p {,
20. %. i lee n whose grace and elegance woul
les ftav, w adorned any court and who's
nd t WYE .mha Hicarn ~ the revolution
,'The Committee of Correspondence
from which sprung the un ,.ont Of bon ~
fits. Ho It was who moved on the "
Of Of June, in the Continental Congres
that these United Colonies are ar
ought to bo free and lndepende'