{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3571", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "014 571 671 8\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH 8.5", "height": "3571", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS\\nGENERAL THOMAS EWING\\nat the\\nCentennial Celebration\\nat\\nMARIETTA, OHIO, JULY i^th, 1888,\\nof the\\nSETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.\\nSecond Edition.\\nBw.", "height": "3571", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "k- i J\\ntTi\\nJfyUO. ?t- ^^Ut. Q-^,\\nThis address is published for the Woman s Centennial Associa-\\ntion of Marietta, Ohio, and is offered for sale by it for the benefit of\\na Pioneer Memorial Fund, at 25 cents per copy. The Fund is to\\nbe applied toward the construction of a monument or other memo-\\nrial of the patriotic men and women whose services and sacrifices in\\nthe cause of liberty are so beautifully and feelingly portrayed in\\nthe address. Contributions to the Fund and orders for the address\\nare earnestly solicited and may be sent to either of the undersigned,\\nat Marietta, O.\\nMARY C. NYE,\\nSOPHIA D. DALE.\\nOct. 1888.\\nft^\\nO^", "height": "3571", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "/frrA f-r r/rActj /ie/f.l^.J c-\\nTHOMAS EWING", "height": "3571", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3571", "width": "2212", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "ADDRKSS.\\nLadies and Gkxtlemkx:\\nIn tliis centennial celebration of the first set-\\ntlement of the North-West Territory, and the estab-\\nlishment of civil government therein, to-day has been\\nset apart for special commemoration of the pioneers by\\ntheir descendants. As a grandson of George Ewing,\\nwho was one of the early settlers, and, like almost all\\nof them, a soldier of the Revolution, I have the honor\\nand pleasure to preside on this occasion.\\nWe assemble here with the representatives of\\nthe commonwealths of Virginia and New York, who\\ngave the North- W^est Territory to the Republic, and of\\nthose young and powerful states formed of it, to com-\\nmemorate the crlorious and beneficent event. But\\nmany of us come with more than the general interest\\nof American patriots in the occasion. We are the de-\\nscendants of that immortal band through whose enter-\\nprise, statesmanship and love of their fellow-man this\\nwilderness was settled, and the foundations of freedom\\nin the new Republic laid. A hundred years ago, in\\nblock-houses and stockades built on yonder plain where\\nthe lovely Muskingum pours her fioods to the still\\nmore beautiful Ohio, our fathers and mothers lived in\\nthe forest tilled their patches of corn; fed their cows;\\nhunted game, and marched in procession each Sunday\\nto church, in armed and incessant preparation against\\nthe savage. I heir mutual loves, trusts, sorrows, sac-\\nrifices, and all the noble passions born of common trials\\nbravely met, have vanished from earth, but have puri-\\nfied and strengthened them for a nobler life above.", "height": "3561", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "With what happiness do they not look down to-day on\\ntheir descendants assembled here in proud and loving\\nremembrance of their deeds On the hundreds of\\nthousands scattered over the Republic who are honor-\\ned in being known as their kinsmen On the great\\nplain of forest and prairie bounded by the Ohio, the\\nMississippi and the Lakes, which, when they settled\\nhere, was inhabited only by wandering savages, and\\nwhich now comprises the homes and temples of thirteen\\nmillions of people, in five great states as prosperous,\\nintelligent and humane as any on ^earth the earliest\\ndaughters of the Republic the first states planted in\\nthe soil of American liberty, and ripened in its sun.\\nAll peoples celebrate those events of their nat-\\nional life which most strongly illustrate their chara cter\\nand gratify their pride and aspirations. Among the\\nnotable events of American history from Columbus to\\nLincoln, I know of none which more deserves general\\nand perpetual commemoration than this. I include of\\ncourse not only the migration of our forefathers to the\\nOhio Country, but also the great charter of freedom\\nwhich they caused to be enacted, as a condition prece-\\ndent of their settlement, and bore with them as the ark\\nof the covenant to the promised land.\\nThitherto our settlements along the north-\\nern lines where they were resisted by the savages had\\npushed westward cautiously, hugging the frontier\\ncreeping like an infant close to its mother s knees.