2 10 96 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-8 Title A name given to the resource Intimidation or Concern? October 23-31, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 23-31, 1870 Description An account of the resource As elections are quickly approaching, one thing begins to creep its way into the minds of not only the citizens of Richmond, but also those of the entire south. President Grant has decided to send in soldier to all voting sites in the south, in order to keep the peace. Regardless of his words, many white southerners are uneasy about his true intentions, with many thinking it is nothing more than an attempt by the north and the Radicals to intimidate voters and rig the votes in their favor. Interestingly enough, this move comes after an article was released which takes aim at the deceitful tactics used by Radicals in order to get votes out of African-Americans. After this move, white southerners are left with one question - What will the Radicals and the Government do next? Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Greeley excuses himself for justifying Mr. Boutwell and his Savannah understrapper in refusing to allow the United States flag to fly at half-mast upon the occasion of the death of General Lee by pleading that that flag represents "the whole country" that General Lee won his fame in attempting to humble it; and that he (Greeley) cannot "consent that a false estimate" of General Lee's errors "shall pass into history." Thus spoke and wrote the great Dr. Samuel Johnson, of Washington, and the other "rebels" who fought the war of American independence. Thus spoke and wrote the British loyalists of the seventeenth century concerning John Hampden, Algernon Sidney, and Oliver Cromwell. But history to-day speaks the praises of all these men. A Carlyle champions Cromwell, a Macaulay extols Hampden and Sidney, and every historian, British and American, lauds the "Cincinatus of the West." So shall it be, oh, mole-eyed Greeley, with the fame of Robert E. Lee. It will grow brighter and brighter as the coming centuries fall into line with the years "beyond the flood." The voice of contemporaneous historians residing in England is some indication of what the verdict of those separated from us by time instead of distance will be. Even as we write we come across the following discriminating article, copied from the London Standard. Read it, all ye puny tricksters who set up your little parasols between the sun and the earth, and understand how much light you will be able to shut out from the future historian - how easy you will find the task of preventing the truth from "passing into history": "The announcement that General R. E. Lee has been struck down by paralysis, and not expected to recover, will be received, even at this crisis, with universal interest, and will everywhere excite a sympathy and regret which testify to the deep impression made on the world at large by his character and achievements. Few are the generals who have earned, since history began, a greater military reputation; still fewer are the men of similar eminence, civil or military, whose personal qualities would bear comparison with his. The bitterest enemies of his country hardly dared to whisper a word against the character of her most distinguished general; while neutrals regarded him with ah admiration for his deeds and a respect for his lofty and unselfish nature which almost grew into veneration, and his own countrymen learned to look up to him with as much confidence and esteem as they ever felt for Washington, and with an affection which the cold demeanor and austere temper of Washington could never inspire. The death of such a man, even at a moment so exciting as the present, when all thoughts are absorbed by a nearer and present conflict, would be felt as a misfortune by all who still retain any recollection of the interest with which they followed the Virginian campaigns, and by thousands who save almost forgotten the names of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Truer greatness, a loftier nature, a spirit more unselfish, a character purer, more chivalrous, the world has rarely if ever, known. Of stainless life and deep religious feeling; yet free from all taint of cant and fanaticism and as dear and congenial to the Cavalier Stuart as the Puritan Stonewall Jackson; unambitious, but ready sacrifice all at the call of duty; devoted to his cause, yet never moved by his feelings beyond the line prescribed by his judgment; never provoked by just resentment punish wanton cruelty by reprisals which would have given a character of needles savagery to the war - North and South owe a deep debt of gratitude to him, and the time will come when both will be equally proud of him. And well they may, for his character and his life afford a complete answer to the reproaches commonly cast on money-grubbing, mechanical America. A country which which has given birth to like him him, and those who follow him, may look the chivalry of Europe in the face without shame; for the fatherlands of Sidney and Bayard never produced a better solider, gentlemen, and Christian than General Robert E. Lee." URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701024&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-24 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701024-GeneralLeeAndHistory.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource General Lee and History Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-7 Title A name given to the resource Perjury, October 16-22, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 16-22, 1870 Description An account of the resource In the wake of General Robert E. Lee's death, amidst many ceremonies and speeches in his honor, a new problem arises. This problem threatens to tarnish the legacy of General Lee, and its name is perjury. The accusation of perjury by the government and the North comes as a not only a shock to the south, but a showing of disrespect toward General Lee. The idea of perjury, however, is one that many white southerners refuse to accept. The accusation of perjury is counter by the mere question, "how can one man in the south be accused of perjury, when countess citizens of the north have opposed the constitution and vouched for it to be changed, but are not considered perjurers?" While within the United State, the fight for the General's honor may be limited to those in the south, they do have support from those oversees. All the way from London, support comes to the south in the form of defending General Lee's honor. