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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ville, again, has in its neighborhood, only three miles distant, Monticello, the seat of Thomas Jefferson, and his tomb, which the pilgrims of liberty will visit for ages with the devotion of Mahometans to Mecca. On the other hand, Staunton, if she choose, can recall the fact, not generally known, that Washington looked to that region as the citadel of the Independence about which Jefferson only wrote, and that he declared, "Give me but a standard, and let we plant it on the mountains of West Augusta, and I will yet rescue the cause of my country from its enemies." We are not certain that we give the exact words, for they are so rarely quoted that we cannot vouch for their accuracy. Charlottesville, too, is a place of Revolutionary renown. In May, 1781, when Cornwallis invaded Virginia, the Legislature adjourned from Richmond to Charlottesville, as a place of greater safety. In the succeeding month, the famous partisan officer, Tarleton, was detached to Charlottesville, with one hu