\\nThis was the first stride of population; the first wave of\\nthe great tide, hitherto unexampled in human history,\\nwhich rose, and surged, and swept on across the conti-\\nnent. That ambition and high spirit of adventure\\nthat noble discontent with mean and cramped environ-\\nments that longing and struggling for larger oppor-\\ntunities, and higher fields of action, which are now\\ncharacteristics of the American people, have had their", "height": "3603", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "o|Dportunitics and their consequent growth in the nii-\\norations among which this stands pre-eminent.\\nThe Alleghanies and the great rivers were\\nbarriers, high and deep, between the old states and the\\nNorth- West Territory, which the tomahawk of the\\nsavage guarded from individual settlement. The war-\\nlike Shawnees, Wyandots and Ottawas, who had been\\nfighting the colonies for thirty years in the pay of the\\nFrench before the Revolution, and in that of the British\\ndurinof and after it were still armed and hostile. Great\\nBritain had signed a treaty of peace at Versailles in\\n1783, in which, after long resistance and with great re-\\nluctance, she recognized our claims to the North-West\\nTerritory. But this concession was mortifying to the\\nruling classes in England, and caused the downfall of\\nLord Shelburne s Cabinet w^iich made the treaty. A res-\\nolution of censure was voted by the Commons Lord\\nNorth, wdio led the opposition, declaring that the\\nministry should have retained for Canada all the coun-\\ntry north and west of the Ohio. The resolution was\\nadopted by the Lords after a debate which attracted\\nthe largest assemblage of Peers of the reign of George\\nIII in which debate the complaint was that Lord Shel-\\nburne had given up the banks of the Ohio, the para-\\ndise of America. The Coalition Cabinet, led by Fox\\nand Lord North, which followed, and the succeeding\\nministries, resorted to every artifice and subterfuge to\\nretain the territory. In open violation of the treaty,\\nthey still held and garrisoned all the western forts,\\nwhere the hostile savages always found sympathy\\nand support. They went so far as to build and\\nstrongly garrison a new fort, called Fort Miami, where\\nthe town of Perrysburg, Ohio, now^ stands. Early in\\nI 794 Lord Dorchester, having just arrived from Lon-\\ndon, addressed an Indian Council on the Maumee, and\\npredicted an early renewal of hostilities between Great", "height": "3603", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Britain and the United States. Thereupon Congress\\nlaid an embargo on all British vessels and the House\\npassed a joint resolution of non intercourse with Great\\nBritain until she should abandon the western forts,\\nwhich was defeated in the Senate by the casting vote of\\nVice-President Adams. The Confederation was too\\npoor and dispirited and too much distracted by rival\\nclaims to the territory set up by New York and Vir-\\n.ginia to conquer the savages and expel the British.\\nGen l William Henry Harrison once said that the Rev-\\nolutionary War was not over until August 20th, 1794\\nsix years after the settlement at Marietta when\\nMad Anthony Wayne, under the eyes and guns of\\nthe garrison at Fort Miami, crushed the savages and\\nextinguished the hopes of their British allies.\\nThroughout the five years from the close\\nof the Revolution to the settlement at Marietta, the\\ndominion of the North-W^est had been thus drifting away\\nfrom the feeble, discordant, ungoverned Confederacy.\\nTo save it from being lost to the new Republic, it was in-\\ndispensable that Virginia and New York should surren-\\nder their claims to its ownership. This they did in due\\ntime and with lofty generosity and patriotism. It was then\\nnecessar) that the Confederation at once sell lands to\\nagricultural and semi-military colonies and pass\\na law for the government of the territory. This\\nit did by its contract with the Ohio Company; and by\\nthe Ordinance of 1787 both acts being passed in July\\nof that year.\\nThis legislation was obtained only by the pa-\\ntient and persistent efforts of leading members of the\\nOhio Company, aided by the constant and powerful in-\\nfluence of Washington. Their efforts began at New-\\nburgh on the Hudson in 1783, when our army lay in\\nits encampment there awaiting the conclusion of peace.\\nA petition to the Continental Congress was prepared", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "and signed by 283 officers and enlisted men, setting\\nforth the necessity of taking the territory out of the\\npossession and control of Great Britain, and expressing\\nthe desire of the petitioners to receive their arrears of\\npay in parcels of land comprising a compact and fertde\\nbody to be selected and set apart for settlement by\\nthem.