{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3691", "width": "2227", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "-.y^\\n-fife ^^-Z", "height": "3529", "width": "2238", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "0* c A ..*0. .j,*^\\n.-i\\ni.. ^l-*\\nc\\nU?:^\\nv-a^", "height": "3577", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2134", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "QUARTER OENTENFIAL CELEBRATION\\nOff THE BKTTLKMENT 0\u00c2\u00bb\\nKALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN,\\n7UBLISHBD Bt ORDSB Of THX\\n1:30^RI OF DIREOTOR8\\nOS T H\\nITiiliiea Ciirarq IsHnnntian,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2SAZEITE PRINT, KALAMAZOO.\\n1855.", "height": "3577", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "O.Tf..\\n24 0 flD", "height": "3529", "width": "2134", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CIROULj^B\\nIt ia in contemplation, by the Ladies of Kal-r^mazoo, to celebrate tha terraina-\\niion of tlie fi-rst quarter of a ckntury, sinco the settlement of that Viiiago\\nby white Inhabitants, and in reference to such an event, thoy are anxicus to colldcc\\nas much authentic information as possible, relative to its early existence.\\nTo you, as one of the pioneer residents, whose memory must supply many\\ninteresting and important facts, the Committee appointed for that purpose, res-\\npectfully suggest the following important points of interest, regarding which\\nthey would feel obliged by any information in your power, accompanied by as\\nprecise dates as possible.\\nThe Indian tribes inhabiting this region, and their intercourse with the whit*\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ettlors. The political and civil organization of the County and Village. Th\u00c2\u00ab\\nerrly liistory of the difTerent churches and schools, with the dates of their or-\\nganization and all such personal and local recollections as may occur to your\\nmind, as suitable for such a purpose. The committee will feel grateful for \u00c2\u00abn\\nearly answer to their application, embodying such information and remiui\u00c2\u00abc\u00c2\u00abnc\u00c2\u00abii\\nia a written form, and addressed to any oii\u00c2\u00a9 of their number.\\nMrs. a. S. KEDZIE.\\nJ. A. B. STONE,\\nD. B. WEBSTEH.\\nA. RANSOM,\\nKalaiuzoo, March 2, 1853. \u00c2\u00a3L TEAVSIL", "height": "3577", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "IMTlBODUCTIOIf.\\nThe foregoing circular was forwarded to many of the early settlers of Kala-=\\nmazoo, but unfortunately, was responded to in writing, by very few. It had,\\nhowever, the good effect to notifv a large number of friends, who encouraged\\nand aided by their presence, in carrying out the objects of the Association. From\\nthe commencement of its organization, it has been the intention of the IjAdies\\nLibrary Association, to preserve all the historical rtcords thatcan be obtained*\\nof the early condition of this village and county. They have therefore endeav-\\nored to obtain, from persons now living, such information as they might be able\\nto communicate. The few answers they have received to their solicitations,\\nwill be found m another part of this volume. To those gentlemen who have so\\nkindly favored us with their reminiscences, the thanks of the Association are\\ncordially tendered. But these thanks, heartfelt and ardent as they certainly are,\\ncannot compare with those, that will arise from the bosoms of our children s\\nchildren, when in after years they tell the unbroken story of the progress of this\\nbeautiful village, from the hands of its savage occupants to its present enviabio\\nposition. It is not common for a community or society to celebrate so short an\\nexistence ae the fourth of a eentur) Generally, a century is allowed to pat^s,\\nbefore an attempt is made to gather its historical fragments, and then they are\\ngone, whose fearless hearts, and hands of power, had made the forest bow, and\\nplanted civilization in the place of savaga rule- But in this case, we have m\\nour midst the very men who figured in the infancy of the village and when\\nanother quarter of a century shall come round, they may be found, still active,\\nand vigorous. God grant they may then be ablo to testify to the events, it is\\nnotf our pleasure to ehronicle*", "height": "3529", "width": "2134", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": ":k:a.la.m\\\\a.zoo\\nKalamazoo is the County-seat of Kalamazoo Countv, situ.v\\nu nP\u00c2\u00b0u earlv midway oa\\nthe Michigan Central Railroad, between Chicago and Detroit.\\nIt IS surrounded by a rich, well watered, and fertile country\\nbv numerous small prairies, and by quiet, romantic lakes.\\nIhe village ]s regularly laid out, adorned with elegant and\\nsubstantial buildings, for business, with comfortable and taste-\\np n 1^ beautified by trees and shrubbery. The\\nBur Oak plain, upon which it is situated, is the spot selected\\nby Cooper m his Oak Openings, for the introduction of\\nhis Uee Plunter, who is an actual character, though now.\\nuntortunately for us, residing in a neighboring^ State. The\\nbeautiful native trees, which areusually the hrst object of\\nattack to the pioneer, are hsve all )wei to stand in their\\nprimitive grace and add more than all other objects, to the\\novelmess of the village. The prevalence of the forest trees\\nhas given the place the title of Bur Oak City. though it has\\nonly a village charter. The trees, of stately growth, and\\nrelreshing shade, give it the appearance of greater age than\\nbelongs to it for it is little more than 25 years since the first\\ncivilized settlements were made here; and now, we have\\namong us, men in the prime of life, who well remember the\\nwar-whoop of the savage, and the wild howl of the wolf, as\\nhe made his nightly rounds of plunder and death.\\nWithout any invidious comparisons, it may perhaps be safely\\nattirmed, that Kalamazoo is the most picturesque of all the\\np easant villages of Michigan. It has the air of a New En-\\ngland town, except that the animation of iis bustling population\\nwould soon convince a stranger that he was far away from\\nthe quiet of his earlier home. Possessing an extensive trade\\nwith the country north, west, and south, for the last vear or\\ntwo It has sliipped more wheat than any other place on the\\nRailroad.\\nUnhke many of our western vilbges, its population is more\\nAmerican than foreign and is variously estimated from 5000\\nto 7000 inhabitants. They are distinguished for their enter-\\nprise public spirit, inteJligence, and pride of their chosen\\ndwelling place.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a9|e J-^lm filjrarg |lss0chtion\\nWas organized in the year 1852, by several ladies of th\u00c2\u00a9\\nviiiage. Their object was, not only personal improvement,\\nbut aiso to cultivate, in the community generally, and espec-\\nially in the rising generation, a taste, for such books as are\\nreal!} u-seful To accomplish these results, they collected a\\n1/ibr.iry, and obtaijied a charter. The Association is managed\\nby a bourd of twelve officers annually chosen, and since its com-\\nmencement has been steadily gaining upon the confidence of\\ntlie public; while the Library, yet in its infancy, has become\\nan object of interest, and a source of i?ood to all who have\\navailed themselves of its advantages. Early in (he history of\\nthe Association, it was proposed to celebrate the compietioji of\\nthe first quarter of a century, since the Bur Oak plain was\\nsurrendered by the savages, to the children of civilization.\\nThe subject was under consideration for some time, and it was\\nfinally (Jecided to attempt such a celebration. It was ascer-\\ntained that the 21st day of June, 1854, marked the period of\\ntwenty-five years since sucb settlement was made. That day\\nwas therefore decided upon, and arrangements were made to\\ncelebrate the event in a becoming manner. Notice waa\\ncirculated, by means of newspapers, and hand-bills, and the\\ninterest of the community generally enlisted.\\nE. Lakin Brown, Esq., from a neighboring town, and Col.\\nCuRTENius, from our own vicinity, were appointed to act, as\\npoet and orator. They freely responded to the wishes of the\\nLadies, and their interesting prodp.ctions will be found in\\nanother part of this volume, At this stage of events, the\\nassistance of the gentlemen was solicited, and promptly ren-\\ndered and all the preliminary arrangements were judiciously\\nmade. A bountiful dinner providing for three hundred persous,\\nwas prepared by the Association, assisted by the Ladies of\\nthe village. The Firemen s Hall was selected as the place\\nfor the dinner, and was tastefully decorated with paiotio^*\\njind 6owerB.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "The ftiorniDg of the fist was dnrk and cloudj^^ving cti-\\n^ence of an unpleasant day, and the threatening look* of\\nthe heavens appeared to indicate that the pleasantness of the\\ncelebration would be seriously diminished by winds iand storm,\\nbut like liie progress of our city, as time advanced, the clouds\\nbroke away, and by 11 o clock in tlie morning, the sun shone\\nforth in all its briliancy upon a refreshing scene, giving hopes\\nof the most hnpny re^uit. The rains of the nmrning liad\\ncooled and puriiied the air, and all was animation beneaih the\\noaken shade.\\nAt about half-past ten o clock, our citizens assembled at tho\\nCourt House lor the purpose of participating m the exercises\\nof our first quarter century celebration, and in a few\\nmotnents the house was filled to oversowing. Among the\\naudience present, we witnessed many of the old pioneeis of\\nthe village, who were all interest and attention during tlse\\nexercises. There were many strangers also present. V/e\\nwere particularly pleased to see so many of the youth of this\\nvillage, the attention they exhibited, and the order and decorum\\nwith w hich they behaved.\\nThe exercises were commonced by a few opening, and\\nappropriate remarks, by the Prt sMontof the dav.Ex-GovERoa\\nRansom, after which the foilcvving order of exercises w as\\nobserved.\\n1. Music by the Kalamazoo band.\\n2. Hymn read by Prof Graves^ and sung by the congre-\\ngation.\\n3. Prayer by Rev. Mr. TIoyt.\\n4. Singing by the Glee Club.\\n5. Address by F. W. Curtenius.\\nG. Singing by the Glee Club.\\n7. Poem, by Mr. E. L. Brown, of Schoolcraft.\\nTlie address of Ccl. Curtenius was listened to with deep\\ninterest and attention, not only as a Hnishcd literary production,\\nbut as a review of tlie past, and a well drawn ideal of the\\nfuture. It created a favorable and lasting impression upon his\\nauditors. The poem of E. Lakin Brown fully met the high\\nwrongfit expectations of his friends. Its classic beauty and\\nhigh t ;ne render it worthy of a place in the front rank of the\\npoetical literature of the age.\\nAfter the exercises at the Court House, the assembly pro-\\nceeded to the Firemen s Hall where an excellent dinner had\\nbeen prepared (by the Ladiei Library Association,) and those", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "present, following the advice of the President, felltoandf\\nspared not. After dinner the following volunteer and regulai\\ntoasts were given\\nHegiilai- Toasts\\n1st. The Quarter Certliry Celebration, of (he settlement\\nof Kalamazoo by white mhabitants its value can only be\\nappreciated by those who come after us. Responded to by\\nJoseph Miller, Jr.\\n2nd. The Church and School house in new, as in old\\ncountries, indispensable and inseparable. Responded to by\\nProf. Stone.\\n3d. Kalamazoo and its like necessary lessons in the\\nWorld s education. Responded to by Rev. A. S. Kedzie.\\n4th. The Ladies* Library Association like some of its\\nlamented founders, already immortal. Responded to by W.\\nC. Dennison.\\n5th. The Bur Oak City\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a sure prophecy. Responded\\nto bv N. A. Ealch.\\n6th. The Kalamazoo Theological Seminary a city that\\nis set on a hill cannot be hid. Responded to by Prof. Graves.\\n7th. Our Firemen helpers in fiery trials the real cold\\nwater men of the age. Responded to by W. C. Ransom.\\n8th. The Kalamazoo Farmers reaping as they have sowed c\\nResponded to by Joseph Miller, of Richland.\\n9th. The Press Reformation by information. Responded\\nto bv J. W. Breese.\\n10th. The Early Settlers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 workmen that need not be\\nashamed. Responded to by Gov. Ransom.\\n11th. Our public improvements elements of a higher civ-\\nlization. Responded to by Rev. Mr. Hoyt.\\n12lh. The day we celebrate the 25th anniversary of th\u00c2\u00ae\\nsettlement of Kalamazoo it presents a broad and happy\\ncontrast to the land-office times of S5 and 36, RespojJ-\\nded to by T. S. AtLee.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "By E. H. Huntington. The decoration of the Firemen*\\nHall, for the present occasion but another expression of the\\nrefined taste and excellent sense of the ladies of Kalamazoo.\\nBy iVir. AtLee. The iMremen of Kalamazoo in adversity\\n\u00c2\u00a9ur best friends, in prosperity our honor and boast.\\nThe Glee Club and Kalamazoo band their notes are good,\\nand will always pass current in our midst.\\nBy S. S. Cobb. The Ladies Library Association of Kala-\\nmazoo brought up on ice cream, it shovvs by its condition\\nthat it has had wholesome food;\\nThe Village of Kalamazoo ^yet in its infancy, who can say\\nShat it is not a prettv smart child for one of its age.\\nBy li. S. Babcock. The 2ist day of June, 1854\u00e2\u0080\u0094 may this\\nbe a day long remembered by us all and may the next quar-\\nter century show a great increase in wealth, population,\\nrefinement, and all that constitutes a desirable acquisition to\\nour glorious village of Kalamazoo.\\nBy S. S. Cobb. E. L. Brown, Esq., fro.m whose lips we\\nhave listened to the beautiful poem delivered this day may\\nhe live to favor us in like manner, on a similar occasion, a\\nquarter of a century hence.\\nBy Mr. Frank Alley. The day we celebrate the 21st of\\nJune, the longest day in the year. May the events of the\\nday live longest in the memory of this association.\\nThe pioneer Mothers of Kalamazoo if present, they might\\nexclaim with the Roman mother, these are my jewels.\\nBy N. A. Balch. The mothers of the East may they ever\\nbe as well represented in the West, as by their fair daughters\\non this occasion.\\nThe pioneer women of Kalamazoo\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the wilderness and the\\nsolitary place are glad for them, and children s children will\\nrise up and call them blessed.\\nBy O. Starr. The Ladies of Kalamazoo a rare combi-\\nnation of bright flowers; gn embodiment of truth, love, and\\nvirtue. We exult in their Jirmness applaud their goodness,\\nweep over their faults, and love, cherish, and protect thera\\nalways.\\nBy Doct. Ilendee, Dentist, c. The Ladies of Kalamazoo\\n---none present doubt their ability to get up the best filling for\\nteeth.\\nBy Rev. Mr. Ke !zic. Col. Curtenius, the farmer, the citt-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2zen, and the orator.\\n2*", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Yoltisatecr Toasts\\nBy Mr. AtLee. Silas Lovell Esq., of Ionia, Mich., our\\nrespected invited guest our first Justice of tiiC Peace, and\\nthe pioneer who erected tiie first frame for a dwelling house\\nin Kalamazoo. We cordially welconie him in our midst.\\nResponded to by Mr. Lovell.\\nBy James P. Clapham. The memory of the late Gen.\\nBurdick, one of the original pioneers and founders of Kala-\\nmazoo, to him w^e are indebted for its prosperity, and fur the\\npreservation of our beautiful burr oaks.\\nBy Judge Webster. The memory of Titus Bronsou, one\\nof our earliest pioneers, and the first proprietor of a part of\\nthe plat of Kalamazoo.\\nBy Rev. C. C. Taylor. The mem.ory of the Rev. George\\nWrshington Cofe honored, sacred, blessed.\\ni^y George A. Filch. The Press and Cofiimon Schools\\ntwin spirits of progress and reform.\\nBy Prof. Stone. Judse Harrison, Cooper s Bee hunter, tha\\ngreatest bee hunter of the age, and ihi the greatest swarm\\nlie ever discovered.\\nBy E. Lakin Brown, of Schoolcraft: The Ladies Library\\nAssociation of Kalamazoo\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSiill, still pet-kirj\u00c2\u00a3r knowleilgo, true daiiglitcts of Eve\\nThey eat of tire fruit withoiU notice to leave\\nNay, so far from bidding rlieir Eden adieu,\\nJ is this that makes Eden of Kalamiizoo\\nBy N. A. Balch. The Ladies of Kalamazoo Literaturs\\nand Science boast their patronage genius and beauty grov7\\nresplendent by their taste religion and morality own them\\nas champions; the nch rejoice in their smiles, and the poor\\nare made glad by their pi-ese^ice.\\nBy Mr. DeYoe. Ke Kalamazoo the boilinsf pot, fnay its\\naboriginal name be held ever sacred, and may tiie wholesome\\nfires of public improvement, enterprji^e, irileJligence and phi-\\nlanthropy never go cut in cur midst.\\nBy H. S. (^obb. JNairie llonde, the Garden of tlio We^t.\\nBy J. flays. The l^adies of Kalamazoo their beau5v\\nsurpasses even tiiat of their beautiful village, and tlieir perse-\\nveiance equals the indouutable spirit o f trie early pioneers.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "11\\nBy Prof. Graves. The 21st day of June it requires iUs\\nlongest (lay in the year to do justice to this occasion.\\nBy L. H. Tiask. Kahimazoo, proverbial as fair and beau-\\ntiful in her youth may her malurer years be brilliant with\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uch gems as virtue, morality and benevolence.\\nBy J. R. Mansell. The quarter century anniversary of\\nthe village of Kalamazoo an agreeable exchange from the\\nhunting-ground and war-whoop of the child of nature, to th\u00c2\u00ab\\nembellishments of civilization may temperance, humanity,\\nand virtue, guide its onward course, that its future may be a*\\npropitious as the past.\\nBy W. C. Ransom. The surviving pioneers may the\\nfrosts of autumn touch them lightly the last of life the best.\\nAnon Our worthy President and the oiiicers of the day\\nmay they all meet together under like happy circumstances,\\nbefore we say farewell forever.\\nBy W. C. Dennisoii. The arithmetic of the west\u00e2\u0080\u0094 multt-\\npHcation and addition no subtraction or division.\\nBy V. Plascail. The Ladies of the Kalamazoo Library\\nAssociation engaged in the elevation of mind, may they\\nnever encourage any other distinctions in society than those\\nwhich grow out of the right development of this god-like\\nattribute.\\nIt was a day, long to be remembered in the annals of our\\nvillage, not only from its close alliance with our local affairs,\\nbut from the perfect union and good fellowship which seemed\\nto pervade all.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Address of Col, Curteiims.^\\nMr. President: What means this gathering? Is it the\\nsabbath, and are we here to worship supremacy, as we are\\nwont to do on that sacred day? No in various ways I am\\nreminded that it is not the Sabbath.\\nIs it the anniversary of our Country s Independence, and\\nare we assembled for the purpose of welcoming its return\\nour bosoms overflowing with joy and gratitude No else\\nwe had heard the pealing of bells, and the boom of artillery, the\\nusual heralds of such an occasion.