Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-12-09
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aa RAVENNA, OHI0 MONDAY DEC g. 1850


+ .sess settlement Of ohio.
L. 913 BY REV. DIR. M'LEAN. a77 .
a Nor Is it among the least Of her, advan
tages that Ohio possesses such a population
as she now embraces The original stool
was the purest and best blood Of the nation
and even that has been improved by mix
!, ing and crossing. It has been said tha
God flied three Kingdoms to find seed te
plant the United States. So may say hs
sifted the whole Of the old thirteen to fnd
seed TO plant Ohio especially did he sifi
] New England. New York, Pennsylva-
/ mia and Virginia. About the New Eng
lander there is certainly something peculiar
and remarkable. In the quaint language
| Of Carlyle, they are @the rock made men.
The New Englander was not only the pio.
neer in the settlement Of the country, but
with two or three exceptions he has been
the pioneer in every new settlement through
out the country since. Go where you will,
and you find representatives and descend.
ants ofthe pilgrim fathers, who are always
among theim most religious, enlightened and
successful Of the whole population. The
father is away ON his little farm, among the
Hills Of Worcester, while his son is a sur
veyor Of Judge in Nebraska or Minnesota,
Ior Representative in Congress, from Iowa.
The faithful and true-hearted girl, who has
left her mountain home in the Granite State,
to provide for herself; and earn something
for her aged and dependent parents, under
the ceasless din Of the Merrimac spindles,
dreams sweetly, on her toil-blest pillow, Of
him who, for her sake, is Telling the trees
ia Wisconsin, or sitting the golden sands
Of the Yuba or Sacra mento. Indeed, in the
language Of lady, slightly altered, g'
"You scarce can go through the world belsw,
But you'll find New England men; .s.Y
l. And if you roam the world above, s..E.
A You'll find them there again"
And wheseser they 20, they carry New
England with thsm. They are as brave
at the mouth Of the Muskingum, or Hook
Hooking. at the foot Of the Rapids, or on
the Rio Grande, as their fathers were on
the heights Of Lexington or Bunker Hill,
and they are as ardent friends Of education
and religion on the rich bottoms Of Ohio, as
they were in their own rugged homes in
the Moth. For, following the New Eng
lander in quick succession, were Jerseymen,
Peni,syl.aniahs and, -Virginians, names
which are Synonymous with everything
great and noble Nav Jersey, the gallant
little State Of my adoption, the pages of
whose history are as free from stain as those
|of any State in this great confederaEy,
whose citizens haze always been proverbial
for their intelligence and piety; whose soil
oftener than that Of any sister State, was
wet With The blood Of the Revolution; who
never faltered or despaired in the darkest
hour of her country's struggle within whose
borders the dying lamp cf liberty was kini
died anew, by the daring efforts Of our al:
most naked and starving army, on the
heights of Trenton, where the Hessians fed /;
at Princeton, where the gallant Mercer fell,
and on the plains Of Monmouth, where the
flower Of the British army was conquered,
and the tide Of war changed. New Jersey
sent out her sons, who settled chiefly in the
western part Of the State, at North Bend,
the mouth Of the Licking, and afterwards
on the Big Miami river; while On the lands
which she had reserved with which to re-
ward her brave officers and soldiers, were
soon settled some of the purest and best
men Of Virginia the land Of Washington.
and mother of statesmen-that home Of
noble and generous, and brave men, and Of
accomplished and beautiful women. Penn
sylyanians, whose broad principles, after
the founder Of that noble State, were lore
! TO God and bsnevolencs to man, and whose
attachment to the cause. Of sound learning
and pure faith, is as enduring as her ever:
listing mountains, early came in considera-
ble numbers, and located wherever interest
or circumstances seemed to dictate. 4. A
large number settled in this county, and in
one Of the College townships. Very soon
many Of the sisters, and daughters, and
nieses Of these Jersey men, aPennsylvani.
ans and Virginians, owned, with no Sabine
reluctance, the constraining power of broth:
er !onathan's affection, and thus race
was formed, upon better than which the
sun never shone. o4sszses ,ses.-ss i