A history of Virginia from its discovery and settlement by Europeans to the present time |
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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| National Debt of Great Britain; Her authority in America; Sir Robert Walpole; Injustice of taxing the Colonies; Lord Chatham; Doctor Johnson; Patrick Henry, His early life; Clergy and Two Penny Act, Clergy suit; Henry's eloquence; Indian War, George Grenville proposes to raise revenue by taxing the Colonies; Virginia remonstrates, Stamp Act; Indignation in America; Virginia Legislature of 1765, Patrick Henry's Resolutions; Their effect; First Congress; Stamp Act repealed; Treasurer Robinson; Death of Governor Fauquier; His character; Charles Townsend; Duties on tea and other articles, Action in Virginia; Norborne Berkley, Baron de Botetouit, arrives; His character; First Virginia Convention; English injustice; Death of Botetourt; Lord Dunmore governor; Dabney Carr, Boston Port Bill; Raleigh Tavern; Convention in Williamsburg; Indian Hostilities; General Andrew Lewis; Battle of Point Pleasant, Severe Loss of the Virginians; Savages defeated, Speech of Logan; Convention of 1775 in Richmond; Patrick Henry's great speech; Its effect, Dunmore secretly removes powder from Williamsburg; War |
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| CHAPTER II. | |
| Excitement in Williamsburg, Armed force from the Fowey man-of-war; Captain Montague; Proceedings in Fredericksburg; Patrick Henry marches at the head of a volunteer company to retake the powder; Richard Corbin, King's Receiver-General; Last House of Burgesses in Virginia; Conciliatory plan of English Ministry; Its duplicity; Virginia not deceived; Explosion in the Williamsburg magazine; Dunmore retires aboard the Fowey; Correspondence between the Governor and the House of Burgesses, Vigorous preparations for war; Dunmore enters Norfolk harbour; Seizure of Holt's printing press; Predatory warfare; Attack on Hampton; Gallant defence; Enemy repulsed; Dunmore's success in Princess Anne; His inhuman proclamation; Plot with Conolly; Great Bridge; Colonel Woodford marches with the Virginia force; Conflict at the Great Bridge, Death of Fordyce, Success of the Virginians; Howe and Woodford enter Norfolk; Consternation of the Tories; English fleet; Norfolk fired upon and burned; Dunmore's degradation; General Charles Lee; Removal of people from Princess Anne and Norfolk Counties; Gwynn's Island; Dunmore takes possession of it; General Andrew Lewis attacks him; Drives him out with loss; Miserable condition of the enemy; Dunmore sails to New York; Finally leaves America; His character; Virginia and the Revolution, Civil and religious freedom; Seldom enjoyed in the world; Virginia resolves, if possible, to secure them; Her gradual approach to independence; Paine's Common Sense; Virginia Gazette; Convention of 1776; Declaration of May 15; Bill of Rights; Constitution; Its character considered; Establishment of civil liberty |
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| CHAPTER III. | |
| Religion; Man naturally religious; Christianity the only true religion; Its intrinsic evidences; Union of church and state; Its evils; Reformation; Church of England established; Bishops; Church established in Virginia; First ministers; Church under martial law; Establishment of parishes and glebes; Bigotry of Sir William Berkeley; Archbishop Laud; Stephen Reek; Intolerance; Its effects; Church in time of Governor Spotswood; Parishes; Progress of the Established Church; Her apparent prosperity; Real condition; Evils of the Establishment in Virginia; Rights of conscience infringed; Injustice to Dissenters; Intolerance; Cruelty; Wicked clergy; Irreligious people; Conduct of the Parsons; Rise and progress of Dissenters; Huguenots from France; Congregationalists from New England; Regular Baptists; George Whitefield visits Virginia; Effect of his preaching in America, Separate Baptists; Their rapid progress in Virginia; Their zeal; They are opposed by the Episcopal clergy; Persecution; Patriotism of the Baptists; Presbyterians in the Valley; Stone Church of Augusta; John Craig, Origin of Presbyterianism in Eastern Virginia; John Organ; Samuel Morris; Luther and Bunyan; Fines; William Robinson arrives; Effect of his preaching, Samuel Davies; His character and eloquence, His great success; Hampden Sydney and Liberty Hall; Methodists in Virginia; They co-operate with the Establishment; Legislature of 1776; Struggle for religious freedom; Memorials; Mr. Jefferson; Severe conflict; Bill in favour of Dissenters; Partial establishment of Religious Liberty |