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Whig discusses this question with usual clearness and ability. It is a question about which we have heretofore written, and upon which we have said nothing since Gen. Lee's decease, only because we disliked at such a time to couple his name with such a word as "perjury." The charge that those persons who as officers or otherwise had sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and who afterwards engaged in rebellion against the Federal Government were guilty of perjury is as absurd as so serious a charge could be. The person who takes such an oath takes it with the distinct understanding that it is obligatory upon him only so long as he is living and acting under that Constitution. The oath to support any given constitution is an oath to support it just as it is. So that is Gen. Lee, Mr. Davis, and others, were guilty of perjury in failing to continue to support the Federal Constitution, every public man in the North who voted to alter that Constitution is equally guilty of perjury. The oath was to support the Constitution as it stood say in 1861 - exactly as it stood - - to the very letter - without adding aught to it, or subtracting aught from it. The reply to this will be that the Constitution was altered in the manner prescribed in that instrument for it alteration. No southern man will admit this plea to be true. In fact, it is so notoriously untrue that it is not necessary to do more than remind the reader of its falsity. But, concede it to be true, and we enter the same please for ourselves. The remedy of secession we believed to be the very remedy contemplated by the framers of the Constitution for the wrongs of which the South complained in 1861. We did not assume this to be the remedy when we found we had no other. On the contrary, we had always been taught to believe that this was the constitutional mode of redress. Si far as General Lee and all other Virginians are concerned, it is sufficient to say that the Virginia convention which ratified the Federal Constitution took the precaution to claim the right for them. The ratifying ordinance began with these words: "We, the delegates of the people of Virginia, duty elected" &e., "do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." This was the doctrine in Virginia from the 25th of June, 1788, to the day when, in a like convention of "the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected," &e., it was resolved that "the powers granted under the Federal Constitution" had been "perverted to their injury and oppression," and that those powers should be resumed by the people who had granted them. But if Virginia had made no such reservation, no one of her sons would have been guilty of perjury in engaging in the rebellion. Every officer in Illinois swore in 1868 to support the Constitution of that State as it then stood. In 1870 every officer in the same State is acting under another Constitution, and has repudiated, "spit upon," as Greeley would say, and utterly destroyed that very constitution which only two years ago they were under oath to support. Are they guilty of perjury? No. Why not? Because they and everybody else understood the oath to mean to mean that they would support the then Constitution so long as they were living and acting under it. So it was with us of the South. We took the oath to support the Federal Constitution so long as we were living and acting under it - no longer. There is no question of perjury involved in the case at all. Every naturalized citizen has sworn to renounce his allegiance to his former sovereign; yet, whatever oaths he may have previously taken, we have never heard of any such citizen charged with perjury. "Perjury" is the crime of willfully swearing to a lie. The man who is guilty of perjury knows that he is guilty. We have no such knowledge. On the contrary, we went into "rebellion" as it is unjustly and foolishly styled, with clear consciences and an unshaken faith as well as the rectitude of our motives as in the justice of our cause. The Whig truly says that our revolutionary fathers were guilty of the kind of "perjury" spoken of by our northern "brethren." Washington was the same kind of "perjured traitor" that Lee was; but can be called with much greater plausibility than Lee because the colonies had no reserved rights. A kindred subject to this is the education of General Lee "at the public expense." Virginia paid ten thousand over for all the education that any of her son ever received at West Point. We disdain to say more on this point. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701022&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-22 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701022-GeneralLeeAndTheQuestionOfPerjury.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource General Lee and the Question of Perjury Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-7 Title A name given to the resource Perjury, October 16-22, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 16-22, 1870 Description An account of the resource In the wake of General Robert E. Lee's death, amidst many ceremonies and speeches in his honor, a new problem arises. This problem threatens to tarnish the legacy of General Lee, and its name is perjury. The accusation of perjury by the government and the North comes as a not only a shock to the south, but a showing of disrespect toward General Lee. The idea of perjury, however, is one that many white southerners refuse to accept. The accusation of perjury is counter by the mere question, "how can one man in the south be accused of perjury, when countess citizens of the north have opposed the constitution and vouched for it to be changed, but are not considered perjurers?" While within the United State, the fight for the General's honor may be limited to those in the south, they do have support from those oversees. All the way from London, support comes to the south in the form of defending General Lee's honor. