. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . thisfirst elective Assembly of Burgesses didwas to claim of the company at home aright to allow or disallow their ordersof coiut as his Majesty had given thempower to allow or disallow our was but the beginning of a longand continuous line of claims of right,insistence on which has become a fixedcharacteristic of the Virginian, and on THE OLD DOMINION. 13 which he has been ready always to standto the end. If the royal governors heldtheir prerogatives in high esteem, tlie peo-ple held their privileges in no less or their
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . thisfirst elective Assembly of Burgesses didwas to claim of the company at home aright to allow or disallow their ordersof coiut as his Majesty had given thempower to allow or disallow our was but the beginning of a longand continuous line of claims of right,insistence on which has become a fixedcharacteristic of the Virginian, and on THE OLD DOMINION. 13 which he has been ready always to standto the end. If the royal governors heldtheir prerogatives in high esteem, tlie peo-ple held their privileges in no less or their rulers named their riversafter kings and queens, and their bor-oughs and counties after royal princesand princesses, so that the chronology of raissioner to inspect their records they re-fused to exhibit them, and when theirclerk furnished him a copy they put himin the pillory and cut off one of his for monarchy, one wrote ofViiginia when the struggle came betweenthe Crown and the people (whatever she isfor she is always whole for); but. THE BARE-ARMED WHEAT-CUTTERS. the settlement of Virginia may be told bythe geographical names; they declaredtheir loyalty with piled-up asseveration,but they never forgot their charteredrights. The Genei-al Assembly addressedJames in terms of worship extraordinaryto a republican ear of the year of grace1893, but when the King sent over a com- she Avas even more whole for her rights;and though, as old Beverley says, she wasthe last to give up for the King and thefirst to assert his restoration, and thoughin his defeat she offered an asylum tohis discomfited followers, she stood upboldly against Charles I., and refused hersanction to his claims to the tobacco 14 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. monopoly. When Charles II., to whomshe had offered a crown when he was afugitive, attempted to invade her privi-leges and viohite her grants, she grewready for resistance. When his Governorrefused her riglits she actually hurst intorevolution, and
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