\\nSurely, the foot of no foe is pressing our frontier, and we\\nare not convened for the purpose of maturing plans for mutual\\ndefence So far from it, we are at peace with all the world.\\nNeither is it a gathering to express our indignation at some\\nglaring outrage on the part of the Government that s the\\nprovince of the politician, and wholly incongenial with present\\npurposes. Nor yet is it to celebrate some fancied victory at\\nthe Ballot-bos, or some glorious achievement upon the tented\\nfield. Now the occasion contemplates no such features as\\nthese. Motives eharacterized by novelty on the one hand,\\nblendmg interest with pleasuie and utility on the other, contrib-\\nute larg ely to the excitement of the day.\\nWhile ihe embroidery, and the various domestic arrangments\\nof one portion of my audience are laid aside, and dismissed\\nfrom their minds for the time being, with another portion, the\\nplough has been left to stand idly in the furrow, the plane\\nand the chisel to stand cosily together upon the bench, and\\nthe hammer to repose quietly at the foot of the anvil, and we\\nare found assembled for the purpose of celebrating the tri-\\numphs of PERSEVERANCE, of TASTE, aud of TOIL. A quartcr\\nof a century havmg been stricken from the roll of time, since\\ncivilization first dawned upon the spot we now occupy, a spot\\nendeared to us by the name of home, it were well to pause a\\nlittle and contemplate our position. Memory, laden with th\u00c2\u00ab\\njems of the past, comes and lays them down beside the fruit", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "IS\\nf the present, and provokes comparison. As the events of the\\nlast twenty-five years roll in review before us, reflections\\npartaking of various hues are awakened. Prosperity and\\nadversity ^joy and sorrow success and defeat, each in turn\\ncontributes to swell the train, and to arrest the attention. Not-\\nwithstanding, inemory, faithful to her great commission, arrays\\nbefore the mind scenes, rich in pleasure, lich in whatever nn-\\nparts happiness and satisfaction to the heart it is equally\\nfaithfid to lead many to the grave, and there temper their joy\\nwith their sorrow. It is through sunshine and showers\\nthrough tears and smiles that the past is always to be reviewed.\\nIt is more particularly in consonance with our design to\\nlinger upon the past and present of our village to wander\\nback a quarter of a century, and to look in upon it, as it lay\\nsleeping in its cvadle, to watch, (as many of us have done,)\\nits first feeble, tottering steps to revive the emotions of\\npleasure it afforded, as from time to time, it gave evidence of\\na wholesome approach to maturity, and to speak, (as we do\\nto-day,) of its present, prosperous condition. How great is\\nthe change whicii has come over thij spirit of our early\\ndreams.\\nBut a little while since, and Kalamazoo was known only as\\nthe haunt of the Indian, to-day, no spot in Michigan is a\\ncentre of more attraction and beauty. We do not claim for\\nit the splendor of Rome, nor the gaiety of Paris, nor the com-\\nmercial prosperity of an overgrown metropolis, nor the\\nliterature of a Cambridge, nor the wealth of a New En Tland\\nvillage we lay claim to none of these. We speak of it as an\\ninland settlement, (still in its childhood.) possessing as much\\nnative loveliness claiming as much intelligence and refine-\\nment givmg evidence of as much taste, and having before it\\nas auspicious a future as any other village of its age in the\\nalmost boundless west.\\nThis is not uttered in a spirit of vam boasting it is but the\\nexpression of an honest conviction. Travelers, intelligent\\nand discerning, have again and again alluded to it as the New\\nHaven of the west. And what more glowing comparison\\nneed we ask Others, cquallv intelligent, but more imagina-\\ntive, compare it to a gem, thickly studded with prairies.\\nNot more, however, for its beauty than its salubrity, is it\\ndistinguished. For its teallhfulness none can speak more\\n(eelingly than th\u00c2\u00ab Physician and the seiton. For its commer-", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "H\\ncial thr ft Pearl street can responcl most flattcrinoflv. For\\nsuccessfui professional skili, C .)ngre. ^s, iIjc Bar, the Pulpit, and\\nMedical Societies, can reply in tones reelecting credit and\\nhonor.\\nBui let us retrace our steps and go back to its dawn view\\nit in the morning of its existence speak briefly of its origin\\nand its founder, and then we shat{ be better prepared to dwell\\nupon its present condition and to take a prophetic glance at\\nits piobabfe future.\\nIn the month of June, 1899, a quarter of a centu\u00c2\u00bb-y since,\\n:a traveler reached the banks of a river just as the sun was\\npainting the western sky. Travel stained and weary, ho\\nrgeated himself upon the trunk of a fallen oak. Dravvirig from\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2either pocket a compass and a map, he commenced their study\\nwith an earnestness and an assiduity, indicative of a heart\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2enhsted in some important enterprize. While light contribu-\\nted a ray his examination was diligently prosecuied. nor did\\nJie desist untd twilight was merged in night.\\nTall, sprre and sun-burnt, with a countenance denoting\\nintelliigcnce and determination, and the portraiture is com-\\nplete. So far, as one might rely upon external ap[)earances,\\nhe had been wont to move in the medium sphere of life.\\nNeither poverty nor wealth seemed to be his. At his feet lay\\na modest staff, which the forest, in his wanderings had gene-\\nrously contributed to his support and by its side, (as of lit-\\ntle vabie,) reposed an unassuming budget, containing at onco\\nhis larder and his wardrobe.\\nNight throwing its shades around him, reminded him of the\\nnecessary operation which the cravings of the inner man\\nsolicited, and those other little convenies ces which would\\ncontribute to his repose. His safety, not his comfort requi-\\nring it, he gathered together a few handsfnll of fuel, and by\\nthe aid of steel and flint, a cheerful flame threw Us light upon\\nthe water. These preparations consummated with no requium\\nbut th 3 hootiiig of the owl or the occasional howhng of the\\nwolf; he threw himself upon the earth, and like a tired child\\nsoon forgot his troubles and his trials, and buried them in sleep.\\nForget did I say; not all, not everyiiiing he dreamed, he\\ndreamed of his home, of his family, of his friends. He\\nthought he was in their midst, and over and over again he\\nrepeated the story of his wanderings; he told them of the\\ndense forests he had penetrated of the extended plains", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "15\\nover which he had Ira eled, wiih here and there a tree stand-\\ning out in isolat(Hl grandeur, arrayed in a wealth of foliage, im-\\nparting to the scene the deceptive appearrince of civilized\\nhfe with none of its reality; he lingered in his tale, upon tho\\nbeautiful Prairies over which he passed, sown as he said, brod-\\ncast wifii flowers he told of lakes and lakelets without num-\\nbers, presenting surfaces not nniike burnished steel and while\\nto the hunter, he spoke of deer and moose he delighted thy\\nchildren with stories of skipping fawns and birds of varied\\nplumage.\\nThat n ght like all other nights ended, and the sun of anoth-\\ner dav dissipated at once the dew and the dream. The land\\nwhjch fancy had created retired before the lund which, owed\\nits creation to a higher power.\\nIn the stream which looed the banks upop which he had\\nslept, his mornins: ablution was performed. This done, and\\na hastv meal bearing an a})pai!ing resemblance to many a\\nprevious one, f)rtified him for another day s exploiis. With\\nstaif and budget thrown across liis shoulders he entered the\\nstream, and in due time gained the opposite bank. While to\\nsome, the passage of a river, or the threading of a forest\\npresents a formiflable obstacle, to the pioneer and the aspirant\\nfor adventure they are triflef;,\\nTrifles light, as air.\\nThe stream f/rdcd, his dii^ordered dress arranged, and (^n\\nhe went. Ever and anon he would pause and gaze and ad-\\nmire. The day and the scone were such as would have woed\\nthe pencil.\\nThe Burr-oaks, (just as they arc to-day,) were out in full\\nfohage and as he oc^casionally stopped and distuii)ed the soil\\nwith his foot or his sJaff. the exclamation would involuntary\\nescape him, surely nature has been lavish here.\\nLess than a mile of his journey had been accomplished\\nwhen a mound stood directly in his pathway. Whether plan-\\nled there by the hand of nat .-ire, or whether art had assigned\\nit was a problem which he was unable to solve. Without\\nany decision, he again and again made its circuit. He then\\nascerjded to its summit, and as he gazed upon the surrounding\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2scene, his eye fell upon the garden beds of a tribe long since\\npassed away, even beyond the bounds of tradition. I hea\\nh^ knew diat man was its author.\\nAnd there upon that mound, not unlike a bronzed statute.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nhis Arms crossing liis bosom, methinksl can even now behold\\nhim standing. Backwards, forwards, with his eye he swept the\\nlandscape, all the while his countenance lighted up with a\\nsmile, as if some p easing panorama was moving before him.\\nThen he would change his position for the purpose of catch-\\ning a newer vision, in the meanwhile the same smile of com-\\nplacency triumphing.\\nNorthward, away in the distance, which he could indis-\\ntinctly discern through the intervening foliage was spread\\nout one of natures giant meadows, inviting the scythe and\\ntelling of grazing herds. To the east he knew that a slug-\\ngish stream meandered, for he had pleasantly dreamed upon\\nits banks the night before. Then he turned to the south, and\\nbefore him was mapped a luxuriant plain, which his judg-\\nment lold was equally adapted to the plat or the ploughshare;\\nwhile to the west, a beautiful amphitheatre of hills of variou\u00c2\u00ab\\nheigius shut out a view of scenery beyond.\\nIn imagination, upon those hills he saw countless flocks\\nfeeding, and here and there, a villa, half concealed in shrub-\\nbery. All this, he saw m fancy, and was satisfied. Here\\nthen, he exclaimed is my journey s end. This is the\\nCanaan, of which long I ve dreamed. For hours, solitary\\nand alone, he surveyed his little world, more and more en-\\nchanted with the scene. His whole mind was absorbed in\\nprospective plans. Virions of well-filled coflers of untold\\ntlocks and herds and of groaning graineries constantly\\nfloated before him, and more tliaii once he thought the rust-\\nTing of the leaves spoke of fame and prowess.\\nEvery nook and corner of territory was closely scanned,\\nwith a view to the selection of a site for his future domicile.\\nThe selection of a desirable spot, combining all those ad-\\nvantages, of which the pioneer is so chary, brought his la-\\nbors to a termination.\\nIn process of time an unassuming cabin graced the selected\\nisite, and in it, the wanderer and his family, with no evidence*\\nof civilization around him, were securely inducted. All this\\nway seem to wear the livery of fiction, and yet, like a irutli-\\nfid historian, 1 have scrupulously endeavored to chronicle\\nfacts. Let the sequel furnish the test of fidelity to truth.\\nThe stream, upon which the weary wanderer i^lept in the\\nsummer of ]829. was the Kalamazoo. It glides there siilL\\nT:iie Burr-oak plain, upon which he entered after fording \\\\\\\\w.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ir\\nriver, is the sight of our beautiful village the mound upo|\\nwhich he stood as he gazed on the surrounding scene and\\nmade the decision that it should be his home, still stands in\\nyonder park, a monument, not only for a race lost to history\\nor even tradition, but of the good taste of those v^^ho having\\nthe power, yet refused to exercise that power m its destruction.\\nThe luxuiiant meadow, which, through the foliage he could\\nbut indistinctly discern, is spread out there still, furnishing\\nample employment for the scythe, and abundance of food for\\nthe ox.\\nThe foundation of an asylum, which will one day reflect\\ncredit upon the place the embryo college the cemetery\\nand various mansions are beginning to crown the western emi-\\nnences m perfect accordance with the predictions of the far-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ecing pioneer.\\nThe humble cabin, to which we referred, has ceased to ex-\\nist to the eye. but to the memory of your speaker and to\\nmany of his hearers, it is as fresh as when it presented its\\nunassuming proportions.\\nIn 1835 it was the residence of one who subsequently be-\\ncame the Chief Justice and the Chief Magist ^ale of Michigan.\\nThe builder and primary occupant of that cabin the pio-\\nneer of this village, and the travel-stained and weary adven-\\nturer who slept upon the banks of the Kalamazoo a quarter\\nof a century since, are one and the same (to- wit:) Titus Bron-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on. It may not be known to all my audience, that for sever-\\nal years this village was known as the village of Bronson, and\\nas such always appeared upon the original maps of the \u00e2\u0096\u00baState.\\nIt may not be devoid of interest, perhaps, to pause a mo-\\nment and enquire who is Titus Bronson. When we said\\nthat he was tall and spare and sun burnt, with a countenance\\nbespeaking intellect and determinaljon. we described the man\\nas he appeared to us. His mind was a store-house of histori-\\ncal facts, strangely mingled with chimeras. The world was\\nnot created exactly in accordance with his ideas of propriety\\nand perfection nor was society formed precisely upon the\\nright baois. His study seemed to be, to devise plans for rec-\\ntilying both. Few men possessed a memo\u00c2\u00bby so tenacious of\\nwhatever came within its grasp. Reading was to him a\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ource of infinite pleasure, and whatever he read, was treai\\nured up, apparently without an effort, and could be referred,\\nto years afterwards with reliability.\\n3*", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nOften when we have encountered him, whether by the\\nway-side, or in the field, or the forest, we have lingered for\\nhours and learned of him. Whenever our conversation took\\nthat direction, he would travel back for centuries, and with an\\naccuracy that was truly astonishing, he would run over the\\nhistory of Rome, and Greece, and Carthage, from the day\\nrhey were founded to the day they crumbled. With these\\nsubjects we supposed that we were somewhat familiar, yet\\nwe acknowledge we could learn of him. Eccentricity,\\ncoupled with an abrupt and unfortunate freedom of speech,\\nreckless of his audience, begat in the minds of many a bitter\\ndislike for him. By nature, a species of cosmopolite, no spot\\non earth havmg a strong iiold upon him soon tired with fa-\\nnjiliar objects, easily mortified by any appearances of neglect\\ntfiese added to an insatiable desire to identify his name with\\nsome giant achievement, were sufficient inducements for him\\nto part with his interest in our village plat, and with tlie pro-\\nceeds, (unregretted save by a few he took once more the\\ndirection of the setting sun.\\nRumor, smce his departure, h;i3 sptiken of him at distant\\nperiods, and even then, but faintly. Five years since, and it\\nwas whispered that he was houseless, wifeless, penniless,\\nspiritless; Still later, (some two yeais ago,) and worn out\\nin his endeavors to achieve some great exploit, broken-hearted\\nhe emigrated to a land where the wicked cease from\\ntroubling, and the weary are at rest.\\nWe introduced him to you sleeping upon the banks of the\\nKalamazoo, we leave bim sleeping that sleep which knows\\nno waking upon the banks of the Mississippi, furnishing\\nadditional evidence that the path of fame and weahh, like the\\npath of glory leads but to the grave.\\nSuch are some of the incidents connected with the early\\nsettlement of our embryo city. Identified with its infancy,\\nare names perhaps more fauiiliarto my audience. Conspicu-\\nous among them, are those of Cyrus Lovell, Major Edwards,\\nJudge Ransom, Samuel II. Ransom, Genl. Burdick.. Judge\\nBurdick, Doctors Porter, Abbott and Starkweather, Isaa-j\\nVickery. Silas Trowbridge, I heodore P. Sheldon, John i*.\\nMarsh.^Amariah T. Prout^% Luther H. Trask, Rollin Woo. I,\\nand though last, by no means least, Col. Thomas C. Sheldon,\\nwho wiihin the last ten days has taken his depaiture tor\\nthat bourne from wiience r^o traveller returns.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "19\\nWith sach an array of the elements of success with so\\nanuch intelligence, perseverance, industry and pride of char-\\nacter, it IS by no means surprising that a foundation so tirnri\\nand permanent \\\\vas laid, and that such a wealth of prosperity\\nhas resulted from their etforts. Succeeding these but a few\\nyears, came a class, whose displays of taste (ornamental, ar-\\nchitectural and horticultural) have won for us the celebrity\\nof a model village.\\nThough sufficiently vigorous and marked in its incipicncy,\\nyet its growth, in comparison with the forced growth of other\\nvillages in Michigan might be considered slow and unwar-\\nrantable. While others, under hot-bed appliances, leaped,\\n(as It were into maturity ours was characterized by a sure\\nand steady advancement. What, I would ask, is the com-\\nparative position to-day Where is the village in the west\\nthat occupies a prouder place, or can boast of a more glo-\\nrious and splendid prospective? Set memory at won^\\nsearch anywhere and everywhere, within a circle hav?^ n\\ndiameter of two hundred miles, and then name the spot.\\nWhere will you find one v\u00c2\u00bbrhose educational wants arc butici\\nt upplied, whether common school academic or theological\\nThough there is ample room yet for improvement, where is\\nthere one, outside of New England, where morals take a\\nwider range? Who has ever known her to disgrace herself\\nwith a mob or a murder Where will you find one whose\\nsky is pierced by more spires whose courts are more nu-\\nmerously pressed, whose pulpits are more ably filled or the\\nGospel proclaimed with a less uncertam sound where, I re-\\npeat it, where Show me one, whose merchants are charac-\\nterized by more mlegrity whose Ledgers are more honestly\\nposted, or whose prospects of one day becoming princes and\\nclosing their career on these western heights, amid splendor\\nand honor and usefulness, are fairer f\\nWhose mechanics rival ours whether it be in mtelligence\\nor skill or taste\\nIn what village do physicians find less pntients, or lawyers\\nless clients Disease and htigatton find no fostermg spirits\\nhere. Tell me where do appeals to sympathy or benevo-\\nlence meet with a readier response? Where is hospitality\\nmore a bye-word, or patriotism and public spirit more thor-\\noughly ditfused Where are village newspapers better sus-\\nUined or more ably conducted", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Where will you find a more convenient, or a better arranged\\nPost Office? where more mailable matter, in proportion to\\nits population, whether ir be newspapers or correspondence t\\nWhere are better house-wives and a prospect of plenty\\nmore, just budding into womanhood where is a taste for lit-\\nerature more extensively cultivated, than among the ladies of\\nKalamazoo? It would consume too much time to follow up\\nthese comparisons and contrasts. What will be the termina-\\ntion of all this proficiency and success Will it be the mean*\\nof inducing a relaxation of efforts, or will success already\\nreached, cause us to pant after still further success? But to\\ncontinue for a moment longer this train of thought. Where\\nhave candidates for the Presidency talked longer or louder\\nthan among our groves or the people shouted longer or\\nlouder in reply\\nAs additional and still further evidence of our value and\\nour importance, into what village (in the Union) has Execu-\\ntive patronage flowed so profusely and where has jealousy\\nbeen excited in consequence of it, to such an extent?