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| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Changes required by the principles of the Revolution; Law; State of the Law in Virginia; Entails, Their progress in England, Docked by fine and recovery, Rigour of entails in Virginia; Aristocracy; Evils of the system; Mr. Jefferson's bill; Entails abolished; Proposed revisal of the whole legal system of the state; Revisors appointed; Their labours; Their report partially adopted; Review of their suggested reforms; Events of 1776; A dictator proposed; Patrick Henry and Archibald Cary, Progress of the Revolutionary War; Scientific association; Aid to Hampden Sydney College; Lafayette and De Kalb; General Thomas Nelson; Legislation as to British debts, Consequences thereof; Virginia accedes to confederation; Josiah Phillips; Dismal Swamp; Bill of attainder; Phillips captured, regularly tried, condemned, and executed; Further importation of slaves forbidden, English Commissioners; Their disgraceful conduct; Virginia refuses to hear them, Settlement of the west; Magnificence of the country; Daniel Boone in Kentucky; Manners of the western pioneers; English Governor Hamilton; George Rogers Clarke, Capture of Kaskaskia, Of Fort Vincennes; Hamilton sent a prisoner to Williamsburg; His rigorous treatment; General Matthew's incursion; Suffolk burned; Thomas Jefferson, governor; Defeat of Gates at Camden; Leslie's incursion; Saratoga prisoners; Arnold's incursion; Proceedings in Richmond; Arnold enters, Simcoe destroys stores at Westham; Baron Steuben; Skirmishes with the enemy, General Phillips takes command of the English; Marches to Petersburg; Lafayette appointed to defend Virginia; Phillips, after descending the river some distance, returns to Petersburg; His death, Cornwallis advances from North Carolina; Pursues Lafayette, Caution and skill of the Marquis; Simcoe drives Steuben from the Point of Fork; Tarleton seeks to capture the Legislature and Mr. Jefferson; Narrow escape; Masterly movement of Lafayette; Cornwallis retires to the seaboard, Takes post on York and Gloucester Points, Washington advances from the north with the combined French and American armies, French fleet enters the Chesapeake; Siege of Yorktown; Surrender of Cornwallis; End of the Revolutionary War |
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| CHAPTER V. | |
| Peace has its dangers; Virginia's generosity; Charters of King James I.; Domain of Virginia narrowed by charters to other states, and by Treaty of Paris in 1763; Validity of her claim; Land Companies; Virginia's claim disputed in Congress; Objections to it considered; Maryland and the Confederation; Virginia's dignified protest; She finally cedes her lands northwest of the Ohio; Extent of this gift; Patrick Henry; British Refugees; Proposed law to encourage intermarriages between Whites and Indians; Resolution to incorporate all religious societies who should apply; Act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Church; General assessment to support Religion proposed; Mr. Madison's memorial against it, It is rejected; Bill of Religious Liberty; Mr. Jefferson; Memorials of Hanover Presbytery; Bill adopted by the Legislature; Act incorporating the Episcopal Church repealed, Capitol; Statue of Washington; Houdon the statuary; Edmund Randolph Governor; Vices of the Confederacy; Necessity for a new government; Forms of Civil Government considered; Ancient debate on the subject, Mixed character of British Constitution; The conduct of America in 1787-'88 peculiar; Incipient measures to secure a change in plan of Confederation; Federal Convention in 1787; Constitution proposed; Debate in Virginia Convention; Edmund Pendleton; Governor Randolph; George Nicholas; Henry Lee, Francis Corbin; John Marshall; James Innes; James Madison; Opposition to proposed Government; Patrick Henry; George Mason; James Monroe; William Grayson; Constitution adopted by Virginia, Amendments finally secured |
