. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . dly terms with their wealthyneighbors, whose equals they were in birth; they were alsocompanions in their sports and comrades in the frequentwars with the Indians. Class Distinctions did much to remove allclass distinctions in Vir-ginia. Jeffersons Decla-ration of Independence,his bill abolishing the oldEnglish laws of entailand primogeniture, andhis bill for religious free-dom, all combined tosweep away class dis-tinctions and make Vir-ginia one great andfriendly community ofproud and independentwhite men. If anytrace of unfrie
. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . dly terms with their wealthyneighbors, whose equals they were in birth; they were alsocompanions in their sports and comrades in the frequentwars with the Indians. Class Distinctions did much to remove allclass distinctions in Vir-ginia. Jeffersons Decla-ration of Independence,his bill abolishing the oldEnglish laws of entailand primogeniture, andhis bill for religious free-dom, all combined tosweep away class dis-tinctions and make Vir-ginia one great andfriendly community ofproud and independentwhite men. If anytrace of unfriendlinessbetween the rich andpoor remained amongus, our last great warforever swept it four long years therich mans son and thepoor mans son stoodshoulder to shoulder,enduring the same pri-vations, encountering together the same dangers, sleepingtogether, eating together, and fighting together for the sameprinciples. They together present to the world to-day a har-monious and self-respecting community such as can be foundin no other STATUE OF HENRY CLAY AT RICHMOND 226 Young Peoples History What Virginians Have Accomplished.—I hope I havemade you see, my young Virginia friends, how a few dozenof Englishmen, moved by the love of empire and the daringadventure of their race, settled upon an unhealthy island ofVirginia, and have, by an unparalleled energy and wisdom,extended their power over this continent. Their descendantshave in 200 years added to the territory of the United Statesall of that region which stretches from the Atlantic to thePacific, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. General George Rogers Clarke, of Albemarle county, con-quered from England the Northwest territory, which nowcontains the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin,and part of Michigan. Virginia prohibited the introductionof slavery into any part of it, and at the close of the Revolu-tion gave it for the common property of the United States. Captains Lewis and Clarke, of the s
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