\\nThe petitiontTs were generalh poor. After\\neight years of service away from their homes, their\\nbusinesses were closed against them. To the loss of\\naptitude and opportunity for civil pursuits, which are\\nthe common and heavy penalties for patriotic service in\\nthe army, were added the exhaustion of private re-\\nsources through the almost worthlessness of the money\\nin which they were paid, and finally the failure to pay\\nthem at all. They were bound to each other by mem-\\nories of their long and eventful military career, by a\\ncommon love of adventure, and a desire, as they had\\nto begin life anew, to begin it in the new country and in\\na settlement of soldiers who, inured to hardships and\\nfamiliar with dangers, could take care of themselves.\\nThis petition to Congress was intrusted to their belov-\\ned commander to him towards whom, throughout the\\nlong night of the Revolution, all eyes had turned as to\\nthat northern star,\\nOf whose true-fixed, and resting quality.\\nThere is no fellow in the firmament.\\nWashington urgently pressed their petition on\\nthe attention of the Continental Congress, then sitting\\nat Princeton. No action was taken. He presented\\nand urged it again to the Congress when sitting at An-\\nnapolis. Still even /us appeals failed to arouse that\\nbody to a sense of the justice and sound policy of the\\nproposed legislation. I have heard m\\\\ father say that\\nMr. Webster once showed him a pamphlet published at", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Salem, Mass., in 1786, which set forth in glowing- and\\ntruthful terms the attractive character of the Ohio\\nCountry, and the necessity of taking prompt posses-\\nsion of it by a semi-military colony. It described the\\nsplendid rivers and lakes which bounded the territory,\\nand distinctly prophesied that ere long steam would be ap-\\nplied to navigation upon them. The pamphlet was anon-\\nymous, but Mr. Webster said its putative author was Dr.\\nManassah Cutler, to whose keen intellect and ready\\ntongue and pen the company was indebted for the leg-\\nislation which gave it success. It was prepared, no\\ndoubt, after General Tupper s tour to the west, in the\\nfall of 85, and about the date of the organization of\\nthe Ohio Company at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, in\\nBoston, March ist, 1786. It was only by means of such\\nefforts and inHuences, protracted through four )-ears,\\nthat the Continental Congress was sufficiently aroused\\nto the importance of holding and occupying the North-\\nWest Territory, to give the pioneers the legislation\\nindispensible to their great undertaking.\\nThis legislation having been obtained, a bold\\nact b} the Ohio Company a bugle call was needed\\nto command the attention of the American people and\\ndemonstrate at once the practicability and the method\\nof settlement here. Such an act was the march of Put-\\nnam s band from Massachusetts to Marietta, commenc-\\ning at Danvers, early in December, 1787, and\\nending on this spot, April 7th, 1788. The physical\\ndifftculties to be overcome on the way, and the dangers\\nattending the settlement, would have appalled any but\\nthe hardiest of men impelled by a great and unselfish\\npurpose. Many large rivers had to be crossed, dense\\nforests traversed, and pathless mountains covered with\\nsnow, where no wheeled vehicle could be moved and no\\nsupplies obtained; and the colony had to settle down in\\nthe wilderness bevond the mountains and the great river,", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "there to support itself by agriculture, surrounded by\\narmed and hostile savagfes who were incited to violence\\nby the British garrisons, with no reserved resources, and\\nwith a mere semblance of a government five hundred\\nmiles away, too poor and inert to help it even in the\\ndirest extremit)-.\\nPutnam s daring and successful expedition ex-\\ncited the wonder and admiration of the country. It\\ndispelled the fears which had enveloped the unknown.