{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3612", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class _F45i\\nBnnk .R75\\nGopyriglit]^^\\nCDFlfRIGHT DEPOSIT.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "fTilson Club Publications\\nNUMBER SEVEN.\\nTHE CENTENARY\\nOF\\nKENTUCKY\\nWednesday, June i, 1892.\\nBy\\nThe Filson Club.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Centenary of Kentucky\\nPROCEEDINGS\\nAT THE CELEBR AT ION BY THE\\nFILSON CLUB\\nWEDNESDAY, JXJME 1, 1892\\nOF THE\\nONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY\\nOF THE ADMISSION OF\\nKENTUCKY\\nAs an Independent State into the Federal Union\\nLOUSVILLE, KY.\\nJOHN P. MORTON COMPANY\\nCINCINNATI, OHIO\\nROBERT CLARKE COMPANY\\n1892\\n^0 i.7^?^", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "COi^VRIOHT, 1882\\nBY THE KILSON CLUB", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "The Centenary oe Kentucky.\\nTHE FILSON CLUB, at its meeting in June, 1S91.\\ndetermined to celebrate Wednesday, June i,\\n1892, as the one hundredth anniversary of the\\nseparation of Kentucky from Virginia, and its admission\\ninto the Union as an independent state. An executive\\ncommittee consisting of twelve members of the club was\\nappointed, and to them was given full authority to arrange\\nfor such a celebration as they might think proper. This\\ncommittee consisted of\\nReuben T. Durrett,\\nThomas Speed,\\nE. T. Halsev,\\nJ. Stoddard Johnston,\\nRichard W. Knott,\\nHoratio W. Bruce,\\nJohn B. Castleman,\\nBasil W. Duke,\\nAndrew Cowan,\\nWilliam H. Whitsett,\\nWilliam J. Davis,\\nJames S. Pirtle,\\nChairman.\\nSecretary.\\nOn Finances.\\nAddresses.\\nToasts.\\nInvitations.\\nReception.\\nBanquet.\\nTransportation.\\nCorrespondence.\\nMusic.\\nPublication.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nThe committee at first contemplated the builduig of\\na pioneer fort in one of the Louisville parks, and placing\\nin it for exhibition such mementoes of the time at which\\nKentucky became an independent state as could be pro-\\ncured for this purpose by gift, loan, or purchase. It was\\nfound, however, that such an exhibition would be attended\\nby heavier costs than it was deemed prudent to impose\\nupon the members of the club, and it was abandoned.\\nIt was finally determined to limit the celebration to a\\nhistorical address, a poem, and a banquet, at which se-\\nlected toasts should be responded to by chosen speakers.\\nIn accordance with this simple programme, a goodly\\nnumber of the members of the club and of citizens who\\nwere not members assembled at Macauley s Theater, at\\nten o clock in the morning. The stage was occupied by\\nvenerable citizens who had passed or approached the\\nseventieth mile-stone in life s journey, and some of whose\\nlong lives dated back almost to the birth of the state.\\nAmong these old citizens were Isaac R. Green (the\\nNestor of the band, aged ninety-three), Jas. S. Lithgow,\\nRobt. J. Elliott, Americus Symmes, Dr. Thomas Bohannon,\\nDr. John Thruston, Isaac L. Hyatt, Hamilton Pope, Chas.\\nS. Snead, Edwin FuUion, Patrick Bannon, L. D. Pearson,\\nFrank Carter, Neville Bullitt, Rev. J. H. Heywood, Rev.\\nE. T. Perkins, Rev. R. H. Rivers, Wm. D. Gallagher,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, ytuie i8g2. 5\\nH. C. Caruth, Geo. W. Morris, Dr. E. A. Grant, Hon.\\nChas. Anderson, Theodore Brown, etc.\\nIn front of the stage was placed Eichorn s orchestra,\\nwith music selected and arranged for the occasion. After\\na number of appropriate airs had been played during\\nthe assembling of the audience, Colonel J. Stoddard\\nJohnston, the vice-president of the club, called upon Rev.\\nR. H. Rivers, a descendant by the mother s side from\\nSamuel Henderson, one of the founders of Boonsborough,\\nto open the proceedings with prayer.\\nDr. Rivers was assisted from his chair to the front\\nof the stage, and offered the following prayer:\\nPrayer of Dr. Rivers.\\nO, Lord, our Heavenly Father! we thank Thee for\\nthis privilege of celebrating the one hundredth anniversary\\nof our existence as a state. We bless Thee that the\\nFilson Club, prompted by patriotism and especially by\\nlove for the great State of Kentucky, has determined to\\ncelebrate in a proper manner this great anniversary. We\\nthank Thee for the number of young people assembled\\nwith us on this occasion, so precious to every Kentuckian\\nand so inviting to all Christian people. We pray that\\nevery thing may be conducted to Thy honor and glory.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 TJie Kentucky Ccitte7iary.\\nWe pray that the deeds of our ancestors may be so\\npresented as to fire our hearts with the loftiest patriotism.\\nFor such ancestors, so self-denying, so devoted to the\\nDark and Bloody Ground, we adore Thee. For the\\nBoones, the Galloways, the Hendersons, the Glarks, and\\nall the rest, reaching back one hundred years, we most\\nhumbly and sincerely thank Thee. May we imitate their\\nvirtues, honor their memories, and profit by their example.\\nBless our o-reat and orowinfj state and all the other states\\nbelonging to this great Union. Bless this occasion. Be\\nwith Thy servant who shall carry us back to the historic\\npast. May the characters presented, the deeds described,\\nand the scenes pictured by him be a blessing to the\\nyoung, a joy to the aged, and a profit to all. May the\\npoetry written and which shall be spoken on this great\\noccasion be full of imagination and glow with the grand-\\nest and most patriotic thoughts. We beg Thee, our\\nFather, to hear our prayer, bless our anniversary, prosper\\nour state, and increase the glory of this great occasion.\\nAll this we ask in the name of Jesus Ghrist our Savior.\\nAmen.\\nAfter the opening prayer by Dr. Rivers, and Home,\\nSweet Home by the orchestra, Vice-President Johnston,\\nin introducing Reuben T. Durrett, the president ol the", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i iSg2. 7\\nclub, who had been chosen to make the historic address\\nof the occasion, spoke as follows\\nVice-President Johnston s Remarks.\\nLadies and Gentlemen We are met to-day to\\ncommemorate the centennial of Kentucky s statehood.\\nIt has been well said that a people who have not\\nthe pride to cherish and preserve the record and the\\nmemory of the heroic deeds of their ancestors, will soon\\ncease to achieve deeds worthy of commemoration by their\\nposterity. From the earliest period in the world s history,\\nevery nation which has filled one of its pages has been\\nanimated by the laudable spirit which has brought us\\nhere, and many which have ceased to exist still live in\\nthe monuments which their national pride has left to the\\nwonder and admiration of posterit)-. The Filson Club,\\nwhich to-day marks this one-hundredth milestone in our\\nstate s progress, is a historical society, founded in this\\ncity in 18S4, for the collection, preservation, and publica-\\ntion of the history of Kentucky. Though but young, it\\nhas done valuable service in the line of its purpose,\\nhaving already published si.x monographs upon subjects\\nof great interest touching our early history, besides ac-\\ncumulating much material of value to the future historian.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nTo the zeal and patriotic pride of Reuben T.\\nDurrett, the first and only president of the Filson Club,\\nKentucky will ever be indebted for his laborious efforts\\nto preserve in durable form the history and traditions of\\nthe first grand epoch in the life of our beloved common-\\nwealth. Most fitting is it that he should have been\\nselected by the society which I have the honor to rep-\\nresent to sum up in succinct form the deeds which we\\nare here to commemorate, and it is with peculiar pride\\nthat I have the honor to present him to you, and to\\nbespeak for him your respectful attention.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "REUBEN T. DURRETT,\\nPKESIIDKNT OK THE RILS J CLUB.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yzine i, i8g2.\\nPresident Durrett s Address.\\nTHE STATE OF KENTUCKY: ITS DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT,\\nAUTONOMY, AND PROGRESS FOR A HUNDRED YEARS.\\nONE hundred years ago Kentucky became an in-\\ndependent state, and we have assembled, under\\nthe auspices of the Filson Chib, for the pur-\\npose of commemorating the event. As Kentuckians, we\\nnaturall)- feel that our commonwealth deserves this con-\\nsideration but there are others outside of Kentucky who\\nshould have kindred feelings. Kentucky has a history\\nnot exclusively her own, but national as well as local.\\nShe blazed the untried way by which her sister states\\nwere to advance and form that network of sovereignties\\nstretching from the Ohio river to the Pacific ocean.\\nUnder the lead of George Rogers Clark, the greatest\\nmilitary man who ever commanded in the West, her\\nbrave militia conquered that vast territory out of which\\nhave been carved the glorious States of Illinois, Indiana,\\nMost of the soldiers under General Clark, when he took Kas-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "lo The Kentucky Centenary.\\nOhio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and that part of Minnesota\\non this side of the Mississippi. It was the persistence\\nof her sons for the freedom of the Mississippi river which\\nled to the purchase of Louisiana and the consequent\\nopening of the doors of the Republic for extended do-\\nmain. Her glorious deeds are so blended with our\\nnational history that sixty millions of freemen, wherever\\nthey may be in our broad land to-day, might well\\npartake of our feelings while we celebrate this one\\nhundredth anniversary of our statehood.\\nkaskia in 1778, were Virginians, and Kentucky was a part of Virginia.\\nWhile these soldiers, in strict historic language, may not be called\\nKentucky militia at that date, yet many of them, though marching\\nfrom parts of the country other than Kentucky, like Edward Bulger,\\nJames Brown, James Bryan, Josejih Bowman, John Boyle, Abram\\nChaplain, Richard Chenowith, Thomas Denton, Leonard Helm, Silas\\nHarlan, Simon Kenton, Benjamin Lynn, Thomas Quirk, and others,\\nhad already selected lands in Kentucky for their future homes; and\\nmany others of them became citizens of Kentucky alter the Illinois\\nconquest. There were but few of Clark s volunteers when he began\\nthe Illinois campaign who were not then or did not afterward become\\ncitizens of Kentucky. Their leader, Ceneral Clark, was already a\\nKentuckian by acquiring lands here and making it his home, and it\\nis not going too far to call his followers Kentuckians under such\\ncircumstances.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jfune i i8g2. 1 1\\nThe Discovery of Kentucky.\\nFor one hundred and eighty-five years after the first\\nsettlement at Jamestown. Kentucky was a part of ir-\\nginia, and during four-fifths of this long period was an\\nunknown land. The Virginians along the Atlantic slope\\nshowed no early disposition to settle beyond the mount-\\nains that walled them in on the west. They erected\\ntheir manor houses and built their tobacco barns on the\\nrich lands of rivers that flowed from the mountains to\\nthe sea, and were content. What they had to sell the\\nocean would bear to foreign marts, and what they wanted\\nto buy the same ocean would bring to their doors.\\nThere were no known inducements in the unknown lands\\nbeyond the mountains to entice them to the dangers and\\nthe hardships of a wilderness filled with wild animals and\\nstill wilder savages.\\nBut whether the Virginians would go to the discov-\\nery of Kentucky or not, the country was so located\\nthat to remain unknown was impossible. The great\\nMississippi and the beautiful Ohio were upon its borders\\nfor hundreds of miles, while their tributaries penetrated\\nthousands of miles within. Upon these rivers hunters\\nand traders and adventurers were to paddle their canoes", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nin spite of dangers, and die fair land of Kentuclcy could\\nnot indefinitely escape their eyes.\\nTwo explorers of different nationalities, but in pursuit\\nof the same wild hope of a water way across the con-\\ntinent to the Pacific ocean, discovered Kentucky almost\\nat the same time. They were Captain Thomas Batts, a\\nVirginian, of whom nothing but this discovery is known,\\nand Robert Cavalier de la Salle, a distinguished French-\\nman, whose explorations in America made him known in\\nboth hemispheres.\\nThe Discovery of Captain Batts.\\nIn 1727, Dr. Daniel Coxe published in London a\\ndescription of the Province of Carolana, which had been\\ngiven to Sir Robt. Heath by Charles First, in 1630. It\\nextended from the thirty-first to the thirty-sixth degree of\\nnorth latitude, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.\\nThe predecessors of Dr. Coxe are represented in this\\nbook as having made important explorations in their\\nprovinces, and the statement is made that between the\\nyears 1654 and 1664, a Colonel Wood, living at the Falls\\nof the James river, in Virginia, had discovered different\\nbranches of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Colonel\\nWood could hardly have discovered different branches", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Wednesdny, yune i, i8g2. 13\\nof the Ohio in the neighborhood of Carolana without\\nbeing in Kentuclcy, and if this statement is true, he was\\nprobably the first white man who ever rambled through\\nthe dark forests of this country. It is possible, however,\\nthat Dr. Coxe has credited Colonel Wood with an ex-\\nploration that was made by Captain Thomas Batts at a\\nlittle later date. In 1671, General Abraham Wood, by\\nthe authority of Governor Berkely, sent Captain Thomas\\nBatts with a party of explorers to the west of the Appa-\\nlachian mountains in search of a river that might lead\\nacross the continent to China. The journal of their\\nroute is rendered obscure by meager descriptions and\\nthe changes of the country and the names since it was\\nwritten, but it is possible that they went to the Roanoke\\nand ascending to its headwaters, crossed over to the\\nsources of the Kanawha, which they descended to its\\nfalls. Whether they wandered southward to the Big\\nSandy and crossed over into Kentucky, we can not de-\\ntermine from their journal but whether they did so or\\nnot, they were in that part of Virginia of which Ken-\\ntucky was a part, and their discoveries would open the\\nway to the one as well as to the other.*\\nManuscript Journal of Captain Batts, 167 1. This journal was\\npublished in the third volume of the Documents Relative to the\\nColonial History of New York, page 193. I have compared this", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nThe Discovery of La Salle.\\nLess doubtfully connected with the discovery of\\nKentucky is the name and fame of La Salle, one of the\\ngreatest explorers of the seventeenth century. He was\\nborn in the old city of Rouen in 1643, d at the age\\nof twenty-three came to America to devote his great\\nenthusiasm and indomitable energy to the solution of\\nthe problem of a transcontinental river running toward\\nChina. Columbus had crossed the Atlantic a century and\\nthree-quarters before with the belief that he had found\\nIndia, and when this delusion had faded before the light\\nof actual discovery, the continent of North America was\\nstill believed to contain a great river running across to\\nthe Pacific ocean. La Salle had strong hopes of finding\\nthis river, and in 1669 some Seneca Indians hastened\\nhis plans by telling him that there was a river that rose\\nin their country and wound its way southward and west-\\nward to the distant sea. This was evidently e.xtending\\nthe Alleghany, the Ohio, and the Mississippi into one\\ngrand river, and it so fired the imagination of Sa Salle\\nthat he at once began preparations to explore it. He\\npublication with my manuscript copy and found them to be essentially\\nthe same.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i8g2. i 5\\nentered the Alleghany by a tributary near its source,\\nand followed it and the Ohio through the wild forests\\non their banks until he reached the falls where Louisville\\nnow stands.* In making this long journey, he was the\\ndiscoverer of Kentucky from the Big Sandy to the rapids\\nof the Ohio, and was the first white man whose eyes\\nlooked eastward from the beautiful river to the Bluegrass\\nland, which forms the garden spot of the state. He had\\nIn 1808, while digging the foundation of the Tarascon Mill in\\nthat part of Louisville known as Shipping Port, an iron ax was found\\nunder the center of a sycamore, the trunk of which was six feet in\\ndiameter, and the roots of which extended for forty feet in every\\ndirection. The ax was made by bending a flat bar of iron over a\\ncylinder to make a hole for the handle in one end, and then welding\\nthe two sides together and hammering them to a cutting edge. It\\ncould not have been placed where it was found after the tree grew,\\nand must, therefore, have fallen there about the time of the seed\\nfrom which the tree grew over it. The annulations of the tree were\\ncounted and found to be two hundred, which, according to the then\\nmode of computation, made the tree two hundred years old. It is\\nknown, however, that the sycamore will in some years show more\\nthan one annulation and thus indicate more than one year s growth\\nand if we allow one-third of these two hundred annulations to have\\nbeen produced in that way, we shall have this tree to have begun\\nits growth about the time that La Salle was at the falls. Of course,\\nany Indian might have brought this ax from the white settlements in\\nCanada or on the Atlantic but so might La Salle have brought it", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 6 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nnot reached China, nor sailed upon a river that led\\nthereto, but he had discovered a country whose fame in\\nafter years would even extend to the Celestial Empire.\\nHe had made a discovery upon which France would\\nfound a claim to the valley of the Mississippi and con-\\ntend for it against England in a mighty war that would\\nnot only involve America, but Europe as well.\\nthere and left it when he was at the falls, probably in 1669 or 1670.\\nThe Indians who had accompanied La Salle as guides deserted him\\nat the falls, and he was left to make his way back home alone.\\nUnder such circumstances, he would naturally divest himself of every\\nincumbrance not absolutely necessary to his homeward journey, and\\nmight have left this ax as well as any other article. At the point\\nwhere the ax was found there is a beautiful view of the rapids, and\\nespecially of that part just above Goose Island where, when the river\\nis low, there is a cataract or perpendicular fall of eight feet, or at\\nleast there was a few years ago, before the United States began\\nchanging the channel of the river. Possibly, La Salle, standing at\\nthis point and looking northwestwardly above Goose Island, saw this\\nfall or cataract, and spoke of it as a great fall. His words are that\\nII la suivit jusqu a un endroit ou elle tombe de fort haut. That\\nis to say, he followed the Ohio river until he came to a jilace where\\nit fell from a great height where there was a great fall. Possibly,\\nLa Salle, with his wonderfully observant eye, discovered that the Ohio\\nmade a fall of more than twenty feet in passing over the rapids; but\\nthe best that can be said of his calling the rapids a tombe de fort\\nhaut is that he used very unallowable words.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Wechtesday, yiine i8g2. 17\\nOiHtK Discoveries.\\nOther discoveries followed those of La Salle and\\nBatts, but besides being doubtful, like that attributed to\\nMoscoso in 1543, and to the twenty-three Spaniards in\\n1669, and to John Sailing in 1730, they added nothing\\nto the knowledge of the country, until toward the middle\\nof the eighteenth century. France and England at this\\ntime seem to have simultaneously resolved to make a\\nsupreme struggle for the sovereignty of their discoveries\\nin the Mississippi valley. Both of these great powers\\nclaimed that their titles were perfect, but neither paid\\nthe least regard to the claim of the other.\\nFrench Possessions in North America.\\nThe peace of Aix la Chapelle, in 1 748, left the\\nboundaries of France and England in America as unde-\\ntermined as they were when the war for the succession\\nbegan. France claimed an empire in America that a\\nking might well have coveted. Prom the founding of\\nQuebec by Champlain, in 1608, she had pushed her\\nacquisitions westwardly and southwardly for a stupendous\\nextent of territory. She had followed the St. Lawrence", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 8 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nto the lakes, and progressed along these inland seas\\nuntil she had reached a branch of the Mississippi. In\\n1682, she had gone down this mighty river to its mouth,\\nand was now claimant of all the lands in North America\\nwatered by the St. Lawrence and Mississippi and their\\ncountless tributaries. Her domain extended from the\\nwarm waters of the Gulf of Me.xico to the eternal ice\\nfields of Canada, and from the crest of the Appalachian\\nmountains on the east to the fabled Quivera on the west.\\nIn the great rivers St. Lawrence and Mississippi, she\\nheld the keys of the continent, and she was building\\nforts along its lakes and principal rivers for the purpose\\nof locking out the rest of the world from her possessions.\\nThere was the ominous fact, seemingly unobserved by\\nher, that after a hundred and forty years of rule, from\\nher first settlement at Quebec, she had not been able\\nto seat a hundred thousand inhabitants in this boundless\\nempire. Such a number was hardly equal to the hold-\\ning of such a domain but few as they were, they were\\nunited in their determination to hold the country, and\\ncould be made marvelously effective in defense. Gallisso-\\nniere, the governor, with his court upon the barren rock\\nof Quebec, mimicked as well as he could the splendors\\nof Versailles, and the inhabitants of New France knew\\nnothing but to honor and obey his commands. Many", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 19\\nof the Indians, moreover, were friendly to the French,\\nand with the scalping-knives and tomakavvks of numerous\\ntribes of savages, the few French fusils that could be\\nmustered might be many times multiplied.\\nExtent of the Virginia Colony.\\nWhile France was claiming this vast empire, and\\nbuilding forts and hiring savages to defend it, the Vir-\\nginians were not unmindful of the dlaim they had to\\na part of it by their charter from King James. This\\ncharter gave them a frontage of four hundred miles on\\nthe Atlantic ocean, and all the land between a southern\\nline drawn westwardly and a northern line drawn north-\\nwestwardly through the continent to the Pacific ocean.\\nOn these lands the French had already built and fortified\\nKaskaskia and Fort Chartres, and Cahokia and Vincennes\\nand Detroit, and were preparing to build and fortify\\nother places. They had driven the English traders away,\\nand buried leaden plates at the mouths of the rivers\\nalong the Ohio, as evidence of their claim to the\\ncountry. There was enough of the foreshadowing of war\\nin these movements of the seemingly complaisant and\\ncordial French, who were chasseing and bowing over the\\nthe country while really at war, to arouse the fighting", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 The Kentucky Centenary.\\ncavaliers of Virginia from a slumber which two centuries\\nof antagonistic discoveries had not been able to disturb.\\nOn that part of Virginia which sloped eastward)} from\\nthe mountains to the Atlantic were one hundred and sev-\\nenty-five thousand freemen and one hundred and twenty-\\nfive thousand slaves, and of this number they thought\\nenough could be spared to plant colonies in the Missis-\\nsippi valley that would drive out the French and keep\\nthem out. It was only a question with the Virginians\\nas to how this population was to be seated on the lands\\nclaimed by the French, and how it could be most\\nspeedily accomplished. They solved this question in\\ntheir own way, according to precedents hoary with age,\\nand decided to utilize powerful companies, to which the\\npublic lands should be given as a consideration for the\\nspeedy seating of occupants. A number of these land\\ncompanies were formed, but as only two of them, the\\nLoyal Company and the Ohio Company, are particularly\\nconnected with Kentucky history, they alone need be\\nmentioned on this occasion.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "H^ednesday, yune i, i8g2. 21\\nThe Loyal Company and the First White Settle-\\nment IN Kentucky.\\nAt a meeting of the Virginia Council, July 12, 1749,\\nthe Loyal Company was authorized to enter and survey\\neight hundred thousand acres of the public lands of\\nVirginia for the purpose of seating families upon them.\\nThe lands were to be located north of the dividing line\\nbetween V^irginia and North Carolina, and were to extend\\nto the west for their quantity. The company was to\\nbegin at once to locate its lands and settle occupants\\nupon them, and was to have four years to make its\\nsurveys and returns. Dr. Thomas Walker, one of the\\nmost learned and accomplished men ol his times, was\\nchosen by the company to locate its lands. He at\\nonce organized a company of explorers, consisting of\\nhimself and five others. None of the names of his\\nassistants have been preserved in his journal, except\\nAmbrose Powell, Colby Chew, and a man named Tom-\\nlinson. On the i6th of March, 1750, they began their\\njourney toward the line which then divided Virginia from\\nNorth Carolina. They went up a branch of the Roanoke\\nand crossed over to the Holston, which they descended\\nto its forks. They then directed their course across", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2 2 The Kentucky Centenafy.\\nClinch and Powell rivers, and entered Kentucky through\\nCumberland Gap. They then went up Cumberland river,\\nnear to where the city of Barbourville now stands, and\\non the north-west side of the river, a little above what\\nis now known as Swan Pond, selected the site of a\\nhouse to be erected as the head-quarters of their settle-\\nment. Here a piece of land was cleared, and a log-\\nhouse twelve by eight feet built, and corn and peach\\nstones planted. The house was finished on the 25th of\\nApril, 1750, and a settlement was thus begun in the\\nwilderness of Kentucky.* This was the first house ever\\nbuilt in the state by white men, with the possible excep-\\ntion of some cabins by the French and Indians at the\\nmouth of the Scioto, when a great flood drove them\\nfrom the lowlands on the Ohio side to the highlands on\\nthe Kentucky side of the river. It was twenty-four years\\n]ournal of an Exploration in the Spring of the year 1750, by\\nDr. rhomas Walker, of Virginia. This journal remained in manuscript\\nuntil 1S88, when a limited edition of it, edited by William Cabell\\nRives, a de.scendant of Dr. Walker, was published by Little, Brown\\nCo.. of Boston. There is an unfortunate omission of ten days of the\\njournal in the ])ublication, and this omission, yet more unfortunately\\nfor Kentuckians, occurs just at the time he entered the state through\\nCumberland Gap. Singularly enough, I have a manuscript copy of\\nthis journal in which the same omission occurs.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Wechiesday, yune I i8q2. 23\\nbefore a cabin was erected at Harrodsburg or anywhere\\nelse in the state by the early settlers. Our historians\\nhave failed to mention this first settlement in Kentucky,\\nbut it was not overlooked by the geographers of its day.\\nIt was laid down upon all the maps of the country after\\n1750, and so continued until the beginning of the present\\ncentury. No place was more conspicuous on the early\\nmaps of the countr\\\\- than this settlement of Walker on\\nthe Cumberland.\\nThe Loyal Company was not fortunate in the time\\nat which its settlement was begun. Before its land could\\nbe located and surveyed and occupied b) the settlers,\\nthe French and Indian War was upon them, and delayed\\ntheir undertaking until the peace of 1763. Then the\\nking s proclamation, forbidding settlements on lands be-\\nyond the sources of rivers that entered the Atlantic\\nocean, delayed them for another ten years. And finally\\nthe Revolutionary War arrested this, as it did all other\\nenterprises of the kind that were in progress when hos-\\ntilities began. At the October session of the Virginia\\nlegislature, in 1778, the petition of Dr. Walker in behalf\\nof his company was acted upon, when it was shown that\\nthe company had surveyed 201,554 acres of their grant,\\nand left unsurveyed 598,446 acres. Of the lands sur-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nveyed, the company was allowed to complete their title\\nto 45,390 acres only.*\\nThe Ohio Company.\\nSoon after Dr. Walker, in behalf of the Loyal Com-\\npany, had passed through Eastern Kentucky from south\\nto north, he was followed by Christopher Gist,f who, in\\nbehalf of the Ohio Company, traversed Central Kentucky\\nfrom west to east. The Ohio Company was authorized\\nby the home government to select five hundred thousand\\nacres of land on both sides of the Ohio river, for the\\npurpose of settling families upon them. Gist was sent\\nout by this company to select these lands, and in his\\nexplorations he entered Kentucky at the mouth of the\\nScioto, March 13, 1751. He made his way to the\\nJournal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of\\nVirginia, October Session, 1778.\\nfA lournal of Christopher Gist s Journey, 1750-51. I have a\\nmanuscript copy of this journal, and also Pownall s Topographical\\nDescription of North America, published at London in 1776, in which\\nit appears. 1 liave never seen it elsewhere. Gist evidently went\\nthrough Kentucky with his compass, as he gives the courses and dis-\\ntances of his route. It differs very widely from Walker s journal in\\nthis ]iarticular, there being nothing in the journal of Walker to indicate\\nthat he had a compass with him.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "H^edjiesdriy yinie i, i8g2. 25\\nLicking river, wliich he ascended, and then crossed the\\nheadwaters of the Kentvicky river, and went out of the\\nstate where Dr. Walker had entered it. In iiis wander-\\nings from west to east, he saw some of the best as well\\nas some of the worst land. This company located two\\nhundred thousand acres upon the Licking river, but be-\\nfore families could be settled upon them, the French and\\nIndian War and the king s proclamation and the Revo-\\nlutionary War arrested their enterprise, as they had that\\nof the Loyal Company. When they finally appealed to\\nthe legislature for titles to their land, they stood before\\na new race of law-makers, and were shorn of the profits\\nof their costly undertaking, as the Loyal Company had\\nbeen.\\nWhile, however, neither the Loyal nor the Ohio\\nCompany had been a financial success, and neither had\\npeopled the Mississippi valley with inhabitants to drive\\noff and keep away the French, both had contributed to\\nthe opening of the way to the settlement of Kentucky.\\nIn behalf of their respective companies, Walker and Gist\\nhad gone beyond the forbidding mountains that frowned\\nlike an impassable wall on the west of inhabited Virginia,\\nand had seen the inviting country beyond, that had not\\nbeen seen before. They had kept journals of their\\nroutes, and could verify all that had passed before their", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "2 6 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nwatchful eyes. They had seen Kentucky as it came from\\nthe Creator s hands, in all its wild splendors of soil and\\ntree and stream. And what a grand sight it was Let\\nus, in imagination, go back one hundred and forty-two\\nyears, and look upon Kentucky as Walker and Gist saw\\nit, in 1750-51.\\nView of Primeval Kentucky.\\nFrom the summit of the Appalachian mountains on\\nthe east, declivities lead down two thousand feet to a\\nplateau that gracefully undulates for five hundred miles\\nto the margins of the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers\\non the west. Descending through deep cut channels\\nfrom their mountain springs, the Sandy, the Licking, the\\nKentucky, the Salt, the Green, and the Cumberland rivers\\nroll their navigable waters for hundreds of miles through\\nsoils as exhuberant as the famous delta ol the Nile.\\nOver an area that millions might inhabit, of mountain\\nand hill and plain and valley, stands a dark forest ol\\noak and beech and ash and hickory and walnut and\\ncherry and maple and sycamore and linden and cedar and\\npine, with lofty poplars towering above like hoary senti-\\nnels of the centuries that have marked their growth.