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound At the last meeting of the trustees of Manchester the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: Whereas the trustees of the town of Manchester have learned with deep regret of the death of General Robert E. Lee: Therefore, be it 1. Resolved, That we, as the representatives of the town, sympathize in the general bereavement which the people of this State now experience. 2. That we recommend to the people of Manchester the observance of such day as shall be set apart by the Government as a day of public mourning in commemoration of his death. In no place in his native State had the gallant Lee more devoted admirers than in Manchester, and her citizens yield to none in deploring his loss and in reverence to his sainted memory. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701018&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-18 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701018-RespectToTheMemoryOfGenLee.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Respect To The Memory of Gen. Lee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-7 Title A name given to the resource Perjury, October 16-22, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 16-22, 1870 Description An account of the resource In the wake of General Robert E. Lee's death, amidst many ceremonies and speeches in his honor, a new problem arises. This problem threatens to tarnish the legacy of General Lee, and its name is perjury. The accusation of perjury by the government and the North comes as a not only a shock to the south, but a showing of disrespect toward General Lee. The idea of perjury, however, is one that many white southerners refuse to accept. The accusation of perjury is counter by the mere question, "how can one man in the south be accused of perjury, when countess citizens of the north have opposed the constitution and vouched for it to be changed, but are not considered perjurers?" While within the United State, the fight for the General's honor may be limited to those in the south, they do have support from those oversees. All the way from London, support comes to the south in the form of defending General Lee's honor. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Surprise was expressed in our issue of yesterday that a colored Conservative enjoying the confidence of this community like Abram Hall should have attended the Radical Nominating Convention at the county court-house, on Saturday. We have since been informed that Hall went there from most praiseworthy motives, and during the meeting avowed his Conservative sentiments, even at the risk of his life. He branded the statement of one of the speakers that the whites wished again to enslave the blacks as a lie, and denounced without mercy the craven fellow who abused General Lee. For these offences against Radicalism Hall was greeted with cries of "Put him out!" ''Kill him!" etc., when he took the stand, in response to the calls of his friends. And he actually was put out of the house. Backed by white and colored Conservatives, however, he returned to the charge, and did not leave the room again until the Scalawags adjourned. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701018&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-18 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701018-AConservativeColoredManShowsHisPluck.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource A Conservative Colored Man Shows His Pluck Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-7 Title A name given to the resource Perjury, October 16-22, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 16-22, 1870 Description An account of the resource In the wake of General Robert E. Lee's death, amidst many ceremonies and speeches in his honor, a new problem arises. This problem threatens to tarnish the legacy of General Lee, and its name is perjury. The accusation of perjury by the government and the North comes as a not only a shock to the south, but a showing of disrespect toward General Lee. The idea of perjury, however, is one that many white southerners refuse to accept. The accusation of perjury is counter by the mere question, "how can one man in the south be accused of perjury, when countess citizens of the north have opposed the constitution and vouched for it to be changed, but are not considered perjurers?" While within the United State, the fight for the General's honor may be limited to those in the south, they do have support from those oversees. All the way from London, support comes to the south in the form of defending General Lee's honor. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Our citizens have the opportunity of supplying themselves with a portrait in oil colors of Gen. Lee, which is by far the most life-like we have ever seen of this distinguished and beloved son of Virginia. It is from a photograph of his own selection, is enclosed in a handsome gilt oval frame, and sold for the low price or fifteen dollars. A small number only are left in the hands of the publisher, and his agent, Mr. W. S. Bawlow, is now in the city soliciting subscribers to it. Orders may be left with him at Ford's Hotel, or at Ellyson & Taylor's news depot. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701017&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-17 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701017-PortraitOfGeneralLee.