The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-06-25
Correspondence Of the Pioneer.
Our Country-The West.
JEFFERSON, Wisconsin,

Scarcely has the clangor of EARNS in
the handsofour Revolutionary Fathers"
died away on the Atlantic slope Of our
great country-and scarcely has the
'.star Of empire" risen above the eastern
hills, and yet in that short time we have
become mighty nation" great
people!' O'er the waters of the whole
world, where flag has ever been, has
floased in the breeze the .'stars and
stripes Of young, vigorous ~AmericaP
The powers Of earth have yielded to the
skill Of our arms.3 We have driven be-
fore us the aborigines Of our country. and
driven back the oppressive and jealous
power Of our tyrannical mother. In in
fancy we polked at once, and now, only
in youth, our fight is on the "wings of
the wind while the ''lightning' is
N lie to talk, in whisper tones, from city
" city, all over our great land.
Less than one fourth Of a century has
pA1~G1 ciuCrs tHC tOituhCS VI uS" ouu
fertile country the '.back woods
invited us with other friends. to bid adieu
to our eastern home. .--cross the rugged
sleeps of the Alleghanies, and cast our
lot, with those who had gone before, in
the wilds Of the West. The dense for
ests Of Northern Ohio became the scene
of our future actions-thc field of our re-
Quilted toll. 1t was then the West. The
broad. expansive prairies were hardly
known. The whistle of the '.Iron Horse"
had never then sounded in the valleys Of
frat now great State the "lightning
wires'' were notthen known.
Child-like. we struggled along through
trials and toll. We knew not how to be
'sfast people"-but we have learned.
We counted distance then by miles-we
count It now by hours! That was the age
Of slow, numbering coaches-now we are
swiftly whirIed along by steam! The
commerce Of the lakes was hardly known;
now they are plowed by countless vessels.
and white with their broad, spreading
sails! Where forests then stood, un-
touched by hand of man, may now be
seen the noisy city with her ambitious
thousands! Since then, from the wild
ness, has State after State been added to
the great confederacy, and still the end is
not yet. Onward still, is the MOTTO
On foot, with teams, by railroad and
with boats may be seen this restless peo-
pie emovingP' To the west are theil
faces set, and onward they go to seek
new homes. Scarcely will they be al
rest until the shrill whistle viii again
arouse them from their slumbers and
speak to them in thunder tones, that they
are still within the pale of civilization
Ohio has now become part Of the Eastl
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois are no longer
''out of the world" while Wisconsin,
Iowa. Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska
will soon be central States in the s.greai
chart" of the Western World. Not only
is there westward movement. The
"wise men" are not all confined to thu
East. The shores OF the Pacific, too, arr
alivel The golden hills of California in
vite the inhabitants Of the old as well a.
the New World thither; and from tn,
VESTS pouring in one continuous stream
Of souls-onward and eastward they
come. The Rocky Mountains will be t,
them no barrier. Soon will they strik,
hands with their Eastern brethren from
all nations and tongues. Then will b
apeople from shore to shore of thos
mighty oceans, occupying the soil of an
other race Of men who viii have passe,
away before us like drops before tn
bright rays of the rising sum- When tha
point is reached--the years Of our earl,
manhood-then America will "sprea,
herself and show to the world he
power. Then viii the aristocracy reig
supreme, and the "poor man.. remain
poor man still. Then will men forget, i
the glory of their wealth, the great "
am" who prepared for them this gres
heritage, and reyel in the Injuries of th
age in which they live. May not th
foundation upon which we builf-the ri
ins of other men--be then in danger of
like fate? The power is not ours. II
who rides on the storm and holds til
winds IN his fists is ruler over all, and i
our boasted glory and pride, may nun
Der our days.
Where is the American that does n,
feel fond of his country, and who cam,
say:
America, Hove thee we'll,
There's glory in thy namei
seF Thy rocks and blooming wilds
Proclaim. protection from above.
When we glance over this expansi,
field, from the Atlantic to the Pacifi
with mountains, hills, valleys and plain
with the many rivers flowing to Il
oceans, CULTS and lakes-with the she.
on q thousand hills, and cotton in tho
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