\\nHere and there, where the trees of the forest cast not", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Wednesday yune i8g2. 27\\ntheir shadow, the cane and the clover and the rye and\\nthe bkiegrass cover the soil like emerald isles in the\\nforest seas. Toward the sunset, between the Salt and\\nthe Green rivers, spreads out for miles a treeless land\\ncovered with a forest of herbage, on which countless\\nbuffalo and deer forever feed. The woods are full of\\nwild animals, the rivers swarm with endless varieties of\\nfish, and the air is darkened with flocks of birds. From\\nout the earth burst springs whose waters, warmed by the\\nsummer s sun, whiten their channels with salt, and deep\\ndown beneath the surface are mysterious caverns cut out\\nby subterranean streams, in which are deposited beds of\\nsaltpeter. Beneath the hills and mountains are strata of\\ncoal and beds of iron and quarries of stone, and over\\nall hangs a bright sky tempered by genial airs. As if\\nto add to the picturesqueness of the scene, there are\\nnumerous mounds, which were reared in the distant past\\nby a long ago people who had become mighty in the\\nland and passed away without leaving a history, a tra-\\ndition, or a name. On the mountain sides, the rhodo-\\ndendron and the Calmia latifolia display their charming\\nblossoms in the valleys, the magnolia contrasts the snow\\nof its huge corolla with the scarlet of the delicate car-\\ndinal tlower; and every-where on the hills and plains,\\nwild tlowers of infinite form and color lend enchantment", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "2 8 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nto the view. It is a land of brooks, of water, of\\nfountains and depths that spring out of the valleys and\\nhills.\\nPractical Explorers Visit Kentucky.\\nAfter Walker and Gist, a new order of explorers\\nbegan to visit Kentucky. They had none of the science\\nor learning of their predecessors, but they had an eye\\nfor fine trees and rich lands and navigable rivers and\\nabundance of game. They were a kind of hunting,\\ntrading, and roving adventurers, whose accounts of what\\nthey saw were finally destined to inaugurate the settle-\\nment of the country.\\nIn 1766, Colonel James Smith, not long from Indian\\ncaptivity, wandered through the southern part of Ken-\\ntucky, and if he did not eflect a settlement, he performed\\nan early recorded surgical operation in the state by ex-\\ntracting from his foot a piece of cane with a pair of\\nbullet molds. The next year, John Findley, the fore-\\nrunner of Boone, was in the northern part of the state\\ntradiner with the Indians, and at the same time James\\nHarrod* and Michael Stoner were in the southern part.\\nJames Harrod was one of the most important of the early set-\\ntlers of Kentucky. His explorations of tlie country were little inferior\\nto those of Boone, and he had a kindly heart for the many woes to", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yuiic iS(j2. 29\\nAt last, in 1769, Daniel IJoone,* a man without a\\nsuperior in that woodcralt which pursues its way throug^h\\nthe trackless forest, and that cunning which baffles the\\nwily savage, was in Kentucky. He wandered from place\\nto place, and gave names to unknown objects which they\\nwere to bear for all time to come. He was a second\\nAdam in another Eden. He gathered that knowledge\\nof the country which led to its purchase by the Tran-\\nsylvania Colony, and which promoted him to positions\\nwhich the pioneers were subjected. He disappeared from the hving\\nin the great forest where he was hunting, and no one knows the time\\nor the manner of his death. His widow beHeved he had been mur-\\ndered by a man named Bridges, with whom he had been induced to\\ngo in search of the mystical Swift s silver mine. He disappeared from\\nthe living in 1793, but nothing definite is known of the time or the\\nmanner of his going.\\nJoseph Bryant, the father-in-law of Daniel Boone, gave to Mr.\\nMcAfee an explanation worth preserving as to how the old pioneer\\nmade so many narrow escapes from the Indians. He carried in a\\nleather bag fastened about his neck a commission in the British service,\\nwhich had been given him by Lord Dunmore. Whenever he got into\\na tight place among the Indians, he exhibited this commission, which\\nwas proof sufficient to them that Boone was the friend of the British\\nand the enemy of the colonists. On seeing this token, the Indians\\nreleased him instead of scalping him. This anecdote is preserved\\nby Robert B. McAfee, in his autobiography, which has never been\\npublished.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nin which he made a name known to all the civilized\\nnations of the earth.\\nWhile Boone was yet in Kentucky, a party of forty\\nothers crossed the mountains from Virginia and North\\nCarolina, and hunted and trapped and explored until they\\ngot the name of the Long Hunters. In 1771, Simon\\nKenton, who was such a thwarter of the plans of the\\nIndians as to secure from them the name of Old Horse\\nSteal, as the most odious epithet they could apply to\\nhim, was in the northern part of the state, looking for\\nthe cane lands of which he had heard so much. Most\\nof these hunters and traders and explorers were men of\\nmore than average parts, and when they went back home\\nwith glowing accounts of what they had seen in Ken-\\ntucky, the surveyors began to enter the state and to run\\noff land for settlers.\\nSurveyors and Land Owners in Kentucky.\\nIn 1772, patents were issued to John Fry for lands\\nin Lawrence and Greenup counties, said, without con-\\nclusive authority, to have been surveyed by the great\\nWashington himself; but the surveyors whose work led\\nto prompt and permanent settlements did not reach Ken-\\ntucky until the following year.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, yiine i, iSg2. 31\\nIn 1773, Captain Thomas Bullitt,* at the head of one\\ncompany, and Hancock Taylor, at the head ol another,\\nwere in Kentucky for the purpose of surveying lands for\\nowners who intended to occupy them themselves, or to\\nplace others upon them. The two companies came to-\\ngether down the Ohio, from the mouth of the Kanawha\\nto the mouth of the Kentucky, where they separated.\\nOn their way down the Ohio, they joined in making\\nsome surveys of lands and the laying off of several\\ntowns. They laid oft a town in Lewis county, near\\nwhere Vanceburg now stands another in Bracken, at the\\nmouth of Locust creek and a third in Boone county,\\nin the big bend of the Ohio, near where Francesville\\nnow stands. The Taylor Company ascended the Ken-\\nCaptain Thomas Bullitt, whose name is inseparably connected\\nwith the origin of the City of Louisville, was born in Fauquier county,\\nVirginia, in 1730. He was a gallant soldier in the French and Indian\\nWars, and by his skill and courage, in 1758, he saved from destruction\\nthe remnant of General Grant s army near Fort Duquesne. At the\\nclose of the French and Indian Wars, he was retained in the colonial\\nservice, and became tlie adjutant-general of the Virginia militia. When\\nthe Revolutionary War broke out, he was made adjutant-general of\\nthe Southern Department. His first service was the defeat of Lord\\nDunmore at the Great Bridge. He became dissatisfied with the service\\nbecause of some disagreement with General Washington, and resigned.\\nHe died at his home in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1778.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32\\nThe Kcntitcky Ccnleuaiy.\\ntucky and made a survey where Frankfort now stands,\\nand several in Mercer county, afterward occupied by the\\nMcAfees. The BulHtt Company went down the Ohio to\\nthe falls, where they made numerous surveys, one of\\nwhich was two thousand acres for Dr. John Connolly.\\nOn this Connolly survey, Bullitt laid off a town in\\nAugust, 1773, which afterward became the City of Louis-\\nville. Connolly and Campbell, who had bought of Con-\\nnolly an interest in his lands at the falls, advertised lots\\nfor sale in this town at the falls in 1774, and in 1775 it\\nwas occupied by Sanders Stuart and others, sent out by\\nthe proprietors for that purpose. They also surveyed a\\ntract of one thousand four hundred acres for John Cowan\\non the Ohio, above the falls, opposite Twelve-mile Island.\\nCowan built a house and raised corn on this land in\\n1774, and for these improvements secured a settlement\\nright to four hundred acres, and a preemption right for\\none thousand acres, which made his one thousand four\\nhundred.\\nUpon numerous other surveys made by Bullitt in\\n1773, and b) Taylor and Floyd and Douglas and Hite\\nthe following year, settlements began to be made as early\\nas 1774. As evidence of the intended occupancy, log\\ncabins were erected and corn planted as soon as this\\nwork could be done. The style of house was not elab-", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yn7ie i, iSg2. 33\\norate and was easily built. The trunks of trees in the\\nsurrounding forest, cut from eight to sixteen feet in\\nlength and laid one above the other in a square or\\nparallelogram, with notched corners, so as to form four\\nwalls from eight to ten teet high, covered with boards\\nheld down by poles, with a small opening for a window,\\na larger one for a door, and one still more ample for\\na fire-place, presented the conventional settler s cabin of\\nthe times. Boone built a similar house on Red river in\\n1 769, and Bullitt erected another at the mouth of Bear-\\ngrass in 1773. But the former was a hunter s lodge,\\nand the latter a surveyor s camp, not intended for per-\\nmanent occupancy.\\nHarrodsburg and the Settlements of 1774.\\nIn 1774, a town was laid out by James Harrod\\nand the forty explorers who accompanied him, and a\\nnumber of log cabins erected, which afterward became\\nHarrodsburg. Undue importance has been given these\\nHarrodsburg cabins of 1774. They have been claimed\\nas proof of the first settlement in the state at this point.\\nThe truth of history, however, can hardly admit of such\\na conclusion. Besides being twenty-four years younger\\nthan the house built by Dr. Walker on the Cumberland", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 The Kenhtcky Centenary.\\nin 1750, there were numerous other cabins erected in\\ndifferent parts of the state at the same time. Cases\\nreported b)- Hughes and Hardin and Snead and Bibb in\\nour early Court of Appeals show, upon the sworn tes-\\ntimony of witnesses who helped to build the houses, or\\nsaw them after they were erected, that Martin Stall built\\na house on the east fork of Salt river in 1774; that\\nThomas Quirk, William Crow, and John Crawford built\\ncabins on Dick s river in 1774; that Isaac Taylor and\\nSilas Harlan built houses on Salt river in 1774; that\\nJohn Crow built a house near Danville in 1774; and\\nthat James Brown erected another at the same time and\\nplace. Other instances of the improvement of lands by\\nthe building of houses upon them with the view ot per-\\nmanent occupancy might be cited, but these are enough\\nto show that Harrodsburg can claim no e.xclusive honors\\nin this line. None of the houses, either in Harrodsburg\\nor elsewhere, in 1774. were continuously occupied, on\\naccount of the hostility of the Indians, but all of them\\nwere built about the same time and lor the same pur-\\npose, and must equally share the honor ol the early\\nsettlement ot the state.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i, i8g2. 35\\nThe Settlements of 177\\nIn 1775, settlers began to come into the state with\\na rapidity to make up for the tardiness with which they\\nhad previously appeared. They came down the Ohio in\\nwell loaded canoes and llat-boats they came over the\\nmountains, through Cumberland Gap, in companies, afoot\\nand on horseback. In March, 1775, the McAfees re-\\nsumed improvements on their lands on Salt river, and\\nJames Harrod, with his company increased to fifty, re-\\nturned to the cabins at Harrodsburg and the Iioiling\\nSpring. In April, 1775, Daniel Boone, with his company\\nof twenty, reached the Kentucky river, and began the\\nbuilding of Boonsborough, and in a short time thereafter\\nwas joined by Richard Henderson, with his company of\\nthirty. There were now more than one hundred and\\nfifty immigrants in Kentucky, but not a female among\\nthem. In September, 1775, however, the wife and chil-\\ndren of Daniel Boone reached Boonsborough, and about\\nthe same time the wife and children of Hugh McGary,\\nThomas Denton, and Richa^d Hogan arrived at Harrods-\\nburg. There were now husbands and wives, parents and\\nchildren, brothers and sisters, among the settlers, and\\nimmigration continued so rapidly that at the end of ten", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "1\\n6 TAe Kejttticky Centenary.\\nyears there were enough inhabitants to apply to Virginia\\nfor a separate government.\\nThis rapid settlement in 1775 was greatly assisted\\nby Richard Henderson Co., who had taken the name\\nof the Transylvania Colony. Not only did they bring a\\nlarge number of settlers into the country, but they\\nfounded Boonsborough and fortified it for protection, and\\nsupplied not only their own people, but those of other\\nsettlements, with powder and lead and food and clothing.\\nThey attempted to establish a proprietary government in\\nKentucky and failed. But there was so much romance\\nas well as reality about their undertaking, that it will\\nalways make an interesting chapter in Kentucky history,\\nand demands our attention on this occasion.\\nThe Transylvania Colony.\\nOn the 17th of March, 1775, this company, consist-\\ning of Richard Henderson and eight other prominent\\ncitizens,* met at Wataga, then in North Carolina but now\\nThe eight other gentlemen associated with Richard Henderson\\nin this gigantic enterprise were John Luttrell, Nathaniel Hart, Thomas\\nHart, Llavid Hart, ^Vm. Johnston, John Williams, James Hogg, and\\nLeonard Hendly Bullock. They were all citizens of North Carolina\\nand men of property and social positions.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, JiLiic i8g2. 37\\nin Tennessee, and took a deed from the Cherokee In-\\ndians for the greater part of the State of Kentucky. The\\noutlines of this grant began at the mouth of the Ken-\\ntucky river, and running with that stream and its northerly\\nbranch to its source, thence followed the crest of the\\nAppalachian mountains to the source of the Cumberland\\nriver, thence down that river to the Ohio, thence up the\\nOhio to the beginning.* This was not such a grant as\\nhad been obtained from the kings of England for the Vir-\\nginia and the Carolana colonies, but it was far beyond\\nthe domain of such modern companies as the Loyal,\\nthe Ohio, the Indiana, etc. It embraced something like\\nWhy Richard Henderson Co. should have given the name of\\nTransylvania to their colony is a mystery. Transylvania, meaning\\nacross or beyond the woods, did not indicate their colony, which was\\nin the midst of the woods, or rather the woods themselves. The deed\\nwhich the Cherokees gave them for their colony preserved the beautiful\\nIndian name Chenoa for Kentucky, and why they should not have ijer-\\npetuated it is strange. Had they named their colony Chenoa, it is\\npossible that those who came after them would have perpetuated it,\\nbut the pedagogical name of Transylvania which they gave it perished\\nwith their enterprise, as it deserved. If they did not like the Cherokee\\nname Chenoa preserved in their deed to the country, there was the\\nname Kentucky also mentioned in the same deed, and which those\\nwho came after them adopted. Why our people, however, should have\\nadopted the name Kentucky, and then attached to it the unpleasant", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 The Kentucky Centenary.\\ntwenty millions of acres, and cost the company, accord-\\ning to the consideration expressed in the deed, the sum\\nof ten thousand pounds sterling. This would equal about\\n^50,000 of our money, and made the land cost about\\none-fourth of one cent per acre.\\nThese enterprising gentlemen either forgot or disre-\\ngarded the time-honored policy of Virginia not to permit\\nprivate individuals to purchase lands from the Indians\\nwithin her domain. As the Indians were pressed farther\\nand farther back from the Atlantic, their lands were ob-\\ntained for the colony; and as early as 1705, an act was\\npassed by the legislature forbidding private citizens from\\nmeaning of dark and bloody ground, is another mystery. Kentucky\\nis from the Iroquois word kentakc, mcining the prairie or meadow land.\\nThe name probably originated in those treeless stretches of country\\nbetween the Salt and the Green rivers, which our ancestors called\\nbarrens. The Indians in early times burnt the trees off these lands\\nand then designated them by kcnhikc, meaning the meadow or prairie\\nlands. It is possible that the epithet dark and bloody was fastened\\nto Kentucky from what was said by the Dragging Canoe to Colonel\\nHenderson at the treaty of ^Vataga. This Indian chief told Henderson\\nthat the lands south of the Kentucky river were bloody ground and\\nwould be dark and difficult to settle. This exjiression, howexer, had\\nno reference to the name of the country, and was only used to per-\\nsuade Henderson (Jo. not to insist upon the purchase of Kentucky\\nsouth of the Kentucky river, but to take it north of that stream.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 39\\nacquiring lands from the Indians. When Virginia de-\\nclared herself independent of England and made a con-\\nstitution for herself in 1776, she inserted this provision:\\nNo purchase of land shall be made of Indian natives\\nbut in behalf of the public, by authority of the General\\nAssembly.\\nBefore the proprietors could reach Boonsborough, the\\nhead-quarters of their colony, and take possession of their\\nlands. Lord Dunmore issued his proclamation against\\nthem as disorderly persons who should not be allowed\\nto hold the country they had purchased, but who should\\nbe fined and imprisoned if they persisted. As evidence\\nof how swiftly news flew over the roadless wilderness in\\nthose early times, the deed from the Cherokees to Hen-\\nderson Co. was dated at Wataga, the 17th of March,\\n1775, and on the 21st of March, 1775, the proclamation\\nat Williamsburg, in Virginia, was issued. Lord Dunmore,\\ninstead of basing his proclamation on the law of Virginia,\\nwhich forbade private citizens buying lands ol the In-\\ndians, based it upon the king s purpose to have all these\\nlands surveyed in parcels of a hundred or more acres\\nand sold at auction. The effect of this proclamation,\\nhowever, whether rightly or wrongly conceived, was to\\narray Virginia against the Transylvania Colony, and that\\nwas to seal its fate.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nThe proprietors notified the settlers at such points\\nas were known to elect delegates to a convention to be\\nheld at Boonsborough, and on the 23d of May, 1775,\\nthese delegates assembled. They were Daniel Boone,\\nSquire Boone, William Coke, Samuel Henderson, Will-\\niam Moore, and Richard Calloway, from Boonsborough\\nThomas Slaughter, John Lythe, Valentine Harmond, and\\nJames Douglas, from Harrodsburg; James Harrod, Nathan\\nHammond, Isaac Hite, and Azariah Davis, from Boiling\\nSpring John Todd, Alexander Spotswood Dandridge,\\nJohn Floyd,* and Samuel Wood, from St. Asaph s. They\\nIt is amusing to read in the Journal of Richard Henderson the\\nsuspicion wliich he at first entertained of John Floyd. Floyd was a\\ndeputy of Colonel Preston, surveyor of Fincastle county, and Hender-\\nson suspected that he was a spy upon the I ransylvania Colony. But\\nhe soon found out by intercourse with Floyd how he had mistaken\\nhis man. Floyd was one of nature s nobles, who was above suspicion.\\nWhatever he seemed to be. he was witliout di.sguise. Floyd afterward\\nbecame the surveyor-in-chief of the Transylvania Colony, and was\\nlooked upon by Henderson as the great and candid man he was.\\nIn 1783, while going from Spring .Station to Floyd s Station, on Bear-\\ngrass, Floyd was shot by an Indian in ambush. He was able to get\\nhome by the helii of his brother, who held him on his horse, but\\nhe died soon after reaching his fort. Had his life been spared, he\\nwould have left his impression on the infant State of Kentucky. He\\nwas remarkably well educated for his times, and had an intellect far", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 41\\norganized a regular Legislative Council, and elected\\nThomas Slaughter chairman and Matthew Jouett clerk.\\nThey then received an address from Richard Henderson,\\npresident of the company, and voted an answer with all\\nthe decorous formality of the English Parliament. They\\nwent promptly to work as a legislative body, and passed\\nnine laws, establishing courts, regulating the militia, pun-\\nishing crimes, preventing swearing and Sabbath breaking,\\nproviding for attachments, protecting the range, and im-\\nproving the breed of horses. They were in session until\\nthe 27th of May, when they adjourned, to meet again\\nthe first Thursday in September following.\\nBut they never met again. The times were not\\npropitious for a proprietary government in this region.\\nThe settlers did not like the aristocratic appearance of\\nthe Transylvania Colony. Some of them who had been\\nin sympathy with the proprietors in the first stages of\\nthe colony now turned against them, and joined others\\nin a petition to the Virginia legislature to make a new\\ncounty, and appoint officers for local government, with-\\nabove the average of those around him. With his brain and energy\\nand courage and integrity, there was no position in the country to\\nwhich he might not have aspired and risen. There was no man slain\\nby the Indians in early Kentucky whose loss was more felt and whose\\ndeath was more regretted than that of Colonel John Flo) d.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nout regard to the existence of the colony. In 1776,\\nKentucky county, embracing all the lands of the colony,\\nwas established, and civil and militar)- officers were ap-\\npointed to govern the county just as if the Transyl-\\nvania Colony had not existed. Finally, at the October\\nterm of the Virginia legislature, in 1778, an act was\\npassed giving to Richard Henderson Co. twelve and\\none-half square miles of the land on both sides of Green\\nriver, where it enters the Ohio, in full compensation for\\nall claims they might have to Kentucky not as any\\nacknowledgment of their right to the country, but as\\ncompensation for their good offices in extinguishing the\\nIndian title, and helping to settle the country.\\nHow THE Pioneers Lived.\\nThe first inhabitants of Kentucky, on account ol\\nthe hostility of the Indians, lived in what were called\\nforts. These structures had little in common with those\\nmassive piles of stone and earth from which thunder\\nmissiles of destruction in modern times. They were\\nsimply rows of the conventional log cabins of the day,\\nbuilt on four sides of a square or parallelogram, which\\nremained as a court or open space between them. This\\nopen space served as a play-ground, a muster field, a", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, yuiie i, i8c}2. 43\\ncorral for domestic animals, and a storehouse for imple-\\nments. The cabins which formed the fort s walls were\\ndwelling-houses for the people, and contained the rudest\\nconveniences of life. The bedstead consisted of forks\\ndriven in the dirt floor, through the prongs of which\\npoles extended to cracks in the wall, and over which\\nbuffalo skins were spread for a mattress and bear skins\\nfor a covering. The dining-table was a broad puncheon\\nhewn smooth with an adze, and set on four legs made of\\nsticks inserted in auger holes at the corners. The chairs\\nwere three-legged stools made in the same way, and\\nthe table furniture consisted of wooden plates, trays,\\nnoggins, bowls, and trenchers, usually turned out of\\nbuckeye. A few tin cups and pewter plates and delf\\ncups and saucers, and two- pronged iron forks and pew-\\nter spoons, were luxuries brought from the old country,\\nand only found upon the tables of the few who could\\nafford them. The fire-place occupied nearly one whole\\nside of the house the window was a hole covered\\nwith paper saturated with bear s grease, and the door\\nan opening, over which hung a buffalo skin. Near the\\ndoor hung the long-barreled flint-lock rifle on the prongs\\nof a buck s horns pinned to the wall, and from which\\nplace it was never absent except when in use.\\nIn these confined cabins whole families occupied a", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 The Keniticky Centenary.\\nsingle room. Here the women hackled the wild nettle,\\ncarded the buffalo wool, spun the thread, wove the cloth,\\nand made the clothes. The men wore buckskin hunt-\\ning shirts, trousers, and moccasins, and the women lin-\\nsey gowns in winter and linen in summer. If there\\nwas a broadcloth coat or a calico dress, it came from\\nthe old settlements, and was only worn on rare occa-\\nsions.\\nSuch a life had its pains, but it also had its pleas-\\nures. Of evenings and rainy days, the fiddle was heard,\\nand the merry old Virginia reel danced by both young\\nand old. A marriage, that sometimes united a boy of\\nsixteen to a girl of fourteen, was an occasion of great\\nmerriment, and brought out the whole fort. When an\\nitinerant preacher came along, and favored them with a\\nsermon two or three hours in length, it was also a great\\noccasion. A young man had some difficulty in making\\nhis sweatheart understand all he had to say in a small\\nroom filled by her parents and brothers and sisters, but\\non essential points it was easy to remove the discussion\\nto the open space. The shooting match, the foot-race,\\nwrestling, jumping, boxing, and, it may be added, fighting,\\nafforded amusement in the open space, and blindfold and\\nhide-and-seek and quiltings, knittings, and candy pullings\\nmade the little cabins merry on many occasions. The", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jfujie i, i8g2. 45\\ncorn field and the vegetable garden were cultivated within\\nrange of the rifles of the fort, and sentinels were on\\nguard while the work was being done.\\nHow THE Indians Retarded the Settlements.\\nThe great obstacles to the rapid population of the\\ncountry were the Indians.* They lurked in the woods\\nand confined the settlers to the forts. They did not\\noccupy the soil, but lived to the north and the south\\nand the west and kept Kentucky for a hunting ground.\\nThey crossed the Ohio in small parties, and, like thieves\\nIt is difficult to fix a time when the Indians were not hostile\\nto the whites in Kentucky. Gist, in his journal of 1751, states that\\nhe did not go to the falls of the Ohio for fear of the Indians. Boone\\nlost his companion, John Stewart, while exploring Kentucky in 1769,\\nand again in 1773, while leading a number of emigrants to Kentucky,\\nhe lost a son and five of his company. Hancock Taylor, the surveyor,\\nwas killed by them in 1774, and as Boone and his party approached\\nthe site of Boonsborough in 1775, they were attacked by the Indians\\nand several of them killed and wounded. It may be stated, therefore,\\nthat from the beginning of explorations and settlements in Kentucky,\\nthe Indians were hostile. These hostile Indians, moreover, did not\\nlive in Kentucky, but dwelt north of the Ohio and south of the\\nCumberland rivers. Kentucky was their hunting ground and had been\\ntime out of mind, and they showed a determination from the first", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 The Kentucky Ce^ttenary.\\nin the night, crept stealthily upon their victims and shot\\nthem down or tomahawked them unawares. More people\\nwere killed in this desultory way than in regular battles.\\nIn 1790, Judge Innes wTote to the secretary of war that\\nduring the seven years he had lived in Kentucky the\\nIndians had killed one thousand five hundred souls, stolen\\ntwenty thousand honses, and carried off property to the\\nvalue of fifteen thousand pounds sterling. If to this\\nfearful number we add all the deaths previous to 1783\\nand subseqent to 1790, the time covered by Judge\\nInnes s estimate, in battle and by murder, we shall have\\na terrible summary. Not less than three thousand six\\nhundred men, women, and children fell at the hands of\\nthe savages in Kentucky before the final victory over\\nthem by General Wayne in 1 794. It may be doubted\\nwhether the Indians would not have been less formidable\\nif they had lived in Kentucky. They would then have\\ninvasion of it by the whites to defend it. They could not understand\\nby what right the whites could come among them and drive them from\\ntheir hunting grounds and occupy them, and they resolved, like brave\\ndefenders of their country, to give up their possessions only with their\\nlives. This contest between the whites and the Indians for Kentucky\\nlasted for twenty years, but at last civilization and Christianity suc-\\nceeded in driving barbarism and idolatry from the land. Whether\\nthey were right in doing so is another question.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i8g2. 47\\nbeen exterminated b\\\\ the pioneers, instead of being\\ncrippled in their raids and left to recover and return.\\nPioneer Women.\\nAmong all the sufferers at the hands of the Indians,\\nnone bore heavier sorrows and received less credit tor\\nthem than the pioneer women. Boone and Kenton and\\nother heroes, as they deserved, figured largely in history\\nand biography. But who has heard of the many brave\\nwomen who have resisted or succumbed to the tomahawk\\nand the scalping-knife of the savages While their hus-\\nbands fired from the loop-holes of the forts upon the\\nbesieging enemy, their wives molded the bullets with\\nwhich their guns were loaded. They guarded the forts\\nwhile the men were fighting the Indians or hunting the\\ngame. When death took a pioneer from his toils, it\\nwas the women who wrapped him in his coarse shroud\\nand laid him in his rough coffin and wetted his obscure\\ngrave with their tears. They were the doctors of the\\ntimes, and while their remedies for wounds and diseases\\nseem strange to modern science, yet their catnip tea and\\nsoothing herbs and elder salve were thought to work\\nwonderful cures in their day. From their home in the\\nold settlements they brought religious feelings, and when", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 The Kentucky Ce?itefiary.\\nthe itinerant preacher turned the hour-glass ior the sec-\\nond or third time and still went on with his mighty\\nlungs and voice, the women never grew weary ot him,\\nbut heard the words of the good man to the end, and\\nremembered them. Collectively and individually, they\\nshowed a courage on trying occasions ot which men\\nmight well be proud.\\nWhen the daughters of Boone and Calloway were\\ntaken in their canoe on the river at Boonsborouoh, thev\\nfought the Indians with the paddles until overcome; and\\nwhile proceeding as captives, they strewed their way\\nwith pieces of their clothing, that their trail might be\\nfollowed by those they knew would speedily pursue for\\ntheir rescue. On being ordered to quit this and threat-\\nened with the tomahawk if they persisted, they defied\\ndeath and kept on marking their course by dropping\\nbits of their clothing and bv bending and breaking twigs\\non their route. Fhe Indians, knowing that a live captive\\nwas far more valuable than a scalp, and thinking them-\\nselves too far in advance to be overtaken, permitted the\\neirls to thus mark their course rather than kill them.\\nIt was this marking oi their track which enabled Boone\\nand his party to follow the route so rapidly as to over-\\ntake the Indians within forty miles oi Boonsborough.\\nAt Bryant s Station, when it was Unmd necessary to risk", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i i8c^2. 