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| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Subsequent course of Virginia; Sometimes adverse to that of the Federal Government; Admission of Kentucky to the Union; Memorial of Quakers; Rise and progress of parties; Federalists, Republicans; Foreign element; French Revolution; Its excesses; Conflict of feeling in America; Popular sentiment in Virginia; President Adams; His leading measures; Virginia's jealousy; Founding of the armory at Richmond; Muskets; Cannon; Passage of the Alien and Sedition Laws; Indignation of the Republican party in Virginia; Legislature of 1789-'99; Resolutions written by Mr. Madison, and offered by John Taylor, of Caroline; Animated debate; George Keith Taylor; General Lee; Mr. Mercer; Mr. Daniel, Mr. Pope, from Prince William; James Barbour; William B. Giles; Resolutions amended and adopted; Kentucky Resolutions; George Washington's letter to Patrick Henry; Mr. Henry is elected to the Legislature from Charlotte; He prepares to defend the Alien and Sedition Laws, His death; Death of Washington; Session of 1799-1800; Mr. Madison's celebrated Report; Brief review of its doctrines as subsequently explained; Their illustration in Virginia; James Thompson Callender; His libellous pamphlet; Judge Samuel Chase; Holds a Federal Court in Richmond; Callender's indictment, trial, conviction, and punishment; Virginia offers no resistance; Election of Mr. Jefferson to the Presidency |
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| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Internal interests of Virginia, Slaves; Insurrection headed by Gabriel; Happily defeated; Establishment of the Public Guard; Incipient steps for the sale of the glebe lands; Act of 1799; Its character explained; Memorials asking a sale of the glebes for the benefit of the public; Act passed for the purpose; Its leading provisions considered, Its effect and abuses, Constitutionality of the act disputed by the Protestant Episcopal Church; Manchester Parish case; Death of Judge Pendleton; Argument in the Court of Appeals; Court divided; Chancellor's decision that the law was constitutional, affirmed; Subsequent case; Chancellor Tucker; Court of Appeals, unanimous in sustaining the law; Complete establishment of religious liberty; Bank of Virginia chartered; Trial of Aaron Burr; Burning of the Richmond Theatre, in 1811; Late war with England; Virginia invaded; Admiral Cockburn; Mr. Jefferson's gunboats; Heroic defence of Craney Island; Hampton attacked and taken; Horrible outrages there committed by the enemy; Excitement in Richmond, Preparations for defence; Withdrawal of the enemy; Peace in 1815; University of Virginia; Its obligations to Mr. Jefferson; Its career; Members elected to a Convention to amend the Constitution of the State; Their labours; Amended Constitution adopted, Vote; Conflict of sentiment between the East and West; Explained, The Southampton insurrection of slaves; Crushed; Excitement throughout the state; Legislature of 1831-32; Case of Johnson, Smith, and Gansey; Controversy between the Executive of Virginia and that of New York; Governor Seward's conduct; Virginia Inspection Law; Protest; Case of Curry; Resignation of Governor Gilmer; His death and character; Retrocession of Alexandria ratified in 1847 |
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| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Review of the present condition of the State proposed; Her Laws; Changes in the Civil Code; Amelioration of the Criminal Code; Penitentiary; Statistics; Free coloured population, Laws as to slaves, Courts of justice; Delay in Court of Appeals; Proposed revisal of the law; Literature in Virginia, George Sandys's Ovid; Munford's Homer; Poets of Virginia; Lighter prose works; Historical works; Newspapers; Southern Literary Messenger, Colleges; William and Mary; Washington; Virginia Military Academy; Randolph Macon; Emory and Henry; Rector, Hampden Sidney, Medical department, Lunatic Hospitals; Institutions for the deaf and dumb and the blind; Religion in the state; Freedom of conscience; The Baptists; Statistics; The Methodists; Statistics; The Presbyterians; Division in 1837, 1838; Statistics; The Episcopalians; Progress of their church; Statistics; Other sects; Jews; Roman Catholics; Religious incorporations; Petition to Legislature of 1845-46; Debate before Committee of Courts of Justice; Agricultural interest of Virginia; Statistics; Manufactures; Mining; Finances; Subjects of taxation; Population of the state; Virginia compared with Massachusetts; Statistics; Sluggishness of Virginia; Three causes assigned; Want of education; Ignorance in the state; Want of internal improvement, Old James River Company; James River and Kanawha Company; Work accomplished by it; Other improvements proposed; Slavery; Its evils, Public sentiment with regard to it; Its decrease; Statistics; Virginia Land Company in England; Conclusion |
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