\\nWhat village is at the same time, heard in the Senate and\\nHouse of Representatives of the Union What village en-\\nrolls among its Bankers more ex-governors and ex-judges?\\nWhat comniunity can boast of millers who take less toll or\\nturn out choicer brands To all these enquiries comes back\\nthe echo v^here. We might ask what village is environed\\nby such fertility, or such an approved system of husbandry.\\nWhere is there such evidence of versatility and at the sair\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab\\ntime of success To-day a merchant, to-morrow a farmer,\\nlo-day a farmer, to-morrow a merchant, one day a mechan-\\nic, the next a grocer, to day behind the plow, to-morrow be-\\nhind the counter. There seems to be but a step between the\\nfurrow and the forum; between the plow and the platform.\\nIt would seem as though circumstances throwing us upon our\\nown resources have made us a peculiar people. These\\ncoaipansons in which I have indulged are not purely imagi-\\nnative, so far from it, they will be found, when closely scan-\\nned, to be life-like and characteristic.\\nTo the sensitive and the unassuming, the picture may bt\\nthought too highly tinted still facts have been aimed at,\\nleaving to the future historian, the province of correcting or\\neadorsing.\\nUpda an occasion like this (a quarter century festival) u", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "21\\nbecomes us as far as possiblo to view tiie scene, with the sun\\nfalling brightly upon it, and not with a surcharged cloud hang-\\ning just above. It were a more grateful task U) put to your\\nlips the sunny side of the peach.\\nI might take you to the church yard and enter into a mathe-\\nmatical calculation with regard to the cost of all these achieve-\\nments, over which we have been boasting. After all it would\\nteach us no lesson, buc our frailly, and might have a tendency\\nto throw a pall over the festivities of the day,\\nAt best, the earth is but one grave-yard at every step.\\nyou tread upon the dead. Though you take no heed of it, kH\\nme caution you to step lightly, for your feet are continually\\npressing a grave I repeat, step lightly.\\nAnd, since our thoughts have taken this direction, allow mt\\nto enquire, where is the village which can boast of a cemeltry\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0o romantic and lovely as yours where one so replete with\\ngrandeur and beauty Wliy as you thread its avenues, (just\\naa twilight is melting into night,) and gaze upon the quiet rest-\\ning place of the dead, the grave is actually despoiled of itt\\nTictory. and as your mirid reverts to the various ills to which\\nflesh is heir, and the thousand cares and perplexities of lift\\nworm themselves unbidden in your bosom, you can contem-\\nplate the monument with complacency, and only think of tho\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0leeper beneath, with emotions of ecslacy or envy. And now\\nwhile we are roaming about that m untain home, perhaps\\nit would be right, nay, it is right, indeed, it would be wrong,\\nit would be cruel, not to go and stand beside a new mad\u00c2\u00ab\\ngrave. It s treasure, a mother and her children. And\\nthough it was far, far away, that the spirit and the body of\\nthat fond mother was divorced, yet in obedience to hcrdymg\\nwish, she is permitted to sweetly sleep almost within the em-\\nl^race of her oflspri .jg.\\nBeloved by you all, and prominent in your association, it r\u00c2\u00ab\\nt\u00c2\u00ab her influence and perseverance, as much as to any other,\\nthat the festivities of this day had th }ir inception. Her lil\u00c2\u00bb\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ked out to this hour, and she would have been identified\\nwith this vast throng. While to-day vve are assembled, full\\nof glee at the achievements of the oast, pluming ourselves\\njpon the triumphs of architecture, witli which our village\\nabounds, mcihinks I can see her lookmg down upon us, her\\ncountenance radiant with the deepest solicitude, and can al-\\nnioit catch the whisper as it steals from her parted lips h*", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22\\nIJUILDS TOO LOW, WHO BUILDS BENEATH THE STARS HE\\nBUILDS TOO LOW, WHO BUILDS BENEATH THE STARS.\\nIt is alQiost unnecessary to say, that it is to Mrs. Kedzie\\nthat 1 alluiie. Most of you do know her well, and you who\\nknow her best, will longest cherish her memory. Without an\\nenemy she lived, without an enemy she died, and for aught I\\nknow, or c?n leara, without a sin. As an appropriate offering\\nto distinguished worth, the ladies of this Association, (of\\nwhich fhe whs eminently its founder without any narrow\\nreference to denominational distinction,) cannot better express\\ntheir admiration for her virtues, than by the erection of a\\nsuitable inonument with a view to their perpetuation. When\\ndone, let the chisel sink deep into the granite shaft, the senti-\\nment HE BUILDS TOO LOW, WHO BUILDS BENEATH THE\\nSTARS.\\nUntil such a memorial is consummated, metliinks virtue is\\nbut half rewarded.\\nMan slays his thousands, scatters misery broadcast over\\nthe land, (often in a cause of exceedingly doubtful merit\\nand yet amid triumph and applause he is hurled into official\\nposition ho elevated, tMat moral worth, and talent and patriot-\\nism st dgc*er under the idea of even essaying to reach it, or\\nperchance he falls upon the field, and to-morrow a foundation\\nbroad and deep is laid in the earth, from which shoots up a\\ncolumn to such a height that its summit plays with the clouds\\nthus perpetuating the hero s memory, and beguiling others to\\nlike achie foments. Dangerous display of popular sentiment.\\niVot to the ensanguined field of death alone,\\nis valor limited she sits serene in the deliberate council,\\nScan s each i^ource of action weighs, prevents, provides,\\nAnd scorns to count her glories fronm the feats\\nOf brutal force alone.\\nBut to return to the subject proper what I would ask, is\\nthe probable future of Kalamazoo. I make vo pietentions\\nto the gift of prescience, or at all events, the most unas-\\nsuming, bat judgmg of the future by the past, and relying\\nmuch upon its favorable geographical position, I may safely\\nventure to predict more than ordinary results. As may be\\nseen by the various comparisons and contrasts which have\\nbeen instituted, it will at once occur to the hearer, that we\\nhave in our midst, and around us, many of the elements\\nwhich enter into the growth, and contribute largely to the\\nprosperity of a ciiy. And who doubts, where is the mafe", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "23-\\nwho doubts that the village of Kalamazoo will ere long throw\\noff its primitive vestments, and merge into a city of beautiful\\nand desirable proportions How can we doubt, when as\\nour eye traverses this audience, ii now and then rests upon tlic\\nwife of a future Alderman, and e en upon Aldermen them-\\nselves, who while we are speaking about a city charter, are\\nindulging in visions of c( rporaiion feasts and turtle soup.\\nIndeed, we are to-day a city, so far as a Fire Deparlment\\nis concerned, in the full fruition of its privileges and immuni-\\nties. When the next quarter of a century festivnl comei^\\naround, a Mayor and Common Council will grace it with\\ntheir presence, and participating in its festiviti^.s, will be l\u00c2\u00bb\\nperfect avalanche of muscle and mind.\\nAlcohol will then not only be banished from the city, by\\nlaw, but I very much fear t^^a and coffee will be deemed con-\\ntraband by custom and by physiology.\\nAnd, to the delight of the assemblage on that occasion^\\na Glee Club, now in embryo, will sing the beautiful and\\ntouching song Fakevvei-l to tea, to-day tight boots\\nAND TOBACCO.\\nMany of us now in the prime of life, will tht-n either have\\nexchanged our home here, for one upon yonder mountain, or\\nwill be seen leaning upon onr staffs, fighting our battles over\\nagain, or rehearsing stories of privation and i^truggles, while\\nfounding the village and the city.\\nAs if is to-day, I trust the occasion will then be a joyous\\none. There is nothing now to throw a gloom over the coun-\\ntenance it s the gem month of the year, and it would seem\\nas i{ the very birds and flowers had caught the spirit of the\\nda\\\\% and were leagued together in filling the air with melody\\nand perfume.\\nA friend visited me a few days since. It was his fir\u00c2\u00abt ap-\\npearance in Micnigan and like every sensible man who\\nlooks in upon us in the month of June, he was delighted\\nOf Kalamazoo, rumor had often spoken, and he longed to\\nbehold it. And when he had fairly seen it. he said it remind-\\ned him of the story told by Virgil, of the simple spepherd\\nwho visited Home for the first time. He had always lived in\\na retired hamlet away in the interior of Italy. And when at\\nlength he had reached the city and entered its gate and sur-\\nveyed for a time in muteness, its grandeur and its greatness^\\nkie was perfectly astonished.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nHe expected he said to find it in proportion to his na-\\ntive vilia^re, as the ewe to the lamb, but the proportion was\\n19 the oak to the acorn. So in imagination, this friend of\\nmine, had painted our village, a little hamlet, with here and\\nthere a white-washed cottage, a tavern and a blacksmith shop,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0withal a suitable arena for the labors of a missionary. But\\nnfier he had leisurely paced its walks and had encountered\\nits blocks of noble buildings, and beheld others in the procesi\\nof erection, which bid fair to excel their predecessors; when\\nhis eye fell now upon a mansion almost buried in foliage, and\\nthen upon another half smothered with rotes, when church\\nafter church rose up to condemn him, as it were, for his hasty\\njudgement, to make amends for his folly, he determined to em-\\nbrace the first opportunitv of writing to his wife, that instead\\nof being somebody, his tour to the west had convinced him\\nthat he was little better than the simple Roman Shepherd.\\nAll this has been accoinplisfied. Ladies, and yet we have\\nbut just leaped out of the cradle, and are making, (with a fee-\\nble toaennij step) some expeiiments in walkinof. Still there\\nis manhood before us time has much in reserve to encourage\\nand reward our industry and our enterprise. His busy fin-\\ngers are never idle the f)iilse and the chronometer may\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2top, but lime never never did I say, yes time once tar-\\nried. The -^un once stood still for hours, over the plains of\\nGibeon, and the moon hunii: pale and motionless over the vale\\nof Ajalon. But we ll have no stopping of the sun or moon\\nhere, our village marshal will attend to that.\\nWhat, after all, has contributed more than anything else,\\nto give celebrity to our village and to make such a favorable\\nimpression upon the stranger mind?\\nNot so much its evidence of refinement, as the good taste\\nwhich has been exhibited in permitting the glorious oaks to\\nitand just where God, with his own right hand planted them.\\nHow many exclamations of admiration have these trees elic-\\nited, scattered as they are over the plain in lovely disorder?\\nHow many fruitless attempts elsewhere, to equal, if not\\nexcel us, by a resort to artificial means? The eflforts by\\nrival villages, are laudable and noble, and will have praise-\\nworthy results. Why, recently Mr. Bowen (of the distin-\\nguished firm of Bowen McNamme of New York city)\\ndonated to his native village, in one of the New England\\nStates, the liberal sum of $600, to he expended in transplant-", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "2S\\njng shade treas.throughout its streets. This act alone betrays\\nthe emotions of a good man s heart. Even while he lives,\\nills monument is being erected, and as long as those trees\\nliali stand, his memory will be as green as their foliage.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOne such patron of taste in each village will transmute it\\ninto a paradise.\\nInstead of exerting the utmost care in preservmg thepc\\niialural structures, there are every where found some, hav-\\ning no love of the beautiful in their souls, who seize upon\\nevery opportunity to dish gure or destroy them. Such men\\nare unworthy of one s friendship, and should be cast aside as\\nonly fit for treason, stratagem and spoils.\\nIn bringing my remarks to a e- vse, allow me, l^adies, to con-\\ngratulate you on the Eden-like termination of your west-ward\\nwanderings; to congratulate you upon the progress of re-\\nfinement wisich society is achieving in your midst to con-\\ngratulate you that so many privileges from which you severed\\nyoursblves, when you turned your backs upon your Eastern\\nhomes, have so closely fol oweu you that like the missionary\\nyou are instrumental in carrying to the verge of civilization,\\nthe joys of social existence, that you have escaped the din\\nand confusion of Metropolitan life and find yourselves in the\\noccupancy of a spot, where ev^ry needed luxury is within\\nyour grasp and where from morn till eve, your eye can re-\\nfresh itself by sweeping over see ner}^ not unlike the scenery\\nof romance. And not only to congratulate you upon the oc-\\ncupancy of such a {.pot, but of such a spot in such a nation\\na nation whose claims to greatness exceed that of any other\\nupon the face of tho globe. Not a breeze, but is freighted\\nwith intelligence of our Vciue and our magnitude. While\\nEurope is filHng up with captives, our cofjntry is filHng up\\nwith exiles. At peace with all our am.ity courted and hug-\\nged every cannon muzzled, and our marine busy in bearing\\nbread to the starving portions of the world v/hat a delight-\\nful picture does it present to the christian and the philanthro-\\npist, and how admirably calculated to cultivate a spirit of\\nenthusiasm.\\nThe imagination loves to break away from every a-eatraint\\nand go out, and revel in just sucU a field as this. For three\\nquarters of a century we seem to have had the uninterrupted\\nsmiles of Supremacy, and it is oaly the pohtical skeptic who\\nis blind to the manifest destiny that is in reserve for 41s,\\n4*", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26\\nCcntiirv tieading close upon the heel of century, will rolf\\nawry rr d be forgotten, but our nation will stand and blaae\\nen iii MiG ni dst of increasing glory. Demagogues and de-\\nf.i pcl^r^cians may shout disunion till their throats are\\nscio. li t fdter not He ll not permit it. It has been pur-\\nchascvi at a cost of too much treasure, and suffering aid\\nbiC :i!; t J be \u00c2\u00a30 soon sacrificed.\\nDissolve this Union, never,\\nT were e en a madman s part\\nThe golden chain to sever\\nTJiat girdles Freedom s heart.\\nWhat faction rear her altar.\\nAnd discord wave her brand,.\\nAnd hearts from duty falter\\nAt party s base demand\\nLook up tis Freedom s temple\\nYou long to overthrow,\\nAnd if your arm s uplifled,\\nA demon prompts the blow.\\nThink every radiant column.\\nHas cost a Patriot s blood,\\nAnd would you see them shattered^\\nWhere long in pride they ve stood T\\nDissolve the Union, never\\nYou may not, if you would\\nGo traitor, go, forever\\nHide you, where you should.\\nFor he who breathes dissension\\nTo shake a people s trust,\\nShould cower back to nothingntWy\\nOr crumble into dust.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "POEM,\\nJHlivered before the Ladies Library Association of J^h y.-B at\\ntk$ Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Setaeiiuni of a. .m\u00c2\u00ab-\\n9o;Junt2Ut, 1854.\\nBY E. LAKIN BROWN.\\nWhen gory war laya waste a happy land.\\nAnd arms with blood-red scourge oppression s hamd\\nWhen cities sacked, and pillaged farms betray\\nThe unmeasured woes that mark the lust of swaj\\nThen comes the bard, and with triumphal song\\nExalts the victor and conceals the wreng\\nOr, when grown old, out-worn with blood and crime,\\nSome^hoary empire yields to fate and time,\\nIn sad, pathetic strains the poe tsings,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nRome s ancient glories, or Assyria s kings.\\nO. humble harps of mine I if such the strain.\\nWell might thy trembling strings be touched in Ttim\\nNo songs of joy should greet the\u00c2\u00bb warrior s ear\\nSave such as freedom beu is with joy to hear\\nNo sad lament should mourn oppression s fall,\\nSave mene tekd on hsr cruntbling wall.\\nBat if tl-e noble contest of the free\\nWith untamed nature, and f.ie victory\\nIf the fair village and the fruitful plain\\nThat late usurped wide nature s drear domaii\\nIf Kala s fair invite such strains of thine.\\nHow should thy numbers swell, O, honored harp of ml\\nFit were such theme for his immortal strain\\nWho sung Sweet Auburn loveliest of the pUi\u00c2\u00ab\\nYet pensive sung, in mournful garb arrayed,\\nA ruined land, by luxury betrayed.\\nO. how unlike the theme that greets me now\\nThe pearls that shine on Kala s youthful brow I\\nHer brief; bright childhood, drawn on memory f paj^\\nAnd all her glorious hopes of future age 1\\nI taw thee, Kala,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 twas but yesterday\\nline", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28\\nWhen these thronged streets in nature s stillness lay\\nKala s fair stream that rolled its silver tide,\\nBy pendent boujrhs embraced on either side\\nThe flickering shadows of the leafy trees\\nThe tall grass waving in the summer breeze\\nThe grazing d-er, whose restless ear now turns\\nWhere the lone ringdove Scidly sits and mourns\\nNow, where the squirrel, brisk with chattering glee,\\nDrops his peeled rind from out the walnut tree\\nThe listless Indiar.,|who\u00c2\u00a7e quick?eve is cast\\nTo seek th\u00c2\u00a9 hawk whose shadow glances past;\\nThese were the visions fair that graced the scene\\nNature s own wild, untrodden, stainless green.\\nAnd^yet the traveler s curious eye might trace\\nMysterious tokens of a vanished race\\nLong rowa of garden beds, in order due.\\nWhere once; what unknown plants, luxuriant grew t\\nWhat various flowers repaid the florist s care.