\\nIt called back to the landless people of the states,\\ncursed by monopoly under large grants from kings and\\nlords proprietors, to come west and own homes and\\ngovern themselves, in the glorious expanse which be-\\nlonged to all the American people. New Jersey heard\\nthe call, and Symmes followed in the same year with\\nhis colony to the Miamis. Virginia heard it, and her\\npatriot soldiers eagerly took possession of the lands be-\\ntween the Scioto and the Little Miami, reserved for\\nthem in the act of cession. The impoverished soldiers\\nof the other colonies came flocking; and thus the veter-\\nans of all the thirteen states, who had together shed\\ntheir blood on the battlefields of the Revolution, again\\ncommineled it in the generations which have since oriven\\nOhio her proud pre-eminence. O, glorious state! O,\\nnobly born! If there be a state of the Union which\\nmay boast of the pre-eminence of her soldiers and\\nstatesmen for a generation gone by, without offense to\\nher sisters, surely Ohio may. For is she not the first\\nborn of the Republic; of the blood of heroes from all the\\ncolonics; the first typical, composite, American state\\nAnd were not the children of these heroes born poor;\\nstrengthened in mind and body by strenuous effort; rear-\\ned in communities cursed by neither rank, luxury nor\\nhopeless poverty under a governnient devoted to free-\\ndom, intelligence and christian morality; and in a new\\nland so blest in skv, soil and waters as to seem to have", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nbeen specially fitted by the Almighty for the highest\\ndevelopment of man.\\nProbably no large migrations of men occur\\nwithout a special Divine purpose and direction. The\\nexodus of the children of Israel from Egypt was visibly\\nand audibly under God s guidance as a preparation for\\nthe Messiah. The hordes of Goths and Visi-goths,\\nwhom the populous north\\nPoured from her frozen loins to pass\\nRhene or the Danaw,\\nwere sent to invigorate the effeminate Latin races they\\nsubdued, by the admixture of hardier blood. The Cru-\\nsaders, though they failed in the pious and ambitious\\naims of centuries of struggle, brought back from the seats\\nof civilization on the Mediterranean a knowledge of\\nmathematics, literature, and song, which civilized and\\nsoftened our savage ancestors. The landing on Ply-\\nmouth Rock of a band of that stern and God-\\nfearing democracy who smote the first Charles and\\nwere smitten by the second, fore-ordained the separa-\\ntion of the colonies from the crown. None of these\\nmigrations, save that of the Israelites, was more surely\\nunder divine guidance than this, or was followed by\\nmore beneficent and far-reaching results. In this\\nmovement the Divine purpose apparently was to open\\nthe interior of this almost unoccupied continent to\\nsettlement by the oppressed and hardy poor, not only of\\nthe colonies, but also of Europe, where each family\\ncould dwell under its own vine and fig-tree to found\\nstates, for the first time in human history, in that\\nliberty and equality for which Sidney died, and which\\nJefferson proclaimed in the declaration of independ-\\nence and through the influence of such new states to\\nestablish freedom and equal rights throughout the\\nRepublic, and in time throughout the world.", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "The curse of land monopoly had blif^hted most\\nof the colonies. The grants to the Duke of York,\\nLord Delawarr. Lord Baltimore, Lord Fairfax and\\nothers, covered vast domains of the best lands which had\\nbeen sold b\\\\- them generally in great tracts to wealthy\\nholders. The evil of laro^e holdinofs was beincr fostered\\nand perpetuated in many states by laws of primogeni-\\nture and entail, and by limiting suffrage and offices to\\nland owners, thus establishing, as far as practicable, a\\nlanded aristocracy.\\nA second curse was slavery the twin and ally\\nof land monopoly both operating to degrade labor\\nboth repelling immigration of poor wdiite men both\\nenemies of democratic-republican government. In the\\nheat of the struggle for independence, the thirteen\\nrevolted colonies, except Rhode Island and Connecti-\\ncut, abolished their ro) al charters and formed state\\ngovernments. One would expect to find in these battle-\\nborn constitutions broad and effectual declarations of\\nhuman rights. Yet in not one of them is slavery for-\\nbidden. In the constitution of Delaware alone was the\\nslave-trade, or the introduction of slaves from other\\nstates, prohibited. In the Federal Constitution, which\\nwas being formed by a convention at Philadelphia\\nwhen the Ordinance of Sy was enacted by the congress\\nin New York, every clause which touched the institu-\\ntion of slavery w^as intended to protect and strengthen\\nit the clause for the restoration of fugitive slaves for\\npreventing the prohibition of the African slave-trade\\nprior to 1808 and for increased representation in\\ncongress to slave-holding communities in proportion\\nto the number of their slaves. In the original draft of\\nthe declaration of