49\\nlife for water, the women in a band, led by Mrs. Jemima\\nSuggett Johnson, wife of Colonel Robt. Johnson, marched\\nto the spring and filled their pails with water, under the\\nmuzzles of six hundred concealed Indian rifles. They\\nsuccessfully brought their vessels filled with water into\\nthe fort, and thus enabled the garrison to stand a siege\\nand resist an overwhelming army of savages. When the\\ncabins of Jesse and Hosea Cooke, near Frankfort, were\\ntaken by the Indians and both the Cookes killed, their\\nbrave widows showed a courage which has few parallels\\nin the whole course of human action. The Indians,\\nhaving failed to force the strong door which shut them\\nout from the two women and their children, made at-\\ntempts to burn the house. They ascended to the roof\\nand repeatedly applied the torch, which was extinguished\\nby the women, first with water, while it lasted, then\\nwith broken eggs, and finally with the blood-saturated\\nclothing of their dead husbands lying on the floor. Not\\nless brave were Mrs. Michael Woods and her daughter\\nMary in defending their cabin, near Stanford. The In-\\ndians had rushed upon the house and not given them\\ntime to bar the door before one of the savages got\\ninside. The brave mother, however, was too quick in\\nclosing and barring the door for another to enter, and\\nwhile she guarded the door and fought the outside", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 The Kentttcky Centenary.\\nIndians, her daughter, with an ax, cut off the head of\\nthe Indian who had entered the house.\\nHow THE Separation of Kentucky from Virginia\\nWas Begun and Accomplished.\\nBut in spite of the opposition of the Indians, the\\nsettlements of Kentucky grew stronger and stronger from\\ntime to time, until at the end of the first decade, in\\n1784, there were people enough to apply to Virginia for\\nan independent government. They took this course, not\\nbecause of any dislike to Virginia, but on account of\\nthe inconveniences arising from their distance from the\\nseat of government, and the intolerable condition in\\nwhich the peace of 1783 had placed them. The At-\\nlantic states were benefited by this peace, but not so\\nwith Kentucky. The Indians would not understand how\\nGreat Britain could make peace with the colonies with-\\nout consulting them and without abandoning their forts,\\nand went right on with their hostilities against Kentucky.\\nDisposed as the Indians were to be at war, the terms\\nof peace practically bound the Kentuckians to stand still\\nand be tomahawked and scalped at the will of the\\nsavages.\\nJohn Filson, in his history of Kentucky, published", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yttne i, i8g2. 5 i\\nin 1 784, estimated tlie population of Kentucky at thirty\\nthousand, and the map which accompanied his history\\nshowed this population to be living in fifty-two stations\\nand eigtheen houses outside. This was not a large\\npopulation nor one well located for a new state, but it\\nwas a progressive people, animated by some of the best\\nblood that ever flowed through pioneer veins. There\\nprobably never was a pioneer state that began its career\\nwith more brains and energy and culture and courage\\nthan was to be found in Kentucky. These brave and\\nisolated settlers had reached their present stage without\\noutside help, and they were now resolved to free them-\\nselves from a connection with Virginia which gave them\\nno adequate protection.\\nIn the fall of 1784, Benjamin Logan, one of the\\ngreatest men of his times, invited some leading citizens\\nto meet him at Danville to consult about the best means\\nof an expedition against the southern Indians, to prevent\\nthem from making an incursion into Kentucky. This\\nconsultation disclosed the fact that there was no authority\\nin Kentucky for such an expedition, and, in fact, none\\nfor any offensive measures against the Indians. With\\ntheir eyes thus opened to their helpless condition, they\\nresolved to lay the matter before a convention to con-\\nsist of one member elected from each military district,", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nto meet in Danville on the 27th of December, 1784.\\nAnd thus beg-an that lon^ and tedious series of con-\\nventions for the separation of Kentucky from Virginia\\nand erecting it into an independent state, which tried\\nthe patience and the patriotism of all concerned during\\na period of eight exasperating years.\\nThe Different Conventions for Independence.\\nThe first of these conventions* met at Danville on\\nDecember 27, 1784, and, after settling the great principle\\nof equal suffrage and representation according to popu-\\nlation, recommended another convention to meet on May\\nAn account of the proceedings of this first convention was\\npublished in the third volume of a work entitled Lettres D un Cul-\\ntivateur American, by St. John de Creve Coeur, Paris, 1787. The\\nauthor was a Frenchman who came from New York to Kentucky in\\n1784, and from Louisville sent to Europe a letter containing the\\nresolutions passed by this convention. As I have never seen these\\nproceedings in any other publication, I here give a literal translation\\nfrom the work just named\\n1. Resolved, That the remote distance of this district from the\\ngovernment of Virginia subjects the inhabitants to a multitude of civil\\nand political inconveniences that are every day increasing.\\n2. Resolved, That it be recommended to the inhabitants of this\\ndistrict to seriously consider if it would not be advantageous to ask", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jfinie i, i8g2. 53\\n3, 1785, to consider the question of separating from\\nVirginia and forming an independent government.\\nTliis second convention promptly resolved on inde-\\npendence, but instead of stopping there and waiting for\\nVirginia to sanction the separation, they called another\\nconvention for August 14, 1785, to ratify what they had\\nof our national government that this district be created into a new\\nstate confederated with the other states.\\n3. Resolved, That it be recommended that the good inhabitants\\nof this district choose a certain number among them to form a com-\\nmittee, which shall continue its sessions during the time of three\\nmonths, whose object it shall be to inquire if the proposed separation\\nbe really necessary, useful, and indispensable, and to discuss the va-\\nrious measures and objects which shall be proposed and submitted to\\ntheir judgment for the interest and advantage of the district.\\n4. Resolved, That all the counties in this district have an equal\\nright to representation in the choice of their members of the con-\\nvention, according to the number of inhabitants who are freeholders\\nof the different counties.\\n5. Resolved, That this convention shall be composed of twenty-\\neight members, chosen in the following proportion, to wit twelve for\\nthe county of Lincoln, eight for that of Fayette, and eight for that\\nof Jefferson. They shall be chosen in the month of April next, and\\nthose of the most suitable persons in each of the said counties shall\\nbe the inspectors of the elections.\\n6. Resolved, That this convention shall be held at Danville, in\\nthe county of Jefferson, on the first Monday of May next. In view", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 The KentiLcky Centenary.\\ndone. It is possible that this cautious delay for the\\nratification of their work was what kept Kentucky so\\nlong out of the Union. If the convention of INIay, 1785,\\nhad asked Virginia to approve of separation and peti-\\ntioned Congress to accept the new state, it is probable\\nthat the good work would have progressed too far to\\nhave been delayed by the campaign against the Indians\\nthe following year, with which exasperating delay and\\ndisappointments began. The convention of May, 1785,\\nhad full authority to proceed with the details of inde-\\npendence, and it is a great pity that it did not go\\nright along with the work instead of calling a ratifying\\nconvention for the following August.\\nThis third convention of August 14, 1785, resolved\\nthat a separation was proper, and after voting an address\\nto the people and petitions to Virginia and to Congress\\ncalled another convention to meet on the fourth Monday\\nof the fact that many matters of the greatest importance will proba-\\nbly be submitted to the discussion and judgment of this convention:\\nResolved, That it be expressly and particularly enjoined upon the\\ngood people of the district of Kentucky to select for members repre-\\nsenting their counties men of the highest character and possessing the\\nmost varied ability and extensive knowledge.\\nWILLIAM FLEMING,\\nPresident.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Wednesdouy, yune i8g2. 55\\nin September, 1 786, to complete the work of separation\\nand form a constitution. But when the fourth convention\\nmet, in September, 1786, the trouble began. So many\\nof the members were with Clark and Logan in expe-\\nditions against the Indians that a quorum could not be\\nobtained. The few members present met and adjourned\\nfrom day to day until a quorum was present. But\\njust at this time, the Virginia legislature s action in\\nrepealing the act giving consent to the separation was\\nmade known and the powers of the convention brought\\nto an end. Nothing was now to be done but to begin\\nanew, and this was done by calling another convention\\nfor September 17, 1787.\\nThis fifth convention met and went over the beaten\\ntrack ot resolving on separation, addressing the people\\nand petitioning Virginia and Congress, and called another\\nconvention for July 28, 1788, to complete its work.\\nThis sixth convention met, and while it was in\\nsession news came from Congress that the petition of\\nthe new state had been rejected, and Kentucky was\\nadvised by that august body to so shape her course as\\nto get into the Union under the constitution of the\\nUnited States, which had then been adopted. This was\\na sad disappointment, but there was no help for it.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 The Kenhicky Centenary.\\nThe work of separation had to begin again, and another\\nconvention was called for November 3, 178S.\\nThis seventh convention met and resolved again on\\nseparation, and voted petitions to Congress and Virginia,\\nand called another convention for July 20, 1789, to com-\\nplete its work.\\nThis eighth convention, it was thought, would cer-\\ntainly get the new state into the Union, but another\\ndisappointment was at hand. Virginia, in repeating her\\nact consenting to separation, had changed the terms and\\nso infringed upon the sovereignty ot the new state by\\nretaining control over some of its public lands, that\\nKentucky rejected the terms, and petitioned for the\\noriginal act to which she had agreed lor a separation.\\nVirginia consented, but it put Kentucky back to the\\nbeginning again in her movement for independence, and\\nanother convention was called for July 26, 1790.\\nThis ninth convention met July 26, 1790, and began\\nat the beginning, as if no previous steps had been\\ntaken to separate Kentucky from Virginia. After deter-\\nmining that it was expedient to separate, according to\\nVirginia s fourth act of consent, December 18, 1789, and\\nvoting a petition to Congress for admission into the\\nUnion, a resolution was adopted fixing June i, 1792, as\\nthe day on which Kentucky, as an independent state,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, yitne i, i8g2. S7\\nshould begin. They then called another convention for\\nApril 2, 1792, to make a constitution for the new state.\\nThe First Constitution of Kentucky.\\nFinally, and to the grateful relief of long vexed and\\nsorely tried humanity, the tenth and last convention met\\nat Danville, April 2, 1792, and in accordance with the\\nresolutions of the previous convention and the act of\\nVirginia of December 18, 1789, authorizing the separation,\\nand the act of Congress of February 4, 1791, admitting\\nKentucky into the Union, to take effect June i, 1792,\\nproceeded to make a constitution for the new state.\\nSamuel McDowell, who had been the president of all the\\npreceding conventions, except two, was made the presi-\\ndent, and Thomas Todd, who had been the clerk of all\\nthe others, was made the clerk of this. Five members\\nappeared from each of the nine counties then in the\\nstate, making the whole number of delegates forty-five.*\\nI know of no correct list of the members of this convention\\nthat has ever been published. I have the original journal of the\\nconvention, kept by Thomas Todd, the clerk, but it contains no list\\nof the names of the members. This journal does, however, contain\\na yea and nay vote, which supplies the best known list of the mem-\\nbers. This vote was recorded on Wednesday, April 18, 1792, on", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nThe members were among the most distinguished citizens\\nof the state at that time, and among them were George\\nNicholas, Alexander Scott Bullitt, Benjamin Sebastian,\\nthe question of striking from the constitution the ninth article, which\\nwas the pro-slavery clause. Those who voted for striking out the pro-\\nslavery clause were\\nAndrew Hynes,\\nSamuel Taylor,\\nJacob Froman,\\nHarry Innes,\\nJohn Bailey,\\nBenedict Swope,\\nCharles Kavenaugh,\\nGeorge Smith,\\nRobert Frier,\\nJames Crawford,\\nJames Garrard,\\nJames Smith,\\nJohn McKinney,\\nGeorge Lewis,\\nMiles W. Conway,\\nJohn Wilson. 16.\\nThose who voted against striking out the pro-slavery clause were\\nSamuel McDowell,\\nBenjamin Sebastian,\\nJohn Campbell,\\nWilliam King,\\nMatthew Walton,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yunc i, 18^2. 59\\nJames Garrard, Matthew Walton, Samuel McDowell,\\nBenjamin Logan, Isaac Shelby, Caleb Wallace, Richard\\nTaylor, John Campbell, and Harry Innes. The most\\nJoseph Hobbs,\\nCuthbert Harrison,\\nGeorge Nicholas,\\nBenjamin Logan,\\nIsaac Shelby,\\nWilliam Montgomery, v-\\nThomas Kennedy,\\nJoseph Kennedy,\\nThomas Clay,\\nHiggason Grubbs,\\nHubbard Taylor,\\nThomas Lewis,\\nJohn Watkins,\\nRichard Young,\\nWilliam Steele,\\nCaleb Wallace,\\nRobert Johnson,\\nJohn Edwards,\\nBenjamin Harrison,\\nRobert Rankin,\\nThomas Warring. 26.\\nThe other three members were Alex. Scott Bullitt, Robert Breck-\\ninridge, and Richard Taylor, all from Jefferson county, whose votes,\\nfor some unknown reason, were not recorded in the journal.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6o The Kentitcky Centeitary.\\ngifted among them was George Nicholas, the learned\\nlawyer and the profound statesman. To him, more than\\nto any other member, belongs the honor of the first\\norganic law of the state. He drafted the twenty-two\\nresolutions which were first adopted by the convention,\\nand which determined the character of the constitution.\\nHe afterward drafted the constitution itself, and was\\npractically the author of its twelve articles and its\\nschedule.\\nThere were six ministers of the gospel in this\\nconvention, and when the vote was taken upon the\\npro-slavery clause every one of them voted against it.\\nThey were Revs. John Bailey, Benedict Swope, Charles\\nKavenaugh, George Smith, James Crawford, and James\\nGarrard. Another minister, David Rice, had been elected\\nto the convention, but resigned before any of the prin-\\nciples of the constitution came to a vote. He was,\\nhowever, succeeded by Harry Innes, who voted against\\nthe pro-slavery clause, just as Minister Rice would have\\nvoted if he had been there.\\nThe constitution made by these men has long since\\nceased to be binding. It nevertheless has a historic\\ninterest, because it was the fundamental law with which\\nour commonwealth began its life. Its author, George\\nNicholas, from his associations with the makers ol the", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i, i8g2. 6i\\nconstitution of the United States, gave it a decidedly\\nFederal cast. Our governor and our senators were\\ntrammeled with the cumbrous machinery of electors, and\\nit gave to the Court of Appeals original jurisdiction in\\nland suits; but with all its faults, our constitution of 1792\\nwas a vast improvement upon many of its written and\\nunwritten contemporaries. It placed all religions upon\\nan equal footing. It forbade commerce in slaves, and\\nprovided for their emancipation by the legislature. It\\nsecured the freedom of the press. It gave to all free\\nmen the right to vote without property qualifications.\\nIt miticrated the horrors of imprisonment for debt. It\\nmade all citizens equal before the law. It lodged in the\\npeople all primal and ultimate sovereignty, and opened\\nthe great highway for human progress to all men alike.\\nConspiracies in Kentucky.\\nDuring the sessions of the conventions, and after\\ntheir work was done, there were Spanish, French, and\\nBritish intrigues in Kentucky, but the principal ones were\\nSpanish. At the peace of 1783, Spain, with her hereditary\\nproclivity for intriguing and intermeddling, attempted to\\nconfine the victorious colonies to the territory lying\\nbetween the Appalachian mountains and the Atlantic", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nOcean. France supported Spain in this intended out-\\nrage, but England was too wise to favor the scheme.\\nShe preferred that the Mississippi valley, so far as it was\\nin dispute, should go to her former colonies, naughty as\\nthey had been in rebelling against her, and hence our\\nwestern boundary was fixed in the Mississippi river.\\nSpain having failed to have her wishes in the treaty ot\\n1783, never abandoned the hope of gaining something by\\nintrigue. Her emissaries worked upon Kentuckians when\\nthey went to New Orleans with their produce, and they\\ncame among them at home, first with their sinister designs\\ncovered with the gossamer of commercial relations, but\\nat length presented with all the naked deformity ol\\ntreason. They found a few adherents in such men as\\nWilkinson and Sebastian, who, for the pay they offered,\\nentertained them, but there were no considerable number\\nof Kentuckians who ever thought of any relations with\\nSpain, beyond what would secure for them the free\\nnavigation of the Mississippi river. Spain held the ter-\\nritory on both sides of the Mississippi river, and with its\\nocclusion the products of the rich lands of the Kentuckians\\nwere without a market. Tobacco and grain could not\\nbe transported over the mountains to the east, and Ken-\\ntuckians, without the Mississippi as an outlet to the\\nmarkets of the world, had no connection whatever with", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 63\\nthose markets. Help from their own crovernment to\\nprocure this freedom of the great river seemed ahnost\\nhopeless. The revolutionary war had not won it with\\nits victory the treaty of 1 783 had not secured it Con-\\ngress had spent weary years of negotiation without\\nobtaining it, and at last it was understood that it was\\nto be bartered away by Congress for commercial privi-\\nleges that might help the eastern part of the country,\\nbut would leave Kentucky without advantages. Under\\nsuch trying disappointments, with the Indians scalping\\nthem for want of adequate protection from Virginia or\\nthe United States, and the only way they had to the\\nmarkets ot the world occluded, it would not have been\\nstrange if the people of Kentucky had entered into any\\ncompact with Spain that would have shielded them from\\nthe savages and opened the way for their commerce to\\nthe sea even if it required separation from Virginia and\\nthe old confederation of states, and the establishing of\\nan independent government. Before the final separation\\nof Kentucky from Virginia many of her good citizens\\ncherished the hope that some arrangement with Spain\\nmight be made by which the freedom of the Mississippi\\nwould be secured, but not after Kentucky became a\\nmember of the Federal Union. Thomas Power, as the\\nagent of Spain, was here in 1795, with treasonable", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 The KenHicky Centenary.\\npropositions disguised as commercial, and he was here\\nagain in 1797, with the disguise thrown off and the\\nnaked treason displayed in a proposition to furnish arms\\nand money to help Kentucky to separate from the Union\\nand establish an independent governnient. His proposals\\nwere rejected by the very men to whom they were made,\\nand George Nicholas had the honor of drafting the\\nrejection.\\nIt is easy enough for us, at the distance of a cen-\\ntury, when the United States have grown to colossal\\ndimensions, to see how unwise and rebellious and trea-\\nsonable it would have been for Kentucky to have at-\\ntempted an independent government in the Mississippi\\nvalley. Kentuckians, however, did not then see these\\nmighty United States as we now see them. When\\nKentucky was in her greatest troubles, the United States\\nwere bound together by a rope of sand, that might part\\nat any moment, and there was no particular honor in\\nbeing one of them. England maintained military posts\\non their sovereign soil for thirteen years after the peace\\nof 1783, and they had very little of the respect of the\\nnations of the earth. Rebellion had been the order of\\nthe day for some years, and if Kentucky had seen fit\\nto separate from uncongenial and unprofitable companions\\nand set up for herself, there might have been much folly", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, y-iine i, tSc}2. 65\\nin her act, and a sufficient quantity of rebellion, which\\nwas then fashionable, but not much treason. Self-pro-\\ntection is a stronger tie than allegiance. It is a higher\\nlaw than treason.\\nTo denounce all the eminent Kentuckians who took,\\npart in these Spanish proceedings as traitors or con-\\nspirators, is to judge the darkness of their days by the\\nlight of ours. They had obstacles to contend with which\\nno longer exist, and we can only judge them rightly by\\njudging them in the midst of their surroundings. They\\navoided the insidious wiles of Miro and Carondelet and\\nGardoqui on the part of Spain. They tarnished not their\\nneutral escutcheon by following Genet to the French\\nconquest of Spanish Louisiana. They listened not to the\\ninsidious words of England as they fell from the schem-\\ning lips of Dr. Connolly when he offered men and arms\\nto be used against the Spaniards. They stood out\\nagainst all temptations through eight dragging years and\\neight disappointed attempts by lawful conventions to\\nseparate from Virginia, while their only outlet to the\\nmarkets of the world was barred to them by arch-\\nconspirators and when they had obtained the freedom\\nof the Mississippi, they showed unmistakably that they\\nhad what they wanted, and that they had no further\\nuse for the Spaniard, the Frenchman, or the English-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 The Keiitttcky Centenary.\\nman. We must judge them lor what they did, and not\\nfor what we are pleased to conjecture that they wanted\\nto do, and would have done if they could. Some ol our\\nillustrious pioneers have been denounced as traitors, dil-\\nfering only in the degree of their treason, but whosoever\\nreads aright their relations to their surroundings, and\\njustly estimates the uncounted good deeds they did tor\\ntheir country will be apt to conclude that if there was\\ntreason in any of them, except Wilkinson and Sebastian,\\nwhose avarice e.xceeded their patriotism, it was of a kind\\nto be remembered with gratitude rather than to be\\ndenounced with virulence. Such traitors would be a\\nblessing rather than a curse to any country in which\\ntheir lot mi^ht be cast.\\nNew Government Begins.\\nIn accordance with the provisions of the constitution,\\nan election was held on the first Tuesday in May, 1792,\\nat which forty representatives and forty electors were\\nchosen.* These electors assembled on the third Tuesday\\nThe forty representatives elected on the first Tuesday in May\\nwere the following\\nRichard Taylor,\\nRobert Breckinridge, Jefferson county.\\nBenjamin Roberts,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jfunc i i8(p2.\\n67\\nin May, and elected Isaac Shelby governor and chose\\neleven senators.* By another provision of the constitu-\\ntion, the legislature assembled at Lexington on Monday,\\nJune 4, 1792. They met in a two-story log-house,\\nWilliam Montgomery,\\nHenry Pawling,\\nJames Davis,\\nJesse Cravens,\\nWilliam Russell,\\nJohn Hawkins,\\nThomas Lewis,\\nHubbard Taylor,\\nJames Trotter,\\nJoseph Crockett,\\nJames McMillan,^--^\\nJohn McDowell,\\nRobert Patterson,\\nGeorge Bedinger,\\nJohn Waller,\\nCharles Smith.\\nJohn McKinney.\\nJames Smith,\\nHiggason Grubbs,\\nThomas Clay,\\nJohn Miller,\\n1\\nLincoln county.\\nFayette county.\\nBourbon county.\\nMadison county.\\nSee note on page 71.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68\\nThe Kentucky Centenafy.\\nwhich stood on Main street, midway between Milk and\\nBroadway. In the senate, Alexander Scott Bullitt was\\nmade speaker; Buckner Thruston, clerk; Kenneth McCoy,\\nMason county.\\nMercer county.\\nAlexander D. Orr,\\nJohn Wilson,\\nSamuel Taylor,\\nJohn Jouett,\\nJacob Froman,\\nRobert Mosby,\\nWilliam King,\\nWilliam Abell,\\nMatthew Walton,\\nEdmund Thomas,\\nJoseph Hobbs,\\nJoshua Hobbs,\\nJohn Watkins,\\nRichard Young,\\nWilliam Steele,\\nJohn Grant,\\nAnd the forty electors chosen at the same time were the following:\\nAlexander Scott Bullitt,\\nNelson county.\\nWoodford county.\\nRichard C. Anderson,\\nJohn Campbell,\\nJohn Logan,\\nBenjamin Logan,\\nIsaac Shelby,\\nThomas Todd,\\nJefferson county.\\nLincoln county.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "lVed7tesciiay, yiinc i, iSij2. 69\\nsergeant-at-arms David Johnson, door-keeper; and John\\nGano, chaplain, [ohn Bradford was made pubhc printer;\\nJolin Loi;an, treasurer; George Nicholas, attorney-general,\\nand James Brown, secretary of state.\\nWilliam Campbell,\\nEdward Payne,\\nJohn Martin,\\nAbraham Bowman,\\nRobert Todd,\\nJohn Bradford,\\nJohn Morrison,\\nGabriel Madison,\\nPayton Short,\\nJohn Edwards,\\nBenjamin Harrison,\\nThomas Jones,\\nAndrew Hood,\\nJohn Allen,\\nWilliam Irvine,\\nHiggason Grubbs,\\nThomas Clay,\\nRobert Rankin,\\nGeorge Stockton,\\nChristopher Greenup.\\nHarry Innes,\\nSamuel McDowell,\\nWilliam Kennedy.\\nFayette county.\\nBourbon county.\\nMadison county.\\nMason county.\\nMercer county.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "70\\nThe Kcnincky Lciitenary.\\nOur new government, thus made up, consisted of\\nsome of the best of the good men in the state. Isaac\\nShelby, the governor, had more renown as a soldier\\nthan a statesman, but there was need of military talent\\nin his position. The fame he had won at Point Pleasant\\nand King s Mountain would stand him well in hand with\\nthe Indians, who were yet hostile in the land. Alexander\\nScott Bullitt, the speaker of the senate, was a man of\\nintellect, of culture, and of legal learning, who would fill\\nwell the office of lieutenant-governor, to which his position\\nas speaker of the senate elevated him. James Brown,\\nthe secretary of state, was a man ot learning and legal\\nability, who afterward became a senator of the United\\nStates and a minister to France. John Bradlord, the\\npublic printer, although not trained to the typographical\\nWalter Beall.\\nJohn Caldwell,\\nWilliam May,\\nCuthbert Harrison,\\nAdam -Shepherd,\\nJames Shepherd,\\nJohn Watkins,\\nGeorge Muter,\\nRichard Young,\\nRobert Johnson,\\nNelson county.\\nWoodford county.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Wedjiesday, June i8g2. 71\\nart. soon mastered it, and by his sonnd judgment and\\nbusiness habits proved of great advantage to the infant\\nstate. John Logan, the treasurer, had both that sterling\\nintegrity and business capacity whicli fitted him to mau-\\ngurate the money department of the new state. John\\nGano, the chaplain of both houses, was a Baptist preacher\\nof the old school, who had preached from stumps in the\\nstations until every man, woman, and child in the state\\nknew him and loved him. He was now advanced in\\nyears, but was in robust health, and still had a stento-\\nrian voice that could be heard in much larger halls\\nthan the one in which he was to officiate as chaplain.\\nRobert Breckinridge, the speaker of the house, had long\\nbeen a political leader among the pioneers.\\nThe eleven senators chosen by the electors were the following:\\nJohn Campbell.\\nAlexander Scott Bullitt,\\nJohn Logan,\\nRobert Todd,\\nPeyton Short,\\nJohn Caldwell,\\nWilliam McDowell,\\nThomas Kennedy,\\nJohn Allen,\\nRobert Johnson,\\nAlexander D. Orr.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72 The Kentucky Cente?iary.\\nIn the letjislature were a number ol the best men\\nof the state. Among them was James Smith, who was\\nafterward to write one of the most fascinating ol all\\nbooks of Indian captivity and travel Robert Patterson,\\none of the founders of Lexington, in Kentucky, and Cin-\\ncinnati and Dayton, in Ohio Richard Taylor, father ot\\nthe twelfth president of the United States; John Jouett,\\nthe daring patriot who, upon his foaming charger, passed\\nthe lines of Tarleton s cavalry and bore the news of the\\ninvasion to the legislature of Virginia, then in session,\\nin time for the members to make their escape, and\\nAlexander D. Orr, afterward a member of Congress,\\noccupied seats with others distinguished for those quali-\\nties which made men useful and successful in those\\ntimes. No member rose supremely above the rest tor\\nnatural or acquired gifts, but, taken as a whole, our\\nfirst legislature was worthy to be remembered for its\\nability, its integrity, and its patriotism.\\nOn Wednesday, June 6, the lower house assembled\\nin the senate chamber to hear the governor s message.\\nGovernor Shelby appeared in person, and from the\\nspeaker s desk delivered his address.* It was short,\\nThe following is the full te.xt of Governor Shelby s message as\\nhe read it to the legislature\\nGentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAs the prosperity of our common country will depend greatly on the", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yiuie i8g2. 7\\nbut recommended the establishing of a sound state\\ncredit and the bringing of land litigation to a close as\\nmatters worthy of the first consideration. The governor,\\nhaving finished his brief address, retired, and the repre-\\nsentatives returned to their chamber. The legislature\\n-to\\nniimner in which its government is put in motion, it will be particu-\\nlarly incumbent on you to adopt such measures as will be most likely\\nto produce that desirable end.\\nAmong the means which ought to be used for that purpose,\\nnone will be found more efficacious than the establishing public and\\nprivate credit on the most solid basis. The first will be obtained by\\na scrupulous adherence to all public engagements, the last by a speedy\\nadministration of justice. The happiness and welfare of this country\\ndepend so much on tlie speedy settlement of our land disputes, that\\nI can not forbear expressing my hope that you will adopt every nec-\\nessary measure to give full operation to the mode pointed out by the\\nconstitution for that purpose. It will be eminently necessary that you\\nshould pass laws regulating the future elections of members to the state\\nlegislature. The having those elections made without any kind of\\nundue influence is an object highly worthy of legislative attention. It\\nis also incumbent on you and your duty requires that you should as\\nsoon as possible appoint two senators to represent this state in the\\nnational senate and pass the necessary laws to prescribe the time\\nand measure of electing this state s proportion of members to the\\nhouse of representatives. A law obliging sheriffs and other public of-\\nficers to give security for the due performance of the duties of their\\nrespective offices will be essentially necessary. Your humanity, as well", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "74 The Kenhicky Centenary.\\nnow went to work, and were in session from the fourth\\nof June to the twenty-ninth. During their session they\\npassed thirty-seven laws and six resolutions. The first\\nact was for the establishment of an auditor s office, and\\nthe last lor the payment ot their own small allowance\\nof |,i.oo per day as law-makers.\\nas your duty, will induce you to pass laws to compel the proper\\ntreatment of slaves agreeable to the direction of the constitution.\\nGentlemen of the house of representatives, it will be your pe-\\nculiar duty to point out the manner in which the public supplies shall\\nbe raised. Small as our money resources are, I flatter myself you\\nwill find them fully equal to the necessary expenditures of the gov-\\nernment. I conceive that the honor and interest of the state require\\nthat, whatever may be the amount of these expenses, the funds for\\ntheir payment should be adequate and certain. The constitution has\\nmade it our duty at the present session to cause to be chosen com-\\nmissioners for the purpose of fixing the place for the permanent seat\\nof government.\\nGentlemen of the senate and house of representatives, you may\\nbe assured of my hearty co-operation in all your measures which may\\nhave a tendency to promote the public good. I he unorganized state\\nof our government and the season of the year render every proper\\ndispatch of the business which will come before you so much your\\nduty that I shall forbear to add any thing on that head.