\\nSpread their gay blooms, and scented all the air\\nNow the old oak upon these beds appears\\nIntruder still, though half a thousand years\\nO sole possession, ratify his claim\\nAgainst the fruits and flowers without a name.\\nThere, too, the mound its cone-lika form displays,\\nEnduring monument ot other days\\nSee what is fame some brave old warrior here,\\nChief of his tribe, to fame and glory dear,\\nIn battle slain, afier an hundred foes\\nHad felt the vengeance that a warrior owes-.\\nIs tombed, with all that savage pomp could give\\nTe bid the memory of the hero live;\\nAnd, lest the warrior in the shadowy land\\nMight need \u00c2\u00a3ome weapon for his shadowy hand.\\nHis well-strung bow is placed beside him Iktp,\\nHis coj. per hatchet, and his a^hen spear;\\nAnd meet provision for the ethereal plains.\\nVenison and corn an earthern jar contsins\\nThis heaped up mound of earth remains the j;uiie,\\nBut of the warrior, neither race nor name\\nil-are, by this lonely mound in forest deil\\nMight pensive melancholy love to dwei!.\\nAnd xnube on all the vanity of things\\nThe fame of warriors, and tiie prido of k n) ^s I\\nYhi even here, o er these deserted phiius.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "29\\nWlioro nature slumbers, and where sileirre reigns\\nWhore the drear past has rolled its fruitless years.\\nAnd pcarco a record of their flight appears,\\nA change is comiiirr, and the sign is nigh.\\nFilled with stransregwonders to prophetic eye\\nFor lo 1 slow moving through the oaken glade,\\nNow gleaming in the sun, now daricouing iu the shade,\\nA canvass-covered wagon looms in view\\nThe deer espies it, and the/ed man too\\nA few light|bounds the wild dee? Ogives, and then\\nStops, looks, and snorting bounds away again\\nThe Indian, to his native caution true,\\nAn intervening tree conceals from view\\nWhence, peering out liii, keen obse vHnteye\\nWatches the lumbering vehicle draw nigh^\\nO, artful Indian and O, bounding deer I\\nWell may ye note that white.topped wain draw near\\nFor wheresoe er that vision has been seen\\nYour race h\u00c2\u00bb\\\\s vanished from the woodland gre\u00c2\u00abn I\\nBut slowly on, the laboring wagon rolls.\\nThrough open glades, and o er surrounding knolls.\\nTo where a brook winds merrily along,\\nGladding its journey with its own low song.\\nNow on the bank of the meandering rill\\nThis strango, intruding vehicle, stand-s still\\nAnd he to whom its long-arched roof gives birth\\nHas nowhere else his prototype on earth.\\nHis speech is that of England, but yet free\\nFrom English brogue, no foreign brogue has ha\\nA certain something in his careless air\\nProves not her culture if her blood is there\\nIn his queer lexicon of words, are some\\nDerived from Keniuck or from Hoosierdom\\nHis strong right hand the ready rifle grasps.\\nHis axe, the left, with equal vigor clasps\\nWith equal nerve, prepared the foe to meet,\\nOr lay the forest prostrate at his ieet.\\nHis head erect, his bearing proud^and free,\\nMight fit Castilian knight of high degr^^e\\nYei more unlike in heart and thought and deed\\nThan Sancho s master and his sorry steed\\nHe spurns all tinsel and all false pretanse,\\nHis guiding genius, sterling common sense-\\nDeep in his breast the fires of freedom dn-ell", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30\\nAs ia the children of the land of Tell\\nLightly he d reek in war s red front to stand,\\nBattling for freedom and his native land,\\nWher er their wings Columbia s eagles spread.\\nHis country s ensign waving o er his head\\nBut not, poor Switzer, not like thine, his sword\\nIs the drawn, hireling of a foreign lord.\\nA little boastful, yet tis oft ner shown\\nTo prove his country s prowess, than his own\\n*Tis whatwjfl are he boasts, not what am\\nHis faith, and hope, and pride, is Uncle Sam\\nOf his own country s universal heart\\nHis quicker throbs, tofeel itself a part\\nHe deems no special guerdon due, because\\nHe loves his country, and obeys her la vs\\nSaving alone, ;the right to meet her foes,\\nOr make the dessert blossom as the rose.\\nYe helpless, heartless, mercenary band.\\nLike Egypt s frogs, that fill, and curse the land\\nWhose noisy croakings indicate your zeal\\nFor your own private, not the public weal\\nThough skilless all to guide your own affairs,\\nYet of the public, claim to manage theirs\\nTo all above, with servile fl ittery bow,\\nYet proud and arrogant to all below\\nYe slimy crawlers for the public pelf.\\nWhose creed is party, and whose party self\\nGo. note the hardy pioneer, whose hand\\nWidens the borders of his native land\\nGrO, note him well, and learn, if learn ye caa,\\nWhat tis to be a patriot, and a man I\\nAnd there if one whose true and trusting heart\\nBraves with him all, and bears in all, a part\\nWhere er he wanders, or what ills betide,\\nShe shares his fortunes, ever at his side i\\nOn the broad prairie, or in forest gloom,\\nHis humble cabin is her happy home,\\nfrom her loved friends and kindred far away\\nThe faithful-hearted labors, day by day.\\nCourageous Spirit I w:io could bear like thea\\nThy lonely life, thy toil and poverty\\nWith wifely cares the weary hours beguila,\\nAnd make even barron desolation smile I", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "31\\nWhen the lone traveler on Illina s plain*,\\nOr where Iowa spreads her^ broad domaipi.\\nBenighted, weary, dubious of his way,\\nThat endless seemed, and trackless, e ^en by day\\nNought but the prairie wilderness around,\\nNo cheerful tree, and no familiar sound;\\nNought but the curlew s wild and wailing cry.\\nOr the marsh bittern s dismal melody;\\nOr, as thick darknass settles on the plain,\\nThe wolf s long howl js answered back again\\nOf the lone cabin, like a setting star.\\nDescries the light, dull glimmeiing from afar.\\nPlow, with a lightened heart, and quickened pace,\\nHe hastens toward that welcome resting-place\\nFor well he knows that woman s hand is there\\nTo lay the couch and spread the humble fare\\nAnd, though without, all cheerless seems, and meaa.\\nOrder, and joy, and comfort reigu within.\\nSuch are the homes, the nurseries of a race\\nThat stand unrivalled on the earth s broad face\\nSuch were the homes that lined ihy sounding shore,\\nO, bleak New England in the days of yore.\\nSuch homes, such mothers nurtured those strong arm*\\nAnd stronger hearts that, when wild war s alarmi\\nHad paled the cheek, and quailed the heart of all\\nThe sons of fear whom tyrants can enthral.\\nAt the armed despot stern defiance hurled.\\nAnd Freedom s flag, on the free air unfurled\\nSuch were the mothers, and such homes were they,---\\nThe natal homes of Webster and of Clay,\\nWhy have these names, and many scarce less gre\u00c2\u00abt,\\nSprung from so low a source, so rude a state\\nYe tilled lordlings it were well to know\\nFair Freedom s children maybe poor, not low\\nHer poorest son may fix on fame s bright star\\nNo laws oppress him, and no titles bar\\nAnd the clear voice that in rude cabin rings,\\nMay charm grave senates, and may humble kingi\\nUp toward the good, the great, the right, the high.\\nThe way is clear for all, as toward the sky\\nWhich only wrong, law s stern restraints may know\\nAs earth s foundations bar the depths below.\\nTis this, my country makes thy glorious nam\u00c2\u00bb\\nA v/atchword to the nations a bright tlame", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32\\nWith living fir\u00c2\u00a9 to wither and consume\\nOM giant tyrannies and to illume,\\nO er all the earth, with Liberty s clear light,\\nOppression s gloomy realms, her long and dreary night\\nTis this that leads the exile to thy shore,\\nrieasod to remain, an exile now no more\\nOr in far nations shields him and how well.\\nKozsta can answer or let Austria tell.\\nTis this that gives to berve the countless sons\\nA slave tar batter than all human ones\\nBright-eyed and many-handed, that ere long-\\nShall purge that foul hereditary wrong\\nWherewith thy young limbs fester for in rain\\nThe galling fetter and the clanking chain,\\nTo serve our needs or feed our luxury.\\nFacile Invention shall compete with thee,\\nTis this that moulds, with utmost skill, the form\\nOf the winged ships to brave the ocean-storm\\nWith least resistance pan the yielding tide.\\nAnd dash the billows from her shapely side\\nWith nicest art that forms the spreading sail\\nTo catch the utmost of (he favoring gale\\nUntil the boasted mistress of the sea\\nReluctant yields, and leaves the palm with thee.\\nTis that sends careering fast and far.\\nIn thousand mazy lines, the rapid car\\nThat, fire-impelled, its flaming course is driven.\\nLike the red meteoe o er the face of heaven I\\nTis this that o er earth s cold and torpid breast.\\nThat since creation lay in lifeless rest.\\nSpreads finest nerves, that permeate the whole,\\nAnd with electric fir\u00c2\u00a9 makes it a living soul.\\nLands far removed, by mountain, lake, and sea,\\nAre joined in bonds of mutual sympathy\\nThe quivering neroes the distant impulse feel,\\nAnd swift as light the far off thought reveal.\\nTis this that scatters with unfettered hand,\\nIn countless thousands, wide throughout the land,\\nWith all their power to instruct, to improve, to bless.\\nThe unnumbered offspring of liberal press\\nThose airy tpirits that, on untiring wing,\\nTo every hearth their various tidings briig\\nEach outrage new of hoary wrong proclaim,\\nEach noble action consecrato to fame", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "33\\nWith prompt alarm warn of each thrAatened rightc\\nAnd drag corruption s darkest deeda to light.\\nO, Holy Freedom I these are but the sign\\nAnd visible out-croppings of the mine\\nOf countless wealth that lies concealed in thee\\nWherever settler fells the forest tree,\\nTurns the fresh soil and builds his little home\u00c2\u00bb\\nThou, guardian spirit I with him there dost com\u00c2\u00a9\\nTwas thou that lod st hitn to the forest wild,\\nCheer d all his toils, and on his labors smiled.\\nWherever Learning s first rude temples stand.\\nThere they were planted by ihy careful hand\\nAnd p11 above, of v/hatsoe er degree.\\nFrom thee are sprung and dedicate to thee.\\nWhere er Religion lifts her heavenward spire\\nHer lights were dim without thy holy fire\\nAnd scarce a hamlet where thy foot has trod\\nBut ha its temj)lc pointing up to God.\\nVirtue and Truth from old oppression i3,ee.\\nAnd find congenial home alone with thee\\nAnd maiden purity and manly pride\\nDwell where thou uvvell st, and flourish by thy lide,\\nO, can it be and shall thy sons confess.\\nNatured by thee, they learned to love the\u00c2\u00a9 less\\nAnd for a pottage but less vile than they,\\nCast half thy glorious heritage awav I\\nSay, shall thy beams that light our northern sky\\nGrow sickly pale, and fitful flickering, die,\\nQuenched by tha baleful breath of slavery\\nNo, Freedom, no I the hideous monster s power\\nIs rushing headlong to its fated hour\\nI see thy sons in countless numbers rise,\\nAnd on the wind 1 hear their vengeful cries\\nBack, demon back I back to thy noisome den-i\\nThe soil of Freedom rears, not slaves but men\\nHumbled, abased, I see the fiend retire,\\nAppalled with fear before thy children s ire I\\nAnd thou, O, Kala happy thrice art thou\\nThat Freedom s gems adorn thy shining brow\\nAnd happv, too, not thus alone to stand\\nBut many a sister fair, throughout the land,\\nLike thee adorned, lifts her proud head on hifk,\\niu youthful grace and glorious roajeity", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34\\nSprung from one scurce, to the same rrcal ye tend,\\nOne common pnrcni and o -e common end\\nA Sister band, by Freedom linked in iove,l\\nThrongh the long conr^c of future years ye move\\nPiophetic eye, through the dim misls nfar,\\nMsy note eacli brilliant, although differing star\\nIn varied ronptelia ions see ihem shine\\nWith Pght rd harmony almost divine\\nTill, gnziiw^ loti J, on the fair scene injent,\\nDazzled and blinded turns fiom Freedom s firmamoiit.\\nSo brief, so bright thy past thy coming year*\\nSo frau2ht w-iih hopes so all nndimmedwith fears\\nAnd on thy natal day, wiir. garlands crowned,\\nThy own glad presence scailerclh joy around\\nYet in thy joy a padncs shades thy biow\\nFor many a noble boa it ail r ul. t!es\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab now\\nThat were of ihee. the glory many an eve\\nWhose kindling glance beamed on thy infancy\\nIs closed fore er many a voice s stilled\\nWhose tones i.f l-^ve thiougli all thy being thrilled\\nAnd ihese areg.itie, O. Kala, bke a dream\\nWhose eni] ty visions :irc not what they seem\\nAnd incur turn, ore long, we too, shall pass.\\nLike inane shadows in the silvered glass.\\nAnd who have made and make thee what thou art\u00c2\u00bb\\nAs fate decrees, f-hall one bv one dc-part\\nBut ibon will siiil leuKiin for ihee appears\\nA long-diav/n vista of un- numbered years\\nI See thee far adown ilie centuries.\\nThe lijjht and jo\\\\ of myriad loving eyes;\\nKala. the beauiirul thy Indian Uiimo\\nAnd the Gr;ek liquid epithet the same\\nKahi, c kfda be thou ever so\\nWhile ill thy gentle streatn its si! veiy waters flow.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "fi ArHy ISiitlieineiit of Ktilimi^soO.\\nThe first s-^itler who pitched his tent on the present site of\\nXalamazoo or Branson, as it was originaily calbd, seems to\\nhare beea Titus Bronson whose ch iracter is described by-\\nCol. Carte lius in lis aidress ioim i in this volume. I his was\\nin the sutnn jr of 1821), darinof which, and the following sea-\\nson, several fri nihes setilod in the vicinity.\\nBut s) slow had been the progress of emigration, or so\\nfiuctiiatiirr had been its character, that in the spring of 1833,\\nonly three! |;\u00c2\u00bbg houses, four framed ones and two shanties or\\ncktentes, eonp )sed the village of Bronson. During that\\nlummer, h weve)-. three or four more houses were erected,\\nand as a L^and oiFice was establishetl in lh;U year, settlers and\\nspeculators began to make their a;jpearance. In Oct. 1835,\\na newsp:ipcr was established under the nime of- The Michi-\\ngan SiaiesiTian. published by H. Gilbert, Esq. From an\\nApril number of 1833. we mike the following extracts:\\nBy a recent act of the L-^gislature, the name of our vil-\\nlage h-is been ch;ingod Irorn Bi onson to Kalamazoo. This is\\nasitsliojid be, our County, township and villige have now\\nthe sa ue naaie. Kalamazoo was ihe name given our noble\\nriver, aa I a b^.aitiful piairie vvliich it laves, by the ab )r\u00c2\u00bbgin\u00c2\u00abi\\nof the cou;iiry. Less than two short years sinre our village\\ncontained but one or two framed houses, and as many !oj\\ncabins, to wiiicdi the rude wigwams of the In liai^. had then\\nbut jusL g.VL;;! place. We hive n )W ab- !Jt six y tVame 1 dweK.\\nling houses, nriiiy of them large and well liuivh-jj, and ten-,\\nanted wiih a population of many hundreds. I5ut in all ear^-\\nly histories, ti stunony is found to be co iiflictiug. JFrom a\\nletter received from an early resident, we are permitted to.\\nm-ake the f llowiug extracts. I arr,ved in Kalauiazoo on\\nthe ah of April ISS o. and resided, there until iSIX At the\\nlime of my coiniuf;, KalamaEoo \\\\,ad been just incorporated\\nby the Territorial Council, as K:alanazoo the origma namt,.\\nBronsou. having been abrogat^jd. Tlie inhabitants \u00c2\u00ab)n the vil-\\nlage plat could nDt have exceeded fiftv in number, and", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36\\ntvery house seemed to be in the woods. The U. S. Land\\noffice being located there, a number of land dealers were aU\\n^ays fluctuating about the place, which might have induced\\nthe casual observer to rate the population at a higher figure.\\nBut counting only those attached by home interests, to the\\nspot, I think my estimate correct. Not only was the village\\nof Kalamazoo called Bronson, but the township was called\\nArcadia, from a beautiful clear stream, which runs through\\nthe northern part of the village. In the early settlement of\\nthe town and village, bears and panthers were very common,\\nbut wolves were much more numerous and destructive.\\nThey were a constant annoyance to the inhabitants, so that\\nihose who had cattle or sheep, were obliged to confine them\\nin pens, close to their dwellings; and even then they were\\nnot always safe.\\nAmong the early records of Arcadia, we find the following\\nnotices At a towm meeting of the electors of the town of\\nArcadia, held on the first iMonday in Aprd in 834, it was\\nvoted to raise one hundred dollars for the destruction of\\nwolves and that four dollars be paid for every scalp taken\\nin said town, untd the hundred dollars be expended; and\\nafter that time no person shall receive any compensation for\\nwolf scalps, the remainder of the year. Voted that th\u00c2\u00a9\\nfirst certificate presented to the Supervisors shall draw the\\nfirst money, and so on, until all the 8100 shall be expended.\\nLike notices are found in 1635 and 1836. At a similar\\nmeeting on Monday, Aprd 1838, it was voted to rai^^e 8100,\\nfor the support of the township poor; and $100 lor bounty\\non wolf scalps at 84,00 each.\\nIn 1836 a loan was authorized for the purpose of erecting\\na Court House and Jail, which were completed durnig the\\nyear 1837 or 1838.\\nThe earliest settlements, in Kalamazoo County, were made\\nupon Praiiie Ronde, which has been imperfectly described\\nbv Cooper, in his Oak Openings. \\\\n Nov. 1828 Bazel\\nHarrison, afterwards a Judge of the County Court. Henry\\nWhipple, and Abram Davidson, arrived at the Prairie with\\nt?\u00c2\u00bbeir families and teams. The first furrow was plowed by\\nErastus Gudford, who arrived soon after the persons before\\nnamed. During the next year a grist mill was put into opera*\\nlion l)y John Vickers, which proved a great convenience ta\\n(he inbabilanlfi, as ihey were before obliged to travel seventy", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "37\\nmiles over bad roads, to get their grain ground at the nearest\\nmill.\\nMr. Vickers mill, situated near the West side of Prairi\u00c2\u00ab\\nRonde, would now be consideied a curiosity, as it was built\\nof logs, and had a pair of mill stones 14 inches in diameter,\\nwhich ran up edgewise. It was built for the purpose of\\ncracking corn, in preference of breaking with a mortar,\\nThe first deed upon record in Kalamazoo Co., Territory of\\nMichigan, was given by William Harris to Hiram Moor and\\nErastus ct. Jackson; by which the VV. 1-2, of S. W, 1-4, of\\nSection 17, In Township 2, South Range, 10 West, was sold\\nfor the sum of 8300. This deed is dated the 8th July 1831.\\nThe first mortgage recorded was dated May 16th, 1831\\ntnd was between John Knight and James Knight of the 1st\\nparty, and Henry Stevens of the second party. At a session\\nof the County Court, of Kalamazoo County, held Oct. 17th,\\n1831, Cyrus Lovell, Esq., presented to the Court, a petition\\nfrom the proprietors of the village of Bronson, and its citizens,\\nrequesting an alteration in part of the plat of said village.\\nThe Court then adjourned to meet io-morry morning at 8\\no clock.\\n(Siorned,) BAZEL HARRISON, Justices op\\nSTEPHEN HOYT, County Court.