independence, one count of the in-\\ndictment against the Crown was that it had fastened\\nslavery on the colonics, but that count was afterwards\\nstricken out as not constituting a grievance. The slave-", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "lO\\ntrade which British o-reed had estabHshed was carried\\non after the revolutionary war under the American\\nflag in ships saiHng- from northern ports and it was\\nby northern votes in the constitutional convention that\\nthe traffic was protected until 1808. That was a hard\\nsaying of Judge Taney in the Dred Scott case that in\\nthe opinion of those who formed and ratified the Fed-\\neral Constitution, black men had no rights which white\\nmen were bound to respect. It shocked, and angered\\nthe North, and was generally denounced as untrue.\\nThe declaration was too broad, but if limited to the\\ngreat majority of the people, it was true. There were\\namong our forefathers many political disciples of Mil-\\nton, Russell and Algernon Sidney, who worshipped\\nLiberty and were ready to die in her cause. Of such\\nwere the men of the Ohio Compan)-. But while we\\nrecollect their love of liberty, and remember too how\\nJefferson, looking at slavery in the colonies and the\\nslave-trade between them, exclaimed I tremble for\\nmy country when I reflect that God is just, we are\\npainfully aware of the fact that a large majority of the\\nAmerican press, and public men, and people, North\\nand South alike, saw nothing to condemn in African\\nslaver)-. In fact it was forbidden nowhere in Christen-\\ndom, and every commercial nation was engaged in the\\ninhuman traffic.\\nThe general lack of the vital flame of democ-\\nracy in the Confederation is further illustrated by the\\nfact that, in only four of the states Virginia, New\\nYork, North Carolina and Rhode Island, was there\\nabsolute freedom of religious opinion. In but three,\\nNew Hampshire, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania-\\nwas there provision for common schools and in less\\nthan half of the eleven new state constitutions are to\\nbe found bills of rights containing the habeas coj^piis\\nand other safeguards of liberty.", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "1 1\\nFrom a Congress representing- states tlie\\nmost of which were so deficient in republican Hfe, so\\nwedded to slavery and land monopoly, so out of chord\\nwith the declaration of independence, the forecast and\\ndetermination of the Ohio Company, risini^ high above\\nthe interests and political morality of the day, secured\\nthe enactment of the Ordinance of d j, and the needed\\nlegislation for sales of the public lands in small parcels,\\nwith liberal reservations for schools and colleges.\\nThe ordinance of 87, for which the world is\\nindebted so largely to the Marietta Colony, stands\\npre eminent among free institutions of govern-\\nment. All the fundamental propositions of civil\\nand relio ious libertv, now recoo^nized as the American\\nMagna Charta, are declared therein, not merely for the\\ngovernment of the territory, but also of the five states\\nto be formed therein and for a perpetual covenant\\nbetween those states and all of their sisters, present or\\nto come. These guarantees found no place in the\\nfederal constitution until four years after the passage\\nof the ordinance, when they were incorporated among\\nthe first two amendments. It is worthy of special note\\nthat in that ordinance the union of the states is declar-\\ned to be forever indissoluble. The omission of a simi-\\nlar provision from the constitution of the United States\\nan omission believed to have been necessary to effect\\nits ratification left the door ajar for secession, and\\ncontributed largely to the great rebellion.\\nThe limitless expanse of rich lands in the\\nwest open to purchase from the government at low\\nprices, on long credit, and in small parcels, attracted\\nthe hardy and homeless sons and daughters of toil from\\nthe original states and from all northern and central\\nEurope. The tide of migration, after covering Ohio,\\nswept on to the Wabash, to the Mississippi, to the far-\\nthermost shores of the Lakes, until each of the live", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nStates of the northwest took her constitutional liber-\\nties from the Ordinance, as she set her star in the blue\\nfield of the Union. Still onward the tide of migration\\nswept beyond the Mississippi to the Missouri; over\\nthe Missouri to the fabled American Desert; across the\\nso-called desert to the Rocky Mountains; over the\\nRockies to the Sierras; and clown the Sierras to the\\nsea, until eight more states had followed the example\\nof the five formed out of the North-West Territory.