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, Jtme i8cj2. 75\\nCondition of Kentucky when She Began State-\\nhood.\\nThe condition of Kentucky when it first became an\\nindependent state was very different from what we now\\nsee it. With the exception of the spots of cleared land\\naround the villages and forts, and the few houses out-\\nside of them, the whole country was covered by the\\noriginal forest, in which lurked Indians and bears and\\nwolves and panthers and wildcats. All land travel was\\nover dirt roads, full of dust in the summer, and deep in\\nmud in the winter. One of these roads led from Cum-\\nberland Gap through Crab Orchard, Danville, Bardstown,\\nand Bullitt s Lick to Louisville. Another crossed the\\nBig Sandy at the forks, and leading through Morgan s\\nand Strode s .Stations to Lexington, passed on through\\nFrankfort and Drennon s Lick to Louisville. A third\\nled from Maysville by the Lower Blue Lick and Paris\\nto Lexington a fourth from the mouth of the Licking to\\nLexington, and a fifth from Middle Tennessee to Dan-\\nville. These main roads were passed over by all persons\\neither coming into the state or going out from it.\\nCross roads connecting with the main roads at various\\npoints formed the lines of internal and neighborhood", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "The Kentucky Centenary.\\ncommunication. Some of them followed lines originally\\nmarked out by the buffalo, time out of mind before, and\\nwere broad enough for highways of commerce but most\\nof them were mere traces and bridal paths, which no one\\nbut a woodsman or acquaintance could follow. Across\\nthe streams were no bridges, and people passed them\\nat shallow places called fords, or in rude flatboats or\\ncanoes used for ferries. The travel and trade upon the\\nrivers were in canoes and flatboats, and barges and keels\\npropelled by oars or sails. Only a few meadows or\\npastures had yet been prepared, but over broad areas\\nwere natural meadows, while cane brakes and wild clover\\nfields and patches of pea vine and swards of blue grass\\nof natural growth were every-where to be seen.\\nA hundred thousand inhabitants were scattered over\\nthe nine counties* into which the original Kentucky\\ncounty had been divided, and most of them were still\\ndwelling in villages and forts. The Indians were yet in\\nthe land, and life was not safe outside of fortified places.\\nThese nine counties were Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln, the\\nthree counties into which Kentucky county had been subdivided in\\n1780; Nelson, formed out of Jefferson in 1784; Bourbon, out of\\nFayette in 1785; Mercer and Madison, out of Lincoln in 1785;\\nMason, out of Bourbon in 1788; and \\\\Voodford, out of Fayette in\\n1788.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Wedfiesday, June i, i8g2. j\\nOnly the year before the savages had rallied in such\\nstrength as to surprise the army of General St. Clair\\nand crush it with such slaughter as had not occurred\\nsince Braddock s defeat on the Monongahela, or Todd s\\nat the Blue Licks. While the new government was\\nbeing inaugurated, a large party of them entered the\\nstate, and almost in the shadow of the house in which\\nthe first legislature met, murdered citizens and stole\\nproperty. Even as late as March lo, 1795, a number\\nof citizens of Louisville and Jefferson county bound\\nthemselves by written contract to pay the sum set\\nopposite their names for Indian scalps taken within their\\nvicinity.*\\nOn the farms that had been opened near the forts,\\nthe rudest kind of agriculture prevailed. The farmer\\nbroke up his ground with the wooden mold-board plow,\\nand planted his corn and sowed his wheat with his\\nhand. The grain was cut with a reap hook or cradle,\\nand beat out with the flail or by the feet of horses\\nridden over the straw with the heads on laid in a circle\\nfor this purpose. His flour was sifted through a coarse\\nlinen cloth, and his grain ground in the hand mill or\\nbeaten in the mortar. A few horse mills and water\\nOriginal contract signed by the parties in the possession of R.\\nT. Durrett.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "j^ The KeiitiLcky Centenary.\\nmills were in the country, but they were not generally\\nused or accessible. His crop was cultivated with the\\nhoe, and his carpenter s work done with the ax, the\\nadze, and the auger. His flax was spun on the small\\nwheel, his wool on the large wheel, and both woven on\\nthe hand loom.\\nThe buffalo and the deer were growing scarce, and\\nthe farmer was raising domestic animals for food. His\\ncattle and sheep, however, were what are known as\\nscrubs, and his horses of an inferior breed. His vege-\\ntable garden consisted of little more than cabbages,\\npumpkins, turnips, beets, and peas. His cows fed upon\\nthe cane, and gave rich and well flavored milk, which,\\nwith the butter and curds and cheese which were made\\nof it, were about the best food put upon the table.\\nWhatever the table afforded, however, was generously\\ngiven to every comer, no matter at what hour he arrived,\\nnor whence he came. Abundance of fish came from the\\nstreams, the woods afforded squirrels and opossums, and\\nthe fields rabbits and quails.\\nThe peach was about the only domestic fruit that\\nwas abundant, the apple tree not yet being old enough\\nfor full bearing. Wild fruits, however, were abundant.\\nThe persimmon, the grape, the pawpaw, the mulberry,\\nthe haw, the May apple, the blackberry, the wild straw-", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 79\\nberry, and the wild goose plum were gathered and eaten\\nby all, and so were the walnut, the hickory nut, and the\\nchestnut. Brandy was distilled from the peach and wine\\nfermented trom the grape and beer trom the persimmon,\\nbut as early as 1783,* whisky had been distilled from\\ncorn, and that was now in use either as mint julep\\nor as grog or toddy. Those who could afford it had\\nMaderia wine and Jamaica rum on their table, but the\\nstate or common drink was whisky.\\nThe most important niechanics in the country were\\nthe blacksmiths, the carpenters, and the wiieelwrights.\\nThey made pretty much every thing that was made with\\nsuch simple tools as the saw, the file, the jack-plane,\\nIn 1783, Evan Williams erected a small distillery on the ri\\\\er\\nat the foot of Fifth street, in Louisville. Here he distilled whisky\\nfrom corn, and the dwellers among the ponds at the falls thought his\\nproduct a good medicine for chills and fever, though a very bad\\nwhisky. Williams, as a manufacturer of whisky, claimed the right to\\nsell his product without license, but in March, 1788, he was indicted\\nby the grand jury for this offense. In 1802, the water and slop from\\nhis distillery became so offensive to those dwelling near that his estab-\\nlishment was declared a nuisance. Williams was a member of the\\nearly board of trustees of Louisville, and tradition says that he never\\nattended a meeting of the board without bringing a bottle of his\\nwhisky, and that what he brought was always drank by the members\\nbefore the meeting adjourned.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "8o The Kentucky Centeitary.\\nthe drawing-knife, the ax, the adze, the auger, and the\\nhammer. They were not particular about sticking to\\ntheir trades, but each did what of the work of the other\\nhe could and something of what belonged to neither.\\nThey managed among them to make guns* and furni-\\nture and implements, that belonged to the trade ol\\nneither, and so altogether they met the wants of the\\ncommunity.\\nThere was but one printing establishment, and that\\nwas in the log cabin of John Bradford, at Lexington,\\nwhence was issued once a week the Kentucky Gazette,\\nIn 1782, Michael Humble, a blacksmith residing at Louisville,\\nmade a riile for Daniel Boone, which is yet in existence. It is a\\nlong gun, almost as long as two modern rifles, and when Boone stood\\nit up beside him with the butt on the ground, he could blow into the\\nmuzzle without stooping. The barrel bears evidence of having been\\nhammered into its shape and then smoothed with the file. It is not\\nlikely that Humble made the barrel or the lock, but that, having\\nprocured these parts, he put them together and made the stock, and\\nthus turned out the complete rifle. The old rifle yet shoots well,\\nand, in the hands of an expert, will make as good shots as Boone\\nmade with it more than a hundred years ago. Boone exchanged this\\nrifle with Captain James Patten for one of smaller caliber, because\\nhe thought its large bore was too great a waste of powder and lead.\\nAfter the death of Patten, William Marshall married his widow, and\\nfrom him the Boone rifle was obtained by the present owner.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, yiine I, tS(j2. 8i\\nwhich was begun August ii, 1787, on a half sheet of\\ncoarse paper nineteen inches long and ten wide. The\\npaper was printed on a hand press, and it required a\\nwhole day s hard work to run off an edition of five\\nhundred. Not a book had yet been printed in the\\nstate, and not a pamphlet beyond the dignity of Brad-\\nford s Almanac. Only a few books had been brought\\ninto the state, and they were very unequally distributed.\\nSuch as they were, the religious character predominated,\\nand more copies of Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress, and\\nMilton s Paradise Lost, and Baxter s Saint s Rest, and\\nFox s Book of Martyrs were to be seen than any other\\nbooks. It is necessary to add, however, that some of\\nour pioneers had upon their shelves the works of Paine,\\nRousseau, and Voltaire.\\nThere were schools in log houses in the stations\\nand villages, and Transylvania Seminary was open at\\nLexington. But little beyond Dilworth s Spelling-book\\nand Horton s Arithmetic was attempted at these schools\\nbut in Transylvania Seminary, and such select schools as\\nCraig s at Georgetown, and Priestley s at Bardstown, and\\nFry s in Mercer, and Finley s in Madison county, quite\\na high order of education for a new country, might be\\nobtained.\\nThe Baptists, the Presbyterians, the Catholics, the", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "82 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nMethodists, and the Episcopalians were the leading relig-\\nious denominations, and of these the Baptists were the\\nmost numerous. A Baptist Church had left Spottsylvania\\ncounty, Virginia, and come to Kentucky in a body, sing-\\ning and praying and preaching and preserving church\\ngovernment through a wilderness of five hundred miles.\\nNo church edifice had yet arisen beyond the architecture\\nof the log cabin. Most of the preaching was done in\\nprivate houses or in the forts, but the rarity of the ser-\\nmons made all denominations glad to hear one several\\nhours in length, whether they agreed with its doctrines\\nor not.\\nThe medical profession had not reached the high\\ngrade to which McDowell and Brashear and their suc-\\ncessors afterward bore it, but such men as Frederick\\nRidgley were doing noble practice in Lexington and\\nother parts of the state. Some of them made vain\\nattempts to run out disease with the flow of blood from\\nopened veins, and used calomel until it produced a worse\\nmalady than the one attempted to be removed but their\\nblood letting and mercury dosing were then the style.\\nThe doctor carried his drug store in his saddle-bags, and\\ncompounded and put up his own prescriptions. He rode\\nby day and by night, in sunshine and in storm, over a\\nwide extent of country, and earned the fees he got.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, iScj2.\\nwhich were often paid in corn and meat and vege-\\ntables.\\nNo pioneer state ever presented a stronger bar than\\nKentucky. The lawyers of 1792 were men most of whom\\nhad been ruined by the revolutionary war, and who had\\ncome to Kentucky to provide for themselves and families.\\nSome of them, like George Nicholas, Harry Innes, George\\nMuter, William Murray, Christopher Greenup, and James\\nHughes, had made fame in their native state, and the\\nterribly intricate land titles they had to deal with made\\ntheir legal learning acute, incisive, and profound. He\\nwho familiarizes himself with the legal questions settled\\nin the cases reported in Hughes and Hardin, and Snead\\nand Bibb will not fail to conclude that the pioneer bar\\nin Kentucky has had but few superiors in any land.\\nThere were no post-offices and no mail carriers.\\nLetters had to be borne from place to place by private\\nhands, and John Bradford had to provide carriers for\\nhis Kentucky Gazette. Almost every one who came\\ninto the state or went out of it, or went from one\\nplace to another within it, was the bearer of one or\\nmore letters.\\nTravel had not yet reached the refinement of the\\nstage coach. People went from place to place on horse-\\nback or afoot and it was not unusual for the women", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 The Kenhicky Centenary.\\nof 1792 to ride a dozen or more miles on horseback,\\nor to walk lialf as far to pay a social visit.\\nIn tlie principal towns and stations there were stores\\nin each, of which all the articles sold were jumbled\\ntogether. Nails and calico, axes and broadcloth, delf-\\nware and silks, furniture and bonnets, lumber and hats,\\nsugar and medicine, whisky and books, were sold over\\nthe same counter. The women of the country brought\\nin their linen and linsey and jeans, and bartered them in\\nthe stores for tea and coffee and such other articles as\\nthey could not make at home but the stores sold {(t\\\\\\\\\\nthings that could be produced at home by the husband\\nor the wife.\\nMales and females generally dressed in garments\\nmade of linen, linsey or jeans woven at home. A few\\nwho could afford it, wore broadcloths, silks, prints, cala-\\nmancoes, durants, tammies, shalloons, or ratinels procured\\nfrom the stores, and paid for with tobacco and beef\\nand pork and corn.\\nBut little money was in circulation, and barter was\\nthe almost universal medium of exchange. The Spanish\\ndollar was about the only silver known, and this was cut\\nwith a hammer and chisel into halves and quarters and\\nbits and picayunes for the convenience of change. Some\\nold trappers who wanted silver for their beaver skins,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "l/Vednesday, June i, iSij2. 85\\ncomplained that the dollar was sometimes cut into five\\nor six quarters.\\nA few first-class farmers like Isaac Shelby had\\nblooded horses and fine cattle and sheep and hogs on\\ntheir farms, but they were exceptions. The long-snouted\\nhog of the woods, the shabby cattle of the mountains,\\nthe Barbary sheep, and the ponies the Indians loved to\\nsteal were the kind usually found upon the farms. Game\\nroosters for fighting were found in many places where\\nall else were scrubs, and sometimes a fine race-horse*\\nimported from Virginia was seen among miserable hacks.\\nThe pioneers brought with them from the old country a love\\nfor horse-racing and the horses to do the running. As early as 1783,\\na race-course known as Haggins s Race Paths was near Harrods-\\nburg, and races run over it. Hugh McGary was tried and found\\nguilty and pronounced an infamous gambler by the court for betting\\na mare worth twelve pounds on a race run on this course in May,\\n1783. In Louisville, there was a race-track along Jefferson street as\\nearly as that at Harrodsburg, and races were regularly run over it.\\nIn 1786, John Harrison brought from Virginia a race-horse which ran\\nover this course until he beat all the scrubs matched against him and\\nwon all the money. Lexington, the seat of the home of the racer,\\ndid not have a running track until 1789; but lost time in starting\\nwas afterward made up in the extent to which racing was carried.\\nIn 1809, a regular jockey club was established here, which has been\\nkept up in one form or another ever since. Some of the most famous\\nhorses in the world have moved over this track at Lexington.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "86 The KentiLcky Centenary.\\nWhat a Century has Accomplished.\\nSuch was the condition of Kentucky when she began\\nher career as an independent state one hundred years\\nago, and three hundred years after the discovery of\\nCokunbus. The beginning of her statehood on the third\\ncentennial anniversary of the discovery of America is a\\ncoincidence that it is not likely her sons will ever forget.\\nThrough all time to come, the two events will move\\nalong the same pathway of centuries, separated only\\nby the difference of time between the discovery of the\\none and the independence of the other.\\nStanding as we do at the favored terminus of a\\nhundred years of marvelous progress, our glad eyes rest\\nupon the evidences of advancement in our own state that\\ncould not have been anticipated by the wisest. Could\\nClark and Shelby rise from their hallowed graves to-day\\nand look upon their country, they would know it not.\\nThe same blue sky, with its bright sun by day and its\\npale moon by night, is above us. The same broad land,\\nwith its rich soil and navigable rivers, is beneath us.\\nThe same healthful climate wraps us around and imparts\\nits enlivening summer breezes and its chastening winter\\nwinds. All else, how changed", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Wed^tesday, yune i8c)2. 87\\nThe great forest which cast its dark shadow upon\\nthe land has passed away, and with it the wild beasts\\nand wilder savages that infested it. In its stead, we\\nbehold immense fields of grain and pastures of grass,\\nsporting with the consenting breezes like ocean waves\\ntoying with the passing winds. Vast areas of denuded\\nforest now covered with growing hemp and tobacco re-\\nmind us of the trying days when the haughty Spaniard,\\nfortified upon the shores of the Mississippi, shut out our\\nproducts from the markets of the world. The roads first\\nmarked out by the sagacious buffalo, and afterward\\nadopted by the pioneer, with their summer s dust and\\ntheir winter s mud, have given place to macadam thor-\\noughfares and to railroads on which the iron horse,\\nunconscious of the burden of a thousand steeds behind\\nhim, bounds over hills, darts through mountains, springs\\nacross rivers, and speeds along plains with the velocity\\nof the eagle s flight. From our matchless rivers have\\ndisappeared the pirogue, the canoe, the keel, and the\\nbarge propelled by sluggish oars and sails, and in their\\nplaces we have those leviathans of omnipotent steam\\nwhich glide along with their immeasurable cargoes as if the\\nopposing winds and currents were but toys to allure them\\nto their play. The broad prairies and the evergreen\\ncanebrakes, on which the buffalo and the deer grew fat", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "88 The Kentucky Centenm^y.\\nfor the food of man, are seen no more, and in their\\nplaces the meadows of timothy and the pastures of bkie\\ngrass are the Eden of the Durhams and the Holsteins,\\nof the Southdowns and the Cotswolds. Orchards and\\nvineyards and gardens and nurseries surround happy\\nmansions on the hills and in the valleys and along the\\nplains where the wild woods grew. The whole face of\\nthe country has been changed as if touched by the\\nmagician s wand, and the wilderness has been made to\\nblossom as the rose.\\nTwo millions of inhabitants are spread over the one\\nhundred and twenty counties into which the state has\\nbeen divided, showing- an average increase of nineteen\\nthousand souls for every year of the century that closes\\nto-day. It is an intelligent, industrious, and progressive\\npopulation, engaged in most of the commendable pursuits\\nof civilization. They have opened agricultural and graz-\\ning and mineral lands, and erected manufactories, the\\nsurplus products of which go to enrich the markets of\\nthe world. They have built cities in different parts of\\nthe land, a single one of which has double the popu-\\nlation and many times the wealth of the entire state\\nwhen its independence began.\\nWhile reaching this increase of population, they have\\nmade mistakes in legislation, as all civilized peoples have", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 89\\ndone in every age and clime. They blundered in finance,\\nin 1 8 18, when they created forty independent banks, and\\nturned them loose to prey on the community with their\\npaper capital of nearly $8,000,000. They were quick to\\ndiscover their error, and at the end of two years\\nrepealed the charters of these moneyless institutions.\\nThey have since established two hundred and fifty banks\\nworthy to bear the name, which now meet the wants\\nof the community with their solid capital of $35,000,000.\\nThey blundered in 1820, when they began their wild\\nacts of relief, whose follies fed upon their own foolish-\\nness until they brought on that conflict between the old\\nCourt of Appeals and the new, which shook the com-\\nmonwealth to its center. Experience again brought them\\nwisdom, and they repealed the act establishing the new\\ncourt, and left the people to pay the debts they had\\ncontracted instead of looking to unconstitutional laws to\\navoid them. They blundered in internal improvements\\nuntil they found the state staggering under a load of\\ndebts, with little of valuable works to show for the\\nmoney they had cost and they blundered in the passage\\nof ill-digested laws, to be quickly repealed but with all\\ntheir follies of legislation, the wisdom of their acts was\\ngreatly in the ascendent.\\nThey have three times renewed their first organic", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nlaw, and each time made advances along the line of\\nenlightened progress. The constitution of 1 799 did away\\nwith the federal features of that of 1792, and brought\\nthe people nearer to the agents who were to administer\\ntheir government. The constitution of 1850 improved\\nupon that of 1799 in the interest of the people by\\nmaking almost all offices elective, and by opening wider\\nthe various avenues of progress. This was the first of\\nour organic laws which looked to the education of the\\npeople, and it began the great work by setting apart\\nforever in the cause of popular education, the million of\\ndollars obtained from the United States, with its increase\\nfrom other sources. The educational fund was, at that\\ntime, more than $1,300,000, and recently it has been\\nincreased by another $600,000 from the United States,\\nwhich, with other accumulations, will swell the school\\nfund to $2,300,000 at this date. It was under this\\nconstitution also that the old and meaningless forms of\\npleading, inherited from rude ages, were abolished, and\\ncodes of practice established in their stead. The last\\nconstitution, of 1891, has departed widely from the beaten\\ntrack of its predecessors and made radical changes, the\\nwisdom or the folly of which time alone can determine.\\nThe makers seem to have honestly struggled to meet\\nthe wants of an advanced and progressive people, and", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i8g2. 91\\nit remains to be seen whetlier the changed and ever\\nvarying conditions of our citizens have been sufficiently\\nprovided for in this instrument.\\nIn the interest of broad humanity, they passed the\\nact of 1 798, repealing the bloody code inherited from the\\nmother country, which made our people liable to be\\nhanged for no less than one hundred and sixty-five\\nenumerated crimes. We can hardly realize that as late\\nas 1 798 Kentuckians were subject to the death penalty\\nof the law for larceny, perjury, forgery, arson, obtaining\\nmoney under false pretenses, etc. They were a little\\nslow and stealthy in doing so, but they repealed that\\ndisgraceful law by which a man was punished at the\\nwhipping-post, by omitting this degrading penalty from\\nthe revised statutes of 1870. They have established\\nasylums for the insane, and schools for the blind and\\nthe deaf and dumb, and retreats for the aged and homes\\nfor the poor. Even their prisons are no longer those\\nsickening dungeons which came down from the dark\\nages, but decent houses of confinement where mercy\\nguards the victims and humanity allures them to reform.\\nLike prudent heirs who have not squandered the estate\\nbequeathed by their ancestors, they have not diminished\\nthe magnificent territory they obtained from Virginia, but\\nhave enlarged it. In the south-western corner of the", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 The Kenhtcky Centenary.\\nstate they acquired from the Chickasaw Indians,* in 1819,\\nseven millions of acres, out of which the flourishing coun-\\nties of McCracken, Ballard, Marshall, Carlisle, Calloway,\\nGraves, Hickman, and Fulton have been made. With\\na moral courage that never shrank from the candid ex-\\npression of opinions on important subjects, they gave to\\ntheir country the resolutions of 1 798-9 as the embodi-\\nment of the doctrine of state rights. These celebrated\\nresolutions have shaped the political faith of leading\\nparties ever since, and they seem destined to exert an\\nundiminished influence for all time to come.\\nThe farmer has laid aside the rude and clumsy helps\\nto his industry, and now uses implements which almost\\ndo his work for him. He opens his land and puts in\\nFor some cause unknown, these counties have always been\\nknown as the Jackson Purchase. Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson\\nwere the commissioners on the part of the United State who signed\\nthe treaty of October 19, 181 8, by which the Chickasaw Indians\\ngave up all their lands for an annuity of $20,000 a year for fifteen\\nyears and certain other payments and bounties set forth in the treaty.\\nThere was just as much reason for calling it the Shelby as the Jackson\\nPurchase, and indeed more, because the lands purchased were in Ken-\\ntucky and Shelby was a Kentuckian. Possibly the friends of Jackson\\nset forth this treaty as a merit in his presidential campaign in 1824,\\nand thus fixed the name of Jackson upon the purchase to the exclu-\\nsion of Shelby s.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Wedjiesday, jftme i8g2. 93\\nhis crop and cultivates it and gathers and prepares it\\nfor market by machinery that leaves him little to do\\nwith his hands. The mechanic who was a maker and\\nmender of all kinds of things has become a specialist,\\nand now we have an expert for every different occupa-\\ntion. The house that was built by the carpenter of\\n1792 now requires the services of the cabinetmaker, the\\njoiner, the plumber, the plasterer, the glazier, the painter,\\nthe mason, the turner, the upholsterer, and a dozen\\nothers, with an architect to direct the little army. Those\\ngreat civilizers of the world, the newspaper and the\\nprinting press, have advanced step by step in progressive\\nimprovements until they have almost reached perfection.\\nThere are newspapers in almost every village in the\\nstate, numbering something like three hundred in all,\\nand turning out at a single issue seven hundred and\\nfifty thousand impressions. There are printing presses\\nlike the great Hoe of the Courier Journal, with almost\\nhuman intelligence, that print and fold twenty-five thou-\\nsand eight-page papers in an hour. The first book\\nThis book grew out of a religious controversy in the Presby-\\nterian Church at Lexington, Ky. Adam Rankin, the author, was a\\nPresbyterian minister, and wanted the Psalms of David sung in his\\nchurch instead of the hymns of Watts. This question split his church\\nsome of the members going off with Rankin singing the Psalms of", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nprinted in the state was issued from the hand-press of\\nMaxwell Gooch, at Lexington, in 1793. It required\\nlong and weary months of labor to get out a small\\nedition of this little volume of ninety-six octavo pages.\\nSuch a book could now be sent out in a large edition\\nfrom one of our principal publishing houses in a single\\nweek. All over our broad land, free schools have been\\nestablished, in which the children of all citizens may\\nacquire a good business education. If they would then\\nextend their studies, there are private schools every-\\nwhere in which the higher branches of learning may be\\npursued and if they would yet go farther, there are\\ncolleges at Danville and Richmond and Lexington and\\nGeorgetown and Bardstown or St. Mary s, in which a\\nDavid, while others remained chanting the hymns of Watts. He came\\nto Kentucky in 1784, and was of such a controversial nature that he\\nkept things pretty lively about him. He was a man of talents and\\nof learning, but many of his acts were those of a fanatic. He\\ndreamed that the time had come for rebuilding Jerusalem, and set\\nout on a journey to witness the great work. He died on the way,\\nin Philadelphia, in 1827. Besides this first of Kentucky books, he\\nwas the author of Dialogues Pleasant and Interesting upon the all-\\nimportant Question in Church Government, Lexington, i8ro. He\\nwas also the author of A Plea for Catholic Communion, Letters\\nto a Brother, and several pamphlets, which had their run in his\\nday.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, Jtme i, i8g2. 95\\nfinished education may be obtained. There are medical\\nschools and law schools and theological schools and\\nschools of art and science and design and mechanics,\\nin which almost every branch of human knowledge is\\nopen to the student. There are public libraries and\\nassociation libraries and special libraries and private li-\\nbraries, where the best books of all ages and countries\\nare stored. Most of the leading religions of the times\\nare represented, and with all of them combined in the\\ninterest of human souls, there is scarcely a nook or\\ncorner in which prayer and song and preaching may not\\nbe heard. Many of the church edifices of our cities are\\nfine specimens of ecclesiastical architecture, and the ten-\\ndency is to make these structures yet more worthy of\\nthe sacred office to which they are devoted. In every\\npart of the state post-offices have been established, and\\nin the leading cities letters and packages are delivered\\nat the doors of those to whom they are addressed.\\nMore rapid than mail carriers in the transmission of\\nnews and knowledge there are telegraph wires through-\\nout the state, over which electricity flashes messages\\nregardless of time and space and there are telephone\\nwires over which the human voice, in conversational tones,\\nis heard at distances where the thunders would be silent.\\nThat mysterious energy which thunders in the storm-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "96 The KentiLcky Centenary.\\ncloud and gilds the darkness of the night with the glow\\nof the midday sun, has been made to move machinery\\nwith a velocity hitherto unknown, and to dispel the\\nshadows of the night. Passenger cars propelled by its\\ninvisible might glide along the thoroughfares of our cities,\\nand provisions are being made to make it the motive\\npower of locomotives to draw immense trains of cars\\nover the lines of the railroads extending over our vast\\ncountry. We call this subtle agency Electricity, and\\nassign to it possibilities for the future as great as its\\nmysteries are now and have been in the past. Steam\\nengines have been placed in every position in which\\npower is required. They ride on our railroads, they float\\non our rivers, they whirl in our factories, they know not\\nweariness, nor require rest. By day and by night, in\\nsunshine and in cloud, they cease not their mighty\\nefforts. They perform the work which the entire popu-\\nlation of the state could not do without them, and exist\\namong us as two millions of constant unwearying toilers.\\nOur people live in houses that differ from those of the\\nlast century as the palace of the prince differs from the\\nhovel of the peasant. In the Croghan house at Locust\\nGrove, and the Clark house at Mulberry Hill, both of\\nwhich have come down to us from the last century, we\\nhave specimens of the best styles of the houses erected", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, rSg2. 