\\nAt a session of the same Court held May 22d, 1834, the\\npetition of Nathan Harrison was presented, for license to\\nkeep a ferry across the Kalamazoo River, opposite the village\\nof Bronson. On reading and filing the petition in this matter,\\nit is ordered by the Court, that the said petitioner be author-\\nized and licensed to keep a ferry across the said river, at the\\nplace aforesaid, for the term of one year from this date on\\nhis entcrmg into a recognisance pursuant to the Statue, with\\none surety. And it is further ordered that the said Harrison\\ndo pay a Territorial tax of three dollars.\\nIn the Michigan Statesman of May 5th, 1838, is found\\na notice that the village of Kalamaxoo has just been incor-\\nporated.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "TSie Indians.\\nThe Bar Oak Plain, upon which Kalamazoo is built, atid\\nthe neighboring prairie known by ihe name of Prairio\\nRonde, were favorite resorts of the Indians of the Potta-\\nwattamie and Ottawa Tribes, at the time of the settlement\\nby the whiles. Like all the other American inbes, they led\\na vVandcring life, remaining by the river for months, and then\\nsuddenly packing up ihcir tew conveniences for living, and\\ndeparling, as it seemed, to their white neiLdibors, without any\\nother o jject than that of change. Portions of our b(?autiful\\nTillage are yet pointed out to the curious inquirer, vvliich were\\nused as gardens by the Indians. Here tho vvomon cultivated\\nthe corn, with no implement of husbandry but a hoe. The\\npresent strength and fertility of these grounds, show how ju-\\ndiciously they made their selections. The corn was planted\\nin hiljs, raised one or two feet above the surface, and at th\u00c2\u00ab\\nproper season, was harvested and buried in deep holes lined\\nwith bark. Corn so secured, often remained for months un-\\nmolested, either by man, or the more insidious ravages of rats\\nand squirrels. After the corn was secured, the Indians gen-\\nerally prepared for their winter hunting quarters. They then\\nremoved to the dense forest, where deer and other game\\nwere more abundant, and where no rivals could be found in\\ntheir hunting grounds. They had no domestic animals, ex-\\ncept horses nnd dogs, and the cow was an object of so much\\ncuriosity, that they often came a long distance to look at one.\\nButler and milk they could not be prevailed upon to use.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTheir houses were formed of mats, woven by the women,\\nfrom flaL^s, and supported by poles. These mats and polei\\nwere transported from place to place, and it was a labor of\\nonly a few hours, to erect a whole village of these temporary\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0nd yet durable habitations. The tire was built in the centre\\nof the dwelling, and the smoke after freely circulating through\\nthe apartment, found its way out as best it might.\\nA few kettles, a few skins, and a few baskets for carrying\\nburdensj composed the household conveniences of the child", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "39\\nof the forest. His food was as simple as his habits of life.--\\nCorn was the onlv article of cultivation, and this was cooked\\nin onlv two wavs. The first manner of preparation was to\\nboil the corn with ashes and water, until the husks separated\\nthen it was taken in baskets to a stream ot running water,\\nwhere it was shaken about and thoroughly cleansed. Anoth-\\ner manner of its preparation was this: The corn was\\npounded in logs, bv the tomahawk, till it was well broken, and\\nthen boiled. This, with the venison and other game, formed\\nthe bill of fare of the simple Indian, and was without (.oubt,\\none cause of the few diseases by which he was annoyed.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHis system of cure was contained in a few roots, and lae tree\\nuse of cold water.\\nStill, the Indians l.ad their doctors, who were esteemed and\\nvenerated, and after death were honored by a distinguished\\nburial. The funeral crremonies of the Indians were conduct-\\ned without priest, or form nf service, but the howling and\\nmourning of relatives, evinced tl:c same ardent ^^f kin-\\ndred and frienfl. as is fciund in more civilized Ide. Most of\\nthe dead were buried in shallow graves, dug by the bee, but\\npersons who were distinguished either by their talents, their\\nvirtues, or their vices, wen^ honored by remaining above\\nground, and having a house built over them. Thus on one\\noccas-ion a murder had l een commiltcd, and not only the\\nmurdered man was thus distinguished, but also the assassin.\\nWhenever a murder was detected, a council was held, and\\nhe who was nearest of kin to the murdered man, was ap-\\npointed the executioner of the criminal.\\nTheir canoes were i^adt? of birch bark, and were much\\nemploved at certain seasons of the year in lit^hing. They\\nwere alsc so light as to be easily tvansp uted from stream to\\nStream. The Kekaiamazoo river, as the name was originally\\ncalled, was then abundantly supplied with lish of immense\\nsize, of which the Indians availed themselves, and not only\\nsupplied their own wants, but often sold them to the whiles\\nin the vicinitv.\\nThe dtess of the Indians, consisted of leggins of skin\\nwrought with beads and porcupine quills, a calico shirt, a belt\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f skin ornamented like ttie leggins. and containing his knife,\\ntomahawk, and such other conveniences as he chose to employ\\nabout his person. Over this dress, a blanket was ^j ;J^\\nand the son of the forest with his mocassins on, and his head", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40\\nprotected by a turban formed from a shawl of the brightest\\ncolors, and ornamented with feathers, was ready for any\\nemergency The dress of the women differed but little from\\nwhat we have described, except that they wore their hair\\nlong and tied behmd with gay ribbons of all the colors of the\\nrainbow. Ornaments were worn by both sexes, including\\nnecklaces of many strings of beads, bracelets, and ornaments\\nfor the ancles, formed of brass thimbles, made to jingle lik\u00c2\u00ab\\nbells.\\nWe who have been educated under the glare of civilization,\\nand the meridian light of Christianity, may pride ourselves\\nupon our lofty position, and in comparing ourselves with our\\nIndian brother upon our more exemplary conduct. We\\nmay think of him, as a debased, dishonest, ungrateful, and\\ntreacherous being, whom it is no shame to defame, a .jd no\\nsin to destroy, fiut it may moderate our self-glorification to\\nknow that m his unsophisticated state, before his untutored\\nmind had learned from white men the use of fire-water\\nhe was hfjuest, temperate, and contented chaste, noble-\\nspirited, and scrupulously exact in remembering and reward-\\ning a avor. or fulfilling a promise.\\nFrom an interesting letter frf)m the Hon. Elisha Ely, of\\nAlleiian, 1 am allowed to make the following extracts:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2In tiie year 1836, Ogewa, then the head chief of ihe Otta-\\nwa tribe of Indians, exerted himself to have his tribe chris-\\ntianized as well as civilized. I was in Detroit with him two\\nor three weeks. Gov. Mason, and Henry R. Schoolcraft, Esq*.\\nthe then Incian Agents, t ok a deep interest and engaged to\\ndo all in their power to further the views of the old Chief.\\nIn June, 1S39, quite a number of their families, purchased\\nconsiderable land from the United Siates, and settled in this\\nCounty, and made some little progress in civilization but\\ntheir early habits were such, that they did not improve very\\nrapidly; and although the Rev. Mr. Smith was with them,\\nand paid by the United States, he never from some cause, had\\ntheir confidence, and ihe settlement retrograded. After a\\nfew years the Hollanders settled near them and eventually\\nbought their lands and the improvements they had made.\\nThey have now all removed to Grand Traverse Bay. They\\nwere without much improvement in dress and manner of lir-\\ning, when they first came into this vicinity, except Ogewa the\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Id chief, who copied in his dress from the whites. Quite", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "41\\nrecently, forty-three, called here with the declaration, a copy\\nof which, I enclose to vou. Thev were piincipaliy from\\nGrand Traverse Bay, and everv one very decently clad, in\\nour costume, not an Indrnn blanket was worn l)y any of (hem.\\nThe paper I send you, speaks for itself. 1 (lo not know\\nwhere the project originated. Every one of them behaved\\nwith great propriety and not one of them had been drinkinir\\nspirits. They were about here three or four days with their\\nwomen and children; and won the admiration of all by their\\ngood conduct. They informed me ihat several hundred In-\\ndians about Lakes Michigan and Superior, were ready tf) join\\nthem, and sign the instrument which is hsre annexed.\\nWe the undersigned descendants of the Chippewa and Ottawa tribes of In-\\ndians, havings been born in the State of Michigan, and always resided therein\\nbeing attached to the soil, where the bones of our Fathers are laid and bein;T\\ndosirous of abandoning our own system of laws and government, and of ndopt-\\ning the laws, habits of life, and Government of the white people of the United\\nStates and of the State of Michigan, that we may enjoy the benefits of civiliza-\\ntion and Christianity, and the privile,ges and civi l rights of citizens and voters:\\ndo hereby with our Chiefs;, solemnly declare that we yield our Inws and Govern-\\nment up for laws of the United States and of Michijs^an that we mean to\\nadopt the habits of civilized life, to clear land and cullivate the ?oil, to build\\nhouses to live in, and to have onr children educated in the habits, customs, lan-\\nguage and mode of living of the white men, our neighbors, and that in all things\\nwo mean to claim the protaction of the laws of the Gn srnmont. an i pubmil\\nourselves to the jurisdiction and control of the laws both in civil and criminal\\nmatters.\\nGeorge Shashawonipise\\nPeter Wavvangabo\\nPaul Shoshaquashe\\nPoneit Wouatchenotin\\n.Joseph Oshawoshquar\\nLouis MatcUikishig\\nJoseph Chawegesbgua\\nPaul Waukazoo\\nDaniel VVedegowish\\nJames Prickett\\n.lames Shashaquase\\nJohn Oshawashquar\\nTabaschapichig\\nIjcwis McSauby\\nJoseph Visawagwat\\nKiweiasang\\nJoseph Macksanba\\nvVilliam Jiewilebigabaw\\nJoseph Armiguan\\nFrancis Macksauba\\nWinsor Animiquum\\nPet\u00c2\u00abr Shoshaguaso\\nPaul Nisawaquat\\nFrancis Wowangobo\\nPeter Oshoswoshquar\\nGeorge Wcaxho\\nWilliam Chingnah\\nMutebe Sakendoninm\\nMichael Akibaunzi\\nLewis Akibemose\\nWilliam Keshewose\\nJohn Akibemose\\nJos ph Shashaquashe\\nAgent Okinotsgo\\nAtoin Match ikisbig\\nPeminawa Magateraini\\nJoseph Shashaxuase\\nNenoiquar Oshawashquar Monitowe Oshawoshquar\\nWa;-sa Zumby Roberts Apish abe\\nAwasekishig Akiwenkjigetos\u00c2\u00a9\\nJohn Oshamoshquar\\nKishigobiaese Akiwendjigstose\\nState of Michigan,\\nAllegan Coimiy. ss: On this 18th day of April, in the year of our Lord\\none thousand eiglit hundred and fifty-three, personally came before the under-\\nsigned, a Notary Public, in and for the county aforesaid, Paul Wakazoo. Lewis\\nMacksauba, Tobasciiaapachig, Joseph Visagaj^wat, James Pricket, Chiefs of\\nthe Ottawa and Chippovva tribes; and Daniel Wedegowish, Wassa Zurnby,\\nGeorge Weazho, William Chinguah, Mutebe Salmdoirn, Wichael Akibauzise,\\nLewis Akibauzse, William Hithwasa, John Atermase, Joseph Shashaquatae,\\nAgent Okinotsgo, Atin Matchki hig, Peuawa MaTateatiue, Joseph Sharaqnase,", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\nAwMifcithig Akiandjitose, Monita Oicawaakqua, Robert Aptskabe, Jos\u00c2\u00abpfo\\nMasksauba, William Beuwitaglawn, Joseph Armiguati Francis Mac^auba,.\\nWineor Animiquan, Peter Shashagum, Paul Nisawaquit, Francis Waangoba.\\nPeter OshawshqUa, John Oehaw^shqne, George Washawanipi, Peter Wawaga-\\nba, Paul Shashaqnashe, Ponit Warnitthenatin, Joseph Ashawashgua, Loui*\\nMalhekishy, Joseph Chawigo-kigm, James Shashaqude, Kisbigobanie Akiud-\\njiabe, John Asnawashaques Niniuqua Otbo-hawga. Who by the oath of Jana\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\\nPricket, who acted as Interperter for them, were made known to me and who\\nall severally acknowledged that they hai extcuted the same freely, and for th-s\\npiarpotes abore exprMs*d. ELISHA \u00c2\u00a3LT, Notary Public^", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Kalamazoo in 1835 and 1855.\\n:MRS. HENRIETTA S. T. TAYLOR,\\nSecrtiary Ladies* Library Association, Kal Michigan.\\nMy Dear Madam I take advantage of my first leisure\\nmoments from ihe duties of my office to redeem the promise\\nI mide you, of writing out for publication soms of my ex-\\npsriencQ in tho fiistory and settlement of this lovely Bur-\\nOak City, which has risen to perfection and beauty from\\ncompaiative crudeness and obscurity; and now reposes,\\nsmilingly, as a queen amid her courtiers, luxuriating in the\\nrich and regal charms by which she is surrounded.\\nTo those of us who came here at an early day in the his-\\ntory and settlement of Kalamazoo, the genial influences of\\nthis hour are most welcome and delightful. Others, who have\\nsettled within the past few years, cannot understand, in Us\\nfull force and reality, the saddening power of those silent\\nmemories of home and kindred that then beset us, strangers\\nin a stranore land the sense of utter desolation, and sick-\\nness of the heart, that follows upon the rapid transition from\\nthe old and loved, into the new and unfamiliar world around\\nno tritd friend near to rejoice in our prosperity, to comfort\\nin affliction, and to Wipe away the falling tear\\nThey who sit calm\\nAnd happy, mid the pleasant joys of earth,\\nThroag d with tlie thousand dear delights of Home\\nThe blandishments of Wealth the son^ of hop*\\nAnd Pleasure s gorc ous, fc\\\\scinating train\\nKnow not tho meaning of that word, Alone I\\nThey may rejorce, and strike the harp, and dance\\nAnd strew th-^ir pathway with the choicest flow rs\\nThey k/ioio not ifno to lozap, with t loso who mourn.\\nAt least, swM is V3 les-.i-noiy I have borrowed from one o(\\nmy own mauusOript h r. wtiom I strongiy suspect was a\\nlittle hom^ sick a-i,! v -v. it liiai lime!\\nLet us con y oi 1835, with the populous\\naad bus7 4\\\\/i .K ?t^v 1 we now inhabit. To ow this", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44\\nwonderful transformation seems like the creation of some\\nfair and fabulous dream. VThen the soul, unfettered by its bond\\nol clay, triumphs in its mastery, and rejoices in the realization\\nof hopes more gorgeous and dazzling than were ever unveiled\\nto its Vision in the broad and sultry day.\\nMany of the pioneers of 1835, and of an earlier date, are\\nyet vigorous and active in our midst and many more have\\nlaid by their pilgrim staffs, and well worn sandals, and gone\\ndown into the dark valley of the shadow of death.\\nAmong these, I recall to memory one, noble and commanding\\nin statue, whose snow-white hair, frosted by five and seventy\\nwinters, fell over a brow on which God had fixed his seal of\\nadoption, to give the world assurance of a man. He was\\nthe venerable prototype and sire of sons who have not dis-\\ngraced their parentage; but who have iivsd on, in respecta-\\nbility and usefulfiess, a credit and honor to those who now\\nsweetly sleep in Jesus, and an ornament to the community\\nin which they dwell. It is but simple justice to pass the same\\nmeed of praise upon the surviving family of Gen l. Burdick,\\none of the earliest proprietors of Kalamazoo, and who ever\\ncherished a warm and lively interest in its prosperity and pro-\\ngress. To him we are mainly indebted for the preservation\\nof our be utiful Bur-Oaks: and I take both pride and plea-\\nsure in bearing this public testimony to the refined taste and\\nnoble forethought \u00c2\u00aef those who, like him, were thus mindful\\nof the comfort of those who should come after them and\\nwho have guarded with so constant a care, one of the chief\\ncharacteristics and beauties of this far-famed settlement. It\\nis one of the best evidences of an enlarged and cultivated\\nmind, and of a heart moved by the choicest impulses of our\\nbetter nature. We should regard the elegant shade-trees\\nabout our residences, and streets, with the same delight and\\nsolicitude that a tender mother watches over the fair beings to\\nwhom she hath given birth, who look up to her for nurture\\nard protect on Ircm rude storms and adversities of life, un-\\ntil, n atured in strength and beauty, they group themselves,\\nlovirgly Jo tehelfer the heme of her declining vears, and*hal-\\nlow the spot vvhere lier dear form reposes. I repeat, it was\\na ccmm.endable trait of character and one that the busy\\nmultitude who now walk to and fro beneath their cool and\\nample shade, in the hot and sultry summer, should remember\\nwith feelings ot sjncere admiraticn and gratitude, With\u00c2\u00ab. Ut", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "tioubt, our native Oaks arc one of the most desirable attrac-\\ntians and excellencies of Kalamazoo for vvhicli we are\\njustly famed and complimented at home and abroad. Let ui\\ncherisli ihem with unabated care. The) arc nature choic\u00c2\u00ab\\nlegion/ to shield us from disease and death and are robed\\nin a drapery of green and gold more gorgeous and beautiful\\nthan erer decked the conquering hosts of Napoleon. The}/\\nshall live, when u-e ar\u00c2\u00ab dust and their shadows will linger\\npeacefully and silently upon our graves, long after the places\\nthat now know us, and the friends who now love us, know us\\nno more forever 1\\nI never visit our beautiful Mountain Home of the Dead,\\nso calmly overlooking the strife and tumult of th\u00c2\u00ab living,\\nwithout being charmed by the extended and ench\u00c2\u00bbMting view\\nspread out like a map of Eden before me and as I retrace\\nmy steps, and see the funeral train wending its way slowly\\nalong tiie winding walks and lovely groves, the words of El-\\nric, the Saxon, came to me with peculiar emphasis and\\nmeaning:\\nHere, sorrowing friends, beneath this antique shade,\\nWhere earliest incense of the virgin morn\\nAscends the smihng heav ns here let us pause\\nGreat nature hath a balm for ev ry wound\\nOur bicedinor hearts, pierc d to the core by grief.\\nMay rnediciuo their torn and trembling strings\\nOn the dear boaom of her boundless love.\\nAssociated with Gen i Burdick in the proprietorship of\\nKalamazoo, were the late Thomas C. Sheldon and Lucius\\nLvo. t the former, Receiver of Public Moneys here duiing\\nthe Land Office times of 1835, 1S36 and 1837, (in connection\\nwith Major Edwards, the Jiejlsirar.) and the latter, one of\\nthe Hrst ^Senators who represented Michigan in the INational\\nLegislature, and who also subsequently held the re?p3n.sibe\\nnfhce oflSurveyor General But whatever honor may br ac-\\ncorded to tlie-e gentlemen, Uncle Titus Bronson and\\nhis good wifti AuiJiT Sally Bronson, were undoubtedly\\nthe original locau rs and proprietors of this famous foresi city,\\n;i[id, hard in tt.eir wake, came Nat Harrison and Ci i.o ell\\nthe first ydeped Uncle, and tlie last, Squire. I beliere\\nMr. Harrison is nuw dead; but ilio Hon. Mr. Lovell is still\\nliving, at Ionia, in this State, clever and large and lively as\\ntver, a good ci Jzcn and genl eman of note not nolts I He s", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46\\na hard money man, and plumb on the square Speaker\\nof tlie House, at the late session of our State Legislature.