The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-06-03

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what / cons Ter most Important. +"
a asAared him that / was much ID.
terested in the promised sketch, and
he began; f g
"My father was ! merchant Ia old
/ Connecticut, and / was Wild boy
from the land Of steady habits ! left
home when / was eighteen years of
age, because Of sbnne restraints that
had been imposed on me, which |
considered tyrannical. / soon found
that it was easier to endure restraints
at home than be my own master in
the world, and / wanted to 60 back TO
my fathers house, but my pride re-
belled, and | joined q party ofemi-
grants and came 'out West The
emigrants settled here. They cut a
road through the forest forty miles,
before they found spot that suited
them---I was not accustomed TO severe
muscular labor, and | was the hunter
Of the expedition. | had many an ad-
venture which delighted my remandC
disposition. l became hardy and wg-
/ orous, and was soon able to help the
squatters in clearing up their farms.
II We went twenty miles to nniB-had
no school for FIVE years, and never
heard sermon preached though
there were many ready, till we had
/ put three crops Of grain in our log
barns. Then other settlers came in,
and a Methodist preacher met those
who were disposed to hear him, at one
of the log cabins, once amonth. Mean
time had taken a squatter's daugh-
ter for a wife, and had cabin and a
few acres of ground, for which the
government had been paid. l had
been hunter and farmer, woodchop.
per and school teacher about six years
when / received word from Connecti-
cut that small stock Of goods had
been consigned to me at Pittsburg.
went out to the Ohio and up to Pitts
burg with an OK team, and when / re-
turned / opened a store in a log ca
bin, on the spot where my sons store
4 now stands, Onthe corner opposite my
0 house. 1t would make a shabby ap
pearance nowadays, but it was !
: great affair in our settlement. / haG
0 few groceries, nutmegs and spices
: combs and nails, garden seeds and cal
D icoes, thread and coarse cloth, can
u dies and tobacco, and a very small
stock Of either, but there was no othe
n store within circle Of fifteen miles
and l soon did what | considered
u brisk trade.
J "Some of the land had been low
. and here and there were small marsh
= es. When the country was cleare,
7 up and it began to look like farmin,
about here, there came a sickIy sea
), son, and in almost every family som
one had the fever and ague, and tn
: doctor from the nearest town was ge
!. ting every body in his debt; but th
. ague was not eradicated. There ha
: never been any whisky sold in tn
settlement, but now it was needed fl
: bitters to keep off the chills, and whe
: I sent for goods ] ordered barre
> and had a lot of drugs with it, an
) every body got bottle of bitter
When winter came, the ague prett
! generally disappeared, but the fashio
: Of taking bitters did not dissappel
= with it, gg
!. "Tks Pioneers had disheartenin
/ times, and too many of them endea'
i Ored to cheer their hearts with tn
/ which stole away their brains-- I d
n not blame them much in those day
4 but I see now, sorrow(nlly, where
. was to blame then. What think yOul
This was strange question to N
n under the circumstances, but / al
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