Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-02-25
! casts, Isesponses, &c.

This morning we publish the balance ot
the responses of the toasts at the Pioneer
Settlers Festival. They will be found of a
highly interesting character:
,. Tie early Pioneers of scot County they
care! what others feared to da-;hey left the coin
forts Their earlier homes AID with brave hardi-
hood con.ba:e ed prvatons in hawing ont for them
selves houses amid the wids of the west Nay
their chi tfeR emulate their virtues ani bless
their memories.
Responded to by DR.. f. S. Barrows
Is that call at my door? and shall l
home in heart and soul, and with heart
and soul. Glad to m ct so many old ac
quantances and old friends-frends and
acquaintances whom | have met often in
former years and greeted with salutations OF
good will.
Early Pioneers of Scott County" how
are you this nighti | greet you in the
name of the Society; and as each heart is
supposed to know its own sorrows best, so
each Of you best know how far the senti-
ment given, offers solace to your past ex-
perience.
Eighteen years, the age Of the youngest
member of this Association-twenty Years,
yes, twenty-five years and more,-who can
look back upon the shadow which memory
has cast for twenty two years without emo
ton? Many of US then, were in the prime
and vigor of life-knew no sorrow, nor fear
ed any danger. Now another generation is
upon our heels, and we are reminded by a
variety of growing liabilities that we are
mortal.
Perhaps l am more vivedly impressed
with the rapid passage of this large, but
fleeting segment Of an age, from the fact
that the character Of my profession has so
frequently taught me the uncertain hold
We have on life.
For the first year after the first settle
ment of the territory, now embracing Scott,
Cedar and Clinton counties, was your on.
" physician, and for many subsequent years,
with Drs Donaldson, Witherwax and
Brown, as my coadjutors. made use of euch
means as were in my possession to aid na-
ture in restoring to health such as were
suffering from diseases incidental to human.
itv. But in this was not always success
full. and in whatever part OF this assembly
cast my eyes, / behold some one with
whom it has been my lot to sympathize in
aff1iction.
But the past has not been all Of sorrow,
if have seen many Of you patient in trib-
ulation, have also seen you joyful In hope.
But suppose life with US here, in the ag
gregate, has been about the same - it has
with others the world over. Outsiders may
ask what kind Of feeling Is it which in
duces these old settlers to meet and have
an annual embrace There 10 an expert
ence in the life Of frontier settlements which
has tendency to incarnate itself in soul,
body and spirit.
The strength and safeguard Of the com
munity at that early day, required that We
should yoke together our moral and social
sentiments. and press all that was gener-
GUS and manly into the service OF what
seemed to be the probable good Of the
whole.
"The early Pioneers Of Scott County,
who are they The annals Of thousand
years to come will declare that they were
The Witnesses Who sAw the darkness oi
barbasism merge into the twilight Of civili.
sation. That they formed the link whieh
sonn setsd abohgisst tsAditien viii Ne bic
tory o) t64 pres6at and the lutlsA !. Il,
u uo Shtet ooeun1 taau talut d thII