\\nMay he live long and his shadow never be less.\\nTiie Ladies of the Library Association may remember that\\nI had the honor of toasting him, at their late Quarter Century\\nCelebration, nnd that he turned up hrown His responss,\\nlike Ex-Governor Ransom s, was replete with incidents and ac-\\ncidents of pioneer life particularly his narration of the\\nwagon trip of the Governor and family, from Detroit to Kala-\\nmazoo. On reflection, I am not positive whether it was Mr.\\nLovell or the Governer himself who told the story but I re-\\nmember that there was a trip of the tongue, at the time, that\\nset a number of us near the speaker, into a hearty laugh.\\nThe late Col. Huston and Amos Brownson, were also inti\\nmately connected with the early history and settlement, and\\nafter prosperity of this place. I remember them as early ai\\n1835 and 1336, as the principal Business Firms. Mr, and\\nMrs. Brownson (the latter, then Miss Case.) were among th\u00c2\u00ab\\nfirst acquaintances I made, out of Major Edwards immediate\\nfamily and some of my happiest moments (always saving and\\nexcepting my courting ones have been passed in their com-\\npany.\\nIt requires an eifort, at this late day, to recall the names of\\nall our early settlers of 1835 and 1836 but as I desire, so far\\nas in my power, to place them on record, I subjoin the follow-\\ning alphabetical Hst, \\\\n. this list are included a number of\\ntransient persons who came and left in 1835 and 1836: for\\nwe had but a few resident families here in 1835. To avoid\\npersonality and partiality, 1 begin v^ ith myself, the poetical,\\nprosy, perennial, and pungent. Major Red Pepper! then\\nfollows of course, under A., my Father and Mother, Brothers\\nand Sisters, Uncles and Aunts, Nephews and Nieces, Cousin*\\nand dozens, from the first to the last generation. Amen inclu-\\nsive then\\nDoctor Abbott, and wife and daughter, Ben Jones and family\\nMoses Austin and family, David G. Kendall\\nRoss AUard Israel Kellogg, of the Kalamazoo Ho-m*\\nHiram Arnold and family Levi Krause\\nGen l Burdick Amos Knerr\\nDeacon Barrows Ilusso Kiog\\nSquire Belcher Mr. Liephart, the old Indian Trader.*\\nIra Burdick Horatio Lawrance Ij^q^qCk j ^itr\\nFrederick Booher Richard Lawrance 5\\nDoctor Barritt Edmund LaGrave\\nWarr\u00c2\u00abn Burrill Hiram D. Lov\u00c2\u00abland", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "47-\\nAmos Brownson and wif\u00c2\u00ab\\nHenry Booher\\nWilliam G. Butler, early settler\\nWilliam Boolier\\nSamuel W. iJryan\\nIra Bird\\nWilliam Birch\\nAlexander Buell and brother Austin\\nUncle Titus and Aunt Sally,\\nCyrus Lovell and famiJy\\nDaniel Lathrop and wife\\nJoseph Miiler jr.\\nClement March\\nRobert Mcintosh, Merchant;\\nDop ty P. M. under Doct. Abbott Ac.\\nO C. McCracken\\nJay R. Monro*^ Iloiatie N, Monroe\\nL. H. Moore, alias LittU Moort;\\nthe original proprietor* of Bronson, hereto- contradiitiDction of\\nfore mentioned, Henry Mower,\\nChauncey Burrell Big Land Looker, Hunter, \u00c2\u00abto.\\nDoctor Beardsley Gen l Isaac Moffatt\\nPhilander Bishop Mr. Meaohnm, Tailor,\\nCol. John E. Bracket! worked for L. R. Davis\\nE. R Ball birneon jVewman\\nN. a Balch Lot M. North,\\nDoctor Browninff, Constable, aruJ Chief Baker nf th. Staff ^c\\nDruggist Richard the 3rd c., J^ Northrop and family\\nO. S. Case ^^Pt- Geurp;e A. O Brien and family\\nTypo now of the S ^afeJoMrTza?, Lansing, Richard O Brien and wife\\nHorace H. Comstock and family Hiram Owen\\nwho, although hailing from Comstock Moses O Brien\\n^uarierT^ business place and bead Zephamiah Piatt and family\\nMoirCooper, nephew of the Novelist SnrvPvnfp M^-K r a a i.\\nourveyor rettibone, now of Ann Areor\\nAnthony Cooley and family\\nWilliam Carley\\nJames Coleman\\nLewis A. Crane\\nRoswell Crane\\nGeo. Thos. Clark and wife,\\nher Parents and their family,\\nA. D. Cahill\\nAlexander Cameron\\nAlmirin Lake Cotton,\\nHe and Wm. Gr. Butler, were the flrpt of t^.0J](JJJ-^\u00e2\u0080\u009eJJJ -r\\noarly settlers,\\nWalter Clark\\nAmi Carpenter and wife\\nLewis R. Davis\\nBank Porter and family, now of Det\\nJohnson Patrick and familv\\nMrs Poller, (widow of Do ct. Porter\\nand her sons, Ked and Jim\\nJohn Parker\\nA. T. Preuty and family\\nPeacon Porter and wife\\nUncle James Parker and family\\nJudge Ransom and family,\\nhis Parents and Brothers\\nhonorable arrd\\nnow\\nHenry M Rice --\u00e2\u0080\u0094v--\\nR. J. Rosecrantz\\nhirothers\\nBoth in honorab\\nr official positions,\\nr married, and hailin\\nMinnesota,\\nDavid S. Dille and family Artemas W. Richardsoa\\nJoseph B. Daniels, and his brother, T J. ^alter Russell\\nOliver Davenport and Wife Heniy Reynolds and family\\nWilliam G. Dewing, and brother Fred, fl Recollet Reckly\\nEbenezer Durkee and familv Frendi Trader\\nMajor Abraham Edwards and family C^^^\\nRenselaer Evils and family Wilimm Stuart\\nAsa Fitch and family Jt ^i\\nGeorge A. Filch, heodore P. bheldon and family\\nnow Ed. a*nd Pii^ isher of Mich. TeUffraph I^octor Slarkw^ealher\\nFrancis Fitts and wife\\nNathaniel Foster and family,\\nnow of Otsego, Allegan Co., Mich.\\nDaniel Fisher\\nEthan French\\nHenry Gilbert and family\\nNelson Gibbs\\nAndrew B. Gray\\nSilas Grejj\\nErastus Smith\\nRodney Seymour\\nNathan L. Stout\\nCaleb Sherman,\\nnow doing busincM for Unci* Bam,\\nNew Jleiico\\nDavid Sergeant\\nAlbert Saxon,\\nthe man who went m/ltr mn\u00c2\u00bbth$r man,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rp\u00c2\u00abr cmme back", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48\\nAll\u00c2\u00abn Goodridgc and family. Silas Trowbridre\\nnow DeiVty Cora r State Land Offlee L^j^.e^ H. Trask and famiir\\nJohnB.GaUean Lyman Tutile\\ndodnev Gibson, t ^p i\\nn,.w Dep ty 3ec ty of State, Lane-.nj, ^f.^^^^ T^X\\nDwiffht C. Grimes f^ ^am Underwood,\\nJames Green, ^^^f.*^^^ of fal^mazoo.\\nnow of the firm of Stuart Green, Jf ^iCKery and Wife\\nJohn H. liavs and family Stephen Vickery and wife\\nBenjamin Harrison and familv Lawrence anDeVValker,\\nDeacon Hvdenburk p l Receiver of Public Mon.y.\\na FT rhdo Vradenbursfh\\nSquire Hubrjard ait j a \\\\kt-u-\\nNat Harrison Alfred A. Wdhams\\nT?i:oko TT^ n 4\u00c2\u00bb .i Isaac W. Willard\\n,1 rr 1 J r -1 t 7 rj- Jndffe D. li. vVebster and famuT\\nL Hawlev and familv. of Artt. iioii5\u00c2\u00ab, -iir-,? tt -t*/ i i\\nCcl. H. B Huston and family n W^\\nA. G. Hammond aad wife Vi c.^ w jj u.\\n1 u xj ,,T J Mrs. Sarah Weaver and daughter\\nJoseph HutcauiK, vvite and son -ttt t.t-\\nSheriff of Kal. Co Merch.int c. 9 ^L^ ^uislow\\nAzro Healy J\u00c2\u00abhn VVmslow\\nVolnev Hascall. Rollin Wood, Justice of the Peace c,\\nnow Editor and Publisher of \u00c2\u00a3aZ. Gczef/ff, William E. White\\nNath l Holman and wife, moth r, broth rJasper Wood\\nChas. Herrington, William Wingert, Gunsmith,\\nthen at work fur Buell Brother now of Detroit.\\nIsaac N. Janes; Rev Cj-lus Woodbury and family.\\nParson W. was the first settled Presbyterian Clergyman in Kalamazoo and the first fin-\\nnation party I ever attended was at his house in the winter, I think, of 1835. And this\\nbrintjs ino to X, Y, Z.\\n1 do not pretend that liie foregoing list is perfect, for in the\\nlapse of years, and drawn up, as it has been, from memory,\\nit would be singular if it were; but 1 present it as a tolerably\\naccurate register of those living, or hailin^r from here m 1835\\nand 1836, within what is now, the corporate limits of Kalamazoo\\nWnat a change from those times to the present when the\\nMain Street of our village, from the river up to the Tremont\\nHouse, was almost free of dwellings and beyond that station,\\nand around in all directions, the native bur-oaks bloomed in\\nprimeval beauty. Then it was a common sight to see bands\\nof roving Indians, and to hear the howl of the wolf then\\ngame was plenty, and the fleet deer bounded merrily over\\ngreen pastures where- nozi* stand thickly together the pleasant\\nhabitations of the comfortable housekeeper, and the more pre-\\ntentious mansions of the rich. Those were the good old\\nland-office times, when Speculators went about with ple-\\nthoric purses and empty stomachs, and paid two shilhngs for a\\nsmell of something good to eat and for the privilege of\\nleaning against a door post to sleep, or bunking on the old\\nKalamazoo House floor The glorious days of paper cities,\\nwith desirable water lots when Port Sheldon flour-\\nkhed, and the proprietors flourished over the port when a", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "49\\nfraction entered for $50 at the Land Office, in the morning,\\ntold for 5,000 at night When everybody was crazy for\\nland, and felt rich, and wanted to be crazier and richer\\nWhen pork was 820 a barrel, and too poor at that to worry\\nits way down When pies and gingerbrea d were divided\\ninto Qaai ter Sections, and sold for a short shilling a bite\\nWhen a man was afraid to be seen using a tooth-pick, after\\ndinner, for fear of being mobbed and murdered for the des-\\nsert in short, when everything and everybody was turned\\ntopsy-turvy, and an overwhelming torrent of speculation\\ndeluged the laad. But over these troubled elements, there\\nhas come a calm. A glittering bow of promise has long\\nsince spanned the dark and threatening clouds revealing\\nby its curve of glory, a new heavens and a new earth. Old\\nthings are done away, and the bright sunlight of prosperity\\nand happiness is now shining upon all. The effect of the la-\\nbors of those who survived this perilous period, manifested\\nitself m an mcreased regard for individual probity and useful-\\nness, and in sounder and maturer action for the public good.\\nInordinate selfishness and love of gain, were purified and con-\\ntrolled by the dictates of a better humanity or, at all\\nevents, the more glaring inconsistency and development,\\nwere hid under a cloak that covered the multitude of sins,\\nThe baser passians were curbed\u00e2\u0080\u0094 held in subjection by the\\nstrong arm of the law, and that enlightened and efficient\\npublic sentiment, which sooner or later approves or condemns\\nihe conduct of all.\\nEvery added year has carried forward the good work of\\nreform, and Kalamazoo, at this auspicious hour, may truly be\\nsaid to be luxuriating in beauty and plenty, amid her native\\n.vales, like some fair virgin decked with i?owers. And just\\nhere, I am reminded to add a word or two in memory of the\\nbeautiful and novel appearance of our Prairies, as they look-\\ned to me some twenty years or more ago. I can never for-\\nget the vivid impressionmade npon my mind (fresh as I then\\nwas from city scenes and life,) the first time 1 looked upon a\\nprairie in full bloom I had mounted my horse for an afternoon\\nride, and heading westward from our village, gave my favor-\\nite running nag Lightfoot free rein until I drew up suddenly\\non the brow of the hill near Uncle Parker s, on Grani\\nPrairie for it seemed to me almost like sacrilege, to crush\\nlivith my horse s hoofs the lovely and delicate fairy children\\n7*", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50\\nof the woods and fields, by which I was surrounded. Be-\\naeath, about, and beyond me, as far as the eye could reach,\\nwas spread out, in undulating elegance, an emerald carpet of\\n[lature s choicest fabric, inlaid profusely with flowers of erery\\nimaginable variety of name and tint gorgeous and fascina-\\nting as the most brilliant hues of the rainbow. Horse and\\nrider were alike captivated for my pet racer, with eye and\\naostnl wide open, literally rfran^ in, with me. the rich beauty\\nand odor of that charming scene. Never can 1 forget that\\nday. There I sat, and gazed delightedly, wholly unconscious\\nof the lapse of time, until the shadows of evening, gathering\\nthickly over the landscape, admonished me of the witching\\nhour, on love s dial, when a fairer native flower than any\\nI had then and there seen, would bloom for me alone I\\nSo, what time the moon.\\nHer silver crescent iii the orient shone,\\nLightfool and 1, in happy mood, hie d home I\\n[An accomplished and genial clerical critic at my elbow\\nas 1 am concluding this add\\\\iiona,[ prairie item suggests sky d\\nfor hied, in the above couplet! The indulgent reader can\\ntherefore adopt my friend the Rev. E. B. Palmer s emenda-\\ntion, or the original text, as saemeth best, all things con-\\nsidered\\nA few words now, before bringing this hasty article to a\\nclose, in memory of the old U. S. Land Office, and of those\\nwith whom I was associated in 1835 and 1838.\\njMajor Abraham Edwards (then Rei/ister, and for several\\nyears subsequently,) kept the Office in a building immediately\\nin the rear of O. Davenport s large frame house now standing,\\non the corner of Main and Edwards* streets. At that time,\\nwith the exception of the Land Oflice, it was all an open lot.\\nIt was there that 1 first commenced scribbling as a Clerk,\\nsoon after, the Major removed to the Office I now occupy, and\\nin which I have the honor to flourish as Register. Here\\nmost of the Government lands, now constituting the Home-\\nsteads and improved farms of the country, were sold at t^n\\nshillings an acre including the location of the site of the\\npresent City of Kalamazoo. The curious observer of the\\nantique, may at this day see specimens of the pencilings of the\\noriginal locators, all over the outside of the old Office, at\\nwell as cuttings by Yankee blades 1 In fact, the old Major,\\nat one time dunng a great land rush, to save his picket", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SI\\nfence and other property, from utter destruction, bought a\\nload of shingles for the express use and benefit of the crowd,\\nand had proclamation made, that every man might help him-\\nself, gratis, and whittle away to his heart s content! After\\nthat, every other person you passed, betvfeen this and tb*\\nReceiver s, on both sides of the road, at the taverns, on the cor-\\nners, and every where else, had a knife and shingle in hand,\\nand Wc is cutting away for dear life! Any knowing one\\nr.ould tell, by the way a man whittled, what progress he\\nwas making m a trade. The skirmishing and feeling-process,\\nwas a bold and rapid succession of cuts, outward, but ab the\\nbargain progressed to a happy close, the knife blade was in-\\nclined imvnrd, the parings became nicer and closer, and the\\ntrade and shingle ended in the sharpest kind of a point, lo\\nthe buyer who was sold\\nThe force in the Regisler s Office, in 1835 and 1836, con-\\nsisted of Major Edwards and his sons, Alexander and\\n^CoL. Tom, Mr. John B. Guiteau, my brothers, S. Yorke\\nand Richard, Mr. Alfred A. Williams, Ira Burdick, the\\nSquire, Captain George A. O Brien, A. VV. Richardson.\\nand myself besides the occasional help in the office, of Mr.\\nThos. C. Sheldon ^the Receiver J. M; Messrs, T. P.\\nSheldon, Geo. Thos. Clark, and Rodney Gibson. The\\nrush of business was so great in those days, that extra clerks\\nh d often to be called in to register the Applications, Plats,\\nAdc, and bring up our Returns for Washington and mil-\\nlions of dollars from this Office alone, poured into the Treas-\\nury of the United States.\\nIn those days of wild-cat and red-dog inflated paper\\ntiurrency, everybody was a Croesus, at least in feeling. Sper-\\nulation and pecalaiion were the twin charlatans and rulers of\\nthe hour. Men of judgment and honesty, who had therefore\\nkept unimpaired their integrity, joined in the general scramble\\nafter riches, and yielded, finally, to the fascinating rustle of\\nbank-paper, and the righteous ring of the almighty dollar T\\nThe Specie Circular, killed the bastard progeny of irre-\\nsponsible Bankers, while the ink upon their lying piomises\\nlo pay was yet moist on the fair faces of their treacherous\\nissue, and the sober second thought of the people, came at\\nl list, hke rain upon the dry and barren earth, lo refreih the\\nwa\u00c2\u00abte places, and make the desert and solitary wilderness\\nbloom and blossom like the rose.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52\\nOne of the principal means, from first to last, in the progress\\nof refoi m and of social and intellectual advancement, here\\nand elsewhere, was unquestionably the introduction and faith-\\nful application of the Printing Press that grand and irre-\\nsistable lever for raising the masses, and moving the very\\nfoundations of the mental and moral world. Mr. HEiHRY\\nGilbert, may with propriety be called, the founder and\\nfather of the public press of Western Michigan. No man\\nconnected with it, has seen harder service, met with a great-\\ner variety of viscissitudes and experiences, had Mower\\ndowns, or higher ups I For some years past, he has been\\nout, as an Editor and Printer, and is now set up in capitals\\nas one of our most obliging and popular Merchant Princes.\\nMessrs. Hascall and Fitch, from their respective tripods\\nand platforms, now sit in Henry s scat, and di pense the\\npure milk of letters and logic (adulterated, occasionally, with\\nii little water)) to their indulgent frien ls and subscribers.\\nThey have both grown up withm my knowledge o^ their\\nschool-boy days and I record it here with a feeling ol the\\nsincerest pride and pleasure, that as artiiicers of their own\\nreputations and fortunes, they merit the confidence and sup-\\nport so generously awarded them by the good people of\\nKalamazoo.\\nWe have now reached an epoch in our history, of great\\nmoment to us, and to those who shall come after us. Print-\\ning Offices, School Houses, Churches, Theological Institutions,\\nand Colleges; Courts of Law, Banks, and Shaving Shops;\\nMedical Dispensaries ard Drug Stores; busy marts of Com-\\nmerce and Merchandise Factories and places for all me-\\nchanical and industrial pursuits Literary, Benevolent, and\\nSewing Societies in short, a little of everything in general^\\nand too much of some things in particular, are crowding upoB\\neach other, in rapid succession, to ihe manifest horror of iazy^\\npeople, and the total extinction of men and women of one\\nideal\\nFinally, may we all act well our several parts in the great\\ntheatre of life, so that, as its mysterious drama is ending, Vf\\nshall be able to look up joyfully, and exclaim\\nThe sky is full\\nOf the Btarr d banners of the heavenly hostj\\nDependent from Us glorious battlements,\\nTo lure us from these b nicrs of \u00c2\u00abarth.\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "53\\nOthat we might o er}eap them, al a bound\\nAnd Btand. complete, at last, a Deathless Man,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCrown d with immortal bays, and thron d in Light\\nVery llespeclfully Yours,\\nT. S. AtLEE,\\nU. S. Land Office, Kalamazoo, Mich.", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "Earls^ fCemini^cences.\\nMRS. HENRIETTA S. T. TAYLOtl.\\nJ EAR Madam As you desired, I have thrown together,-\\nin the following pajies, some remennbrances of the early set-\\ntlement of Kalamazoo, and its vicinity. They are very\\ncrudely and imperfectly presented, and I fear will add but\\nlittle to the interest of vour proposed work.