97\\nby our forefathers when they thought it safe to leave\\nthe forts and dwell in the open country. The Croghan\\nis a square house built of brick, one story high, with\\ntwo rooms on each side of a broad hall, while the Clark\\nis a parallelogram, built of hewed logs two stories high,\\nwith one room above and one below on each side of\\nthe hall. The style of the buildings that followed these\\npioneer structures was the basement house with steps\\nleading to the floor above the ground, and finally this\\nwas followed by what now prevails in a strange mixture\\nof the Gothic castle, the Italian villa, and the Elizabethan\\ncottage with the Virginian mansion. A few who prefer\\ncomfort to display yet build the old manor houses with\\nlarge rooms and broad halls, inclosed by plain but solid\\nwalls. The gas that lights and heats these houses, the\\nfurnaces that warm them, the water that flows through\\nthem, the photographs that hang on the walls, the\\nmachine-made furniture that adorns the rooms, the mat-\\ntresses of hair, the comforts of down, the porcelain, the\\nglass, the gilded knives and forks and spoons, the plated\\nware, and, in fact, nearly all the articles of luxury or\\ncomfort are the work of the century which has just\\nclosed. It may be added that new kinds of meats,\\ndrinks, breads, vegetables and fruits are now placed upon\\nthe table for breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, and supper at", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nhours that would not have been tolerated by the pio-\\nneers. We have bored into the deep-seated rocks of\\nthe earth, and penetrated great reservoirs of natural gas\\nheld down for untold ages by arches of anticlinal axes,\\nand laid long lines of iron pipes to conduct it to our\\nhomes and our factories. Its smokeless light and its\\ndirtless heat are as great improvements upon the coal\\nfire and artificial gas light of our times as these were\\nupon the wood fire and the tallow candle of our ances-\\ntors. We have had no dearth of historians to record\\nthese advances ot our country and people, there having\\nbeen no fewer than eighteen of them from Filson, in\\n1784, to Smith, in 1889; and yet there is room for one\\nmore to leave unsaid much that has been said, and to\\nsay much that has been left unsaid, and to say what is\\nto be said in a different style. We naturally incline to\\ngood opinions for John Filson, the first historian of Ken-\\ntucky, in honor of whom our club has been named, but\\nall prejudice aside, when we take into consideration the\\nlittle history the new state had to be written in 1784,\\nand allow for the superior deserts of his map of Ken-\\ntucky and life of Boone, we must candidly say that the\\nmerits of his history have not been surpassed by those\\nof any since written.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i iScj2. 99\\nMilitary Character.\\nWith a bravery worthy of the chivalrous race from\\nwhich they sprang, Kentuckians fought the Indian at\\nhome until his war-whoop no longer rang in the forest\\nand his scalping-knife no longer gleamed at the cabin\\ndoor. They followed him to Chillicothe and to Pickaway,\\nto the Mauniee and to the Tennessee, to his mountain\\nfastnesses and to his forest retreats, until, in 1794, at\\nthe Fallen Timbers, they dealt him that fatal and crush-\\ning blow from which he never sufficiently recovered to\\nreturn to his favorite fighting and hunting grounds. Nor\\nwas their bravery of that narrow kind which risks life\\nfor self alone. They fought under Harrison at Tippe-\\ncanoe and on the Thames, under Jackson at New Or-\\nleans, under Houston in Texas, and under Taylor and\\nScott in Me.xico and on every field they won a name\\nthat their descendants are proud to claim as a part of\\ntheir glorious inheritance. And alas when cruel fate\\ndecreed that their own country must suffer the horrors\\nof civil war, and that they must meet their brothers\\nand friends upon the field of battle, they shrank not\\nfrom the duty to which conscience called. They sent\\nto the Union army eighty thousand of their brave sons.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "loo The Keithicky Ce7ttenary.\\nand to the Confederate army half as many more, making\\nthe largest number in proportion to population contrib-\\nuted by any state to the civil war. They laid down\\ntheir lives on many a well-lought field under their Con-\\nfederate leaders, Johnston and Breckinridge and Preston\\nand Buckner and Morgan and Duke and Marshall, and\\nthey fought not less nobly under Union commanders.\\nDistinguished Kentuckians.\\nAll along the line of the century which closes its\\ncircle to-day, Kentuckians have made enviable names at\\nhome and abroad. Were we to attempt to enumerate\\nthem on this occasion, the day would pass and the\\ncoming night envelop us in its darkness before the list\\ncould be completed. We rejoice that among the first\\nof philanthropists, her gifted son, John Breckinridge,\\ndrafted the law of 1798 which did away with the death\\npenalty for all crimes except murder that her learned\\nlawyers, Harry Toulmin and James Blair, led the way\\nof modern codes when they issued their review of the\\ncriminal law in 1804; that her ingenious inventors, John\\nFitch and James Rumsey, had mastered the principles\\nof the steamboat in 1787; and that Thomas H. Barlow\\ninvented the Planetarium and made a model of the first", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, ytcne i, i8g2. loi\\nlocomotive in 1826. They point with pride to their\\ndistinguished surgeons, Walter Brashear/ who, in 1806,\\nfirst amputated the thigh at the hip joint, and Ephraim\\nMcDowell, who became the father of ovariotomy in 1809.\\nTwo presidents of the United States and four vice-\\npresidents first saw the light in Kentucky homes, and\\nanother of her favored sons was chief executive of the\\nConfederate States. They have been United States cab-\\ninet officers and justices and speakers and ministers\\nabroad, and have filled the highest ranks in the army\\nand navy. They have been the governors, the lieutenant-\\ngovernors, the legislators, and the judges of sister states.\\nSuch statesmen as Clay and Crittenden, such orators as\\nMenifee and Marshall, such journalists as Prentice and\\nPenn, such poets as O Hara and Cosby, such artists as\\nJouett and Hart, have made fame for themselves and\\ntheir state which bore their names to every portion of\\nthe civilized world. I refrain from allusions to the dis-\\ntinguished living, though the effort at suppression is\\nhard, knowing as I do that any enumerating of them\\nwould require more time than can be given on this\\noccasion.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I02 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nThe Future.\\nWe may not presume to peer into the dark unknown\\nand attempt to foretell what is to come but the data\\nof the past and the present are suggestive of the future.\\nNone of us now present can hope to witness another\\nKentucky centenary. All of us will be laid to rest with\\nthe occupants of our cities of the dead before this day\\ncan make its return. Even those who shall then be\\nhere will not, probably, see our population increased by\\nsuch a ratio as accompanied the years ol the century\\njust closed. Half a dozen or more millions may then\\nbe here engaged in the different pursuits of life. They\\nwill not abandon the municipalities, nor those blue grass\\nlands perennially enriched by the decaying limestone on\\nwhich they rest but a new center of population and\\nindustry and wealth will be then found in our mineral\\nregions. The coal and iron underlying twelve thousand\\nsquare miles of mountainous country that the pioneers\\ndeemed of no practical use, will give to these lands a\\nvalue beyond that of the blue grass fields. The coal\\nwill be lifted from its bed of ages, and sent abroad to\\nwarm the people and move the machinery of the world.\\nThe iron will be mined and welded into bands to unite", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Wed7tesday, yttne i, i8g2. 103\\nthe nations of the earth. Railroads will rush through\\nthe mountain valleys, and furnaces and factories will\\nglow along their lines. A hardy population of miners\\nwill build their cottages upon the hillsides and mountain\\nslopes, and the rugged country will be changed from a\\nwilderness to a region of picturesque beauty. The\\nmountaineers thus brought in contact with enlighten-\\ning industries, and in full view of the glories of the\\nadvancing world around them, may cease those vendettas\\nwhich have disgraced humanity, and become an indus-\\ntrious, thriving, and progressive people. With half a\\ndozen millions of inhabitants farming upon our blue grass\\nplains, and mining in our mountains, and grazing stock\\nupon our hills, and manulacturing in our cities, and cul-\\ntivating the arts and the sciences every-where, Ken-\\ntuckians of the century to come may rejoice in the\\nblessings of a country as far in advance of ours as the\\none we enjoy is beyond that of the pioneers.\\nThe frowning mountains and the rugged hills\\nWill yield to plastic art; and, to the hum\\nOf wheels and the ring of anvils, uncounted\\nJoyous tongues will swell Industry s chorus\\nUntil the earth, the waters, and the air\\nResound with the harmonies of progress.\\nOnward, still onward and forever, will\\nI", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I04 TJie Kentucky Centenary.\\nBe the watchward until millions of feet\\nThreading the byways of spreading commerce\\nAnd myriads of hands manipulating\\nThe useful arts have made the wilderness\\nOf the everlasting, rock-ribbed mountains\\nTo blossom as the rose.\\nWhen that glorious time shall come, we who close\\nthe first and open the second century of our statehood\\nto-day, will not be forgotten by those who may partici-\\npate in the second centenary but we may be remem-\\nbered as a happy people on an emerald isle in the\\nmidst of the river of centuries, whose joyous voices\\nresounding through the ages and mingling with those\\non the shore of 1 792 and with those on the shore of\\n1992 will unite them into one grand harmony o{ kindred\\nsounds.\\nAT the close of President Durrett s address, the\\norchestra played My Old Kentucky Home.\\nVice-President Johnston then introduced Major\\nHenry Stanton, who had been chosen by the club as\\nthe poet of the occasion, and in doing so spoke as\\nfollows", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i8g2. 105\\nVice-President Johnston s Remarks.\\nSome one has said of a state or nation: Let\\nme make its ballads, and I care not who makes its\\nlaws. That the inlhience and province of the poet\\nshould be thus elevated over those of the legislator will\\nstrike a chord of sympathy and appreciative confirmation\\nin the mind of Kentuckians at this trying period, when\\nour law-makers are endeavoring to legislate for the next\\nhundred years, can hardly be doubted by the intelligent\\nreader of the press of the day. In recognition of this\\nsentiment, we propose to supplement the work of the\\nhistorian with the muse ot poesy, and from the con-\\ntemplation of constitutional and statutory law to turn to\\nthe more pleasing enjoyment of one of those ballads\\nwhich are supposed to inspire a people with elevated\\nlove of country. The poet who has been selected for\\nthis honor is a Kentuckian known to you all, and needs\\nno introduction at my hands the poet laureate of Ken-\\ntucky, Major Henry T. .Stanton.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io6 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nKentucky.\\nBY H. T. STANTON.\\nIN yester afternoon to count as one\\nA century of circuits round the sun\\nAnd call it but a day just when the maze\\nOf dusk was falling over forest ways\\nTo shroud them from the sight ere twilight came\\nTo fleck expanse with glints of worlds aflame,\\nAnd drop the spangles from her corslet band\\nDown through the drab that overspread the land,\\nE er Night, that of the nadir newly born.\\nRode o er the zenith in the van of Morn,\\nAnd drove the old, and cleared the upper way.\\nTo smooth a passage for the newer Day;\\nIn that lost eve on which the shadow lies\\nAnd mists that intervene are slow to rise.\\nWhat scenes were here? What lines were on the face\\nOf this, the new day s blooming garden place\\nThe world looks back to find what it has lost,\\nThrough sweeping flood, and fire, and blighting frost,\\nTo see again the flitted things it knew.\\nIn far, familiar ways it wandered through;", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "HENRY T. STANTON,", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yuiie i, i8g2. lo;\\nTo live again the mining days of old\\nAnd from its piled debris wash other gold.\\nAh, well may pause the world to wonder why\\nIts days are not forgotten when they die\\nWhy from their graves within the long ago\\nSome things sometimes must come without to show\\nTo steadfast eyes that penetrate the dark,\\nFrom o er the sea may gleam the light-house spark.\\nAnd through the mists that widely spread away\\nMay glance the silver spears of breaking day;\\nBut unto eyes that backward, fitful turn.\\nNo morn shall break, no lamp at midnight burn.\\nIn that lost eve, within this bound there stood\\nOne in the pride of pure young maidenhood\\nOne poised, erect and perfect in the grace\\nThat fits the girl-child for the grander place.\\nOne conscious of her strain, and proud to know\\nHow pure the tide that kept her veins aflow\\nWho looked abroad and in her regal mein\\nBetrayed the frontage of the mother queen\\nFrom out that closing day she sprang to life\\nA princess-leader in the fields of strife;\\nA leader by her right of royal strain\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA leader by her higher right of brain.\\nFirst born of proud Virginia, and the first\\nTo leave the bosom she had fondly nurst,\\nShe saw her way to gain the world s renown.\\nTo win a kingdom, and to wear a crown;", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "io8 The Keniucky Centenary.\\nAnd breaking through her mother s rugged bound\\nShe came to build her throne on conquered ground-\\nAnd proud, and pure, and beautiful she stood,\\nThe young Kentucky in her maidenhood.\\nOf what her girl-days knew before the hour\\nIn whi h the swollen bud became the flower;\\nOf how o er weed and thorn she proudly rose\\nTo where the sun unlocked her petal close,\\nAnd through the cunning of his perfect art\\nLooked on the dew that sparkled at her heart;\\nBefore the contrast came with growth around\\nThat proved her princess of the primal ground,\\nBefore the native rudeness of the place\\nBetrayed the fullness of her maiden grace,\\nIf it be told in story fairly well,\\nSome other tongue, some other time must tell.\\nShut out from civil bound by rivers deep,\\nBy forests dark, and mountains high and steep.\\nBy rocks, ravines and rude, forbidding lines\\nOf gnarled laurels and of tangled vines,\\nThe Unknown Land, that on the sunset rim\\nStretched over distance limitless and dim,\\nLay with its spread of plain, and vale, and hill,\\nBeyond the eye, mysterious and still.\\nTo daring hunter and explorer bold\\nUnbroken stood the fastness of its hold.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 109\\n^Vhile, south and westward, dimly stretched away,\\nWith range on range the bristled mountains lay\\nThe Blue Ridge, Smoky, Clinch and Cunibcrlnnd\\nToward the sky, precii)iious and grand,\\nAs if to bar from man s ambitious quests\\nThe dark beyond, upheld their cloud-hid crests.\\nWith no brave hand to grasp and put aside\\nThe thorny hedging of its thickets wide,\\nAnd no sure foot to make its toilsome trail\\nFrom peak to farther peak, and vale to vale;\\nFor centuries, this now historic bound\\nRemained to civil man untrodden ground.\\n.\\\\X last, where waters beautiful define\\nThe fair meanders of her northern line,\\nThe straying Franc came down and dimly viewed\\nThe marge of its unbroken solitude;\\nThen Howard, Walker, Gist and James McBride,\\nWith other bold, ambitious souls allied,\\nCame in the bound and blazed some minor ways\\nThat gave their names to life for after days\\nThey touched, in honor of their spreading race,\\nSome narrow confines of this silent place\\nBut none there were, in that lost afternoon,\\nTo break and hold the close, till dauntless Boone\\nTill, from his hiding far beyond the line,\\nBy highest peak and lowest vale s incline,\\nThrough courses that the bison and the deer\\nHad dimly graven in the darkness here.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "no TJic Ke/ihicky Ceule/iary\\nHe came from out the midst of civil bands\\nTo build his home in rich, remoter lands.\\nFrom where the peaceful Yadkin, flowing free,\\nBends through the Carolinas to the sea,\\nBy such a path as never human feet\\nThe dangers of the dark had dared to meet,\\nTo where the Licking and Kentucky slide\\nTheir southward channels to the hot gulf-tide,\\nHe came and traced their leaf-embowered lines\\nTo where the blue Ohio marks our north confines.\\nOf how he struggled with his meager band\\nFrom waste to win this fair and fruitful land\\nOf how, unfriended, and almost alone.\\nHis might against a multitude was thrown\\nOf how he met the warring savage face to face.\\nAnd warring with him won, and held the place\\nOf how, from ambush and from open fight.\\nFrom scalping-knife by day, and torch by night.\\nFrom all the cunning of remorseless hands\\nHe won and held these green Kentucky lands,\\nLet clear historic lines and scriptions fair\\nOn living trees and rocks the truth declare.\\nLet those who from the dust of slow decay\\nWould keep in light the doings of his day.\\nWith careful eyes look through that afternoon\\nFor fadeless relics of the fearless Boone.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yiine 18(^2. i i i\\nThrough him, the maid, Kentucky, o er that wild,\\nAs proud Virginia s proud and peerless child\\nIn nature free, and pure, and diamond-bright,\\nAs new-born waters breaking on the light\\nBy rivers, hills and vale-ways, every-where,\\nIn lowlands shade and uplands sun-light glare,\\nWith feet unshrinking and with will unbent\\nHer stately way to final statehood went\\nNor aught of danger, or of savage force\\nCould stay her passage, or could bend her course.\\nThrough him, she saw her clear and open way.\\nBeyond the darkness, to the shining day;\\nThrough him she knew that on foundations great\\nWould rise the granite columns of her State;\\nAnd still, through him, o er mountain, vale and plain,\\nThe long-enduring glory of her reign.\\nOf this, to clear and tuneful silver string,\\nThe coming bard his hundred songs may sing.\\nThe coming poet in his verse disclose\\nThis budding and this blooming of the rose\\nBut at this time, and in this natal hour.\\nOur song is of the blown and perfect flower.\\nA hundred years ago, this rich June day,\\nKentucky left her glowing, girlhood way.\\nAnd under boughs of fresh-appearing green,\\nPut off the Princess and took on the Queen;\\nAnd on this ground, unto the world unknown,\\nShe reared the splendor of her golden throne", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "I I 2 The KenttLcky Centenary.\\nFrom blood-stained leaves that strewed her forests great\\nShe wove and wore her purple robes of state,\\nAnd from her vale-ways, under mountain brown\\nShe bought the laurels that became her crown.\\nA hundred years ago, in that past noon,\\nWhen this Queen rosebud burst upon the June,\\nWhen from the wild, in native splendor drest.\\nUprose the first proud mistress of the West,\\nThe mother queen, beyond the mountain chain.\\nSang greeting to her peerless daughter s reign,\\nSang greeting to the glory of her child\\nThat broke the civil bound and braved the wild\\nThat so through test of sweeping fire and flood\\nHad shown the coursing of her royal blood.\\nNo longer now, the savage made his rounds\\nAmong Kentucky s prehistoric mounds,\\nNo longer on the bison s lickward track\\nWas heard his whoop and deadly rifle s crack,\\nAnd o er Ohio s waters, still and blue,\\nNo longer sped his silent war canoe\\nThe unknown land had wakened from her dream.\\nThe night had passed and morning reigned supreme.\\nA sovereign, in this sovereignty of States,\\nShe marched within the new Republic s gates.\\nAnd proud, and strong, and undismayed,\\nUnto the Union pledged her shining blade;", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "IVediiesday, yuiie i, iSg2. 113\\nHer faith she gave, as one of that free few,\\nAgainst a common foe, her part to do\\nTo hold the compact and its terms fulfill,\\nAs ally bound, but else, the sovereign still;\\nAnd through this reach of intervening years\\nWhat faith has been more nobly kept than hers\\nWhen on the lake-line, north, and further west,\\nThe savage war-cry rose, she sent her best,\\nAnd every field and bloody battle plain\\nWas sanctified and hallowed by her slain\\nWhen Packenham, with England s proudest means,\\nSwept boldly down on salient New Orleans,\\nWho held the sacred bonds of union then\\nLike young Kentucky s stalwart riflemen?\\nAnd when in later days we came to know\\nThe sanguine fields of ancient Mexico,\\nWhat braver troo[)s than hers, were braver led\\nWhat nobler blood than hers more nobly shed\\nAt once, as if some potent unseen hand\\nHad brought its magic to the new known land.\\nThe shadows of her forests lost their gloom\\nAnd gave the world a wilderness of bloom.\\nWhere trails through gap and bowldered canon lay\\nThe burdened wlieels of commerce wore their way.\\nAnd from the old unto the new abodes\\nWere builded safe, and wide, and open roads.\\nWhile to the silence of her bounding stream\\nThere came the creaking oar and hissing steam.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "I 14 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nNo longer now, to spoiling bands\\nWere left her verdant courses\\nNo longer now, to waste, her lands\\nGave up their vital forces\\nThe white man s genius swept the plain\\nWith ax, and scythe, and fire,\\nTo fell the brakes of useless cane\\nAnd stop the spreading brier.\\nWhere shoots of forest growth stood o er\\nAnil held their revel under\\nHis shining steel went down and tore\\nTheir massing roots asunder\\nHe broke the glebe and turned the sod\\nTo fit the soil for sowing,\\nTo give this garden-spot of God\\nIts proper seed for growing.\\nHe felled the trees to rive the bonds\\nThat locked his fertile closes,\\nAnd where the fern-beds grew their fronds\\nHe cleared a place for roses\\nWhere once the old log-cabin stood,\\nA fortress and a prison.\\nHis better home, of smoother wood,\\nOr brick, or stone, had risen.\\nWhile on his wheat-land seas the rays\\nFrom sun-lit shocks were glowing,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. i i\\nHis armied plains of stately maize\\nTheir dark-green ranks were showing\\nAnd cattle on his thousand hills\\nIn knee-deep grass went straying,\\nWhile in his valleys busy mills\\nTheir labor-tunes were playing.\\nAnd, day by day, with muscle strong,\\nFrom out her struggle gory,\\nThe young Kentucky moved along\\nHer upland way to glory\\nAnd all the sloth within her lines.\\nFrom slumber long awakened,\\nAnd all the germs of earth s confines\\nIn up])er light were quickened.\\nWhere mossing rock and stubborn oak,\\nAnd ])ine, and fir environ,\\nShe gave lier miner s sturdy stroke\\nTo veins of coal and iron\\nShe delved the land and brought to light\\nFrom under shafts and ditches,\\nHer sinews of commercial might.\\nHer store of hidden riches.\\nAnd first, this side the eastern range.\\nTo sunlight s western dying,\\nBy urban site, and upland grange,\\nHer wheels of steam went flying", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ii6 The Kentucky Ceiiteiiary\\nAnd first in all this Western spread\\nShe built her signal stations,\\nAnd laid the great electric thread\\nThrough which she spoke to nations.\\nAnd first was she, by true foresight.\\nHer statesmen sons in session,\\nFor universal suffrage right,\\nTo boldly give expression\\nShe knew this great Republic s aim.\\nIts object-points and motors,\\nAnd to the world she dared proclaim\\nThe sovereign right of voters.\\nBy genius grand, by moral force.\\nBy muscle-strain and bleeding,\\nThis splendid empire s westward course,\\nShe won the right of leading\\nAnd newer States, and newer time.\\nAnd newer courses taken.\\nHave left Kentucky s right sublime\\nTo lead and rule, unshaken.\\nThroughout the North, and South, and West,\\nTo shores the sea-foam laces,\\nKentucky s sons, as first and best,\\nAre called to highest places\\nThis great republic s great among,\\nWhen wisdom s ways are darkened.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i i8g2. 1 1 7\\nThe clear and free Kentucky tongue\\nBy all the world is harkened.\\nOn this, her sacred natal day,\\nA hundred years gone over,\\nWith stately step she goes her way\\nThrough blooming fields of clover\\nAnd never June came with its green\\nFor richer, deeper staining,\\nThan comes this June to that proud queen\\nWho ripens in her reigning.\\nTo-day, throughout her mountain vales.\\nHer furnaces are glowing.\\nAnd every-where her singing rails\\nTheir commerce-ways are going\\nWhile old retorts give up their casts\\nTo sandy groove and furrow.\\nGrand Rivers comes with newer blasts\\nAnd Ashland, Middlesborough\\nAnd all the midnight skies reveal\\nTheir leaping tongues of fire.\\nAs, mass on mass, their ingot steel\\nThese plants are piling higher.\\nAnd busy forges beat their ware\\nWith swinging sledge and hammer.\\nAnd busy nail-mills fill the air\\nWith labor s mighty clamor.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "1 1 8 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nThrough careful science, finer ores\\nAnd richer coals are showing,\\nAnd onward still, to golden shores.\\nOur ships of search are going\\nWilli steady march Kentucky s way\\nIs through her science forces,\\nAnd no frail mortal s arm can stay\\nThe progress of her courses.\\nHail to the Queen the fairest and the best\\nThat ever yet has reigned in this wide West,\\nThat from her royal mother s mountain bound.\\nCame through, to grace and glorify the ground.\\nHail to the Queen who on this frowning wild,\\nLooked with her sun-lit eyes until it smiled;\\nWho in the darkness of a land unknown\\nBuilt up the golden splendor of her throne.\\nGod save the Queen who shows her right to reign\\nBy royal flow of blood and strength of brain,\\nWho rules and leads and keeps her forward way\\nToward the endless light of endless day.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "M/^ed7zes(iay, Jtine i8g2. 119\\nThe Centennial Banquet.\\nAT eight o clock in the evening, the Ordinary\\nof the Gait House, tastefully decorated with\\nflowers, was thrown open to the guests. At\\nthe center of the table, which was set in the form of\\na horseshoe, was a pyramid of smilax interspersed with\\nflowers, that reminded one of a picturesque bed of rocks\\nin the pioneer wilderness covered with vines and blos-\\nsoms. Behind this handsome ornament was the seat of\\nthe president of the club, so situated that every guest\\nat the table was in view. At the entrance door was\\nplaced Eichorn s string band, which discoursed appro-\\npriate music as the guests approached and took their\\nseats. The following is a list of those members of the\\nclub who contributed to the expense of the banquet and\\nof those who partook of it, and of the invited guests\\nwho were present\\nHon. Charles Anderson.\\nAlexander John Alexander.\\nJohn B. Atkinson.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "I 20 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nMrs. John B. Atkinson.\\nMiss Mary Lee Alexander.\\nHon. Horatio \\\\Y. P)ruce.\\nMrs. Hon. Horatio W. Bruce.\\nA. M. Brown.\\nGeo. G. Brown.\\nMrs. Geo. G. Brown.\\nMiss Lucia Blain.\\nColonel Joseph C. Breckinridge.\\nMajor Thos. W. Bullitt.\\nMrs. Major Thos. W. Bullitt.\\nTemple Bodly.\\nE. C. Bohne.\\nDr. Thos. Bohannon.\\nMrs. Dorothea Berthel.\\nSt. John Boyle.\\nRev. L. A. IManton.\\nArchibald W. Butt.\\nGeneral Cassius M. Clay.\\nJohn B. Carlisle.\\nMrs. Dr. David Cummins.\\nHon. James E. Cantrill.\\nMrs. Hon. James E. Cantrill.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, yune r rS()2. 1 2 i\\nMiss Mamie Casscdy.\\nRobert Cochran.\\nA. R. Cooper.\\nColonel Andrew Cowan.\\nGeneral John R. Castleman.\\nMrs. General John 11 Castleman.\\nReuben T. Durrett.\\nDr. Wm. T. Durrett.\\nMrs. Dr. Wm. T. Durrett.\\nColonel John Dils.\\nGeo. M. Davie.\\nMajor Wm. J. Davis.\\nMrs. Major Wm. J. Davis.\\nHon. Samuel E. DeHaven.\\nGeneral Basil W. Duke.\\nMiss Julia B. Duke.\\nGeneral John Echols.\\nMrs. General John Echols.\\nRobert J. Elliott.\\nMrs. Kate Elliott.\\nHon. Charles Eaves.\\nMrs. Hon. Charles Eaves.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 TJu Kentucky Cenfettary\\nD. 11. French.\\nWin. Finley.\\nWin. D. Gallagher.\\nHoward M. Griswold.\\nMrs. Sarah J. Gamble.\\nT. M. Goodnight.\\nRev. John 1 lr\\\\ wood.\\nJohn T. Hogan.\\nAlfred W. Harris.\\nMiss Annie J. Hamilton.\\nEd. T. Halsey.\\nA. H. Hovey.\\nJ. P. Helm.\\nMiss Lucinda Helm.\\nCharles Hermany.\\nMrs. Charles Hermany.\\nMiss Madeline Hermany.\\nMiss Mary Johnston.\\nColonel R. M. Kelley.\\nMrs. Colonel R. M. Kelley.\\nJ. G. Kinnaird.\\nR. W. Knott.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, yune i. i6(/2. 123\\nHon, W m. Lindsay-\\nMrs- Hon, WiTL Lindsay.\\nJ- W. Lewis.\\nR- J- Menefee.\\nMrs. R- J. Menefee.\\nBur\u00c2\u00bb-eU K. Marshall\\nA, V. McKay.\\nMajor H. C. McDowell\\nHon, James S. Pirtle.\\nMrs. Hon- James S- Prrde-\\nEh-- X- Porter.\\nDr. Robert Peter.\\nW. T. Po)nter.\\nDr. Thos. E. Pickett.\\nMiss Kate Palmer.\\nMiss Kate Powell\\nJohn Roberts.\\nO- W. Root.\\nGeo. \\\\V. Ranck-\\nMrs- Espes Randolph,\\nJohn C. Russe\\nHon- Z. F. Smith.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124 Kentucky Centenaty.\\nMrs. Hon. Z. F. Smith.\\nMajor Henry T. Stanton.\\nMiss Ruth Stanton.\\nMiss Ida Elmore Symmes.\\nGeo. W. Swearingen.\\nCaptain Thomas Speed.\\nMrs. Captain Thomas Speed.\\nD. W. Stone.\\nMiss Jessie Stewart.\\nMajor D. W. Sanders.\\nGeo. D. Todd.\\nJames Weir.\\nHon. John D. White.\\nMrs. Hon. John D. White.\\nR. A. Watts.\\nMrs. R. A. Watts.\\nMiss Annie Wilson.\\nRev. Wm. H. Whitsett.\\nMrs. Louise Elliston Yandell.\\nMalcolm Yeaman.\\nJohn W. Yerkes.\\nMrs. John W. Yerkes.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jftme i, i8g2. 125\\nWhen the guests were all seated, Rev. Win. H.\\nWhittsett, at the request of President Uurrett, asked a\\nblessing.\\nThe Bill of Fare.\\nClear Consomme.\\nSalted Almonds.\\nBaked Red Snapper, Chambord. Sherry.\\nNew Potatoes.\\nSweetbread, Saute. Haute Sauterne.\\nNew Green Peas.\\nRoman Punch.\\nCold Roast Mutton. Pontet Canet.\\nNew Cauliflower.\\nSpring Chicken on Toast. Pomeroy Sec.\\nNew Asparagus.\\nLettuce and Tomatoes, Mayonnaise.\\nAssorted Cakes.\\nFruit. Ice Cream. Strawberries.\\nCoffee.\\nToasts and Responses.\\nAt ten o clock. President Durrett, who occupied a\\nseat at the head of the table and acted as master of\\nceremonies, rose and spoke as follows", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126 The Kentucky Centenaiy.\\nLadies and Gentlemen As President of the Filson\\nClub, it becomes my duty to act as toast-master on tliis\\noccasion. I am not going, however, to follow the exam-\\nple of some officials of this kind of whom I have heard,\\nand do most of the speaking myself. I am not going\\nto propose any toast that needs comment or explanation\\nfrom me, and I shall leave the respondents to do the\\nspeaking. We have commemorated the day with prayer,\\nwith introductory addresses, with a historic oration, with\\na patriotic poem, and with music but the commemora-\\ntion could not have been complete without this banquet,\\nwith its toasts and responses yet to be heard. Banquets\\nsimilar to this were the fashion at the time Kentucky\\nseparated from Virginia and became an independent state.\\nOur forefathers, during the first years of the Republic,\\nnever neglected to celebrate the anniversary of the 2 2d\\nof February, the birthday of Washington, and the 4th of\\nJuly, the birthday of the Declaration of Independence,\\nwith banquets and toasts. They could think of no\\nhappier way oi honoring these memorable days than to\\ncelebrate them with food for the body and sentiment\\nfor the soul and it may well be doubted whether we\\ncan improve upon their estimate of such things. While,\\ntherefore, we have been filled with contentment by savory\\ndishes, and with liveliness by inspiring wines, let us", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i8g2. 127\\nfollow the example of our forefathers with toasts and\\nresponses. The first toast I have to propose is, The\\nFirst President, and I call upon Judge Lindsay to\\nrespond to it.\\nI. THE FIRST PRESIDENT.\\nRESPONSE OF HON. WM. LINDSAY.\\nIt is most appropriate that Washington shall be first\\nnamed upon this historic anniversary. In December,\\n1 789, he recommended the admission of the District of\\nKentucky into the Union as a sovereign state, and two\\nyears afterward approved the act providing for that\\nadmission. I have somewhere read of a traveler, whose\\nname I can not recall, who had visited every portion\\nof the habitable globe, who said that in every country\\nin which the story of the great American Republic had\\nbeen told the name of Washington was received with\\nthe respect and reverence due him as the grandest\\ncharacter in history. Not because he was a successful\\nsoldier, who converted seven years of disaster and dis-\\nappointment into ultimate and overwhelming success, nor\\nbecause he proved himself a statesman equal to the\\ncreation of a nation upon the untried problem of the\\ncapacity of man for self-government, but because to his\\nsoldiership and statesmanship he added the crowning", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128 TJie Kentucky Centenary.