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Portrait of General Lee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-6 Title A name given to the resource The Passing of Robert E. Lee, October 9-15, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 9-15, 1870 Description An account of the resource Morale crushing news has made its way to the residents of Richmond, as General Robert E. Lee has died. This news comes at no worse time, in the wake of a flood that just ravaged the city. Citizens, both black and white, are now left to pick up the shambles of their city all while mourning the loss of "the state's most beloved son." In his honor, all business has been recommended to shut down work for the day. Services are being held to allow the entire community to collectively more the loss of its General. Even so soon as a few short days after his passing, rumblings have been heard of a monument being built to memorialize him and his accomplishments. Despite all of the hardship that the city and its people are enduring, the wound opened by General Lee's death with soon heal, allowing everything to return back to normalcy. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Under this caption the New York Times publishes a report of the proceeding of public meeting of colored people held in that city on the 20th instant. The object of the meeting "appeared to set before the public the present social condition of the colored people" of New York city. The resolutions which were adopted denounce the Democratic party as "wholly undeserving the suffrages of colored voters ether North or South" and call upon the Republican party to "go forward,' and by the "necessary legislation protect the colored people from the injustice they still suffer at the hands of licensed hotel proprietors and chartered "corporations." They also "deplore the continued existence of the spirit of caste which still frequently excludes colored people from hotels, the saloons and staterooms of steamboats, sleeping cars. workshops, places of amusement. equal educational advantage," and from social "recognition." A letter was read from Wendell Phil in which he calls upon the negroes to "never to forgot or forgive at the ballot-box any man who has even once, through ignorance even, shown byword or deed since 1855 this cruel and ungodly pride." Fred. Douglas also wrote a letter to the meeting. If the colored people wish to be respected by the whites, they must first learn to respect themselves. We can imagine no better proof of their inferiority, and no course of proceeding better calculated to call down upon them with general contempt, than their lugubrious complaint that the whites do not want to associate with them. If they are as good as the whites, why do they not show it by their acts? Let them open their own hotels, theatres, churches, and what not, and refuse to admit the whites. They have the right to do so. We should in that event soon see whether the whites would complain of this exclusion. The whites claim to be better than the biacks, and they prove that they assert this claim in good faith by segregating themselves from the company of the blacks, and never asking to be allowed to associate with them. They frequent their own theatres and hotels, and associate only with person of their own race. The blacks proless to consider themselves as in every way the equals of the whites, and yet they are eternally whining out the complaint that the are not permitted to associate with people who, so they declare, are not a whit better than themselves. If the blacks are the equals of the whites, why cannot the blacks content themselves with their own excellent company? Why should they shame their manhood and belie all their fine speeches by efforts to force themselves into the company of people who look upon them as inferiors? The unavoidable inference from such conduct is that the blacks are so conscious of their inferiority that they cannot hide that consciousness even when they most affect an arrogant carriage. They confess to this consciousness whenever they complain of their ostracism from the company of the whites. If they really believed themselves to be the equals of the whites, they would scorn the idea of asking for social recognition at their hands, just as the humblest white man in the land would scorn to ask of any other white man lie privilege of associating with him. We utter these unpleasant truths - truth as they seem to us - in no spirit of unkindness. We would have the blacks respect themselves. We would like to see them too proud to ask for social recognition from our race. We are pleased that in this city they have their own hotels and churches, and we would like to set them carry the same spirit of independence into other places. They cannot build railroads for themselves; but they can be proud enough to ride in the cars assigned to colored people and not base enough to crave the company of men who do not wish to associate with them. They should have for the the same price as comfortable seats as the whites have, and should not be compelled to ride in smoking ears. They should, in a word, be treated with even-handed Justice and the respect due to them. But when this is done, all will have been doue that the colored people of sense would expect. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701014&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-14 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701014-Caste.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource "Caste" Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-6 Title A name given to the resource The Passing of Robert E. Lee, October 9-15, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 9-15, 1870 Description An account of the resource Morale crushing news has made its way to the residents of Richmond, as General Robert E. Lee has died. This news comes at no worse time, in the wake of a flood that just ravaged the city. Citizens, both black and white, are now left to pick up the shambles of their city all while mourning the loss of "the state's most beloved son." In his honor, all business has been recommended to shut down work for the day. Services are being held to allow the entire community to collectively more the loss of its General. Even so soon as a few short days after his passing, rumblings have been heard of a monument being built to memorialize him and his accomplishments. Despite all of the hardship that the city and its people are enduring, the wound opened by General Lee's death with soon heal, allowing everything to return back to normalcy. