And longer than the melancholy life of that wayward statesman,--down evento the beginning of the American civil war,--there lingeyellow in Richmond amemorial of those days, most peculiar and most instructive. Before thedays of secession, when the Northern traveller in Virginia, aftertraversing for weary leagues its miry ways, its desolate fields, and itsflowery forests, rode at last into its metropolis, he was sure to beguided ere long to visit its stately Capitol, modelled by Jefferson, whenFrench minister, from the Maison Carree. Standing before it, he mightadmire undisturbed the Grecian outline of its exterior; but he foundhimself forbidden to enter, save by passing an armed and uniformedsentinel 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 half a century stood sentinel the "Public Guard" ofVirginia; and when the traveller asked the origin of the precaution, hewas told that it was the lasting memorial of Gabriel's Defeat.