By some strange neglect, one of the truest, manliest, and bravest of her children,-one who, in after years, will, I think, command the pen of genius to set his merits forth, holds now no higher place in the records of that grand old Commonwealth than is held by a horse or an ox. Yet not all the great ones of the Oldĭominion have, by the fact of their birth-place, escaped undeserved obscurity. Men, not great enough to attract special attention in their native States, have, like a certain distinguished citizen in the State of New York, sighed and repined that they were not born in Virginia. With Virginia for his birth-place, even a man of ordinary parts, on account of the general partiality for her sons, easily rises to eminent stations. Her high position in this respect, has given her an enviable distinction among her sister States. History has not been sparing in recording their names, or in blazoning their deeds. She has been dignified by some the mother of statesmen. THE State of Virginia is famous in American annals for the multitudinous array of her statesmen and heroes. Revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.

Slave insurrections - United States - Fiction.

African Americans - Virginia - Fiction.

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Douglass the heroic slave