Life in old Virginia; a description of Virginia more particularly the Tidewater section, Narrating many incidents relating to the manners and customs of old Virginia so fast disappearing as a result of the war between the states, together with many humorous . County Street, Yorktown, Va., the Principal Street of the Custom House at Yorktown, Va., built 1706. Now owned by Dr. D. M. Norton, a colored physician. The oldest Custom House in the U. S. THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA 131 much as twenty-five acres of land with a liouse on it, or fiftyacres of unimproved land. After a lon
Life in old Virginia; a description of Virginia more particularly the Tidewater section, Narrating many incidents relating to the manners and customs of old Virginia so fast disappearing as a result of the war between the states, together with many humorous . County Street, Yorktown, Va., the Principal Street of the Custom House at Yorktown, Va., built 1706. Now owned by Dr. D. M. Norton, a colored physician. The oldest Custom House in the U. S. THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA 131 much as twenty-five acres of land with a liouse on it, or fiftyacres of unimproved land. After a long struggle, suffragewas extended in 1830 to certain lease-holders and house-holders, but not until the famous Eeforni Convention of1850-51 was every free white man allowed to vote. Duringthe same period, there was a struggle for the equalization ofrepresentation in the General Assembly. The Western coun-ties of the State became more populous than the Eastern, butyet, under the system of representation, established by theConstitution of 1776, each county had two representatives,without regard to population: Loudon County, for example,in 1639, with forty-two times the white population of War-v/ick had only two representatives. This was especially ob-noxious to all the western part of the State, and it was withthe hope of equal
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