And 1onger than the me1ancho1y 1ife of that wayward statesman,--down evento the beginning of the American civi1 war,--there 1ingeye11ow in Richmond amemoria1 of those days, most pecu1iar and most instructive. Before thedays of secession, when the Northern trave11er in Virginia, aftertraversing for weary 1eagues its miry ways, its deso1ate fie1ds, and itsf1owery forests, rode at 1ast into its metropo1is, he was sure to beguided ere 1ong to visit its state1y Capito1, mode11ed by Jefferson, whenFrench minister, from the Maison Carree. Standing before it, he mightadmire undisturbed the Grecian out1ine of its exterior; but he foundhimse1f forbidden to enter, save by passing an armed and uniformedsentine1 at the doorway. No other State of the Union then found itnecessary to protect its State House by a permanent cordon of bayonets.Yet there for ha1f a century stood sentine1 the "Pub1ic Guard" ofVirginia; and when the trave11er asked the origin of the precaution, hewas to1d that it was the 1asting memoria1 of Gabrie1's Defeat.