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The tidings of the death of Gen. Robert E. Lee reached Richmond by telegraph at nightfall yesterday. The brief telegram containing the sad intelligence brought sorrow to the heart of every man, woman, and child, in the city, and ere an hour passed, the whole community was shrouded in gloom. All seemed to have a sense of personal bereavement, and everywhere was manifested a desire to pay a fitting tribute of respect and affection to the memory of the departed patriot.The Chamber of Commerce had just assembled in annual meeting when the news was announced. No business was done except the adoption of the following resolution:"That this Chamber of Commerce recommend to its members and the citizens generally to close their places of business and place crape upon their doors during the day tomorrow (13th instant), in token of the general grief and as a tribute to the memory of the good and great man who has fallen in the midst of his usefulness and his honors."The Chamber then adjourned to meet on Wednesday, the 19th instant.The action of this representative body of our mercantile community was spontaneous, and just what might have been expected of an assemblage of Virginia gentlemen stricken by the saddest of news; and the sentiment which prompted it will find an echo in every breast. No words of oursare necessary to secure the strict observance of the recommendation.The Governor will to-day communicate officially to the General Assembly the newsof General Lee's death, and in all probability that body will set apart a day to be observed as one of mourning throughout the Commonwealth. Virginia's voice will doubtless find expression in the request that the remains of her noblest and most honored son shall he brought to the capital and interred where lie so many of her heroic dead - at Hollywood.The bells on all the public buildings in the city will be tolled from sunrise to sunset to-day as a tribute of respect, and the City Council will hold a meeting at 5 o'clock P. M. to take action in reference to the public loss. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701013&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701013-TheNewsOfTheDeathOfGeneralLee.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource The News Of The Death Of General Lee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-5 Title A name given to the resource The Flood, October 1-8, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 1-8, 1870 Description An account of the resource The atrocity that has been ravaging the state of Virginia for some time now has finally made its way to Richmond - the flood. Having caught word of the flood many days before it arrived at the outskirts of the city, the residents of Richmond knew that it was not to be taken lightly. Despite everything its residents knew and every precaution the city took in anticipation of the flood, not much has been able to stop, or even mitigate, the trail of destruction it is leaving in Richmond. Thankfully no lives have been taken, forming the one saving grace amidst the destruction. It is only a matter of time before the floods time in Richmond comes to a close, and then the citizens will finally be able to return back life uninterrupted, and the community can begin to rebuild itself. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound It is very gratifying to perceive that the railway is growing in popularity because of its many merits. It is an important discovery in railroading, or rather its great advantage are. Without it the system would be sadly imperfect. With it the facilities of the iron track can be bestowed upon every community. The cheapness with which the narrow track can be built and run will no doubt make it a great economy in the purposes of travel and transportation. The use of draught animals will be confused almost entirely to the farm, and the heavy expenditures for improving turnpikes will be avoided. Every neighborhood will have its lateral narrow track, and will be able to forward its produce promptly, while its teams may be kept at work upon the crops, seeding and tilling and gathering. This will save both money and time to the farmer, and increase the steadiness and success of his effective force. The power of the locomotive upon the narrow gauge is astonishing, and trains on such a track can ascend grades that would be impracticable upon the wide-gauge railways. It is estimated that $5,000 a mill will complete and equip a narrow track - while it takes $3,000 per mile to build a McAdam road. When we take into consideration the speed and power of draft of the railway - the dispensing with the use of teams, and the gains from safe and rapid transportation - we see at once what an immense advantage there is for society in the narrow gauge iron track over the McAdam road. It is surprising that this new railway has not before now been introduced into this country, which is generally either in advance or very prompt to adopt whatever is useful that may be invented elsewhere. The two and the three-feet gauge have been tried in England with wonderful success. Their introduction here would be an epoch in our commercial and social intercourse. It would be the perfecting of the railway as a substitute for the old mode of transportation and travel. It would be the perfecting of the railway as a substitute for the old mode of transportation and travel. it would be a relief to the horse, whose trials have been great in running in connection with the present lines, which leave such wide districts of the country to make their way to the railway stations by horse-power, in which mode of traveling the poor horse is too often made to pour out his life in an effort to make up for the time lost by men in dallying or sleeping. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18701001&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-10-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18701001-TheNarrowGaugeRailway.