The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23

Dutch Gap), and where the James and Annomattos
Years . ION near Bermuda Hundred. Some ten
peake Bay and the James, York and Potomac
pocehon, rhe marriage of John Rolfe, 1913 to
rpocahontas, the daughter of the great entertain
n nownatan. helped for time the maintenance of
peace ln , Se'~een the English and the Indians
IN 10 ~ slavery was introduced The same year
a shipioad OF young women to serve ms Wives for
,ne o eoionlsts, came to Virginia. One hundred and
OF wife The London Company was dissolved In
rin ,he becoming colony of the crown.
named loyal to the King. Charles L. Tobacco con
stituted the great staple and wealth OF the colo
ley Governor OF the colonies, to succeed SamueI Ar
sa'!i recalled From time to time Indian a,assacres
Lord Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon, with some follow W.
ers' headed a rebellion against him I'm 1915 which
death o Its purpose owing to Racons
Jehries. Sir Henry Chicheley and Lord Culnener
lillian ana Mary Coiisse the Oldest college after
and the scat Of government, shortly after l16os1
proved far greater Governor than any of his pre-
decessors. Under his able rule of twelve wears
beginning in i7lo, Virginia made marked progress
In the French and Indian War, which began in
1854, George Washington won distinction dmrinr
me regime of Governor Dinwiddie Braddock's
deteat was due to his not following Washington.s
advice. Francis Fauquier succeeded Governor Din
widdie. ' I'm
Revolutionary Period u775-sD.-owing nrin.
cipally to the wars carried by the mother coun-
try' the colonies were burdened with taxation and
this. too without representation Nor were thev
allowed TO trade with nstiun other than Eng
land These were the primary causes of the Revo-
lutionary War. which was famed into aame hv ~.
passage OF the Stamp Act and Patrick Henry.
historic speech in St Johns Church Richmond
Other great Virginia state;psh of the tine uh
helped the cause OF liberty were Thomas Jefferson
Richard Henry Lee, Peyton Randolph Edmund
Pendleton Richard Bland C;eoren Wp.nn G u,.u
WINE, James Monroe James Madison and John
Marshall Washington was appointed commander-
in-chief OF the Continental army, June To- 177b
ana the war began in earnest. George Mason wrote
the Bill Of State Rights which was followed by the
Declaration OF Independence. composed by Thomas
JEFFERSON and adopted by the coonists July a., 1875
Each colony was to have Governor, Legislature
and three courts Patrick Henry elected as
Nirginia's first Governor. The seal Virginia was
adopted from the suggestion OF George Wythe
This was followed by a law nsuring liberty of con
science as to religion Henry would stand for
Ie-elecu0h ana Jefferson was chosen second Gov
ernor. In l779 Richmond became the State CAPT.
TAI. me British were defeated in their ships from
shore AT Hampton but n779) burned Norfolk
and in 1881 Richmond was burned and occupied
by Benedict Arnold The war ended with the sur
render OF CORVALLIS to Washington assisted by
Lafayette. Rochambeau and Govt de Grasse at
Yorktown October -, 1881.
American Period (l7SI-lS6l)-A specisl Vir.
ginia convention. June to 25 1883, adopted the
code OF laws proposed by the Philadelphia national
convention of May. 1887. In the war with the
British OF 1872 some little fighting occurred along
the Virsnian coast at and near Norfolk and Hamp-
and influence. The State Constitution was revised
at Richmond October 5. 1929 A serious negro
insurrecton took place under Nat Turner in 1871
The slave question became paramount issue
Virginia. as far back 1918, with other States
slavery. which defeated by the New England
States. which made money by importing negroes
to be sold 10 the South. and by the cotton States
DESTROYS of negro service for the plantations
Later, after being freed from the presence Of the
negroes, New England became the hotbed OF abo-
ton. Because of agricultural interests Virginia
was naturally slave State The agitation of the
slave question together with that of State rights,
grew in bitterness, eliminating In John Browns
raid AT Earper's Ferry. October 1859, which
helped materially to precpitate the Civil War
The Confederacy -65).--Virgnia brought
shout peace conference of the States of Washing
ton with no result, February 4, 1851. Lncons
call for 1000 troops caused Virginia to secede
from the Union April IL, the of the General
Assembly being ratified by the people May %.
Jefferson Davis had already been chosen President
of the Confectionery 1t was with untold reluctance
and grief that the State practically forced
of the Union for which she had fought. and to
further whose interests she had supplied seven
Presidents, the Revolutionary commander-in chief.
the drafter of the Bill Of Rights and that of the
Declaration of Independence. a Patrick Henry the
mouthpiece of liberty. Chief Justice John Mar
shall! and many other national heroes OF renown.
The State could not remain neutral The question
whether she would take up against tho
North or her sister States of the South. The Cen
federate capta was removed from Montgomery
Ala to Richmond May 81. 1861. and the command
OF the Virginia forces rendered to Colonel Robert
4. Zee. who later became coinmander-in chief:
General Thomas (Stonewall) j. Jackson proved
his mainstay, and. with Lee won widespread fame.
Virginia also gave to the Confederacy Generals
Early and other notable military leaders. Tho
State became vertable battlefield, the scene of
many OF the most sanguinary conflicts OF all time.
The Southern troops at hrst victorious were later
overcome by superior numbers and the tremendous
resources OF the North. the war DenS virtually
ended by Lees surrender to Grant at Appomattox
April 9. 1865.
The so-called DEMONSTRATION Days the
darkest in the history of the State Her former
prestige gone, Of her best sons killed
manned in war, families broken up and scattered,
agriculture and industries paralyzed, burdened with
debt, the negro problem to handle, and part OF
her territory formed into another State, the pros.
poets OF Virginia after the gloomy in the
extreme The South put under Federal mill
tary rule, and became the rendezvous of unscrupu-
lous offceseekers and fraudulent persons.
Recent Progress (l87O-l912).-The State
restored to her constitutional rights January 26,
1870. Roadway gained against adverse conditions.
slow first gradually became more rapid. until
within the last twenty years the progress Of Vr-
ginia has been marked, striking indication OF