\\ngrace and virtue of absolute and unselfish love of coun-\\ntry and of his countrymen.\\nIt was by the exercise of his great influence upon\\nthe people whose liberties he had won that the states\\nwere persuaded to accept the compromise of the consti-\\ntution. Time and investigation have dimmed the laurels\\nof some of those who served the Revolutionary cause\\nto gratify their ambition for personal renown, but not so\\nwith Washington. His fame increases as his character\\nis discussed and his conduct investigated. Kentuckians,\\nAmericans, honor him and venerate him to-day more\\nthan ever before, and our children s children will be\\ntaught to look to him as the great exemplar of the\\nperfect American citizen and American patriot.\\nThe part taken by Washington in preparing the\\npublic mind for the convention of the states to frame\\nthe constitution, in directing the labors of the conven-\\ntion, and presenting the advantages of the more perfect\\nunion to those who feared the destruction of the states,\\nhas never been sufficiently understood or appreciated.\\nIn all these things, he was the master spirit, whose\\nmoderation in counsel and courage in action led to re-\\nsults that others, however eminent or patriotic, would\\nhave labored in vain to accomplish. Public positions,\\nwith him, were essentially public trusts. He sought no", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yiinc i8g2. 129\\nplace and shrank from no responsibilily. He was called\\nby Congress to be commander-in-chief of the American\\narmies. He was called by the people to the presidency\\nof the new government, and when, after he had declined\\na re-election and retired to his home to resume the\\nwalks of private life, and war with France was threat-\\nened, all eyes turned to him as the one who should\\nagain lead the American armies to victory. No man\\never received so many and so great honors at the hands\\nof a grateful people, and no man ever wore his honors\\nwith greater modesty or more unassuming dignity.\\nThe world at large has given him credit for his\\ngrandeur of character, and wherever a people are look-\\ning forward to the day of their deliverance from the\\nshackles of despotism,\\nWashington s a watchword such as ne er\\nShall sink while there s an echo left in air.\\nII. ISAAC SHELBY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY.\\nRESPONSE OF HON. ALEX. P. HUMPHREY.\\nIt has been one hundred years since Isaac Shelby\\nwas chosen as the first governor of Kentucky. Our\\nminds can not fail to be startled at the changes time\\nhas wrought. But instead of this, take as more pertinent", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 The KentiLcky Centenary.\\nthe period of his own life. He was born in 1750 and\\ndied in 1826. What events of moment to Kentucky, to\\nAmerica, to mankind, passed under his eye More per-\\ntinent still is the part he played on this great theater\\nof human action.\\nThere are some periods in the world s history in\\nwhich the picture of individual conduct, however impor-\\ntant, with however much of energy or boldness of thought\\nor deed, becomes as nothing in the great frame of\\nprogress. The current of events rushes along with a\\nsweep so mighty that every thing seems to partake of\\nthe movement, becoming merely a part of it, and in\\nnothing to aid or influence it. A closer view will show\\nus that the appearance is not reality. There has hap-\\npened a combination of marvelous and unwonted individ-\\nual forces, which, inspired by one purpose and pressing\\ntoward one aim, seem to have become a single impulse.\\nGovernor Shelby was a colonial soldier, a Revolu-\\ntionary soldier, and a soldier in the war of 181 2. No\\none understood better than he that the inspiration of\\npatriotism which hurried him forward to every post of\\ndanger, stirred the officers with whom he commanded and\\nthe soldiers with whom he fought. One of his last\\nutterances was an indignant protest against an unjust\\ncriticism upon the riflemen who went with him from the", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jftme i8g2. 1 3 i\\nback settlements to arrest the progress of Lord Corn-\\nwallis and when Congress proposed to thank him for\\nhis conduct at the battle of the Thames, he refused to\\nallow it unless the name of General Harrison was men-\\ntioned in the same connection.\\nThere is a romantic interest imparted to his conflicts\\nwith the western Indians by the circumstance that, in\\n1774, he took part in defeating Cornstalk in the great\\nbattle of Point Pleasant, and in 1813, rode at the head\\nof his Kentucky riflemen against Tecumseh.\\nHe was at all times the typical American.\\nIf there is one thing which has done more than\\nany other to make this Republic strong, independent, and\\nfree, it is the readiness with which the American citizen\\nbecomes the American soldier, and the equal readiness\\nwith which the American soldier becomes the American\\ncitizen. To follow the arts of peace to pursue it to\\nshun war to make it the last resort if it comes, to\\nstep from the plow to the ranks at a moment s call\\nwhen war is over, to have done with it, and to step\\nout of the ranks back to the plow such must be the\\nconduct of a people who are long to be free. The\\ngreatest examples of true glory ever given by the Amer-\\nican people consist in the disbandment of the army of\\nthe Revolution and of the army of the Union.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nLooking at Governor Shelby s military career we\\nare struck by the fact that he never cared to be a\\nsoldier except when his side was getting the worst of it.\\nIn the darkest hours of the Revolution he abandoned\\nhis home and kept the field until the tide of war was\\ncompletely turned. It was the defeat of Ferguson at\\nKing s Mountain that let in a great flood of light and\\nhope upon the despondent cause of independence. The\\nnews of Raisin made him lay aside all scruples. Issu-\\ning his proclamation that his riflemen should meet him\\nat Newport, he was at the rendezvous at the appointed\\ntime, and so were they. Once out of Kentucky he was\\nwithout legal authority to command. But he no more\\ncared for this than did they. He knew his men and\\nthey knew him. No highland chief was ever surer of the\\nabsolute devotion of his clansmen than he was of the\\nloyalty of these riflemen of Kentucky. Old King s\\nMountain will lead us to victory was their watchword.\\nHe was twice governor, both times consenting to\\nserve only because he felt in duty bound not to refuse.\\nHe declined to be appointed secretary of war, although\\noffered the place by President Monroe. He was a true\\nson of the soil. His beautiful farm Traveller s Rest, he\\ncalled it, so that all might know how willing was his\\nhospitality and the enjoyment of its peaceful pursuits", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, ytine i, i8 ^2. 133\\nwith his family about him, tliis was what he never will-\\ningly left, and to which he was always eager to return.\\nI attempt no extended sketch of him. I give you\\nno catalogue of his civic and military honors and\\nachievements. If you are not aware of them you\\nknow nothing of the history of your state, nor of what\\ndebt you owe to those who have made all this possible\\nto you. I want you to banish the present scene from\\nyour mind to look into the past and see if you can\\nnot conjure up this strong figure from among the\\nshadows. There he stands at the door of his home.\\nHis broad acres lie far and near, smiling under a sum-\\nmer sun. He is exultant in all the happiness that home\\nand family can bring. To friend or stranger guest he\\nextends the warmest greeting.\\nYou see him again, his face lighted with another\\nglow as he hears of British incursion or Indian foray.\\nYou see him leap into the saddle, his rifle across the\\nbow and away he rides, and there are the trusty\\nriflemen behind him. Let them who will, and if they\\nwill, let them who can, bar the way.\\nFleet foot on the correi,\\nSage counsel in cumber.\\nRed hand in the foray,\\nHow sound is thy slumber.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 KenttLcky Centenary.\\n111. DANIEL BOONE.\\nRESPONSE OF MAJOR WM. J. DAVIS.\\nI.\\nOver the south door of the rotunda in the Capitol\\nat Washington is commemorated in sculpture an incident\\nof pioneer life in Kentucky. Two Indians, armed with\\nmuskets as well as tomahawks, had suddenly come upon\\na white man armed with long-barreled rifle and hunting-\\nknife. The white man leaped behind a tree and held\\nthem at bay. By a partial exposure of his person he\\ndrew their fire. One of the Indians was soon laid low\\nby the unerring rifle. With tomahawk uplifted, and long\\nknife unsheathed, the red man and the white man rushed\\ntoward the body of the prostrate Indian, arriving at the\\nsame time. The artist has depicted the supreme moment\\nof the fight the pioneer, tall, stalwart, resolute, clad in\\nhunting-shirt, breeches, leggings, and moccasins of dressed\\ndeerskin, receives the swift-falling tomahawk on his up-\\nlifted rifle barrel, and plunges the heavy knife to the\\nhilt in the naked body of the savage. Daniel Boone\\nwas this pioneer.\\n2.\\nYou are all familiar with the picture of a hunter,", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, Jtine i8g2. 135\\nclothed like the pioneer just described, who, standing on\\na rock-pinnacle, leaning on his long rifle, and, disregard-\\ning the Scotch deerhound by his side, looks out over\\nthe beautiful country stretching far into the distance.\\nThe landscape is the lovliest human eye hath seen a\\ngently undulating table-land of charming diversity hill\\nand hollow, forest and meadow, canebrake and green\\ngrass, in luxuriant and bewildering succession.\\nThis is the popular and poetic conception of Daniel\\nBoone.\\n3-\\nA log cabin in a sequestered valley near the Ken-\\ntucky river, where for months Boone passed his nights,\\nthe only white man in all this vast Indian hunting-\\nground. This is the scene I love most to contemplate.\\nI do not think Boone s passion for hunting or love oi\\nadventure caused him to remain alone in Kentucky when\\nhis companions returned to Carolina. He had come into\\nthis wonderful region, abounding in deer, buffalo, and\\nwild turkey, with a soil of the like of which for fertility\\nhe had not dreamed, with a climate salubrious and de-\\nlightful. His resolute soul was stirred to its depths,\\nand he determined to possess this land for himself and\\nhis people. He had come to stay. He would hold the\\nfort, so to speak. He held fast to this idea he could", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "136 TJic KenhLcky Centenary.\\nbe deterred neither by hunger, nor by toil, nor by dan-\\nger, nor by death. A distinguished governor of Kentucky\\nlone afterward said of liim To Boone alone is due\\nthe early settlement of this state had it not been for\\nhim, the conquest of Kentucky must have been achieved\\nby the adventurous spirits of the nineteenth century.\\n4-\\nAfter years of heroic struggle and fearful vicissitude,\\nthe territory was wrested from the savage. The young\\nKentucky, in her maidenhood, was very fair to see. Ru-\\nmors of her fertile soil, majestic rivers, grand forests, noble\\nplains, and mild climate spread abroad, and gave birth\\nto those exalted notions of her natural resources which\\nprevail in all the descriptions of Kentucky. The pride\\nof her people continues to this day Kentucky is known\\nas the garden spot of the world, a veritable para-\\ndise; her women are the loveliest, her men the\\nmanliest, her horses the finest, her whisky the best.\\nThis is right. God help that generation of Kentuckians\\nwho shall fail to view with pride the courageous man-\\nhood of her sons, or cease to cherish with tender solici-\\ntude the sweet maidenhood and chaste womanhood of her\\ndaughters\\nPeace brouoht the arts and artifices of civilization.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i8g2. 137\\nImmigration became? active. Settlers poured in, bring-\\ning with them land-warrants, certificates, and grants,\\neach intending to locate so many acres, wheresoever\\nit pleased him. The government of Virginia made no\\nsurveys the territory was not subdivided into townships\\nand sections, as was afterward done in the country north\\nol the Ohio. Careless surveying and ignorance of the\\nlaw s requirements caused confusion of boundaries and\\nprovoked endless litigation. Surveys o( contiguous tracts\\nmade them overlap many times there were few loca-\\ntions that were not shingled by opposing claims.\\nBoone suffered with many others. He had reared his\\ncabin in the center of this paradise, which he and his\\nassociates had reclaimed from the red devils. Had he\\nnot, indeed, once held all Kentucky in trust for Virginia\\nBut he neglected to put his claim on record. The land\\nspeculators overlapped his holding, and cited him\\nbefore the courts. Deprived of the land he had won\\nwith such toil, vexed and sore of heart, Boone pulled\\nup stakes, and, leaving the home he loved and the\\nfriends he had stood with in battle, he located at the\\nmouth of the Kanawha.\\nAfter some years he removed to Missouri, where he\\nreceived an extensive land-grant from the Spanish gov-\\nernor. But the territory passed into the hands of", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138 The Kenhtcky Centenary.\\nFrance, and finally was purchased by the United States.\\nInquiry being instituted to see by what titles settlers\\nhekl their lands, our pioneer was again euchred out\\nof his property. But Congress voted him a grant ol\\nland a few years before his death.\\n5-\\nBoone is described as being five feet ten inches\\nhigh, erect, clean-limbed, broad-shouldered, full-chested in\\nform, admirably fitted in structure, muscle, temperament,\\nand habit, for the endurance of the labors, changes, and\\nsufferings he underwent. He had a model head with a\\nforehead high, noble, and bold thin and compressed\\nlips a mild, clear blue eye a large and prominent chin\\na countenance in which courage and fearlessness sat\\nenthroned, and which told the beholder what he had\\nbeen, and was formed to be.\\nHis name is forever identified with the history of\\nKentucky. He will ever be regarded as the typical\\nfrontiersman, the chief of pioneers, the most famous\\nbackwoodsman. His homely virtues have been cele-\\nbrated in song by such poets as Byron and Bryant and\\nour own Stanton and O Hara. He is the autotype\\nof Leather Stocking and Hawkeye. He will in all\\ntimes be held a hero by Kentucky boys.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i, i8g2. 139\\nIV. VIRGINIA.\\nRESPONSE OF GENERAL BASIL W. DUKE.\\nThe name which has just been uttered stirs within\\nUS, more than any other, memories that we revere and\\ncherish.\\nHonor is due, and ever should be rendered, to each\\none of those original communities founded by brave men,\\nin the fear of God and hope of freedom, on this Amer-\\nican soil, which is now our common country. But I do\\nno injustice, I believe, when I say that we are especially\\nindebted to three of the thirteen colonies to South\\nCarolina, Massachusetts, and V irginia for the essential\\nprinciples on which have been erected the institutions\\nwhich distinguish and, we trust, will perpetuate the\\ngovernment under which we live. In these three we\\nrecognize the matricial sources of American thought and\\nfeeling from them have proceeded the ideas and im-\\npulses which have most strongly impressed and shaped\\nour civilization. Sometimes they have seemed so alien\\nto each other in wish and sentiment as to make it\\nhard of belief that similar or harmonious results could\\nbe reached by policies apparently so antagonistic. Yet\\nwe can discover that underlying the thought and aspira-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140 The Kenittcky Centeitary.\\ntion of each have been the same controlHng convictions\\nand providentially, perhaps, but certainly, the action of\\neach has been guided to the attainment of the same\\nbroad national character and the fulfillment, together, of\\nthe same duty to mankind.\\nIt is of Vireinia, however, that Kentuckians love\\nbest to speak. We, the children of her first and fairest\\ndaughter, may be pardoned if, in our veneration for her,\\nwe seem in a measure to forget the fame of her ma-\\njestic sisters. And the millions who inhabit the great\\nstates into which the wide territory she gave the Union\\nhas been divided the grand communities her sons have\\nfounded, each scarce less than a nation in itself-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 bear\\ntestimony, as we do, to the mighty and munificent des-\\ntiny which has attended her history.\\nStanding in the silent and desolate Forum, where\\nonce the Tribune spake the potent word which saved\\nthe weak from wrong and Counsul or Imperator issued\\nmandates which bound a world in obedience gazing on\\nthe wreck which\\nGoth and Christian, Time, War, Flood, and Fire\\nhad wrougfht, where desecrated fane and shattered col-\\numn were symbols of a yet mightier social and political", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yime i, i8g2. 141\\nruin a great poet apostrophized Rome as the Niobe\\nof the Nations, who had seen\\nAll her glories, star by star, expire.\\nBut the canvas on which the mission of Virginia is\\nlimned furnishes no suggestion of decadence, either in\\nits past or present, and gives augury of a future yet\\nbrighter and happier. When we remember what Virginia\\nhas done, and know that her work is but in part ac-\\ncompHshed when we witness the territory settled by\\nher emigration expanding into an empire whose life\\nmay be as long and power as vast as Rome s when\\nwe behold the high spirit and lusty vigor of the parent\\nundiminished in the offspring, and see the lessons learned\\nfrom her still taught by them we are reminded of the\\npromise of the Lord to the patriarch I will multiply\\nthy seed like the stars of heaven, and I will give thy\\nposterity all these countries and in thy seed shall all\\nthe nations of the earth be blessed.\\nVirginia has rendered services, not to the people\\nof this country only, but to all humanity, which can not\\nbe denied or forgotten. zA.s time rolls on and mankind\\ngrows wiser and better, they will be the more profoundly\\nappreciated. Every struggle which shall in the future\\nbe made by any people lor independence will be encour-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "142 The KenttLcky Centenary.\\naged and enlightened by her example. Every patriot\\nwho shall pour fourth the burning words that tyrants\\nquake to hear, will be inspired by the recollection of\\nhow Henry s denunciation of lawless power roused the\\ncourage of his countrymen. Every hero who gives his\\nbreast to the battle in resistance of oppression will have\\nin his heart the memory of Washington and in the\\npolitical philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, all those who\\nseek to fix securely the foundations on which free states\\nmay be builded, and provide wise rules by which liberty\\nand order may be maintained in unison, shall find in-\\nstruction and guidance.\\nVirginia shared with her twelve sisters the glory won\\nin the war for independence, and their zeal, courage and\\nconstancy were equal to her own but it should not be\\nforgotten that she gave the first clear and emphatic\\ndeclaration of a purpose to resist British aggression.\\nVirginia rang the alarm bell, Virginia gave the signal\\nto the continent, said distinguished men of other col-\\nonies when Patrick Henry passed his famous resolutions\\nthrough the House of Burgesses, denouncing the Stamp\\nAct, and asserting that the General Assembly of Vir-\\nginia alone had the right to tax the people of that colony.\\nIn two other memorable instances she took action,\\nwhich, it is not too much to say, assured the perpetuity", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Wediiesday, yiLiie i8g2. 143\\nof republican institutions on this continent and made it\\nimpossible to establish or maintain, here, any form of\\nkingly or autocratic rule and both arc intimately blended\\nwith the history of Kentucky. The brilliant author of\\nThe Winning of the West has shown that had Eng-\\nland been permitted to retain possession of the territory\\nnorth of the Ohio, the settlements in Kentucky and\\nTennessee could not have been maintained, all extensions\\nwest of the Alleghanies would have become impossible,\\nand the newly formed Confederacy, restricted to the\\nterritory occupied by the original colonies, would have\\nbeen in imminent danger from hostile communities spring-\\ning up around it under England s auspices and directed\\nby English influence. From this danger it was saved\\nby Clark s conquest of the Illinois. Henry and Jeffer-\\nson encouraged and sustained George Rogers Clark, and\\nVirginia furnished him the means of successful warfare.\\nThis too, when she was in the very agonies of the\\nRevolutionary war and grappling with a powerful enemy\\non her own soil.\\nAgain did she come forward, not only as the cham-\\npion and protectress of her children in Kentucky and\\nTennessee, but as the ever ready and resolute asserter\\nof republican ideas and American destiny, when she\\ncompelled the freedom of the Mississippi. At that date", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144 T^^^ KenhLcky Centenary.\\nhere, in the then remote west, it seemed that our\\nfathers must accept the alternative of political separa-\\ntion trom their brethren ol the Atlantic States, or permit\\nthe beautiful and fertile land they had won to remain in\\na condition scarce better than when possessed by the sav-\\nage. To keep the Mississippi closed was to deny them\\nall hope of improvement. Communication with the rest\\nof the world, commerce, development, and civilization were\\nthen practically impossible, save by use of the great\\ninland sea and that, denied them by the statesmen of\\nthe east, could apparently be purchased only by their\\nbecoming the allies, if not the subjects, of the Spanish\\ncrown. How baneful to American progress and even the\\ncause of freedom that might have been we can now well\\nrealize. At this crisis, Virginia came once more to the\\nrescue. Again Henry s prophetic voice sounded in\\nindignant thunder wisely Madison counseled patriotic\\npatience, but firmly pledged relief; and finally Jefferson\\nremoved the danger by his purchase of Louisiana, which\\nforever guaranteed that, come what may, America shall\\ncontrol her own future.\\nHistory will declare that right worthily Virginia has\\nvindicated her title to the motto Sic Semper Tyrannis,\\nand with just pride her descendants may speak the name", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "[Sung rv \\\\tk Dorothi a Rkrthf.i,.]\\nTHE MOTHERS OF THE WEST.\\nWords bj- WM. D. GALLAGIIia;.\\nModeralo.\\nJlusic by WILL a HAYS.\\n^i^^fe\\nL The niotli-crs of our Forest-laiul Stout-hearlcd dames were\\ni Xlic uiotliL rs of our Fort st-laiul! On old Ki iituck-v\\ni. Till molh (Ts of our Forc st-laiid Their bo-.souis pil lowed\\n4. The liiotli-ers of our Forest land Sueh werelni-ir dai ly\\nJ. Tile mothers of our Forest-laud! They sleep in un-Unowu\\n1\\n.zi^^rfsc\\n:^x^=h-\\ntlu y Willi iiervi. to wield the battlv brand, And. jo in the border fray. Ourronsli land had no braver In its\\nsoil, How sbari d tUey witli caeh daunik-ss band, War s tenipt-staud litr s toil Tliey shrank not from the foenieu. They\\nmen, And proud wi-re they by sut-li to stand, In lianmioek, fort orgh-n To load the sure old ri He\u00e2\u0080\u0094 To\\ndeeds; Their niouurnent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 where does it stand? Their epitaph\u00e2\u0080\u0094 who reads? Ko braver dames hud Sparta\u00e2\u0080\u0094 No\\ngraves And had they borne and nursed a band Of ingrates, or of slaves, They had not been more ne^ iectcd liuttiieir\\n5^1=3.-\\n3=i=3^i^g^^=^\\n1-13:\\nEESLl|=5EE^k3=i=5=?-^=i=3E\\niiE^==^=il==?\u00c2\u00a3\\n1^\\n~m-\\n==1-\\nr-J^-\\n-.=t-\\n1===\\nI-\\n=\u00e2\u0096\u00a01-\\nRit.\\n==^.=p==:\u00c2\u00bb==i==-===^:=zlz\\nW^E^^^^\\n-^E3==\\ndays of blood and strife\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nquait d not in the light,\\nrun tlie lead en ball-\\nno bier nia- irons Rome-\\ngraves shall yet be found,\\nAye, read y for se ver est toil. Aye, free to per 11 life.\\nBut eheer d their hus-bands thro* the day. And sooth d them thro the night.\\nTo wateh a bat tling husbaml splaee, And till it sho\\\\dd he fall.\\nYet who oi lauds or hon ors them, Kv u in their own green home?\\nAnd their monuments dot here and there The Dark and Blood y Ground\\nRit.\\n^^^^iii^lli\\nCHORUS. Soprano. Ril.\\nOur rough land had DO braver, In days of blood and strife. Aye, read y for se- ver-est toil, Aye, free to per il life.\\nAlio. _ ^_\\nRit.\\n-\u00c2\u00bb=Sl=Cz\\nOur rou .;h land had no braver, In days of blood and strife, Aye, read y for se- ver-est toil, Aye, free to per il life.\\n\u00c2\u00b1f^zi\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\^-^J;zz\u00e2\u0080\u0094^-\\\\=z^~\\\\z=:^zS: tmzzz*^z^^^rllrf.\\\\9.,K\\nd J 1 1 I ^J rg: S- 5\u00c2\u00bb\\n:n: -=r I- I- -i- 1- r\\n=1:", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yiine i, iSg2. 145\\nof the heroic commonweahh whose well laboring sword\\nhas three times slain the semblance of the king.\\nAll hail to our august mother! She will live through\\nthe agfes in the love and honor of all men who seek\\nto do the right and may her spirit be with us and\\nremain in us, now and forever.\\nV. THE MOTHERS OF OUR FOREST LAND.\\nIn announcing the fifth toast, President Durrett said\\nthat in the Golden Wedding, a noble tribute by\\nWilliam D. Gallagher to the brave women who helped\\nto settle Kentucky, a pioneer is represented as coming\\nbefore the guests and reciting those touching verses\\nknown as The Mothers of the West; that Will S.\\nHayes had composed an original air for these verses\\nand that it would be an agreeable change in the pro-\\ngramme to substitute music for eloquence in the response\\nto this toast. He then introduced Mad. Berthel, and\\nrequested her to respond to The Mothers of Our\\nForest Land by singing the words of Mr. Gallagher\\nto the music of Mr. Hayes.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nVI. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK.\\nRESPONSE OF TEMPLE BODLEY.\\nMr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen This seems\\nto be a feast in honor of the pioneers of Kentucky,\\nand reminds one of the old time when reverent Greeks\\ntook food and drink to the tombs of their ancestors\\nand then ate and drank them themselves. I suppose,\\nif one of our typical pioneers could look on at this\\nfeast and see us degenerate sons of Kentucky, clad in\\nswallow-tail coats, eating with silver spoons and drinking\\nsherry and champagne, he would draw his buckskin sleeve\\nacross his eyes to make sure of not dreaming, and then,\\nwith a frown and an Indian grunt, turn on his moc-\\ncasined heel and leave us in disgust. And I suppose,\\nif we were sittinof in our front hall and the g^entleman\\nin muddy leather leggins and coonskin cap were to call\\nat our front door, we should think there was some mis-\\ntake and expect our servants to show him round the\\nside way to the kitchen. The fact is, we are separated\\nby far more than time from these early pioneers, and\\nit takes a pretty vivid imagination to see them as they\\nwere and to measure their merits according to the truth.\\nTheir aims in life, their mode of thought, their manners", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "IVcdnesday, jfu/ie i, iScj2. 147\\nand dress, were so different from ours the conditions\\nsurrounding them were so unlike what we know to-day,\\nthat I suppose only the few men whose sympathetic\\nstudy has brought them into intimate acquaintance with\\nClark and his contemporaries can realize fully what they\\nwere.\\nIt was one hundred and nineteen years ago last\\nmonth that a young engineer a tall, fair-faced, beard-\\nless young fellow of twenty-three, blue-eyed, light-haired,\\nstrong-jawed, and six feet four George Rogers Clark\\nleft his home in that beautiful Virginia valley of Albe-\\nmarle to come to this Dark and Bloody Ground.\\nThat journey meant a good deal then. It meant toiling\\nday alter day, over mountains and rivers and through a\\ndark, tangled, and almost boundless forest. It meant\\nweek after week of solitude more profound than we can\\never know, nights and storms without shelter, hunger,\\nit may be, sickness, without help, and, more than all,\\nthe strain of constant guarding against the most crafty\\nand cruel of foes a foe whose life s training and chief\\ndelight was to waylay and torture and kill. The man\\nwho could face those dangers and not quail was of the\\nstuff of which heroes are made and such were the\\npioneers of Kentucky. When young Clark came\\namongst them in 1775, they were a little handful scat-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 The Kentttcky Ceiitenaty.\\ntered through the forest of Kentucky, without concert\\nof action and about to be exterminated by British and\\nIndians outnumbering them hundreds to one. A mere\\nboy amongst mature men and a comparative novice in\\nthe pioneer s art, he yet seems to have at once stamped\\nhimself and been accepted as their leader. His first\\nact was to urge prompt political and military organiza-\\ntion. As their first delegate he returned to Virginia,\\nprocured the establishment of the county of Kentucky,\\nand after overcoming the most discouraging opposition,\\nreturned prepared to carry on an offensive war for the\\npossession of the Northwest Territory. That territory\\nembraced all the country south of the lakes, between the\\nAlleghanies, the Ohio, and the Mississippi. Virginia\\nhad claimed it, but England both claimed and held it,\\nand, but for the conquest of it, the subsequent acquisi-\\ntion of the broad country between the Mississippi and\\nthe Pacific, and, indeed, the very existence of the Fed-\\neral Union would seem to have been impossible. Had\\nthe thirteen colonies been confined to the narrow strip\\nbetween the Alleghanies and the Atlantic, who can\\ndoubt that England, with Canada on the north, and the\\ninviting empire between the Alleghanies and the Miss-\\nissippi on the west, would soon have been able to crush\\nthem at will. Clark first saw the danger, and with the", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, y^ine i, iS(j2. 149\\nsecret, but none the less effective assistance of Patrick\\nHenry, then governor, met it.\\nThere is no time, Mr. Chairman, to tell here that\\nmost romantic story of the winning of the west how,\\nwith his little band of pioneers, this mere boy, not su-\\npinely waiting at home to be annihilated by an over-\\nwhelming enemy, boldly marched against them into\\ntheir own country, how he reduced strongholds manned\\nby forces many times greater than his entire command,\\nhow he overawed and subjected whole tribes of hostile\\nIndians, and how, after what seems to me, as daring and\\narduous a campaign as any recorded in history after\\nweeks of toilsome progress through the flooded flats\\nof the Wabash, for days without food, without even firm\\nground to rest on at night, they surprised and sur-\\nrounded the veteran British commander and his outnum-\\nbering troops in their own stronghold, and with their\\nsurrender became the undisputed masters of the entire\\nnorthwest. The story has yet to be told. Some day\\nin the pages of some Motley, Froude, or Prescott, the\\nAmerican people will learn it and this young Hanni-\\nbal of the West, who now lies under a small headstone\\nout yonder in your city of the dead, will not be\\nwithout his glory and not without the gratitude of his\\ncountrymen in the ages yet to come.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 riic Kciihicky Lentefiary.\\nVll. THE FREEDOM OF THE MISSISSIPPI.\\nRESPONSE OF HON. JAMES S. PIRTLE.