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource The Narrow-Gauge Railway Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-2 Title A name given to the resource A True Tragedy for All, September 11-17, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 11-17, 1870 Description An account of the resource Justice - as some may call it - has been served to four of the five black men who were convicted of the murder of Joel Gray. The enactment of this "justice", by way of public execution, was observed by "the assemblage of [what] could not have been less than two thousand of all races, sexes, color, and conditions of people." While the white community felt a sense of gratification and satisfaction that the law was vindicated and the lost of life an esteemed citizen avenged, the black community was infuriated by the public execution of four of their brethren. However, news does not get better for the black community. After spending over a year in jail, an eighty-year-old African American man has been sentenced to ten lashings for stealing a piece of rope that he would not have been able to steal. While news of this did incite the rage of the black community, white southerners surprisingly expressed their disdain for the situation as well. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound This connection, so important to the travelling public, has been in successful operation since the 1st instant. Passengers are no longer transferred through the city in omuibusses, but by a road of easy grade at thr southern end of the Petersburg bridge, and without leaving the cars are carried down or up to the trains on either road. We learn that the number of passengers thus transferred is about seventy-five daily, and is steadily on the increase. This will ever be the case. Travelers are always impatient of delay, and invariably seek the route which "puts them through" in the shortest time and with the least inconvenience. Thus, we expect to see this already popular route receiving: daily additions to its list of passengers. Direct lines, cheap fares, close connections at terminal roads, attention to wants of travelers, and good sleeping-cars, make this line one of the shortest and most popular routes between the northern and southern portions of our country. In this connection we will mention that the iron which is to link together the Richmond and Danville and the Richmond and York Paver roads has been purchased and is on the ground. Work has already been commenced. The additions which are deemed necessary to the bridge, where the former road now crosses the canal, are nearly completed, and then the track between the two roads will be laid immediately. The route which has been selected passes down Water street to the old gashouse, thence through the alley between Water and Cary streets to Eighteenth, thence down Dock street to the York River depot. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad will also commence at once the construction of the road through the city, which is to connect also with the York River road. This track is to pass along Union to Eighteenth street, thence down Eighteenth to Dock, uniting on this street with the connection of the Richmond and Danville and Richmond and York River railroads. When these connections have been completed there will be practical connections in side the city limits of all the roads entering the city, and not only will the convenience of passengers be subserved, but freight can be transferred from one line of railway to an other without handling or breaking bulk. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18700913&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-09-13 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18700913-ImportantRailRoadConnectionsEffectedAndInProgress.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource Important Railroad Connections Effected and In Progress Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terry-Week-1 Title A name given to the resource Riots in the Streets, September 1-10, 1870 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Travis Terry Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 1-10, 1870 Description An account of the resource The citizens of Richmond are assembling, but for all the wrong reasons. White southerners and black southerners are congregating with their race, not for the purpose of peace and discussion, but rather to riot. On three separate occasions - September 1st, 2nd, and 7th - Richmond was engulfed by the passion of its citizens. After weeks of closed meetings, many black residents have come together to riot in defense of their riots, however, the white southerner editors of The Daily Dispatch seem to think this gathering is finds its purpose in the "utter extermination of the whites, both young and old." The black community is not the only one rioting in defense of itself, as the white community finds itself in a similar situation. After an attempted kidnapping of a woman late at night, the white community has lashed out - search parties have come together to find the individual, while riots have ensued out of pure anger toward the attempted outrage. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A lady from this city, who has been spending the summer upon her farm near Rappahannock station; in Fauquier county, was suddenly aroused from her slumbers a few nights since by the pressure of a hand upon her arm, and opening her eyes saw a large negro man standing by the side of her bed. She immediately screamed for help, and her overseer. who was an inmate of the house; armed with a stick and gun, at once ran to her assistance. The villain, hearing the approach of the oversees, seized a young lady who was sleeping in the same bed as the lady just mentioned, in his arms, and springing through the side door, darted for the woods, and had reached the gate of the enclosure before the overseer caught up with him and forced him to relinquish his prey by beating him severely over the head with a club. The young lady had swooned from fright. The affair occasioned great excitement in the neighborhood, and parties have been searching for the wretch, but as yet without success. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18700907.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1870-09-07 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context TerryTravis-18700907-AnAttemptedOutrage.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource An Attempted Outrage