\\nxAnd at last the constitutions of all the once slave states,\\nand the federal constitution itself, have adopted from\\nthat ordinance the first Vv ords of prohibition of human\\nslavery ever enacted into law the most beneficent and\\nimperishable sentence in our annals which, from the\\nday of its insertion in the Ordinance of 8y, tolled the\\nknell of slavery throughout the world There shall be\\nneither slavery nor involuntary servitude, otherwise\\nthan in punishment of crimes whereof the party shall\\nhave been duly convicted,\\nThe Marietta Colony were thus in a large\\nsense the emancipators of the slaves, and the archi-\\ntects of ihe Republic. They led into the union thirteen\\nstates free born which never wore the collar of col-\\nonial subjection or bred a slave or had a religious, land\\nor money qualification for office or suffrage where men\\nowned their own homes and tilled their own fields;\\nwhere labor was blessed and honored states which\\nwhen the gauge of battle was flung down by slavery,\\nwelcomed the fight with an enthusiasm which swept all\\nbefore it and, by destroying slavery, made the Republic\\nfree, fraternal and perpetual.\\nSir Archibald Alison, in his Principles of\\nPopulation, printed in 1840, speaks with wonder and\\nadmiration of the migration on our western frontier,\\na vast army of occupation, moving resistlessly, with a\\nfront of a thousand miles, one flank restinor on the", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "lakes, the other on the gulf, and making an average\\nprogress of i 7 miles per year; the advance column fel-\\nling the forest, building cabins and farming roughly,\\nwhile behind them followed another column of more\\nwealthy settlers, to bu) out the pioneers and complete\\nthe work of agricultural improvement. He says noth-\\ning like this has been known in the history of man; and\\nhe fails to see what is the impelling force. Had\\nhe reflected that these men, whether coming from\\nthe older States or from Europe, had almost all\\nbeen tenants and paid rent for their homes and\\nfor the right to till the soil and that here\\nunder our generous and beneficent policy each settler\\nhad his choice of land for a home out of millions of\\nacres, under a government deriving all its powers from\\nthe settlers themselves, he need not have searched\\nfurther for the impelling force which sent wave after\\nwave over the Atlantic and the Alleghanies, to spread\\nto the Pacific.\\nThe lives of many of the pioneers have been\\npublished, and others may still be told from family\\nrecords and traditions. They were men such as\\nrarely, if ever, united in so small a community. A\\nlarge proportion of them had received a collegiate edu-\\ncation. Among them were ver\\\\ many officers of the\\nRevolution some of high rank and distinction who\\nenjoyed the personal friendship and confidence of\\nWashington and without known exception they were\\nmen of probity and courage. In this large audience\\nare many of their descendants who it is expected will\\ncontribute to the story of their trials, sufferings and\\njoys. For myself, I have but a few words to say of\\nmy grand-parents who were among the early settlers\\nhere.", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "H\\nBroken in fortune by a military service which\\nextended from the campaign against Quebec, a year\\nbefore the declaration of independence, to the close\\nof the war of the revolution, Lieut. George Ewing\\nremoved with his family from Cumberland County,\\nNew Jersey, to West Liberty, in the pan-handle of\\nVirginia, where he made a temporary home in 1787 a\\nyear before the first settlement at Marietta. Here my\\nfather, Thomas pLwing, was born, Dec. 28, i 789. Three\\nyears later my grand-parents with their seven children\\nand all their worldly possessions floated down in dug-\\nouts to Marietta, where they were assigned quarters in\\none of the block-houses on Campus Martins. They\\nsoon after joined a colony which built and occupied the\\nstockade at the mouth of Olive Green creek, on the\\nMuskingum, a mile or two above where the pretty town\\nof Beverly now stands. I once visited the grave-yard\\nof that little garrison, and read this inscription carved\\nby my grandfather on a sand stone which he erected\\nover the body of one of his comrades Here lies the\\nbody of Abel Sherman, who fell by the hand of the\\nsavage, August 23, 1792. My grandfather kept a full\\nand interesting journal throughout the revolutionary\\nwar, half of which was lost at the Pension Of^ce, and\\nthe other half is one of the priceless treasures of our\\nfamily but his diary ended with his military service,\\nand he left not a line about his life in the stockades\\nat Marietta and Olive Green. In 1798 he removed\\nfrom the Muskingum to Ames township, in Athens\\ncounty, where he opened a farm eight miles from any\\nneighbors.