\\nThe subject given to me this evening is one which\\nat once transports the mind baclc one hundred years and\\nmore, and is yet a topic of present interest. The im-\\nportance to our ancestors of the free navigation of the\\nMississippi, the great weight which they attached to it,\\nthe excitement and indignation which the mere sugges-\\ntion of the withdrawal of our claim to it for a few years\\naroused in the west are now hard for us to realize when\\nthe river, from its source near the great lakes to its\\nmouth in the Gulf of Mexico, is within our territories,\\nand our right to its peaceful, undisputed use is admitted\\nby all the world. Still, by a slight effort of memory, we\\ncan recall how, after resting in quietness from 1803, when\\nLouisiana was purchased, to 1861, the question again\\nbecame a living one, and contributed in no small degree\\nto unite the people north of the Ohio in the Mississippi\\nvalley in their determination that there should be no dis-\\nruption of the Union, and no nation but the United\\nStates in control of the mighty highway which the God\\nof Nature had laid in everlasting greatness from the farth-\\nest north to the extremest south of our western country.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i8g2.\\nI =;i\\nFrom 1763, when England became possessed of Can-\\nada and all the French possessions of North America,\\nunitino- its dominions in a solid empire from the Atlantic\\nto the Mississippi, and northward to the Arctic regions,\\nthere has never been a moment when the value of the\\nuse of the Father of Waters to the gulf has not been\\nrightly appreciated by the thinking people of America.\\nBy the Treaty of Peace of 1763, the right to the\\nnavigation of the river to the gulf, with a place of de-\\nposit, was secured to Great Britain, and when the United\\nStates became independent, the rights of Great Britam\\npassed to the United States by the treaty of 1783.\\nSpain, the owner of Louisiana, which embraced all the\\nterritory west of the Mississippi, did not recognize our\\nsuccession to those rights, and by many an artifice and\\npromise tried to tempt the young Kentucky to renounce\\nallegiance to Virginia and the Confederate States, and\\nset up for itself in the forests of the west an independ-\\nent state. That the temptation was artfully put, that the\\npromises were alluring, that the seeming indifference of\\nthe old states on the Atlantic to our plea for sisterhood\\nproduced an effect, can not be denied. The wiser men\\nof the east and of Kentucky saw the danger, and met\\nit with courage and sagacity, and turned it aside. That\\nthere was ever any probability that Kentucky would set", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "I 5 2 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nup for herself, I do not believe that many adventurous\\nand turbulent spirits, and some cool and able men, con-\\ntemplated such a contingency, is beyond dispute, and\\nwhen we consider the condition of Kentucky and of the\\nnew nation east of the mountains, it is not at all such\\nan awful thought as disunion is to-day.\\nOur fathers were separated by mountains and forests\\nmany days journey from their old homes, making the\\nseparation in effect much wider than that which now\\nexists between the Atlantic and the Pacific states. Com-\\nmercial intercourse between them was not possible. The\\nonly highways they had were the streams which, rising\\nin the mountains, flowed through the beautiful and fertile\\nlands which by their valor our fathers had won from\\nthe savage, and joining the Ohio, flowed onward to the\\nMississippi, and by that mighty artery connected them\\nwith the pulsating heart of the world.\\nWhen the population of the district of Kentucky\\nhad reached half a hundred thousand, and even a smaller\\nnumber, the teeming soil, yielding to the industry of man\\nsuch a return as had scarcely been known before, pro-\\nduced more than the people needed for their own wants,\\nand a market for the surplus became a necessity. Down\\nthose streams and upon the bosom of that mighty river\\nalone could that market be found.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 153\\nYoder, in his trade boat, fitted up upon the head-\\nwaters of the Ohio and floated to New Orleans, led the\\nway, and others, eager to reap the reward of his enter-\\nprise and adventure, followed in his wake. Could it be\\nthought that this young people, who in so marvelous a\\nmanner had planted a commonwealth in a wilderness five\\nhundred miles from the verge of civilization, would con-\\nsent that a barrier should be placed across their avenue\\nto the world s commerce Can it be a matter of wonder\\nthat they mistrusted the friendship and scorned the lack\\nof wisdom of the old states that favorably received or\\nconsidered a proposition to surrender in effect, for twenty\\nyears, the right of free navigation of the Mississippi\\nThe union of the states was not then that firm bond\\nwhich holds them indivisibly as does the constitution of\\n1787. Just freed from the yoke of England, each state\\nfelt more its own independence than its obligation to the\\nothers and as V irginia was little bound to the other\\nstates, and the Union was of so little strength that\\npatriots were fearful that the confederacy would drop to\\npieces, Kentucky, finding herself unsupported in her wars\\nwith the Indians, and knowing that the savages were\\nencouraged by the British, who still held the forts in\\nthe North-west in violation of the treaty of 1783, and\\nbelieving she was about to be abandoned by the northern", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "I 54 TJic KenHicky Centenary.\\nold states in the protection of her most vital right, may,\\nwithout blame, have contemplated the contingency of\\nwinning for herself her way to the sea, or securing by\\ntreaty commercial relations with Spain.\\nThere was no secrecy of the determination of our\\nforefathers never to surrender their right to navigate the\\nMississippi to the Gulf they would not for a moment\\nadmit that there was any question of that right. Colonel\\nThomas Marshall, an able man, father of Chief-Justice\\nMarshall, wrote to General Washington in clearest terms\\nwhat the feeling in Kentucky was when that right was\\nthreatened. That sage, from the quietness of Mt. Ver-\\nnon, and with the calmness so characteristic of him,\\nreplied that, while he feared little any present danger\\nof an outbreak from the west, that whenever it became\\nnecessary for the prosperity of those people to have that\\nfree navigation, no force on earth could prevent their\\ntaking it. The time that Washington foresaw was, even\\nto his vision, far distant.\\nJohn Jay, another patriot, after securing in the treaty\\nof 1783 the right to the free navigation of the Missis-\\nsippi, and struggling for years with Spain for its recog-\\nnition, wise as he was, and patriotic and well-informed,\\nso little foresaw the growth of the West, or knew the\\nthen strength of Kentucky, that he was willing, in order", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, jfune i, i8g2. 155\\nto effect a commercial treaty with Spain, to agree that\\nfor twenty years no assertion of our right should be\\nmade. Before half that period had expired, Thomas\\nJefferson, divining the West and its incalculable value\\nto the whole country, seized the opportunity offered by\\nthe necessities of Napoleon, and by peaceful treaty ac-\\nquired all the territory west of the Mississippi from the\\nGulf to the farthest north of our present boundaries.\\nIn 1803, after the treaty with Napoleon was made,\\nthis western country was aflame with indignation by the\\naction of Spain denying our right to a place of deposit\\nand to the navigation of the river, and had not the\\ntreaty with Napoleon given the country to us, the same\\nmen who, imder Jackson twelve years later, upon land\\nwhich Spain had owned, beat back in the battle of New\\nOrleans the soldiers of the army of Wellington, would\\nhave marched triumphantly to the Gulf and driven the\\nSpaniard into the sea.\\nNever again shall domestic foe hold any of the ter-\\nritory washed by the great river. The bold spirit which\\ninspired our forefathers still lives in us, and will forever\\nlive in our descendants, and by the strength of this vast\\nnation keep the way to the sea clear of all foreign foes.\\nThe ceaseless flow of the waters shall keep singing in\\nour ears the song of the perpetual union of the states.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "I 5 6 The Kentucky Centenary.\\ninspiring our hearts with devotion to that Union, and\\nthe mighty stream shall remain forever the free highway\\nof the richest valley of the earth.\\nVIII. JOHN FILSON.\\nRESPONSE OF CAPTAIN THOMAS SPEED.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen The hands\\nof my watch admonish me that the first century of Ken-\\ntucky s existence as a state has just drawn to a close. It\\nwill, therefore, be my rare privilege to make my speech\\nin the next century.\\nIt is not to be expected that the name of John\\nFilson will call forth such eloquence as the names of\\nWashington, Boone, and Clark yet, if I mistake not, we\\nmay with equal profit consider the work and character\\nof John Filson, and, perhaps, with more encouragement\\nto ourselves. We may all reasonably expect to escape\\nbeing as great as George Washington we are not likely\\nto become mighty hunters, like Boone, and as none of\\nus are candidates for the presidency just now, we have\\nnot the interest of George Rogers Clark in carrying\\nIllinois. But we may, by diligent use of opportunity and\\nthe powers we have, do something for our state in the\\nmanner and after the example of John Filson. Respond-", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yicne i, i8g2. i 5 7\\ning to the toast John Filson, I will speak ot him as\\na man worthy to have a historical society called by his\\nname.\\nHe came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania in the year\\n1782. He occupied his time teaching, surveying, and\\ntraveling over the country. He made one trip back to\\nPennsylvania and returned again. He explored the coun-\\ntry north of the Ohio, and at one time owned land on\\nwhich the city of Cincinnati was afterward built. He\\ngave to the little settlement then the romantic name of\\nLosantiville. The ingenuity displayed in constructing this\\nname is worth mentioning L signifies the river Licking\\nOS, the Latin word for mouth anti, opposite ville, town\\ntown opposite the mouth of the Licking. Not far from\\nthat place he was killed by Indians in the year 1788.\\nFilson was profoundly impressed with the excellence\\nof the western lands, and in 1784, after two years intel-\\nligent observation, he wrote his little book entitled. The\\nDiscovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky\\nwith it was a map of the country, the best up to that\\ntime made.\\nHis account was pronounced, at the time it was pub-\\nlished, to be an excellent performance, very accurate, and\\nof great utility. It was the first history of Kentucky.\\nTo understand the full import of the title, we must", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "1 5 8 The Kenhtcky Centenary.\\nrealize the fact that Kentucky, as a desirable country for\\noccupation, was discovered only a short time before its\\nsettlement. The people east of the mountains knew, in-\\ndeed, that there was land extending far away toward the\\nwest, but for aught they knew the mountains continued\\non and on with their wild, inhospitable, and uninhabit-\\nable grandeurs. It was not known, as we now know it,\\nthat on the waters of the Ohio lay spread out a de-\\nlightful region like the Garden of the Lord for beauty\\nand fertility. When the eyes of Boone and his com-\\npanions rested upon it the first time they were enrap-\\ntured, and called it a second paradise. The secluded\\nand hid away condition of Kentucky has been beautifully\\ndescribed this day by our poet laureate. Our realization\\nof this fact may be assisted if we reflect that with all\\nthe energy and activity of the nineteenth century it was\\nas late as the year 1870 when the wonders of the Yel-\\nlowstone country were first explored. So when the\\nearly explorers among them Daniel Boone found the\\nlevel lands of Kentucky, the news went back and created\\nastonishment and wonder among the inhabitants of the\\nAtlantic border.\\nWhen Filson wrote, the settlement of Kentucky was\\na new feature upon the map of America. And even\\nthen it was a small population scattered over the choicest", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i8g2. 159\\nsections of the country. It was a new chapter in the\\nprogress of advancing humanity when Filson pubhshed\\nto the world his account of the discovery and settlement\\nof Kentucky.\\nHis book was published in this country and in Eng-\\ngland, and translated and published in France and\\nGermany. It awakened an interest in the new found\\nparadise, and a wonderful tide of immigration poured\\nin. Eight more years elapsed, and Kentucky became\\na state in the Union, at a time when western Pennsyl-\\nvania was unoccupied, and all of western New York was\\nstill the home of Indian tribes.\\nFilson saw that he was in the presence of in-\\nteresting events, and with an intelligent grasp of the\\nsituation, he wrote of the splendid advantages of the\\ncountry.\\nTo crown his work he gave an account of the most\\ninteresting man in the west. He sat down by the side\\nof Daniel Boone and took from him the story of his life.\\nBoone was not a man to write his own memoirs he\\ncould cast his eagle eye along his rifle and draw a bead\\nquick as a flash, and touch the trigger without a tremor,\\nbut he was not skilled with the pen. With an aim as\\nunerring as that of Robin Hood he could bring down\\nthe soaring wild fowl to his feet, but it required another", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "i6o The KenttLcky Centenary.\\nhand to pluck the quill and tell the story of his exploits\\nthat was the hand of John Filson. It was Filson\\nwho preserved Boone s own account of his discovery\\nof Kentucky, of his hunting and exploring, of his In-\\ndian fights, capture and captivity at Chillicothe and\\nDetroit of his escape and return to Kentucky to give\\nwarning of the coming Indian attack of the siege of\\nBoonesboro, and the battle of Blue Licks and all that\\nseries of heroic deeds, while he, by his boldness, saga-\\ncity and tireless activity protected the infant settlements\\nin the wilderness.\\nWe have heard an eloquent tribute to the old\\npioneer to-night. We have read the life of Boone as\\ngiven by Abbott and Bogart and others, with a thrill of\\ninterest. From whom do all obtain their facts They\\nare all indebted to Filson. But for Filson little would\\nbe known of Boone. His little book is the one foun-\\ntain Irom which every narrative flows. It was Filson s\\naccount which kindled the poetry of Byron, and it is\\nthe foundation of every historic mention.\\nFilson saw his opportunity and made opportunity a\\nduty. Is not this an example worthy of imitation\\nFilson was imbued with that sentiment of Dr. Johnson\\nHe who would be counted among the benefactors of\\nposterity, must, by his own toil, add to the acquisitions", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "[Sung nv Mrs. Katie Elliott.I\\nMY OLD KENTUCKY HOME.\\nPoco adagio.\\nSTEPHEN C. FOSTEK.\\n_BliiL^_^l^^ig^;?r:^^S^l2?|^^^^^^g3|S\\nJ J J\\ne8=:--:::iST^=:\\nts?Es*\\n1. The sun shines bright ill the oUi Ken-tiicli-y homo, Tis summer, the (larl;-ies nro gay, The corn-top s ripe and the\\n2. Thev hunt no more for llie pes- sum and the coon On the meadow, the hill and shore, They sing no more by the\\n3. The head must bow and the back will have to bend, Wher-ev-er the dark y may go; A few more days and the\\n=1-\\nF-\\nPS^\\niiiiilpiiipi^l\\n^^i==i^-^^?=E =^?^i^Si=iiE^i^==iiE^\\nmeadow s in the bloom. Wljile the birds make music all the day\\nglimmer of the moon, On the bench by the old cab -in door;\\nirou-ble all will end In the held wliere the su-gar-canesgrow\\nThe young folks roll on the lit tie cab-in floor. All\\nThe day goes by like a shad-ow o er the heart. With\\nfew more days for to tote the wea-ryload. No\\n=p:===l=\\n._ 1 m\u00e2\u0080\u0094m~m m m m\\n5 j. Lj. :g:\\n^^l=^lE^iii--l8ilig==ii\u00c2\u00a7I^iiEiiE\\n3*==)=\\nmer-ry, all hap-py and bright, By n-by Hard Times comes a-kiiockingat the door. Then my old Kentucky Tlome, good-night,\\nsorrow* where all was delight! The time has come w hen I lie darkies have to part. Then my old Kentucky Home, good night!\\nmat-ter, twill never be light, A tew more days till we tot- ter on the road. Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!\\n-J-\\n=2;\\n=fe35^^^^-2E2f=ElE\\nt=l\\n5 53^^\\nm\\nEgE=^=EEEg==^3E\\nC II OR us. Tenor.\\n^^I^^3^^^m^^E^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^3-=^^^E^^\\nWeep no more, my la-dy, Oh, weep no more to-day We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home, For the old Kentucky Home far away.\\nAir. \\\\st Soprano.\\n^:ESE\u00c2\u00a3c ^\u00c2\u00a7?E?E?\u00c2\u00a3*^i5^^-S^\\nil=S=\\n=i= SE\u00c2\u00bb^=\\n^-s--=^=\\n^5EfE*\u00c2\u00a3i\\n2d Soprano.\\n^m\\nWeep no more, my la-dy, Oh, weep no more to-day We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home, For the old Kentucky Home far away.\\n-i~vt\\nirj\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Si F^i-\\na y m--m\\n-^-K-\\npiiiiliHSilii^iiiiiiiiiipii^ip\\nISi", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i8g2. i6i\\not his ancestors. These are words worthy to be in-\\nscribed on the banner of the Filson Chib.\\nHis book does not read Hkc Gibbon or Macaulay.\\nThe historian McMaster calls him a pedantic school-\\nmaster yet his account of Boone will perpetuate his\\nname forever. The schoolmaster will be known when\\nMcMaster is forgotten. He did not write in a style\\nsuggestive of the library and the midnight oil. It rather\\nsuggests the woods and the cabin and Indians.\\nDuring the civil war, a judge in the interior of\\nKentucky wrote a law book. He could not agree always\\nwith the soldiers who occupied his town, and sometimes\\nhe had to flee for his life. In his preface, he said in\\na plaintive strain that his book was written amid\\nscenes of trouble and impending danger not favorable\\nto that easy and regular flow of language which gives\\ngrace of style and perspicuity of diction. Perhaps it\\nwas so with Filson, yet he gave to the world a picture\\nof Kentucky as it was eight years before it became a\\nstate.\\nA few years ago, ten men in this city, among them\\nthat bright spirit now gone, Colonel John Mason Brown,\\nformed a society for the study of Kentucky history.\\nThey called it The Filson Club. The best wish we can\\nmake for it is that it may be imbued with Filson s spirit.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "1 62 The Kenhicky Centenary.\\nThe first work it did was to gather up the scattered\\nfragments of information about John Filson found in old\\nand perishing manuscript, and preserve them in imper-\\nishable print. That work was done by our worthy\\npresident. He wrote in times of serene and white-\\nwinged peace, favorable to graceful style and perspicuity\\nof diction. His life of Filson takes its place alongside\\nthose of the masters in the art of biography. It is\\nthus that facts are preserved from oblivion. Traditions\\nfade manuscripts perish. The printed volume is the\\nantidote of decay. The continuous existence of a his-\\ntorical society from Filson s day until the present, imbued\\nwith the spirit of Filson, would have saved much now\\ngone to oblivion. How little do we know of the men\\nwho made Kentucky a state We have no biography\\nof Isaac Shelby or George Nicholas or Joshua Fry.\\nExcept for Filson, there would be none of Boone. Men\\nfilling the highest public station, strong in intellect, wise\\nand patriotic, lived in Kentucky from the earliest days\\nthrough the settlement period through the Indian period\\nseeing Kentucky admitted into the Union through the\\nadministrations of Shelby, Garrard, Greenup, and Scott\\nthrouo;h the war of 1812, and the old and new court\\ncontroversy. What a picture of Kentucky life and society\\nwould the biographies of such men present", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i, i8g2. 163\\nWhile much has been lost, much may yet be gath-\\nered up and rescued from decay, and the continuous\\nexistence of the Filson Club will preserve of current\\nevents that which posterity will look back upon and\\nesteem precious. May the spirit of Filson animate the\\nFilson Club.\\nIX. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME.\\nPresident Durrett, when he announced the ninth\\ntoast said I doubt not, ladies and gentlemen, that all\\nof you have been thinking of your homes of the homes\\nof your ancestors and of yourselves while listening to\\nwhat the different speakers have said of our native state.\\nIf there be on this earth a home that is dear to the\\nloyal heart, it is the Kentucky home. John Howard\\nPayne, in his immortal Home, Sweet Home, sung of\\nthe universal home, but Stephen Collins Foster, in his\\nno less undying song, sung of the Kentuckian s home.\\nFoster was not a native Kentuckian, but he dwelt long\\nenough among us to catch the inspiration, to come under\\nthe enchanting spell of the home of the Kentuckian. I\\nknow you would rather hear Foster s song on this occa-\\nsion than the rarest burst of eloquence, and, fortunately,\\nthere is one present who can sing it as it was never", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "164 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nsung by another. I take pleasure in introducing to\\nyou Mrs. Katie Elliott, and in requesting her to respond\\nto the toast, My Old Kentucky Home, with the words\\nand music of Foster.\\nX. RECOLLECTIONS OF PIONEER TIMES.\\nWhen Mrs. Elliott had finished singing My Old\\nKentucky Home, and the guests who had risen to\\ntheir feet had resumed their seats, President Durrett\\nsaid The tenth toast will be our last, and after it our\\nbanquet will close with a benediction by Rev. L. A.\\nBlanton. I see at our table a native born Kentuckian,\\nwhose venerable years carry him back to the days of\\nthe pioneers. He is the son of the soldier, Col. Richard\\nC. Anderson, who did good service for the patriot cause\\nin the Revolutionary war. His father came from Vir-\\nginia to Kentucky among the early settlers, and built\\nan old-time manor house on the head waters of Bear\\nGrass, near the famous Lynn s Station. Here, in the\\nmidst of historic surroundings, the son now with us,\\nfirst saw the light early in the present century. It is\\nfitting that this venerable Kentuckian, the oldest native\\nborn among us, should connect us with the past on this\\noccasion, by telling us something of his experiences in", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i, i8g2. 165\\nlife. His young years blended with the old ones ot the\\npioneers who were passing away as he grew up, and his\\nrecollections of some of thorn can not fail to be inter-\\nesting to us as told by him. He is the proper person\\nto respond to our last toast, and to close our festivities\\nin honor of the centennial anniversary of our statehood.\\nI therefore call upon this venerable Kentuckian, the Hon.\\nCharles Anderson, to respond to the toast Recollections\\nof Pioneer Times.\\nresponse of hon. charles anderson.\\nMr. Chairman and Fellow Kentuckians, Ladies\\nAND Gentlemen I have come more than two hundred\\nmiles especially to manifest my loyal reverence to this\\nnoble festival in honor of the centennial of our honored\\nand beloved native state. I must at once assure you\\neach and all, old and young, ladies and gentlemen, that\\nI have been superabundantly repaid for my unwonted\\nenterprise and trouble in accomplishing this honorary\\nduty. I have enjoyed with surprised delight this mag-\\nnificent scene, in which we are at once spectators and\\nactors, and most particularly that spirit of zest or en-\\nthusiasm which has been, as it were, a living soul to it\\nall. I have been charmed, sir, with the short speeches\\nin response to the toasts of an admirable programme.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "1 66 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nSpeeches on such occasions, even when orated by native\\nKentuckians, who can outtalk the world, are, usually, the\\nthe driest if not the stalest of the viands furnished in\\nthe feast. But we have enjoyed in these speeches that\\nrarest blessing, the union of valuable thought and wit,\\nas sparkling and brilliant as your champagne, and all\\nwith marked brevity. Think of that actual accomplished\\nfact, my friends! With brevity, a lot of native Ken-\\ntuckians, most of them lawyers, and all of them politi-\\ncians, to make such charming speeches as we have heard\\nhere to-night in such short periods of time!\\nSuch, then, being the example of brevity set me by\\nthose who have preceded me, I must try to be brief also.\\nWhen my olden friend. Colonel Durrett, told me at the\\nbeginning of our feast that he particularly desired me to\\nclose it with some parting memories of the past, I did\\nfeel like recalling to remembrance the names, at least,\\nof our pioneer fathers and mothers of the Revolution,\\nand a few of the next later age, whom I have person-\\nally known as a child knows old and grown folks here\\nand hereabouts.\\nPassing, but not myself forgetting, my own father,\\nColonel Richard C. Anderson, and his namesake son, who\\nwas born in this city on the corner of Main and Fifth\\nstreets one hundred and four years ago, these early", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i8g2. 167\\nmemories were of Colonel Richard Taylor, about the\\nsame age of my father, that is, born in 1750, in Vir-\\nginia, the same year that Dr. Walker discovered Ken-\\ntucky, and his son, Old Zack, the twelfth president\\nof the United States Major Wm. Croghan and his\\neldest son, George Croghan, the famous hero of San-\\ndusky; General Robert Breckinridge; Major J. Hughes;\\nCaptain Isaac Hite Captain Wm. Field Governor Wm.\\nClark, of Missouri General Wm. Preston Colonel John\\nO Fallon Colonel Arthur Campbell Major Wm. Christie,\\nof St. Louis Captain Wm. Chambers, our nearest neigh-\\nbor, except Ensign Robert Tompkins, my uncle, and my\\nABC teacher, and, as I believe, in an age of pure\\nmen, one of the purest men who ever honored his sex\\nand race; Captain Pomeroy and his eldest son, The\\nEsquire, and my second teacher the two Lawrences,\\nSamuel and Leven their Maryland kith, the Dorseys\\nold Preacher Vance, of Middletown, and his early family;\\nEdward Tyler, the father of that Louisville Bock of most\\nuseful citizens and great-grandfather of the present mayor\\nof Louisville Worden Pope, the more than father to all\\nof those boys from the backwoods Dutch settlement\\naround Brunerstown, now jeffersontown, and he was also\\nalways one of Jefferson county s very best pioneer ofhcers\\nand citizens Captain Shreve, of our pioneer mercantile", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1 68 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nmarine, to whom, in the early twenties, Louisville gave\\na public dinner for making the trip with his steamboat\\nfrom New Orleans to the Falls in twenty days. But the\\nlist of our pioneer men and women God bless the pio-\\nneer women it is a blush-burning shame for us to\\nforget them in our toasts and speeches, if not in our\\nmemories is too long for further specification at this late\\nhour. For living human nature has its rights, especially\\nif tired, sleepy, and surfeited by speech and viands.\\nTherefore, pitying you all from my heart, I now close\\nthis loose gabble by asking your patient attention to a\\ncorrection of our pioneer history as printed in books.\\nAll our public traditions and books describe Benja-\\nmin Logan, that most hardy, heroic, and useful of the\\npioneers save Boone alone, as having rushed out from\\nhis fort in broad daylight, under the fire of the inclosing\\nIndian host, to save a wounded comrade outside among\\nthe Indians, who was loudly clamoring for rescue. And\\nhe did actually accomplish this extraordinary and unpre-\\ncedented feat without the least injury to himself or to\\nthe precious burden on his shoulders. So, indeed, did\\nyEneas bear his old father, Anchises, at the fall of Troy.\\nBut Homer expressly informs us that this proceeding\\nwas not under the eyes of the Greeks. Now, I have\\nthe authority and license from a granddaughter of that", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 169\\npioneer bravest of braves, my own niece, who here sits\\nbeside me, Mrs. Sarah J. Gamble, to give the actual\\ntruth of history for this famous but always misreported\\nstory. It was as enacted briefly thus The comrade,\\nnamed Burr Harrison, was wounded and disabled from\\nevery power except that of speech. He was not a native,\\nbut assuredly a genuine Kentuckian at that early date.\\nHe laid at some distance from the fort, and was sur-\\nrounded, of course, by Indians. They obviously forbore\\nto finish his life and clamors, simply because they felt\\ncocksure that his scalp was perfectly safe with them in\\ntheir own good time, and because, being themselves\\nsecurely treed, they were keeping him as their stool\\npigeon, in order to lure his fellows from the fort into\\na common destruction. Any early hunter of Kentucky\\nknew this ruse of those Indians through his own expe-\\nrience in certainly killing the doe by wounding or seizing\\nher fawn, so as to make it bleat, or either by a good\\nimitation of its bleat. I myself am old enough to have\\ntried and succeeded in that trick in my own deer-hunting\\ndays. And, before all, the beautiful paroquettes, solely\\nthrough this instinct of fellow feeling, were utterly ex-\\nterminated from all our forests. I have known a whole\\nflock to be killed down to its very last green and gold\\nbeauty. They all flew back to the rescue of their", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "I 70 The Kenhtcky Centenary.\\nwounded and screeching fruit-pilfering comrade. Shot\\nafter shot, until all were murdered. Logan, who was\\nnot only fearless, but was also remarkably sensible and\\nresourceful, biding his time until dusk, told his wife to\\nbring him their sole and scantily stuffed feather bed. It\\nwas, doubtless, the pioneer feather bed in that primitive\\nwilderness. Feathers were not then a native product.\\nThe pioneer feathers were all brought as a cushion to\\nthe pack-saddle for the mother and her babe over the\\nfar mountains and along my friend Speed s now classic\\nwilderness road. The fort s regular supply of pork\\nhabitually wandered around it for corn or recognition in\\nthe shape of huge white sows and barrows. These the\\nIndians had spared, for two reasons first, they had\\nneither bullets nor arrows to spare for this four-footed\\ngame and next, being sure of certain and speedy capt-\\nure of the fort and its all, they were saving this bacon\\nalso for their own good time. So soon as the twilight\\ndeepened to the point of proper obscurit)-, when even\\nIndian eyes might mistake a hero lor a sow, Logan\\nspread this loose feather bed over himself, and, all un-\\narmed, walked out on all fours, straying around idly,\\nrooting and grunting, it may be, until he reached his\\ndespairing comrade. Then, shouldering him in ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Eneas\\nfashion, he rushed glimmering through the gloom to the", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune iS(^2. 171\\nsally-port, which was, of course, open for his reception.\\nA hasty shower of surprised balls and arrows flew around\\nhim as he fled, but their aim failing from darkness and\\nfrom the surprise of their shooters, they missed their\\nmark, and, scattering around Logan, struck in the logs\\nof the fort, and in the lintel and jambs of the door.\\nAnd thus were this hero and his friend saved to the\\nservices of their country and of civilization by an act of\\nheroism as brave, skillful, and magnanimous as any, the\\nmost celebrated in history or romance. Indeed, in its\\nmagnanimity, it is almost without a parallel.\\nThe authenticity of this narrative is absolute. I\\nregret that we can neither make nor accept this assur-\\nance with many of our so called historic events. I\\\\Iy\\nniece often heard this narrative from her Aunt Polly\\nSmith. She was the second daughter of Colonel Logan,\\nand next after his daughter Jenny, the wife of the great\\nlawyer, Colonel John Allen, the martyr hero of the mas-\\nsacre at the River Raisin. Mrs. Smith was a grown\\nmarried woman, living for years in the close neighbor-\\nhood of both her father and mother before they died.\\nAunt Polly received this account directly and repeatedly\\nfrom her father and mother. When I add that each of\\nthese informing descendants, daughter and granddaughter,\\nwere genuine offspring of that hero, who was pre-emi-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "I 7 2 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nnently as truthful and honest as he was brave and\\nmagnanimous, I feel quite sure that I have made out\\nthis case for reforming our stereotyped pioneer history.