Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-19

in broken men, There they ie-ong concealed and wisely
gaeed tempsonsto be discovered the appropriate mo-
in the worlds progress and lead thther the
! founder of a new field of human industry.
In this genial development of globe three classes of per-
have always been needed the Dscovere the Conquer
| or, and the Pioneer.
ordinarily leave their native lands and kindred for the pe
Of the Wilderness for country with which they have
community Of laws, language present interest," unless row
ery bad government crowds them into the forest When
the Dscoveer and the Conquero have found the land and
partly tanned the savage the Pioneer advances into their field
Of renqushed enterprise and his task partake in some de-
gree Of the dangers incurred by both his predecessors He
always lover and seeker of independence and generally
pursues with audabe desire to improve his lot yet the
perfect exercise of this Independence sometimes becomes self
shy exclusive Its essence country, h the complete
self reliance of the the family. This spirit
of social potica and industrial independence occasionally
becomes Wild inpatient and uncomfortable. Its mildest
hbon under such circumstances in rude manners or
ward awessness which outraged neghborhoods are wont
summary redress True civilized liberty does not coun-
tenance such mockes of justice within its pale and thus
there are multudes who not only voluntarily and wisely
into lands but other needless scofng crowds are
scourged by society into the sombre Slowly and sure
these elements of States gathered, purgsd and
crysazsd around the centres Of modern civilization Hope
AMBITION misery avace, adventure noble purpose drive off
inpatient who will not be satisfied with the slow drip
ping accreons Of wealth in the old communities They re-
qure fortune and position leap Independence demands
space for the gigantic inspiration. of w vast lungs and flies
gathers his brothers in armed for protection amid this
freedom and they support each other cheer
fully danger disease But the social law ofhu
many vndcates itself against the eager spirit Of perfect in
dependence. Wherever who has either drained or
slipped the cup of civilization is found there must he be ted
and clothed does he yea for the renquished
luxures amusemens comforts Of the home be abandoned
'HA eastern mountains. Wherever man goes mans
--av-pursues him; and secretly be longs
oeyono -. -ivilixaion which he feigns to
Iepresentatvs-mo., : A.it the forest like
for the pleasing results Of tina. :. .a;--
despise. Thus the Pioneer may be saia
trap for the Trader Taking up the with the
where the Conqueor left it. he subdues the soil and
the savage. The Farmer at length, plants himself the
land that the Ranger wrests from the Indian The Mer
chant with his sails the that scouged BY the
Pirate The dollar duls the edge Of the bowie knife Where
the Pioneer treads the Missionary follows Element by ee
ment civilization drops in Peace, like cooling shadow,
follows the blaze of Death closes the Of the
primeva Forester and the law of God, vndcating by its
perfect ultimate the merit Of Peace, whose umphs
the only ones plants the Trader and the Farmer
his grave, and that which wildly quietly aud per.
manently enjoyed.
THE PIONEERS.
You will recolect that it was only few years after Pom
tacs that small settlements Of whites had crep westward
through the dees Of the Aeghanes and along the principal
path the nohenmost of which conveged at old Fort Du
Quesne Pitt, whilst the soulhernmost led the fountains
of the Holston and the Clinch laid the
east bank of the Monongahea within hundred yards Of
Fort Pitt, and, for seventy miles above it. route had been
cut through the wilderness to "Red Stone Old Fort
the mouth of Dunlaps creek now the site of Brownsville
About the year l774 Virginia still claimed by virtue of
her charter all the territory between the parallels Of $50 3V
and $50 40 north latitude from the margin of the Atlantic
due west to the Mississippi and thus enclosed within her
sumed limit not only the region which present compris-
ed in Kentucky bu, also the southern half of Illinois, one
third Of Ohio and extensive part of Western Pennsyva-
MIA Settlements had been planted upon most Of the eastern
branches of the Monongahea, the Youghogeny and the
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and twenty miles below Pittsburgh we'll as on the sources
Of the Geenbrer, the Little Kenhawa and Elk river of
the mountains embracing in these districts the northwestern
counties OF Virginia and the southwestern of Pennsyvaua
at present defined Pittsburgh claimed frontier town
Of Virginia. while the southern settlements the tributaries
OF the Monongahela held to belong the pro-
vince Yet the vast region south Of the Little Kenhawa and
westward thence to the Mississippi, with but slight e1cep
ons, was perfect wilderness held by savages The lonely
isolated settlement of few poor, ignorant French colons
the Wabash and Illinois had it is true, fallen
der British dominion after the peace of Paris but these
migrants scarcely arded British subjects and were
held outlying foreign military colonsts, than thou
sand miles in advance of civilization, having but little interest
sympathy with the pioneers who penetrated the wilderness
from Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Maryland.
The French and Indian wars and The true pioneer spirit
which characterized many Americans that day, had
sprnkled this region of woods mountains, and rivers with
bold, enteprising woodsmen, Traders hunters and sgcul
turiss and with ion-heaed women, who proper
for men stamped with much energy and fotude in the
iron mntage of border trial. The majority Of this enteps-
Ing class hardy and vrtuous though all such from
tier communities the honest and daring followed by
mscreants who willing either shelter themselves from
law in the wilderness to encounter the risks Of wild life
without caring for ultimate results But the pioneer a
liberal and hopabe beng for be appreciated the loneliness
and dscomfos Of his perious lot and prompt to
ameoate the condition Of all who ventured beyond the AL
eghanes His fringed and fancifu hunting Shirt which
may still be found among the Of Cumber
land his deerskin leggngs; bis galy embroidered
slns; bis tomahawk and scalping knife his bullet pouch,
powder horn, and ready rifle, made up his personal equip
ments OF comfort and defence. He picturesque being
as ne was behed descending the slopes Of the mountains
renewed against the blue sky the dark shadows Of the forest
In his lonely region mechanics to be hired and every
pioneer obliged do his own work or to possess within
DIS family the necessary elements of labor in the field
the plough the loom, and the anvil. His gun in con
against the Indian well the bear and the
never was be an ungeneous neghbor when new cabin
was to be erected for immigrant crop to be gathered
for the friend who inhabited his district The husk1p
match" and the rolling" are distinctly recorded among
the kindly and helping memorials Of early settlements in
those days when the genuine cabin made without nails
MORTAR bricks the home Of many an ancestry that has
given rulers to Union. common danger cemented
these forest settlements bond Of mutual defence and ine
1t life of ncessant warness or Of peril to be en-
couneed and thus mutual dependence and the fear Of the
savage formed the best police Of the pioneer for warned off
weak and esoute ineroper and permitted none but the
hardy and true to abdsin the forest.
Nor these mprovideRt omit stre ghen-
rg themselves not only by social Of faith and friend
ship but by supplying their bands with fo
against bullets, and built around neverang spring.
These deences constructed at points easy of places
Of refuge whole neghbohood of agcutursts hunters
perfect safeguards against foe who bad artillery but
rarely enaned unless at periods of general alarm or
when the pioneers le their farms in the spring upon the