\\nIt was on the 22d day of June, 1831, that our family first\\nsaw the spot marked out for their home in the wilds of Michi-\\ngan. This was on Genesee Prairie, four miles south-\\nwest of Kalamazoo Village, whither my father, in company\\nwith Anthony Cooley and Erastuv Smith, had immigrated and\\nlocated their claims the fall before 1 ihink. in October, 1830.\\nThey gave the prairie the name it bears in honor of Genesee\\nCounty, N. Y., from whence they had all removed. On our\\narrival, in June, we found besides those above named, three or\\nfour families, which had preceded us, and pitched their\\nSquatter tents on various parts of the Prairie. These\\nwere Enoch Harris, a colored man, and his family, a Mr.\\nWild and family, a Mr. Hunt and family, and a Mr. Stillwell\\nand family the former two of winch still remain. The sur-\\nrounding country was wild and undisturbed as it had existed,\\nprobably, for long centuries before. The numerous bands of\\nIndians and their deeply trodden trails whicli traversed the\\nprairies and forests, at this time, in all directions, abated noth\u00c2\u00ab\\ning from tlie primeval freshness of the surrounding scenery.\\nGod and Nature re\\\\gncd alone, and civilized man had not yet\\nbeen permitted to mar the holy quiet and deep solemnity,\\nwhjch brooded over the beautiful lakes and valleys, the green\\nprairies and deep forests, that lay so tranquilly around U3. It\\niia\u00c2\u00ab seemed tome that there was a nearer communion with\\nthe Creative Spirit of the Universe in those early days, than\\nha\u00c2\u00ab been experienced since the necessities or cupidity of man\\ntransformed the wilderness into the fruitful field.\\nAmong the first things that attracted attention about our\\nhomestead, was a large circle amid grove of trees, vb\u00c2\u00abre", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "55\\nthe earth was trodden down much like the trails which passed\\nnear it. This we learned was a spot upon which the Indians\\nhad been accustomed to celebrate their festivities and if re-\\nport was true, sometimes to practice the war dances of their\\ntribe. This, then, was the origin of the mysterious circle.\\nIn another spot on my father s farm an artificial mound was\\ndiscovered, about a rod in diameter at its bass, and some four\\nor five feet high. Around this there was a regularly laid out\\ngarden, the beds still stanJmg as distinctly marked, and as\\nregular in their order, and arraiigemant, apparently, as when\\nthey were first wrought out by the hands of the unknown\\nworkmen. And upon this mound, and in the midst of some\\nof these beds, were growing large and aged trees, showing\\nthat the mysterious gardens must have had their origin in far\\nback ages. Probably they were the work of the same people\\nwhose tumuli, and whose instruments of war and domestic use,\\nare found scattered in various places lhroaghi)ut the entire\\nwest.\\nAnother object of interest engaged our attention almost the\\nfirst day of our arrival. It was reported that upon Grand\\nPrairie two miles north of us, there were inexhaustible fields\\nof strawbernes, then in the very zenith of their glory. We\\nwent. The half was not told. Snm deserted corn fields,\\nleft by the Indians, a year or two before, had grown over\\nwith rank and luxuriant strawberry vines, which seemed to\\nbe indigenous to the soil. These at this time, were literally\\nloaded with fruit, and the little hillocks where the corn had\\nstood, for acres and acres, gleamed red in the sun, as though\\neach might be a honafiii heap of the luscious berries, already\\nplucked and placed there. A more interesting sight it is dif-\\nficult to conceive of; and the pioneers did uot fail to make\\nthemselves practically acquainted with these spontaneous gifts\\nof the deserted corn fields.\\nAbout this time some excitement occurred in consequence\\nof a murder that had been committed upon an Indian by one\\nof the tribe, over west of Grand Prairie. The criminal had\\nbeen just tried and condemned, and permission granted hira\\nto visit his friends and relatives for the last lime previous to\\nhis execution. No bail was required in Indian jurisprudence\\nHe had given his word to return on the appointed day, and\\nthat was deemed sufficient by the Chief. The questioe\\namong the white settlers was\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Will the condemned raan", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56\\nkeep fjis word t Varic^iis were the opinions and not\\nlittle cariosity was felt throughout the community as the stated\\ntime drew near. The day at length came and with it came\\nthe condemned criminal, punctual to the hour. The sentence\\nof death was immediately carried into execution and his\\nbody was placed sitting upright, in the midst of a rude struc-\\nture of logs, where it remained, and was visited by the set-\\ntlers of the surrounding country for many months afterward.\\nHis pipe and food were placud by his side, in order, as I sup-\\npose, to make his journey to the undiscovered country a?\\ntolerable as possible. But no one could discover that he ever\\ncondescended to make use of them.\\nEarly m the spring of the next year, 1832, a new and more\\nformidable cause of excitement occurred, which, for a time\\ncreated a good deal of agitation and alarm among the settlers.\\n!t was reported that Blxck Hawk, with a large body of his\\nwarriors, was m.irching directly for our settlements, and there\\nwas imminent danger that all the people would be massacred.\\nAt once a draft was made upon all the male inhabitants lia-\\nble to military service, and general muster was to take place\\nupon Prairie Ronde, where means for resistance and protec-\\ntion were to be devised, and as far as possible, carried out.\\nWell do I remember with what feeling I saw my father de-\\npart, and how painful was the suspense in the family, until he\\nreturned, which he did in two or three days, it havirg been\\nascertained that the repori was exaggerated and ihe danger,\\nat least, at that particular time, was not threatening. The\\ncommunity became tranquilized, and during the summer\\nthe news was received that General Atkinson had had a de-\\ncisive engagement with the Indian forces, and had disastrous-\\nly routed them, taking Black Hawk, his son, and many war-\\nriors prisoners. This at once restored perfect quiet to our\\nsettlement and none were now afraid to traverse the coun-\\ntry again at will.\\nThe game of the country at this time, was exceedingly\\nplentiful. Deer, bears and wolves, were seen in all direc-\\ntions by the settlers, and many were killed, the two former\\nfurnishing a considerable portion of the food in some of the\\nfamilies. Wolves, especially, were everywhere, and their\\ndismal howl was almost suie to be heard as soon as night set\\nin. And they were possessed of a most audacious temerity\\nioo I well remember upon a certain occasion when one", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "*7\\ncame at midday, into our door yard and seized a sheep befor^^\\nthe face and eyes of several of the family, and would hare\\nmade short work with the timid animal, had not my father\\ninterfered to rescue it. And, again, one came just before\\nnight-fall, within two rods of the door, and laid hold of a\\nsmall pig, the cries of which soon brought its long-legged,\\nlantern-jawed, ferocious maternal ancestor to the rescue,\\nwhen his lupine majesty saw fit to beat a hasty retreat, with\\nthe injured mother at his heels and such a race we venture\\nto say, was never seen on Genesee Prairie before or since,\\nA small dog, we had, would sometimes venture, in the nighh\\nto crawl out through a hole in the wall of the log house, left\\nfor his exit and entrance, and bark, when he scented the near\\napproach of a wolf; and not unfrequently was he driven\\nhurriedly in, by the swift approach of the wild beast to attack\\nhim when the mutual growling was anything but pleasant\\nmusic to the ears of the family.\\nIt seems to me but yesterday, (although it is twenty-four\\nyears since,) that I first visited the county seat, as the little\\nvillage was then usually called by the settlers m the surround-\\ning country. I was a mere boy then, and with a boy s curi-\\nosity, noted the various things of interest in the infant town.\\nAt the foot of Main Street, on the bank of the river, at this\\ntime, was a cabin, occupied by Nathan Harrison, who had\\nestabhshed a ferry there, consisting of a canoe or two, and a\\nlarge skiflf, with which to accommodate the immigrants and\\nsettlers who desired to cross the river. Uncle Nate was\\nknown the country through, for he was a great hunter, and\\nforemost at all shooting matches, and hunting parties. He\\nwas, however, one of those wandering pioneer spirits that\\ncould not long brook the advances of civilization and he\\nsoon sought a new home, where the sound of the axe and the\\nhammer had not yet disturbed the peaceful repose of nature.\\nThe day I visited the ferry the west shore of the river for\\nsome distance up and down, was lined with the beautiful\\nbirchen canoes of a company of Indians, wh\u00c2\u00bb had come,\\nbringing maple sugar, venison and peltries to trade with the\\nwhites, they generally desiring in exchange, whiskey, flour, or\\nsome gaudy articles of dress. For many years after, this was\\na favorite resort of the natives for purposes of barter; but\\nalas the face of the red man is now rarely seen here, and\\nsooti will be \u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00aben no more forever. About a mile below this\\n8*", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58\\nplace, on the east bank of the river^ was an old French tm-*\\nding post, kept by a half breed by the name of Liephart,\\nwhere the earlier settlers found very scant supplies of dry\\ngoods an i groceries but scant and dear as they ^\\\\ere, they\\nsuppliefl a want which would otherwise have been severely\\nfelt by ihc pioneers. But at the period of which I am now\\nspeaking, there appeared an individual among the little band\\nof villagers, who was destined not only to eclipse the French\\ntrading post in the way of supjiljing the necessities of the\\nsettlers, but whose subsequent career was to have an impor-\\ntant bearing upon the growth and prosperity of the place.\\nHe was a tall, spare, rather eccentric Yankee, with a some-\\nwhat military air, and a very ?3072cAa/awr carriage and mode\\nof speech. Without further circumlocution, it was Col.\\nHosEA B. Huston, who came at that early day with a stock\\nof merchandize adapted to the wants ot the settlenent, and\\nput up a hastily constructed store, on the coiner of Main and\\nRose Streets, being the front part of the building which yet\\nremains there. At the time of my first visit to town, above\\nalluded to, this little mart of the Col. was just opened, gnd\\nmy boyish curiosity was highly gratified with the hour or two s\\nexperience 1 then had there. It was the place of resort for\\nthe townsmen, who were fond of meeting there, and talking\\nover matters. Here it was that I first saw Titus Bronson\\nthe strange, lank, half crazy, eccentric founder of the village,\\nknown the country over by his then usual cognomen Po\u00c2\u00ab\\ntato Bronson a name given him on account of the devo-\\ntion with which he cultivated a large patch of potatoes, upon\\nPrairie Ronde, the first year of his arrival. Here, too, it was\\nthat I first saw Cyrus Lovell otherwise Squire Lovell\\ncelebrated for the unerring certainty with which he would\\ndespatch any luckless fly that might incontinently light upon\\nhis person. At the very time of which I speak, it was my\\nprivilege to witness the terrible skill of the Squire upon\\nmore than thirty \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ccasions.\\nBut I must hurry to a close with these trivial reminiscences,\\nlest I abuse the patience of the reader and mar the object for\\nwhich they were intended.\\nIn October 1835, I became an apprentice to Gilbert\\nChandler, at the printing business, they having a sh\u00c2\u00abrt time\\nprevious commenced publishing a newspaper called the\\nMichigan Statesman shortly after, the Kalamazoo Ga-", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "59\\nteiic.^ In a few weeks, h(iwever, Mr. Chandler retired from\\nthe firm, and Mr. Gilbert became sole proprietor, and and so\\nremained until 1840, when he sold to E. D. Burr, who after\\nconducting the establishment for a few months, surrendered it\\nto Mr. Gilbert, who, part of the time alone, and part of ihe\\ntime in company Avith others, continued to carry on the busi-\\nness, until 1845, when the present proprietor purchased the\\noffice, with nothing but his notes, and in three months, wa\u00c2\u00ab\\nobliged to sell, which he did to J. W. Breese, Esq., who after\\nnine months trial, was glad to resell it btck to myself since\\nwhich time May 1, 1846 it has been constantly under\\nmy control. It may be, that at some future time 1 may wnle\\na brief history of the early vicissitudes of the Gazette Of-\\nfice but it would hardly be proper here, after the large space\\nI have already occupied. 1 have merely given the above\\nfacts, that the early history of the press may not be entirely\\nlost, should no fuller statement be hereafter made.\\n1 append here, a few imperfect lines, written by me several\\nyears ago, embodying a legendary tale of the Indians, which\\nen ay be true or false but as the incidents are said to have\\noccurred in this vicinity, the trifle may not be wholly without\\ninterest.\\nA NIGHT BATTLE SCENE ON THE KALAMAZOO,\\nAN ihdian legend.\\nOn the bank of the river, about a mile below this place, is\\npointed out a spot which is said to have been the scene of a\\nbattle fought near the middle of the last century, between the\\nSioux and Ottawa Indians. According to the tradition among\\nthe Indians, these tribes, after many years of feud and strife\\nmet on the spot above mentioned, with all their warriors, to\\nmake a final decision of their difficulties. It seems that Wa-\\ncousta, the Chief of the Ottawas, had formed a plan of attack\\nby night, in order that he might come upon the enemy una-\\nwares, and thus, taking them in an unprepared state, might\\nmore easily and more securely accomplish his purpose. But\\nthe enemy learned the design through his own son, who cher-\\nishing an affection for the daughter of the Sioux Chief, vea-\\nturtd to the tent of her father on the night of the intended\\nmassacre and privately warned the maiden of her danger,", "height": "3572", "width": "2124", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0082\u00ac0\\nand besought her to stek safety in immediate flight. But she\\nconsidering her duty to her people and her kindred para-\\nmount to the affection of a lover, instantly gave the alarm\\nThe Sioux warriors being thus put on their guard, silently\\nawaited the approach of the enemy who advancing secretly\\nand cautiously within a short distance of the Sioux tents,\\nrushed on to their work with the soul -chilling war-whoop.\\nBut the enemy, forewarned, were prepared to receiv* them,\\nwhich so completely surprised the Ottawas, that they were\\ncompelled to retreat on the first onset but being rallied by\\ntheir Chief, they returned to the contest and after a long and\\nbUody struggle, succeeded in defeating the Sioux losing\\nhowever, their Chieftain a warrior deserving the first ran\\n^moag the Indian heroes\\nThe night wind sighed, faintly, its dirge through the treei,\\nThe cry of the owlet wai borne on the breeze\\nAnd the scream of the eagle, in accents so fell.\\nIntermingled its notes with the wild panther s yell.\\nDarkly the storm-cloud was lowering around.\\nEnshrouding all nature in darkness profound.\\nMore dreadful that hour, more dismal that gloom\\nThan the soul-chilling horror that reigns at the tomb.\\nBut behold fee, the watch-fire is kindled afar\\nWacousta has lighted the beaoon of war\\nAnd wo\u00c2\u00a9 te the Sioux if the darkness of night\\nShall find him in slumber, unarmed for the fight\\nFor deep is the ire of the Ottawa Chief\\nWhen the hatchet is raised in revenge for his grief\\nAnd deadly his vengeance his victim shall feel\\nWhen the wrongs of Wacousta shall sharper the steel\\nAh 1 where is the Sioux when the death-fire burns brifht f\\nSees he not from the hill the red glare of its light f\\nAnd where is the Chief, when the enemy nigh.\\nShall rush to the carnage with the dread battle cry\\nBut, hark there s a wail of deep grief on the air,\\nIn the accents of woe break* that cry of despair.\\ngay why on the breeze coraefe that voice of lament.\\nIn the frenzy of anguish, from the dark Sioux tent\\nAh, list! ti\u00c2\u00bb Wahcondah who entreats in that prayer\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWACeusta, thy son is the suppUant there\\nFor oft he hatii sworn to the bright Sioux maid\\nTb\u00c2\u00ab faith of the warrior, which but death shall iavidt.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "61\\nHt comes to entreat that from danger tfar,\\nTke maiden will ily from the temptst of war.\\nBit true to her eenntry when danger is near.\\nShe heeds not the warnings of puril or fear\\nBut quick through the camp of the slumbering Sioux,\\nOn the Toice of the maiden the dread signal fiew.\\nHow sudden the change af the sleeper to life\\nOf the warrior at rest to the warrior for strife\\nAs if earth from its bosom had yielded its clay\\nAll armed for the conflict in battle array.\\nDeep silence reigns there mid that dark warrior band,\\nAll steadfast and firm with their armor they stand.\\nBut, hark oh the air breaks the Ottawa s yell.\\nMore fierce than the shrieks of the demons of hell.\\nLike fiends of despair they come down on the foe\\nDestruction and Death follow fast where they go,\\nBut, see the bold Sioux receive the dread shock-\\nAll bravely they stand as the firm mountain rock.\\nLo carnage stalks forth on that red battle field\\nFor sooner the warrior meets death than to yield.\\nAh dire is the fight whea the brare meets the brave\\nAnd rich then the harvest that cumbers the grave.\\nBut hark there is triumph breaks forth in thai yell,\\nFor deadly the Sioux red tomahawks tell\\nThe Ottawa shrinks from that charge ef the foe,\\nFor the spirit of death is abroad in each blow.\\nThey turn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but the form ot Wacousta stands forth.\\nAnd darker his frown than the clouds of the North\\nMore fiercely his yell breaks alOud on the air\\nThan the cries of the Furies urged on by despair.\\n*Tis done I for the Sioux has fled far away\\nN\u00c2\u00a9 longer he urges the deadly affray\\nBut a tear dims the eye of the Ottawa brave\\nTheir Chieftain sleeps cold in the warrior s red grave,\\nWacousta Wacotista I O, long will thy name\\nStand brightly, the first on the pages of fame.\\nThy spirit has gone to the far father land,\\nTo meet with the manes of thy bright kindred bacd.\\nMay the waves in sad cadence thy requiem roll.\\nWhile the soft, gentle zephyrs waft praise to thy moI.", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62\\nA mound mark\u00c2\u00ab the Bp*t wher^ the Chieft in rdpetes.\\nAnd over his tomb blooms a bed of wild roses.