\\nMay I beg my friend, the secretary of the Filson Club,\\nto attend to this correction, at least, in the Archives.\\nThis is a plain intelligible story. To that large class\\nof people who love the marvelous and believe the impos-\\nsible, because it is impossible, it will be an unwelcome\\ncorrection. But the truth of history ought to be pre-\\nferred to any sensationalism whatever.\\nAnd now, my fellow Kentuckians, having used up\\nthe late first century, Kentuckian as I am, I will no\\nlonger occupy this, the fresh new century of our state-\\nlife, by detaining you from your own feather beds.\\nDoubtless you will reverse your respective positions on\\nthem to that of the hero in our o er true tale, and\\nawake, I trust, refreshed and happy in this dawn of\\nKentucky s second century. And so, good-night to you\\nall. As for me, thanking you for your most sweet\\npatience, I subside, collapse with the passing century,\\ninto silence.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, J tine i, i8g2. 173\\nThe FiLSON Club.\\nTHE FILSON CLUB was organized in Louisville,\\nKy., on the 15th of May, 1884, for the pur-\\npose of collecting and preserving the history\\nof Kentucky. Those who were present and participated\\nin the organization were Reuben T. Durrett, Richard H.\\no\\nCollins, William Chenault, John Mason Brown, Basil W.\\nDuke, George M. Davie, James S. Pirtle, Thomas W.\\nBullitt, Alexander P. Humphrey, and Thomas Speed.\\nReuben T. Durrett was elected president, and Thomas\\nSpeed secretary, these being the only officers embraced\\nin the original organization. These gentlemen have held\\nthe offices of president and secretary ever since, and now\\noccupy them.\\nSince the organization, Richard H. Collins and John\\nMason Brown have died, thus leaving only eight of the\\noriginal members living. William Chenault has since\\nmoved to Kansas, so that there are now only seven of\\nthe founders of the club living in Kentucky.\\nOn thelsth of October, 1891, the club was incorpo-", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "I 74 The Keniucky Centenary.\\nrated by adopting and filing articles of incorporation in\\nthe clerk s office of Jefferson county, in accordance with\\nthe 56th chapter of the General Statutes. The seven\\nfounders of the club yet living in Kentucky, Reuben T.\\nDurrett, Basil W. Duke, George M. Davie, James S.\\nPirtle, Thomas W. Bullitt, Alexander P. Humphrey, and\\nThomas Speed, signed these articles of incorporation.\\nThe new organization provided for a vice president, a\\ntreasurer, and an executive committee. J. Stoddard\\nJohnston was elected vice president, E. T. Halsey treas-\\nurer, and the executive committee made to consist of the\\npresident, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. The\\nentire management of the club is intrusted to this execu-\\ntive committee.\\nSince the organization of the club it has published\\nseven monographs, as follows\\n1. The Life and Times of John Filson, the First\\nHistorian of Kentucky. By Reuben T. Durrett. Quarto,\\npp. 132.\\n2. The Wilderness Road, or Routes of Travel by\\nwhich our Forefathers reached Kentucky. By Thomas\\nSpeed. Quarto, pp. 75.\\n3. The Pioneer Press of Kentucky. By William H.\\nPerrin. Quarto, pp. 93.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, J-une i, i8g2.\\n/D\\n4. The Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace.\\nP y William H. Whitsett. Quarto, pp. 151.\\n5. The History of St. Paul s Church, Louisville, Ky.\\nBy Reuben T. Durrett. Quarto, pp. 75.\\n6. The Political Beginnings of Kentucky. By John\\nMason Brown. Quarto, pp. 263.\\n7. The Centenary of Kentucky giving the full pro-\\nceedings of the celebration of the one hundredth anni-\\nversary of Kentucky s statehood, a sketch of the Filson\\nClub, and a list of its members.\\nBesides these publications, a number of papers con-\\ntaining valuable historic and biographic matter have\\nbeen prepared by different members and read to the\\nclub and filed among its archives. Also, manuscripts\\nand scraps of history and biography have been collected\\nand stored among its archives. Some members have\\nmade gifts to the club of articles of different kinds, well\\nworthy of preservation. Books and pamphlets and papers\\nhave been contributed by General Cassius M. Clay,\\nGeorge W. Ranck, Henry T. Stanton, Thomas H. Har-\\ndin, Alfred W. Harris, Bennet H. Young, and Reuben\\nT. Durrett. Valuable relics have been contributed by\\nHon. William E. Russell, Dr. Robert Peter, Dr. Thomas\\nE. Pickett, Hon. Henry F. Turner, and Thomas W.\\nParsons. Old letters and manuscripts of the pioneer", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "I 76 The Kentucky Ce7tte7iary.\\nperiod have been contributed by Mrs. Mary Starling\\nPayne and Mrs. Julia Guthrie Smith. Miss Jessie\\nStewart has contributed a crayon portrait of the late\\nColonel John Mason Brown, drawn by herself.\\nSince the organization of the club, new members\\nhave been constantly added, until the whole number\\nnow exceeds five hundred. It has been the policy of\\nthe club to have one or more members in each county\\nof the state, for the purpose of co-operative work in\\nthe collecting and preserving of local history. In a few\\nof the counties no members have yet been elected, but\\nit is the intention to secure them as soon as suitable\\npersons can be selected.\\nNo persons residing outside of Kentucky have yet\\nbeen elected to the club. Those members now residing\\nin other states were elected while in Kentucky, and\\nhave since changed their residence. Neither have any\\nhonorary members yet been chosen.\\nThe following is a full list of the members of the\\nclub, alphabetically arranged", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, Jitne i8g2. 177\\nMembers of the Filson Club.\\nAbel, Rev. John J. Colcsburi,^ Ky.\\nAdair, Davis LaFayette. Hawesville, Ky.\\nAlcorn, Hon. James W. Stanford, Ky.\\nAlexander, Miss Mary Lee. Louisville, Ky.\\nAlexander, Alexander John. .Spring Station, Ky.\\nAllen, James Lane. Lexington, Ky.\\nAllen, Hon. Alfred. Hardinsburg, Ky.\\nAllen, Herman C. Princeton, Ky.\\nAllen, Cornelius Tacitus. Princeton, K)-.\\nAllison, Young E. Louisville, Ky.\\nAllmond, Prof. Marcus B. Louisville, Ky.\\nAlves, Gaston M. Henderson, Ky.\\nAnderson, Hon. Charles. Kuttawa, Ky.\\nAnderson, Colonel Latham. Cincinnati, O.\\nAnderson, Lucien. Mayfield, Ky.\\nApperson, Lewis. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nAtkinson, John Bond. Earlington, Ky.\\nAtherton, John AL Louisville, Ky.\\nAverill, Dr. W. H. Frankfort, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 78 The KcnttLcky Centenary.\\nBabbage, John Daviess. Hardinsburg, Ky.\\nBaird, Alexander Barnett. Hartford, Ky.\\nBaker, Herschel Clay. Columbia, Ky.\\nBaker, General Alpheus. Louisville, Ky.\\nBarr, Hon. John W. Louisville, Ky.\\nBartlett, Miss Mary G. Louisville, Ky.\\nBarker, Henry S. Louisville, Ky.\\nBarker, Max S. Louisville, Ky.\\nBeatty, James W. Beattyville, Ky.\\nBeatty, Rev. Ormond. Danville, Ky.\\nBeckham, James Coleman. Shelbyville, Ky.\\nBeckner, Wm. M. Winchester, Ky.\\nBell, John A. Georgetown, Ky.\\nBelknap, Wm. R. Louisville, Ky.\\nBell, Captain W. E. Lawrenceburg, Ky.\\nBierbower, Frederick Huber. Maysville, Ky.\\nBlain, Miss Lucia. Louisville, Ky.\\nBlackburn, Hon. J. C. S. Versailles, Ky.\\nBlanton, Rev. L. A. Richmond, Ky.\\nBodley, Temple. Louisville, Ky.\\nBohannon, Dr. Thomas. Louisville, Ky.\\nBohne, Ernest Christian. Louisville, Ky.\\nBoone, Miss Annie. Louisville, Ky.\\nBoring, Hanson. Madisonville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yunc iSg2.\\nBourne, James INI. Louisville, Ky.\\nBowman, John B. Lexington, Ky.\\nBowmar, Dan. M. Versailles, Ky.\\nBowser, Mrs. Annie C. Louisville, Ky.\\nBoyle, St. John. Loui.sville, Ky.\\nBoyle, Samuel G. Danville, Ky.\\nBoyce, Rev. James P. Louisville, Ky.\\nBrandies, Dr. Albert S. Louisville, Ky.\\nBradley, W. O. Lancaster, Ky.\\nBradford, Henry Thompson. Augusta, Ky.\\nBransford, Clifton Wood. Owensboro, Ky.\\nBreckinridge, Hon. W. C P. Lexington, Ky.\\nBrents, John Allen. Albany, Ky.\\nBristow, F. H. Elkton, Ky.\\nBrown, Colonel John Mason. Louisville, Ky.\\nBrown, Geo. G. Louisville, Ky.\\nBrown, John Watson. Mt. Vernon, Ky.\\nBrown, Governor John Young. Henderson, Ky.\\nBrown, Richard J. Louisville, Ky.\\nBroadus, Rev. John A. Louisville, Ky.\\nBrowder, Wilbur Fisk. Russellville, Ky.\\nBrown, Alfred M. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nBruce, Benjamin Gratz. Lexington, Ky.\\nBruce, Hon. Horatio W. Louisville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "i8o The KenUicky Centenary.\\nBruce, Henry Clay. Vanceburg, Ky.\\nBryan, Hon. James William. Covington, Ky.\\nBuchanan, John W. Louisville, Ky.\\nBuckner, Colonel James F. Louisville, Ky.\\nBuckner, Governor .Simon B. Rio, Ky.\\nBuck, Hon. Charles W. Louisville, Ky.\\nBullitt, Hon. Joshua F. Louisville, Ky.\\nBullitt, Major Thos. W. Louisville, Ky.\\nBullock, Dr. Waller Overton. Lexington, Ky.\\nBurnam, Hon. Curtis F. Richmond, Ky.\\nBurnett, Hon. Theodore L. Louisville, Ky.\\nBush, William Walter. Franklin, Ky.\\nBush, John W. Smithland, Ky.\\nBushong, Dr. Perry W. Summershade, Ky.\\nByron, Larkin Alonzo. Manchester, Ky.\\nCastleman, General John B. Louisville, Ky.\\nCastleman, Mrs. Alice B. Louisville, Ky.\\nCantrill, Hon. James E. Georgetown, Ky.\\nCantrill, Mrs. Mary C. Georgetown, Ky.\\nCampbell, John Alexander. Carlisle, Ky.\\nCampbell, Benjamin Smith. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nCaldwell, Junius. Louisville, Ky.\\nCaldwell, Hon. John William. Russellville, Ky,\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yurie i, i8g2. i8i\\nCaldwell, Geo. Alfred. Louisville, Ky.\\nCawein, Madison J. Louisville, Ky.\\nCatlin, Miss Olive B. Louisville, Ky.\\nCain, Paul. Louisville, Ky.\\nCardin, Alpheus Hamit. Marion, Ky.\\nCarroll, William. New Castle, Ky.\\nCalhoon, Isaac. Calhoon, Ky.\\nCarlisle, John B. Lebanon, Ky.\\nCarpenter, Wilhoite. Salt River, Ky.\\nCary, Gipson Taylor. Calhoon, Ky.\\nCecil, Henry A. Cecilian, Ky.\\nChandler, Joseph H. Campbellsville, My.\\nChappell, James Augustus. Carlisle, Ky.\\nChenault, Hon. William, Fort Scott, Kan.\\nChenault, Prof. Jason W. Louisville, Ky.\\nChildress, Rufus J. Louisville, Ky.\\nChurchill, Hon. Samuel B. Louisville, Ky.\\nClay, Hon. Cassius Marcellus, Jr. Paris, Ky.\\nClay, General Cassius Marcellus. White Hall, Ky.\\nClay, Hon. James Franklin. Henderson, Ky.\\nClayton, Philip Day. Dixon, Ky.\\nCleveland, Rev. Henry W. Louisville, Ky.\\nCochran, Robert. Louisville, Ky.\\nCooke, Rev. John James. Sedan, Kan.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "1 82 The KenttLcky Centenary.\\nColeman, Rev. Henry R. Louisville, Ky.\\nCollins, Richard H. Louisville, Ky.\\nCooper, Albert R. Louisville, Ky.\\nCowan, Colonel Andrew. Louisville, Ky.\\nCox, Joseph Blackburn. Taylorsville, Ky.\\nCrenshaw, J. W. Cadiz, Ky.\\nCrittenden, Colonel Robert Henry. Beattyville, Ky.\\nCurry, D. J. Harrodsburg, Ky.\\nDarby, Franklin Wyatt. Princeton, Ky.\\nDaviess, Mrs. Maria T. Harrodsburg, Ky.\\nDavie, Geo. M. Louisville, Ky.\\nDavis, Major William J. Louisville, Ky.\\nDavis, Mrs. Angele Crippen. Louisville, Ky.\\nDe Haven, Hon. Samuel E. Lagrange, Ky.\\nDembitz, Lewis N. Louisville, Ky.\\nDenny, Archibald Kavanaugh. Shelby City, Ky.\\nDescognets, Mrs. Anna R. Le.xington, Ky.\\nDickey, Mrs. Fannie Porter. Glasgow, Ky.\\nDickey, Rev. John Jay. Jackson, Ky.\\nDils, Colonel John, Jr. Pikeville, Ky.\\nDixon, Dr. Archibald. Henderson, Ky.\\nDougherty, Wm. Holman. Owingsville, Ky.\\nDurrett, Reuben T. Louisville, Ky.\\nDece.ised.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, ytinc iS(j2. 183\\nDurrett, Dr. Win. T. Louisville, Ky.\\nUurrett, Mns. Sara li. Louisville, Ky.\\nDudley, Rev. Richard M. Georgetown, Ky.\\nDudley, Rt. Rev. Thomas U. Louisville, Ky.\\nDuncan, Henry T. Lexington, Ky.\\nDuncan, Samuel M. Nicholasville, Ky.\\nDuncan, John. Louisville, Ky.\\nDuncan, Mrs. Fannie Casseday. Louisville, Ky.\\nDuke, General Basil W. Louisville, Ky.\\nDulaney, Hon. William LeRoy. Bowling Green, Ky.\\nDulin, Edward Fairfax. Greenup, Ky.\\nDupoyster, Joseph Crockett. Wicklifle, Ky.\\nDyer, John W. Caseyville, Ky.\\nEaves, Hon. Charles. Greenville. K)-.\\nEchols, General John. Louisville, Ky.\\nEdwards, Hon. Isaac W. Louisville, Ky.\\nEllis, Hon. William T. Owensboro, Ky.\\nEvans, Robert Graham. Danville, Ky.\\nFall, James Slater. Adairville, Ky.\\nFaulkner, Henry Cork. Barboursville, Ky.\\nFennessy, Rev. David. St. Mary s, Ky.\\nField, Hon. Emmet. Louisville, Ky.\\nFinley, Wm. M. Louisville, Ky.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "I 84 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nFinley, Alex. C. Russcllville, Ky.\\nFlippin, Manlius Thompson. Tompkinsville, Ky.\\nFonda, Mrs. Mary Alice Ives. Louisville, Ky.\\nFord, James William. Hartford, Ky.\\nFord, Arthur Y. Louisville, Ky.\\nForgy, James Monroe. Morgantown, Ky.\\nFrancis, Samuel. Sassafras, Ky.\\nFrench, David Humphrey. Lagrange, Ky.\\nFulton, John Anderson. Bardstown, Ky.\\nFuqua, Dr. Wm. M. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nGallagher, Wm. D. Louisville, Ky.\\nGait, Dr. Wm. H. Louisville, Ky.\\nGardner, Dudley Williams. Salyersville, Ky.\\nGarred, Arnoldus J. Louisa, Ky.\\nGarnett, Walter F. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nGarnett Virgil Alonzo. Pembroke, Ky.\\nGarnett, James Bayard. Cadiz, Ky.\\nGarnett, Hon. James. Columbia, Ky.\\nGeiger, John Samuel. Morganfield, Ky.\\nGilbert, Abijah. South P\\\\irk, Ky.\\nGibson, Hart. Lexington, Ky.\\nGlenn, J. J. Madisonville, Ky.\\nGoodloe, John K. Louisville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "IVednesday, Juite i, iScj2. 185\\nGoodloe, Miss Abbie Carter. Louisville, Ky.\\nGoodwin, Alexander Campbell. Owensboro, Ky.\\nGoodnight, Hon. Isaac Hcrschel. Franklin, Ky.\\nGoodnight, Thos. Mitchell. Franklin, Ky.\\nGordon, Rev. Percy. Louisville, Ky.\\nGorin, Harry Campbell. Glasgow, Ky.\\nGrant, Dr. Thomas P. Louisville, Ky.\\nGrant, Dr. Emory A. Louisville, Ky.\\nGreen, LaFayette. Falls of Rough, Ky.\\nGreen, Thomas M. Maysville, Ky.\\nGriswold, Howard M. Louisville, Ky.\\nHagan, Frank. Louisville, Ky.\\nHager, John Franklin. Ashland, Ky.\\nHaldeman, Walter M. Louisville, Ky.\\nHaldeman, Bruce. Louisville, Ky.\\nHale, H. S. Mayfield, Ky.\\nHale, Josiah. Owensboro, Ky.\\nHalsey, Ed. T. Louisville, Ky.\\nHalbert, George T. Yanceburg, Ky.\\nHampton, Kensey John. Winchester, Ky.\\nHampton, Miss Lydia. Louisville, Ky.\\nHamilton, Miss Anna J. Louisville, Ky.\\nHanna, Charles Morton. Cropper, Ky.\\nHardin, Hon. Charles A., Sr. Harrodsburg, Ky.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "1 86 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nHardin, Hon. Parker \\\\V. Harrodsburg, Ky.\\nHardin, Thomas Helm. Harrodsburg, Ky.\\nHarris, Alfred W. Louisville, Ky.\\nHarris, Hon. Walter O. Louisville, Ky.\\nHarris, Abner. Louisville, Ky.\\nHarcourt, Ashton Perry. Louisville, Ky.\\nHardwick, James R. Stanton, Ky.\\nHaswell, James Gibbs. Hardinsburg, Ky.\\nHarvey, Rev. William P. Louisville, Ky.\\nHarvie, Lewis Edwin. Frankfort, Ky.\\nHays, James Waverly. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nHays, Major Thomas H. Louisville, Ky.\\nHelm, Mrs. Emily Todd. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nHelm, Miss Lucinda B. Louisville, Ky.\\nHelm, James P. Louisville, Ky.\\nHemphill, Rev. C. R. Louisville, Ky.\\nHendrick, Hon. Wm. Jackson. Flemmingsburg, Ky.\\nHendrick, James Paul. Flemmingsburg, Ky.\\nHenton, Mrs. Sara Hansborough. Louisville, Ky.\\nHermany, Charles. Louisville, Ky.\\nHewitt, General Fayette. Frankfort, Ky.\\nHeywood, Rev. John H. Louisville, Ky.\\nHiebee, ]\\\\Iiss Hester. Louisville, Kv.\\nHill, Reviben Douglas. Williamsburg, Ky.\\nHill, Hawthorne. Louisville, Ky.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, June i, 18(^2. 187\\nHill, General Samuel Ewing. Hartford, Ky.\\nHindman, Hon. J. R. Columbia, Ky.\\nHines, Hon. Thomas Henry. Frankfort, Ky.\\nHixson, \\\\Vm. D. Maysville, Ky.\\nHobson, J. P. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nHobson, General Edward Henry. Greensburg, Ky.\\nHogan, John T. Versailles, Ky.\\nHoke, Hon. Wm. B. Louisville, Ky.\\nHopper, James \\\\V. Louisville, Ky.\\nHoward, Hon. Henry Lewis. Harlan C. H., Ky.\\nHowe, James Lewis. Louisville, Ky.\\nHughes, Daniel Henry. Morganfield, Ky.\\nHumphrey, Hon. Alex. P. Louisville, Ky.\\nHumphrey, Rev. Edward P. Louisville, Ky.\\nHumphreys, Mrs. Sarah Gibson. Versailles, Ky.\\nHuntoon, Benj. B. Louisville, Ky.\\nHungerford, Rev. Benj. Franklin. Shelbyville, Ky.\\nHurst, William L. Stillwater, Ky.\\nHuston, George. Morganfield, Ky.\\nIreland, Hon. William Crutcher. Ashland, Ky.\\nJacob, Hon. Richard Taylor. Westport, Ky.\\nJacob, Hon. Charles D. Louisville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "1 88 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nJacobs, Robert Powell. Danville, Ky.\\nJackson, Hon. Wm. L. Louisville, Ky.\\nJansan, Jeptha Crawford. Calhoon, Ky.\\nJefferson, Dr. Walter Bowling. Elkton, Ky.\\nJohnson, Colonel E. Polk. Louisville, Ky,\\nJohnson, John Williams. Calhoon, Ky.\\nJohnston, Miss Henrietta Preston. Louisville, Ky.\\nJohnston, Hon. Josiah Stoddard. Louisville, Ky.\\nJohnston, Miss Mary. Louisville, Ky.\\nJones, James W. London, Ky.\\nJones, Stephen E. Louisville, Ky.\\nJones, Mrs. Mary K. Newport, Ky.\\nJones, Henry Clay. Monticello, Ky.\\nJoseph, LaFayette. Louisville, Ky.\\nJouett, Edward S. Winchester, Ky.\\nJoyes, Patrick. Louisville, Ky.\\nKastenbine, Dr. Lewis D. Louisville, Ky.\\nKearns, Dr. Charles. Covington, Ky.\\nKelley, Colonel Robert M. Louisville, Ky.\\nKennedy, Hanson. Carlisle, Ky.\\nKerr, Charles. Lexington, Ky.\\nKetchum, Mrs. Annie Chambers. Louisville, Ky.\\nKimbley, John Franklin. Owensboro, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 189\\nKinnaird, James Grant. Chilesburg, Ky.\\nKinkead, William Bury. Lexington, Ky.\\nKinkead, James A. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nKirby, Prof. Maurice. Louisville, Ky.\\nKnott, Richard W. Louisville, Ky.\\nKnott, Hon. J. Proctor. Lebanon, Ky.\\nKnott, William Thomas. Lebanon, Ky.\\nLafon, Miss Mary. Louisville, Ky.\\nLewis, James William. Brandenburg, Ky.\\nLillard, Robert Whitley. Lebanon, Ky.\\nLindsay, Hon. William. Frankfort, Ky.\\nLindsay, Charles M. Louisville, Ky.\\nLindsey, General Daniel Weissiger. Frankfort, Ky.\\nLisle, William James. Lebanon, Ky.\\nLittle, Judge Lucien P. Ovvensboro, Ky.\\nLockett, Hon. John W. Henderson, Ky.\\nLogan, Rev. J. V. Richmond, Ky.\\nLogan, Emmet G. Louisville, Ky.\\nLyon, Hylan Benton. Eddyville, Ky.\\nLyon, Thompson A. Louisville, Ky.\\nMacKoy, Hon. Wm. H. Covington, Ky.\\nManning, Isaac S. Manchester, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "190 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nMarshall, Thornton F. Augusta, Ky.\\nMarshall, Humphrey. Louisville, Ky.\\nMarshall, Burvvell K. Louisville, Ky.\\nMarshall, Charles Alexander. Washington, Ky.\\nMarshall, Matthew Crittenden. Kuttawa, Ky.\\nMartin, Henry Clay. Munfordville, Ky.\\nMatthews, John Wiley. New Castle, Ky.\\nMcAfee, Mrs. Nellie Marshall. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcAfee, John Louisville, Ky.\\nMcBeath, Hon. Thomas Robert. Litchfield, Ky.\\nMcCain, Joseph Watkins. Bedford, Ky.\\nMcChord, William Caldwell. Springfield, Ky.\\nMcClarty, Clinton. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcCloskey, Rt. Rev. Wm. G. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcConathy, Major Wm. J. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcCreary, Hon. James B. Richmond, Ky.\\nMcCready, Rev. Wm. George. Versailles, Ky.\\nMcChesney, Frank L. Paris, Ky.\\nMcDonald, Allen H. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcDonald, Major E. H. Shenandoah Junction, W. Va.\\nMcDonald, Captain Wm. N. Berryville, Va.\\nMcDonald, Donald. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcDowell, Dr. Hervey. Cynthiana, Ky.\\nMcDowell, Major Henry Clay. Lexington, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, i8g2. 191\\nMcFerran, John B., Jr. Louisville, Ky.\\nMcHenry, Hon. John Hardin. Owensboro, Ky.\\nMcHenry, Hon. Henry D. Hartford, Ky.\\nMcKay, Allen Vaughn. Bardstown, Ky.\\nMcKenzie, Hon. James A. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nMcNary, Hugh Flournoy. Princeton, Ky.\\nMcPherson, Hon. John W. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nMcQuown, Lewis. Glasgow, Ky.\\nMcReynolds, John Oliver. Elkton, Ky.\\nMeacham, Chas. ^L Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nMenefee, Richard J. Louisville, Ky.\\nMenefee, Mrs. Sarah Bell. Louisville, Ky.\\nMiller, Miss Elvira Sydnor. Louisville, Ky.\\nMiller, Shackelford. Louisville, Ky.\\nMiller, Howard. Louisville, Ky.\\nMiller, Reuben A. Owensboro, Ky.\\nMitchell, William. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nMontgomery, James. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nMoreman, Albert W. Brandenburg, Ky.\\nMorrow, Hon. Thomas Zantzenger. Somerset, Ky.\\nMorris, Geo. \\\\V. Louisville, Ky.\\nMoses, Rev. Adolph. Louisville, Ky.\\nMoore, Hon. Laban Theodore. Catlettsburg, Ky.\\nMorton, Hon. Jeremiah Rogers. Lexington, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "192 The Kenhu ky Ce^itenary.\\nMoss, Thomas Edward. Paducah, Ky.\\nMoss, Nathaniel Pleasant. Clinton, Ky.\\nMurray, Hon. John Allen. Cloverport, Ky.\\nMurray, Hon. David R. Hardinsburg, Ky.\\nNewberry, Tevis Wellington. Inez, Ky.\\nNoe, William Berry. Calhoon, Ky.\\nNorman, Major Lewis Conner. Frankfort, Ky.\\nNunn, Otho. Sullivan Station, Ky.\\nO Connell, Cornelius J. Bardstown, Ky.\\nO Sullivan, Daniel E. Louisville, Ky.\\nOuchterlony, Dr. John A. Louisville, Ky.\\nOwsley, Hon. Wm. Francis. Burksville, Ky.\\nPalmer, Dr. Edward R. Louisville, Ky.\\nPalmer, Miss Kate. Louisville, Ky.\\nPatrick, Hon. Samuel Houston. Jackson Ky.\\nPatterson, Rev. James K. Lexington, Ky.\\nPayne, Mrs. Mary Starling. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nPayne, James Brown. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nParsons, Charles Monroe. Pikeville, Ky.\\nParsons, Thomas Wilborn. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nParker, John Wm. Fletcher. Somerset, Ky.\\nParker, Edward. London, Ky.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Wedjiesday, yune i, i8g2. 193\\nPeak, Robert Francis. Bedford, Ky.\\nPendleton, John Edward. Hartford, Ky.\\nPenick, Benjamin \\\\Vm. Greensburg, Ky.\\nPerry, Rod. Warsaw, Ky.\\nPerkins, Benj. T. Elkton, Ky.\\nPerkins, Hon. George Gilpin. Covington, Ky.\\nPerkins, Rev. Edmund T. Louisville, Ky.\\nPeter, Dr. Robert. Lexington, Ky.\\nPeters, Hon. Belvard January. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nPettus, William Henry. Somerset, Ky.\\nPerrin, Wm. H. Louisville, Ky.\\nPickett, Rev. Joseph D. Frankfort, Ky.\\nPickett, Dr. Thos. E. Maysville, Ky.\\nPickett, James Abner. Finchville, Ky.\\nPirtle, Hon. James S. Louisville, Ky.\\nPoage, Rev. George Bernard. Brooksville, Ky.\\nPoignand, Yoder. Taylorsville, Ky.\\nPorter, Dr. Newton. New Castle, Ky.\\nPorter, Wm. Logan. Glasgow, Ky.\\nPowers, Joshua Dee. Owensboro, Ky.\\nPowell, Miss Kate. Louisville, Ky.\\nPoynter, Wiley Taul. Shelbj^ille, Ky.\\nPreston, General William. Lexington, Ky.\\nProcter, John R. Frankfort, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "194 T^^^^ Kentucky Centenaiy.\\nPryor, Hon. Wm. S. New Castle, Ky.\\nPuckett, James Elbert. Munfordville, Ky.\\nOuisenberry, Anderson C. Washington, D. C.\\nRamsey, William Randall. London, Ky.\\nRanck, Geo. W. Lexington, Ky.\\nRay, Joseph F. Edmonton, Ky.\\nReed, Wm. M. Benton, Ky.\\nReed, Charles. Paducah, Ky.\\nReid, Josiah Davis. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nRevill, Jo. C. Burlington, Ky.\\nReyland, Wm. S. Russellville, Ky.\\nReynolds, Dr. Dudley S. Louisville, Ky.\\nRichardson, Orla Coburn. Brandenburg, Ky.\\nRidgley, Benj. H. Louisville, Ky.\\nRiddle, Hon. Robert. Irvine, Ky.\\nRivers, Rev. Richard H. Louisville, Ky.\\nRobbins, Josephus Ewing. Mayfield, Ky.\\nRoberts, John. Louisville, Ky.\\nRobertson, Harrison. Louisville, Ky.\\nRodes, Robert. Bowling Green, Ky.\\nRodman, Dr. James. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nRogers, Dr. Coleman. Louisville, Ky.\\nRoot, Oliver Wyatt. Newport, Ky.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, yune i, 18(^2. 195\\nRoss, William Parks. Carlisle, Ky.\\nRout, Rev. Gelon H. Versailles, Ky.\\nRowntrec, Rutherford Harrison. Lebanon, Ky.\\nRudy, James Henry. Owensboro, Ky.\\nRussell, Hon. William Edwin. Lebanon, Ky.\\nRussell, John C. Louisville, Ky.\\nRutledge, Arthur. Louisville, Ky.\\nSampson, John Riddle. Middlesborough, Ky.\\nSanders, Major David W. Louisville, Ky.\\nSavage, Samuel S. Ashland, Ky.\\nSalyer, John Preston. West Liberty, Ky.\\nScott, Dr. Preston B. Louisville, Ky.\\nScott, Dr. Samuel Sneed. Florence, Ky.\\nScott, Thomas Wynne. Ducker, Ky.\\nSea, Mrs. Sophia Fox. Louisville, Ky.\\nSebree, Elijah Garth. Henderson, Ky.\\nSemple, Mrs. Patty B. Louisville, Ky.\\nSeymour, Charles B. Louisville, Ky.\\nSettle, Evan E. Owenton, Ky.\\nSettle, Rev. Henry C. Louisville, Ky.\\nShanks, Quintus Cincinnatus. Hartford, Ky.\\nShirley, George Douglas. Louisville, Ky.\\nShipp, Barnard. Louisville, Ky.\\nSimpson, Asa Pitman. Jamestown, Ky.\\nSimrall, Hon. John G. Louisville, Ky.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "196 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nSmith, Mrs. Julia Guthrie. Louisville, Ky.\\n.Smith, David Highbaugh. Hodgenville, Ky.\\nSmith, Hon. Zacariah F. Louisville, Ky.\\nSmith, William Mayfield. Mayfield, Ky.\\nSmith, Joshua Soule. Lexington, Ky.\\nSomers, Henry Augustus. Elizabethtown, Ky.\\nSpeed, Captain Thomas. Louisville, Ky.\\nSpeed, Thomas S. Bardstown, Ky.\\nSpencer, Rev. John J. Eminence, Ky.\\nStanton, Major Henry T. Frankfort, Ky.\\nStaton, James William. Brooksville, Ky.\\nStarling, Samuel McDowell. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nStephenson, Daniel. Barboursville, Ky.\\nStephens, Heuston Perry. Burlington, Ky.\\nSteele, John Andrew. Midway, Ky.\\nStites, Hon. Henry J. Louisville, Ky.\\nStites, John. Louisville, Ky.\\nStone, Hon. Wm. Johnson. Kuttawa, Ky.\\nStone, Dr. Barton Warren. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nStewart, A. H. Prestonsburg, Ky.\\nStewart, Miss Jessie. Louisville, Ky.\\nStewart, Dr. John Ouincy Adams. Frankfort, Ky.\\nStraus, Franklin Pierce. Shepherdsville, Ky.\\nStuart, Thomas G. Winchester, Ky.\\nSublett, David Dudley. Salyersville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, y^inc i, iSc)2. 197\\nSudduth, Watson A. Louisville, Ky.\\nSweeny, James J. Owensboro, Ky.\\nSwearingcn, Geo. W. Louisville, Ky.\\nSymmes, Miss Ida Elmore. Louisville, Ky.\\nTaney, Miss Mary Florence. Covington, Ky.\\nTaylor, Harrison D. Hartford, Ky.\\nTevis, Robert C. Louisville, Ky.\\nThorne, William Pryor. Eminence, Ky.\\nThornton, Robert Augustine. Lexington, Ky.\\nThomas, Claude. Paris, Ky.\\nThomas, James Mason. Paris, Ky.\\nThompson, Captain Ed. Porter. Frankfort, Ky.\\nThompson, Joseph Pinckney. Lebanon, Ky.\\nThompson, Hon. Reginald H. Louisville, Ky.\\nThompson, Mrs. Virginia C. Louisville, Ky.\\nThruston, R. C. Ballard. Louisville, Ky.\\nTice, William Wallace. Mayfield, Ky.\\nTipton, French. Richmond, Ky.\\nTodd, Thomas. Shelbyville, Ky.\\nTodd, George D. Louisville, Ky.\\nTodd, Harry Innes. Frankfort, Ky.\\nTodd, Dr. Charles Henry. Owensboro, Ky.\\nToney, Hon. Sterling B. Louisville, Ky.\\nTowles, Walter Alves. Geneva, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "198 The KenttLcky Centenary.\\nTriplett, Robert Samuel. Owensboro, Ky.\\nTuttle, John William. Monticello, Ky.\\nTurner, Hon. Thomas. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nTurner, Hon. Henry F. Henderson, Ky.\\nTurner, George Britain. Harlan C. H., Ky.\\nTwyman, Broadus Wickliffe. Beattyville, Ky.\\nTyler, Hon. Henry S. Louisville, Ky.\\nVarnon, Thomas W. Stanford, Ky.\\nWalker, E. G. Columbia, Ky.\\nWalker, E. Dudley. Hartford, Ky.\\nWalker, Captain David C. Franklin, Ky.\\nWalker, James Hickman. Marion, Ky.\\nWalker, Scott. Burksville, Ky.\\nWalker, Robert C. Marion, Ky.\\nWallace, Joseph McDowell. Danville, Ky.\\nWallace, Edmund Martin. Versailles, Ky.\\nWatts, Robert A. Louisville, Ky.\\nWatterson, Hon. Henry. Louisville, Ky.\\nWatterson, Hon. Harvey M. Louisville, Ky.\\nWalton, Dr. Claiborne J. Munfordville, Ky.\\nWalton, William P. Stanford, Ky.\\nWard, Hon. John Ouincy. Cynthiana, Ky.\\nWard, Colonel John H. Louisville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Wednesday, Jtme i8g2. 199\\nWard, Hon. A. Harry. Cynthiana, Ky.\\nWarfield, William. Lexington, Ky.\\nWarfield, Ethelbert D. Easton, Pcnn.\\nWaddy, William Lewis. Waddy, Ky.\\nWebb, Charles Henry. Smithland, Ky.\\nWebb, Benjamin J. Louisville, Ky.\\nWeissinger, Rozel. Louisville, Ky.\\nWeir, James. Owensboro, Ky.\\nWelch, John Harrison. Nicholasville, Ky.\\nWhite, Hon. John U. Loui-sville, Ky.\\nWhitaker, Hon. Emery, Maysville, Ky.\\nWhitsett, Rev. Wm. H. Louisville, Ky.\\nWithers, J. S. Cynthiana, Ky.\\nWithers, John Benton. Muldraugh, Ky.\\nWillis, Harry Payne. Brooksville, Ky.\\nWillis, Hon. Albert S. Louisville, Ky.\\nWilson, Robert Burns. Frankfort, Ky.\\nWilson, Wm. Boone. Eminence, Ky.\\nWilson, John Samuel. Westport, Ky.\\nWilson, Hon. John Henry. Barboursville, Ky.\\nWilson, Miss Annie E. Louisville, Ky.\\nWilliams, Rev. John Augustus. Harrodsburg, Ky.\\nWilliams, Mordecai. Normal, Ky.\\nWilliams, Hon. John S. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nWinchester, Hon. Boyd. Louisville, Ky.\\nDeceased.", "height": "3565", "width": "2514", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "^^2/Kr\\n200 The Kentucky Centenary.\\nWickliffe, John D. Bardstown, Ky.\\nWilhoit, E. B. Grayson, Ky.\\nWinfree, William Powhatan. Hopkinsville, Ky.\\nWood, Henry Cleveland. Harrodsburg, Ky.\\nWoolley, Colonel Robert W. Louisville, Ky.\\nWortham, James Samuel. Litchfield, Ky.\\nWright, Daniel Webster. Bowling Green, Ky.\\nWright, James Clayton. Newport, Ky.\\nWright, Miss Jean. Louisville, Ky.\\nYandell, Dr. David W. Louisville, Ky.\\nYandell, Mrs. Louise Elliston. Louisville, Ky.\\nYandell, Miss Enid. Louisville, Ky.\\nYeaman, Malcolm. Henderson, Ky.\\nYerkes, John Watson. Danville, Ky.\\nYoung, Rev. John D. Louisville, Ky.\\nYoung, Colonel Bennett H. Louisville, Ky.\\nYoung, Hon. Van Buren. Mount Sterling, Ky.\\nYoung, Rev. Wm. C. Danville, Ky.\\nYost, Hon. Wm. H. Greenville, Ky.\\nThe officers of the Filson Club will be thankful for\\nthe correction of any errors or omissions in the foregoing\\nlist of members. The president or secretary should at\\nonce be advised of any death or change of residence\\namong the members.\\nDeceased.\\nysAR 11314", "height": "3544", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3560", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "centenaryofkentu00fils_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "PUBLICATIONS OF THE FILSON CLUB.\\n1. JOHN FILSON, the first historian of Kentucky. An account of his life and writings\\nprepared from original sources. By Reuben T. Durrett. Illustrated by a- production of a newly\\ndiscovered portrait, a fac-simile of one of his letters, and a photo-lithographic fac-simile of his\\noriginal map of Kentucky, which was issued with his History of Kentucke, in 1784. 4to.\\npp. 32. 1884. Out of print.\\n2. THE WILDERNESS ROAD. A description of the routes of travel by which the pioneers\\nand early settlers first came to Kentucky. By Thomas Speed. Map. 4to. pp.85. 1886. 2 00\\n3. THE PIONEER PRESS OF KENTUCKY: From the printing of the first paper west\\nof the Alleghanies, August 11, 1787, to the establishment of the Daily Press, in l83o. By\\nWilliam Henry Perrin. Illustrated with a fac-simile of The Farmer s Library, and The\\nKentucke Gazette, a cut of the first printing house, and portraits of John Bradford, Shadrach\\nPenn, and George D. Prentice. 4to. pp. 93. 1888. 2 00\\n4. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE CALEB WALLACE. Some time a Justice of\\nthe Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky. By William H. Whitsitt. 4to. pp. I5l.\\n1888. 2 00.\\n5. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ST. PAUL S CHURCH, Louisville, Ky. Prepared\\nfor the semi-centennial celebration, October 6, 1889. By Reuben T. Durrett. Illustrated with\\ntwo plates of the church and portrait of Rev. William Jackson and Rev. Edmund T. Perkins,\\nD.D. Small 4to. pp. 75. 1889. 2 00\\n6. THE POLITICAL BEGINNINGS OF KENTUCKY. A narrative of public events\\nbearing on the history of that State up to the time of its admission into the American Union.\\nBy John Mason Brown. Portrait. 4to. pp. 263. 1889. 2 50\\n7. THE CENTENARY OF KENTUCKY. Proceedings at the celebration by the Filson\\nClub, Wednesday, June 1, 1892, of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Ken-\\ntucky as an independent State into the Federal Union. Containing the historical address of Col.\\nReuben T. Durrett, the poem of Henry T. 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