\\nMy father used to tell that in 1805, when\\nhe was a lad of about 16, he was at work in his\\nfather s corn-field one evening, and was hailed by\\na well-mounted gentleman who wished to be enter-\\ntained all night. Father, with prompt hospitality,", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\ntook his liorse, and showed him into the cabin, hut was\\ndistressed to find that grandfather treated him with\\nmarked coldness. Next morning, as the stranger rode\\noff on the bridle path towards Marietta, grandfather\\nsaid with oreat feelincj, that that man was Aaron Burr,\\nwho slew Alexander Hamilton. lUirr was then prose-\\ncuting the schenies for which soon after he and Blenner-\\nhasset were indicted for treason. Father recollected\\nhis sprightly conversation, which Grandfather s coldness\\ncould not chill. He also remembered seeine. when\\na boy, the lovely and unfortunate Mrs. Blennerhasset,\\non the main street in Marietta, riding a spirited and\\ngaily caparisoned horse. She was dressed in a scarlet\\nriding habit, with an ostrich plume in her hat a vision\\nof beauty to this child of the forest. She had ridden to\\ntown from her magnificent island home near by, to do\\nsome shopping.\\nIn looking over the published biographies of the\\nfirst settlers of Marietta, I find next to nothing about the\\npioneer women, whose exposures and perils called for\\nthe highest courage and sacrifice. The men were gen-\\nerally veterans of the army, accustomed to personal\\ndanger and exposure, and rarely shaken by alarms. The\\nwomen came from comfortable homes, and braved not\\nonly long and exhausting journeys with their children,\\nbut also the perils and the appalling terrors of the\\nsavaoe. The men built the cabins but the women\\nmade the homes,\\nAnd a charm o er each scene of the wilderness threw\\nMore sweet than the noise of its fountains.\\nWhen a boy, I often heard from the now silent\\nlips of women of that era from the accomplished and\\ncharmino- Mrs. General Goddard, of Zanesville, Mrs.\\nKing, of Lancaster, Mrs. Morgan, of Champaign county,\\nand from my father s sisters tales of heroism of Ohio", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nwomen which seemed to me loftier and finer than any\\nof the pubhshed tales of the frontier. I have a letter\\nfrom a kinswoman in Westfield, N. J., telling me of a\\ntrip made to Cumberland county, in that state, in the\\nyear 1790, by a woman from the border of the North-\\nwest Territory, who came there after a long absence on\\na last visit to her aged fath*. r and mother. She was the wife\\nof a soldier of the Revolution who had emigrated to the\\nfar west after the war ended. She had made the lonor\\njourney from the Ohio, over river and mountain, by\\nliood and fell, through an almost trackless wilderness,\\non horseback, unattended, carrying a boy baby in her\\narms. No man ever boasted of his lineage with loftier\\npride than I, when I say that that brave and loving\\nwoman was my grandmother, and the baby my father.\\nDoubtless there are hundreds of like instances\\nof dauntless love among the pioneer women of Ohio,\\nworthy to become historic. Must the memory of their\\ncourage and sacrifices perish, because displayed only by\\nwomen and in the forest And, as men have neglected\\nthe theme, are there not brilliant women among their\\ndescendants to rescue from oblivion some of these true\\ntales of the border\\nAnd now, my friends, on this spot, hallowed\\nby the struggles and achievements of our forefathers,\\nlet us resolve to cherish and hand down the precious\\nmemory of their courage and fidelity to freedom. May\\nGod forever bless Ohio, and all her sisters, and the im-\\nperishable Union of the States. May He grant that,\\nere another centennial be celebrated here, this Republic\\nwill have led the World by its silent and shining example\\nto that blessed consummation when every dynasty shall\\nbe dethroned, when every army shall be disbanded, and\\nwhen every people shall rule themselves.", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "LXBRRRY OF CONGRESS\\n014 571 671 8", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nlllli\\n014 571 671 8 O\\nHoUinger Corp.\\npH 8.5", "height": "3519", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "addressofgeneral00ewin_0026.jp2"}}