El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-02-15
When His PrOtege Captured CORVALLIS Rolling
Road" For Rolling Hogsheads To The Ships
By ERNEST WALLS BUCK.

n ously untouched by time. is George
Washingt0n's county Of Fairfax in
Virginia Electricity and Easolene
have quie failed 10 drive from it the
stately charm Of the days Of Fair
faxes. Fitzhushs. Masons and Wash
inEtons. Go abroad in that region Of
bland. undulating acres in a hushed
thrilled morning Of the throbbing
early Potomac spring. and you will
be bewitched. for you VIII be looking
70 see squire Washington, himself
come riding down a redbrown road
under the teuuer pillows Of young
green that cloud all the views.
Everywhere the trees frame some
scene tnat is as much OF his time as
ours ciumneruus under Eirginia's
sun stretch wide pastures that Tor
more than two centuries have fed
sleek herds and noble horses. High
porUcoel mansions, before watch his
coach often drew up. stand there, al
most unchanged, secluded in park
IKE domains in a modern day when
modern men dwell close together in q
crowded land Aged churches, aged
court houses stand fast there. holding
% their past in "a United States that
has otherwise little time or patience
t0r clinEinE 10 old traditions. Roads
pass trees that were lustE when Gen
~ Washington rode under them on his
way 20 the great victory at Yorktown
Everywhere remains the stamp Of
the very noblest. purest, bravesC
best OF Gods men, and Of the gallant
men and women who were Of his com
Qany-
L IS not merely Imagination that
perceires this stamp OF past history
II lovely Fairfax county. The stamp
Is real II has been imprinted by
STEADY time for this region between
the red Potomac and the red Kappa
hammock IS the Oldest man made
country In America It is today more
tnan three centuries ago that Capt
John smith set out from James
Town the first settlement in Amer
lea 70 cruise I'D the Chesapeake bay
ana ascend the Potomac 10 Great
Fails. where he landed and set the
me SOL that now Is Fairfax county.
Americas BaronE Fairfux.
Two hundred and seventy years ago
The Isolated settlements that had
sprung up along all the river
we're organized into Northum berland
county Il was q wide and opulent
land this Northum berlaud county,
ana al owned by one man-Thoma /
-oro Lulncperr 10 whom there had been
given by Charles II. all the territory
between the Potomac and the Kappa
hannocl-- from Chesapeake bay TO the Z
FotoTnac's headwaters in the far Ale I
Ehanies.
The great domain. estimated as .
$4,000 acres, stiu was owned BY his I
descendant IN George WashinEton's I
day-Ihomas. sixth lord Fairfax, I
baron Of Cameron, grandson OF lord I
Lulpeper- He maintained q lordiy I
mouse lreenWaT court where wash I
inElon was q 1aTorita guest II was 1
mis- lord Fairfax who save him his /
first important work BY enEaginE 1
% .
tate. and IL was this lord Fairfax who /
ilFed 70 see his protege capture lord
CORVALLIS and the army under him
When the doughty ole royalist
heard that news he called 10 his
black serFltor. according 10 traditions !
Come joe Carry ne to ny bed. I'm /
sure that It's high time for me to der
A ballad written AT the time says;
Then up rose Joe, all at the word,
and took his masters arm.
And 70 his bed he softly led
The lord Of Greenway farm
There he called on Britain's name,
and OFT he wept fun sore.
done
And word spake never more"
All those great holdings were
known then as The Northern Neck
md its settlers enjoyed only com
aarative safety from Indian depreda-
lions" As late as 1855 the House OF
5urgesses Of Virginia province still
iuthorized payment Of 10 pounds
'terling for every Indian enemy above
= years taken prisoner, killed or de-
stroved-T
Rick and HospifabIe Land.
Eur the FirEinian settlers had no
such Indians 70 fight as those fierce.
luTle-clng warriors who fought New
1neLand's settlers under the leader
nip Of the great king Philip Neither
lad the FirEinians 10 combat such
ierce- uuyielding winters as those I
= Massachusetts,, or such 2 reluctant
'0iL The Potomac and the Kappa
lan1ocE warered a rich and fruitful
'ounrry under a kindly sky. where
treat saValnahs lay almost ready for !
ne plough. while the broad. sheltered
'-reamE made easy roads to the sea
Men became rich there quickly. and
hey became rich as planters. not
armers- In England people spoke Z
u the transatlantic country as The
-olden NirEiniEs-' and what made /
hem golden was the golden Virginia /
ohacco-
Everywhere were the rolling roads,
-NirEinia's famous highways hat I
armed their name because along them
here rolled the great h0gsheads Of J
ob1cco. with pins driven in them TO
erve as aZles that horses and mules ]
night draE them 20 the river ports Of
chichester at Occoquan Ferry and Al :
Eandria-
The charters making these two ! G