Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-13
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OHIO OF THE PAST AND OF THE PRES
ENT,
AT the recent Rail Road Celebration at Mariet
Ga, Governor Chase made the following address;
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Al the recent Rail Road Celebration at Marict-
Ga, Governor Chase made the following address:
GOV, cuAsE's SPEECH.
Gov. Chase, addressing the venerable Secretary
Of State, Spoke at length, prelacing the same with
complimentary illusions to the Representative oil
the French nation, which once swHyed the scepter
over all this western land
Gentlemen The Committee Of Arrangements
for the anspicious occasion, has assigned to me the
very agreeable duty Of welcoming you to Ohio.
1t is, indeed, an suspicious occasion that unltes
the citizens Of SO many States in celebrating the
happy c~onsummation of II great work, so long ago
commenced. so steadily urged and at length
Notwithstanding manifold Encouragement
and difficulties almost innumerable,so triumphant
~ accomplished.
1t is with especial qualification that | welcome
10 our soil and our Inequalities, the Representa-
tives of that ancient and honored Commonwealth
whose infancy was guided by the wisdom of religi-
Gus liberation. and whose maturer age was illust-
rated by the conception and Inauguration OF the
first railroad attempted from the scaboard, across
the mountains, into tho vast interior, and the ltep-
resentatives Of that Ancient Dominion, hOnOred
mother of Washington and J~effcrson, under
whose auspices the settlement of the North West
was inaugurated.
1t gives me great pleasure to include in this cor
dial welcome those members Of tho Federal Ad'
ministration, and those Senators and Representa-
tives Of our sister States in the federal Congress,
whose presence here attes.s the national value oil
the occasion, and the diplomatic Representative OF
that French nation and French Government, whose
douinion once extended over all this beautiful
land.
greet with no less satisfaction and with saluta-
tions no less hearty, the Directors. and officers OF
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. the members of
the City Government of Baltimore, the gentlemen
of the press--members of that other government
which governs US all-and those other distinguish
sd citizens, whose concurrence in this celebration
makes this one of those white days, which we an
ticipate with pleasure and remember with delight.
Welcome, gentlemen, welcome, one and all
NAV you derive from your brief sQjourn within the
limits of Ohio, o pleasure as real and as great as
that which your coming affords us. 10 you, Sir,
turning to General Cass,) | may say something
more than welcome to OhiOl | may almost say,
Welcome home Welcome, l may certainly say,
TO tho theatre of your earliest manhood We'll
come to the community from which you received
your first political trusA Welcome to the spot
which witnessed, near half a century ago, the
commencement Of that long career OF distinguish
cd public service and high public trust through
which Won have moved-a career long, yet, we
trust. TO be protracted through a vigorous and hon
nre6 age. in the midst of heartfelt regards and al
fect;ops which may be augmented, perhaps oy PO
litical sympathies, but cannot be eXtngulsheu Dy
political differences. Here sir, now, as then, rolls
the same beautiful Ohio there, with wiling triD
ute. comes the same swift uskingum; yonder rise
the same yerdant slopes; above bends the same be-
nirDant sky. Would that | could add that now
as tn cn, here and around you, stand the TRENDS oil
your youth TO welcome you back to the spot conse-
Grated by youthful friendships. A few, indeed,
vet remain to greet you. The rest-but let me not
awaken vain regrets. Even the departed survive
in their spirit and greet you through their works.
My qualification in welcoming you to Ohio, gen
tIemen, is doubled by the circumstance that at the
same moment, ! may welcome you to the spot
where the foundation Of the State was laid-where
indeed the Anglo Saxon settlement OF the nlimita'
BILE Northwest was begun.
Hither on the It'll day of April, 1888. not ye
quite seventy years ago, after a winters Journe.
across the Alleghennies. through deep SHOWS ant
over almost impossible ways; after a voyage il
boats constructed by themselves, down the Yong
hogheny, down the Monongahela, down the Ohio
under the lead of RUFUS PUTNAM, a Brigadier Gen
eral Of the Revolutionary Army, who possessed ant
fully deserved the entire confidence OF Washing
ton-came the first settlers of Ohio-noble souls
devoted patriots-brave soldiers-who, having gal
lantly aided in achieving the independence of thei
country, now consecIated their energies t
the establishment of new homes for free
men, and a new Empire OF Freedom In the West
ern wilderness,
Hero they found, in singular preservation, thos
remarkable and extensive earthworks, existing
though in O somewhat impaired condition., to tn
day, the purpose of which, whether civil or mil
tar7, secular or ecclesiastical, battles antiquarian r
search, though all agree that they must have bee
constructed in remote antiquity, and by a race
men which has long since disappeared.
Here, too, they found the successors of that RAJ
the red mon Of the forest still r~eseutful Of the
defeat in Pontiac's war, and jealous of the O.
croachments of the white man.
With characteristic energy and pr0mptitude, {
the very next day after their arrival they con
menoed the work Of dividing the land, and propa
ed at once for cultivation and defence. IoI
printed for them a bright though distant futur
but not even tho magic pencil Of hope could hay
pictured the magic reality. From this germ
the wildornes bas all ready sprung a State as tic
in resources and as powerful in arms as were til
whole United Colonies at the era Of the Revolution
Other States have risen in rapid succession
Westward and still westward, the Star G
Empire has taken its way, carrying by il
mighty attraction Anglo-Saxon dominion AM
Anglo-Saxon civilization, in the form of Re
publican institutions and Republican States
across the Mississippi, across the pralrles, acros
mountains, till it pauses at last at the very gates o
the evening, to lock down over the Pacific, nov
vexed by the keels of an unwontod commerce., up
on the latest accession TO the Republic brilliant
golden robed California. To what spot, then i
Ohio, gentlemen, could l welcome you--to wha
spot 10 the great central valley Of the Republic ca
you be welcomed more fraught with historical il
tereat or more suggestive of the grand %hopodf(
future than this
And what an event is it, gentlemen, which Y
here unite in celebrating! What thoughts it, t
ewakens Of the past, and what hopes for the tin
TO comel Three distinct periods seom to mark 4
progress of means Of communication between t
Eastern and w estern-W estern, once, but W este
now 20 longer-sections Of our country. Q
fathers were glad to avail themselves of the In
an trails and buffalo paths on land and Of cant
and broadhorns upon the water. EiGhty-sey
years ago, a red man, standing here on the ban
Of the. Ohio, might have remarked, floating dow
ward with the stream, n rude canoe, manned
two Indians, and bearing three white men,
whom one in the prime ofnoble manhood, was ca
" distinguished from the other by his dignii
bearing and by his athletic proportions. 1t "
WAsHINGToN, who had crossed the mountains
horseback by the rough paths of the period, a
was on his way to establish presumption claims
behalf Of himself and his fellow-soldiers in t
French and Indian wars, by marking trees q
Getting up monuments on the lands south of I
Ohio Just ceded by the Six Nations. Here, and I
very tar from where we now stand, he landed
exchange tokens of amity, and smoke the pipe
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