\\nThere are other traditions of an interesting character con-\\nlaected with our locality, which, could they be collected and\\npreserved, might be used in some future work of local his-\\ntory to great advantage but it would swell this article to aft\\ninordinate length, to give even the outlines and I presume\\nit would not comport with the object of your present under-\\ntaking, to go thus extensively into matters no better aulhenti-\\ncatsd than these wild legends usually are.\\nVery Respectfully,\\nV. HASCALL.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Kalamazoo in 1833.\\nMRS. HENRIETTA S. T. TAYLOR,\\nSecretary Ladies* Library Association, Kal. Michigan,\\nTime in its passage through twenty-two years, hatb\\nwrought a change in the County of Kalamazoo, which to\\nthose of us, who were among the early settlers, seems\\nmarvellous and dreamlike. I remember well, a pleasant ride\\nI had, in the early part of November, 1833, from my humble\\ncabin, on Prairie Ronde, passing over tie Indian trail\\nwhich touched the margin of Dry Prairie, thence across a\\nsomewhat broken country, until it finally passed down on the\\nplain, near the dwelling house, on what now constitutes the\\nAxtell Farm; my errand was to purchase, at what was\\nthen considered the great mart of trade for this County, a\\nsupply of Salt. The Trading House below the present vil-\\nlage of Kalamazoo and near where now stands the Furnace,\\nfurnished the principal supply of Salt and Iron, (and that in\\nvery limited quantities) and other necessaries to the Pioneer.\\nAt the Trading House, I found a large number of Indians,\\nbartering for their supplies of Blue Calico and Whiskey. My\\nmission was speedily and satisfactorily accomplished, by an\\nexchange of twelve dollars and fifty cents in silver coin, for\\none barrel of salt, the salt to be brought home in the course\\nof a few days, by the ox team of a neighbor, who was jointly\\ninterested with me in the purchase. On my return, I had for\\ncompanions, Sagawaw the village Chief of some two\\nscore of Indian Lodges, located on what is termed the North\\nWest Neck of Prairie Ronde, and his interpreter, Duro-\\ncher, a mongrel, his mother a Squaw, his father a Canadian\\nFrenchman. The Chief was a noble specimen of his race,\\nreserved, and with little disposition to indulge in idle talk.\\nDurocher, on the contrary, had many of the peculiarities of\\nthe Frenchman, a constant disposition to exaggerate, violent\\nin his gesticulation, with a copious, and sometimes almost a\\nfurious flow of words. In passing a point of marsh land,\\ndistan t about one mile from the present Axtell Farm House,", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64\\nthe Indian pointed to a mound shaped spot of land, entirely\\nsurrounded by the marsh, and explamed through Durocher,\\nthat tliere stood, during the last war with England, a \u00c2\u00abhop, in,\\nwhich iwo men, (one French, the other English,) labored \\\\n\\nrepasring the guns of the Indians. He stated that the rudo\\nshop was erected, and the men paid by the British Govern-\\nment, and that the repairs were made for the Indians, free o(\\nany charge that the shop was placed on that knoll or mound\\nsurrounded by a wet marsh, as a protection to some extent,\\nagainst fire. Sagawaw also stated, that many Indians were\\nat that spot, for weeks, obtaining repairs and making their\\nsimple arrangements, in anticipation of a great battle to be\\nfought in the month of December, A. D. 1812, in the Easteru\\npart of what now constitutes the State of Michigan, and thai\\nfheir expectations were sadly realized in the bloody fight at\\nFrenchtown, on the River Raisin, on the 22d day of January.\\nA. D. 1813, where the very flower of the Kentucky soldiery,\\nincluding the gallant company led on by Captain Hart, were\\nbutchered almost to a man. A few of the American soldiers\\nescaped the indiscriminate slaughter of that dreadful fight,\\nfor it stands a recorded historical fact, to the eternal disgrace\\nof Proctor, the British Commander, that he suffered and\\n^ven encouraged the Indians to pursue this murderous thirst\\nfor blood after the remnant of Americans had surrendered.\\nAmong the small band that escaped the tomahawk and scalp-\\ning knife, of the Indians, in that perilous fight, and who with\\na few others, was taken captive into Canada, was one of the\\npioneers of our County, and who still lives, a farmer on\\nGourd Neck Prairie the Government has recently be-\\nstowed on him, for his services, a warrant for Bounty Land,\\nund well might John McComsey waive his accustomed mod-\\nesty and say with patriotic pride, in enumerating his military\\nservices, I was in the thickest of the fight at the Battle of\\nth^ River Raising\\nThe Pottawattarnies to which tribe Sagawaw was at\\ntached, were all, the allies of the British. As the old Chief\\ndescribed what he had witnessed at, and around the spot\\nwhere we then stood, with extended arm, he directed our eyes\\nto the circular spot where the coal was burnt and prepared\\nfor the forge of that primative workshop, and there, within\\nthe square of ground, upon which the shop once stood, could\\nstill be seen the charred block, on which the anvil bad rested", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "65\\nTo my enquiry, why were the Pottawattamies always th\u00c2\u00ab\\nAllies of the British, and enemies of the Americans, came the\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eady answer, Our Father over the big water gave to xha\\nIndian plenty of powder, lead and blankets, and always a^--\\ncompanied the present with the solemn declaration that the\\nAmericans had ever intended to drive the Indian away west\\nof the Father of Waters.\\nBut not to be tedious in these early reminiscences, I recar\\nagain to the marked change in the country throughout the\\nCounty of Kalamazoo, within the past score of years the\\nface of the country is peculiar in its wild state, the cherished\\nhome of the Indian, and with kis little labor and effort, fur-\\nnishing him free y with the means of substance its wide\\nspread piairies and beautiful groves, before the disturbing\\nhand of the white man had touched them, more lovely than\\nain English landscape, and in its season embellished with fi\\nVerdure and a profusion and variety of flowers, that wouUi\\nhave pleased the eye and made happy the heart of the poet.\\nAnd now, after the lapse \u00c2\u00a9f these few years, since this same\\ncountry has been surrendered for what has been termed, the\\niimprovement of civilization, we have presented for our enjoys\\n-ment, all the comfort and luxuries of life. Intelligent travel-\\ners, in their western tours, have oft times favorably noted the\\nTillage of Kalamazoo, as having in its location, convenience\\nand beauty, in intimate combination. The even plain ami\\nsurrounding liills, it would almost seem, expressly prepared\\nfor the ornamental and useful efforts of the builder Its peo-\\nple are mainly from the hills of New England, ajland that sendi^\\nits sons for energetic efforts in civilization and refinement, all\\nover the world. Here also, we find spacious streets, and\\ndwellings commodious, and exhibiting th3 skill of the arch*\\ntect the merchant with enlarged capital is before us, with\\nhis rich display of fabrics, exhibiting American skill, or wo\\nYen in the old world. Churches presenting large outlay\\nof means, have been erected, creditable to the several relig\\nsous societies, Who thus give evidence that they acknowledge\\n1hc Supremacy of that Being who gives to us life, health, and\\nprosperity\\nBut I am reminded that 1 occupy this page by virtue o( my\\n1 position, as one of the early settlers, and that brevity in the;\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2writer, hath oft times more of interest than his style or subject.\\nH, G. W.\\n^9*", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "l\u00c2\u00a5a\u00e2\u0082\u00acousta; A Tradition of the Ottawas.\\nW. C. RANSOM.\\nNot altogether free of romance are the localities around\\nour beautiful Village. Indeed, America s most distinguished\\nnovelist, the lamented Cooper, placed the scene of \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ne of his\\nlatest tales along the shores of that beautiful stream which\\nwinding along the base of the ampitheatring hills that sur-\\nrounds our Village, shines like a sheen of silver in the far oW\\ndistance.\\nAbout this beautiful garden spot of our State it was the de-\\nlight of the red men to gather. Here were their homes\\nhere their council fires and here too, reposed in safety their\\nold men and women, while their braves, on some distant ex-\\npedition, carried terror to the hearts of their enemies. Upon\\nat high bluff just below our village, repose the remains of one\\nof the most noted Chieftains of the Ottawa Tribe. An in-\\nteresting tradition of his people relates the history of his\\ndeath, as follows\\nMany Moons ago ere the pale face had looked upon the\\nblue waters of the Michigan while yet the Ottawas, the Hu.\\nTons, the Chippewas and Pottawatamies held undisputed sway\\nover that vast tract of country which is washed by th\u00c2\u00a9 sur*\\nrounding lakes; the Sioux a numerous and warlike tribe,\\nwhose domains extended from the shores of the Michigan\\nLake to the Mississippi, on the west, sent out a large war\\nparty, who, passing around the head of the lake, invaded the\\nterritory occupied by the Ottawas, who were gathered in\\nlarge nutabers at this point, celebrating the annual feast of\\n\\\\h^ harvest.\\nAt peace wiiii their neighbors, and not suspecting danger,\\nrtie Sioux party had approached to the top of the hills that\\noverlook our valley on the west, without the slightest sub-", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "67\\npicion on the part of the Ottawas, of the promity of their\\ndangerous foes. Here they paused and awaited the darkness\\nof the night, ere they should make that attack which would\\nsend the dusky spirit of many a brave to the happy hunting\\ngrounds of the spirit land.\\nThe feast and the dance of the harvest went merrily on\\naround the happy fires, the young warrior wooed an! won,\\nthe brave recited his deeds of daring, and tne sagimunds of\\nthe nation looked grave and smiled by turns at the festive\\nscenes around them. Among the Ottawas was one who\\njomed not in the festivities. The Eagles feather contrasted\\nstrongly with the dark hair in which it was twincd\u00c2\u00bb and his\\nnoble bearing proclaimed him, who sat apart from his com-\\nrades, to be a personage of no common position, for he was\\nthe son of Wacousta the Chief of his tribe. Once upon an\\nexpedition, he had wandered far away from the home of his\\nfathers to the wigwams of the Sioux, here he had sought and\\nobtained the promise of the hand of a Chieftain s daughter,\\nand returned to his home, promising that many moons should\\nnot pass, ere he would return and claim his beautiful bride.\\nWell did the young Ottawa know that his tribe would\\nnever consent to his taking a wife from a foreign nation, so\\nlong as many an Ottawa girl aspired to his hand, and hitherto\\nhe had found no fitting opportunity to make his stern father\\nacquainted with his determination. In the meantime the\\nSioux girl tired of the long delay of her absent lover, learn\\ning from her father that they were about to visit his country,\\nafter much solicitation, was permitted to accompany the party\\nin their excursion, and was now in their camp, and from her\\npeople, learned that a night attack was to be made on the\\nOttawas, with the intention of cutting them off at a blow.\\nFrom the outliers she also learned that Wacousta was among\\nthem, and Omeena his Son.\\nTo save his family from the threatened massacre was the\\ndetermination of the Sioux maid, and accordingly, after night-\\nfall, she started from the camp and threading her way noise-\\nlessly under the dark shadows of the forest, she soon reached\\nthe camp of the Ottawas.\\nDrawing the folds of her blanket closely around her face\\nto conceal it from the sight of her enemies, she quickly found\\nherself at the door of a Lodge, from the size of which, she\\njudged the owner to be of no common rank. Glancing hastily", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68\\nsnto the faces of the sleeping occupants as the flickering fire\\nrevealed them to view, she saw that Omeena was not there\\nand turned away to continue the search elsewhere.\\nHardly, however, had she changed her course, ere she met\\n^he young Ottawa returning to the lodge which she had but\\njust visited. Great was the surprise of the young Chieftain\\nat meeting his affianced there but not less surprised was he\\nH.H she revealed to him the proximity of his foes, and warned\\nhim to apprize his family, that ihey might flee from danger.\\nShe then retraced her steps, and her absence having been un-\\niiioticed, was soon seated among the people of her nation.\\nHard was the struggle in the mind of Omeena, as he pon-\\ntiered over the intelligence which had but just reached him.\\nThe struggle was but brief, the glory of the brave, and the\\nU ve of his nation triumphed over every other principle, and\\nsoon hundreds of grim warriors sallied forth, to form an am-\\nbuscade for the approaching enemies. Crossing the Kalama-\\ny.oo, they secreted themselves in the dark thicket on its west-\\n-irn bank, and awaited the Sioux s coming. Just as the\\nharvest moon had risen brightly over the Eastern hills the\\nulmost silent tread of the warriors betokened their approach,\\n!^nd now the Ottawa war cry went up to the bending sky\\niVum hundreds of braves, and the deadly affiay commenced.\\nWarrior with warrior grappled, and together sunk in\\ndeath s embrace. First in the fight moved the stately Wacous-\\nla. Eagerly he sought the Sioux leader, and to terminate\\nthe contest with the result of a single combat. The morning\\noame, and with it the struggle had ceased. The Sioux de-\\nteated at every point, had retreated, leaving their Chieftain\\namong the dead of the battle field.\\nUpon his breast rechned the head of a young Sioux girl\\nwhose beauty had not protected her from the merciless toma-\\nhawk, as she endeavored in the fury of the fray, to shield the\\nfallen body of her father. A little distance from the Sioux\\nChieftain, reposed on the dewy grass the body of another\\nwarrior, the plumes that were turned in his hair, draggled and\\ntrailing on the earth. The serenity of death had calmed the\\nstern features, and this was all that remained here of\\nWacousia.\\nOmeena survived the fray, and when evenings shadows^\\nwere again resting upon the landscape, they carried out the\\nbodies of the noble dead, and buried them side by side.", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "At iheU- crave, thev planted llsa wild r.\u00c2\u00abe, and wilK \u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abc;\\nrem nm spring, Ihe Otlavva maidons came to \u00c2\u00abni\\no c flower, ttt:. resting pUce 3\\nthe braves to look upon the spot wh,er\u00c2\u00ab imposed noU...\\nWacousia and his deadly foe.", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "The Aboris^ines.\\nBY GEORGE TORREY.\\nThey*ve pass d away that ancient race,\\nA thousand years ago\\nSwept from the earth, and scarce a trac\u00c2\u00a9,\\nTells where their dust lies low.\\nThese Prairies, with fair flowrets spread,\\nThese garden beds so green\\nThese mounds of earth, that hold their d\u00c2\u00a9ad.\\nTell that such men have been.\\nRude, unrefined, perchance their life.\\nWas spent in useful toil,\\nITnskill d in arms averse to strife,\\nThey till d the fruitful soil.\\nThey rear d their Temples to the Sun,\\nTheir shrines, to gods unknown,\\nAnd ceremonial rites were done.\\nOn the Sacrificial Stone.\\nKrewhile another race, more rude,\\nWild warrior Hunters came,\\nFrom their far western solitudes.\\nPursuing here their game.\\nThey found this peaceful, happy race,\\nSpread o er this wide domain\\nTbay laid their fields and Temples waate\\nAnd swept them from the plain.\\nFar South, beyond the mighty stream\\nThat bore them on its tide.\\nThey ve passed their history is a dreftoa.\\nTheir name with them has died.\\nNo storied urn no sculp tur d stono,\\nNo written scroll of fame,", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "71\\nTo tell their deeds, these moanda laik\u00c2\u00bb\\nStand here, without a name.\\nThey re gone, their untold legions tweH,\\nThe army of the dead\\nUnwept, unsung, their ashes dwell,\\nUnhonored, where we tread.\\nPerchance these Prairies, where no siga\\nOf tree or shrnb is seen,\\nWere covered with th Oak and Pine,\\nThe forest s king and queen.\\nTho Saxon race that came from far.\\nBeyond the dark blue wave.\\nHither led on by Freedom s star.\\nThat guides the Free and Brave.\\nHave reared a nation, who at length..\\nHas spread its flowing tide,\\nO er the wide west, whose wealth and 9l ^ei giH\\nFills its great heart with pride.\\nAnd what shall be our monument.\\nWhen we have passed away\\nWhat Illiad shall tho muse invent,\\nOr history portray\\nWould that some bard like him cf old,\\nWho sung of arts and arms,\\nOur Nation s glory would unfold.\\nWith the poet s fairy charms.\\nMuse of Columbia s favored lai^d.\\nSome native bard inspire,\\nTo wake wiih glowing heart and hand,\\nThy long neglected Lyre.\\nIndian TVames.\\nA.lon^ Algoma s rocky shore.\\nRoll the wild Northern waves;\\nChanting sad dirges as tliey ronr,\\nAround the red men s gravea.\\nAnd Michigan s dark bosom. hiM^*\\nTo Huron s wilder shore,\\nThe mingled tide of man^ a \u00c2\u00abtr\u00c2\u00ab^aa,\\nNamed by thwso meix of yore", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72\\nl^Iuskegttn, rtiiling down, mid |T*re\u00c2\u00bb\\nOf dark and stately pines;\\nWhere the dun deer, undaunted rotes.\\nWithin these dark confines.\\nAnd VVashteteong, whose val lies broad,\\nA golden harvest yields;\\nThe home where once th\u00c2\u00ab red roan trod.\\nLord oi those fertile fields.\\nAnd thy sweet sylvan, silvery tide,\\nKe-Kalamazoo, hast seen\\nTheir clustered cabins on thy side.\\nTheir sports upon th\u00c2\u00a9 green.\\nThou hastbcrne along their lijrht cawo\u00c2\u00a9.\\nAnd heard their war-whoop ring;\\nDid st thou hear who named thee, Kalamixo\\nWas it chieftain, sage, or king?\\nIt matters not Aw name or raak.\\nOr whence thy baptism came,\\nWhile thy swift waters lave their bank.\\nShall live thine Indian name!\\nyes: Michigan hath many a name,\\nGraven on her virgin breast,\\nTo consecrate for aye, their fame,\\nWhose sleeping dust there resLs,\\nHer Lakes, her Streams, her Forast shades.\\nHer Prairies, Plains, and Mounds,\\nB\u00c2\u00abar records of the race who rnade,\\nThe wide West, hallowed ground.\\nThen cherish still, these Indian names,\\nFulfill the sacred trust,\\nBequeathed by thoje whose hiBrorj c fc ms\\nA plaoe, where sleeps their dust.\\nBy G FORGE TOHRK i\\n\u00c2\u00ab^i07 89", "height": "3529", "width": "2170", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3572", "width": "2082", "jp2-path": "quartercentennia00kala_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "4^^\\nrt f Deacidified using the Bookkeeper proce\\nOxide\\no. aO _.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2_::. v _,. 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