Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-22
Cleveland, Ohio,

As first seen by Oliver Culver in July,
1876, thesh but lad not then s years of age,
employed to assist party OF Surveyors and
S6thers, party Of 54persons all told, and the
last time as an invited guest on Sept. 10th,
1860, at the Inauguration of the Perry
Statue to the memory and fame Of the VIC
tor Of her finland Sea on 10th Sept 1878.
Then realm unbroken by the whittier race
In vast creation held It's pristine place
Ear and grand her inland sea-waters rolled,
As they had done for ages then untold.
No victors had Perry 60 conquest led,
Mars like 10 vanquish In stern battle red.
Ear aud wide all seemed as prStiuely new
| As when Advent hosts DER Bethlehem flew,
Her inland sea then rolled 10 lave her shore,
As ages untold she had done before,
No AnglO-SaNOn voice borne on tie breeze
| Seemed TO echo among her whllom trees;
] An as still and devoid Of human clang-
] As when " tie morning Stars p together sang.
| Nature in virgin robes then held her reign,
O'erall this terraqueous vast domain,
/ But this grand day as I ride by his side,
/ And see him cast his glances far and wide,
O'er the masses vast, a counties throng
/ As in the marshaled hosts we pass along,
| lie sees Rhode Islands Chief and stan so gay
! Like Hsrf8r'S baldIict peer In grand display,
! / hear Him the aged Patriarch say,
! "Ne'cr did expect 10 see such day
! 4 shout seems 10 echo the masses through,
An emblem worthy of the victurs fame
/ Ten thousand, thousand, eyes behold the same;
] Here may this chaSte mementO mort be-
/ Until time is lost in eternity,
! Aud freed THIS yictOrs spirit soaring rise,
/ One endless day TO bask the gorgeous skies.
BARD OF BRICHroS,
Bniourox. n Y, Oc: Il, 1860.
There is some discrepancy among writer's
as To numbers of the surveying party Of
1896. The Bard of Brighton" says fifty
four. Gen I. V Bierce, in his historical adj
dress at Ridgeville, Lorain county, Ohio,
July 4, 1860, before the Lorain County His
torical Society, says forty-five men, two
women and one child" making f6rty-eight.
The Annals of the West" citing from the
American Pioneer, says: The Directors ol
the Connecticut Land Company selected and
sent out forty-three Surveyors, under the di-
rection of Gen. Moses Cleaveland," and
Cleaveland would make the party forty-four,
Judge Spaldng, in his address before the
Cuyahoga Historical Society at the Pioneer
/ Celebration, Newburgh, Oct. 20, 1858, gives
the names Of forty-nine persons, with two
females and one child, making 50. The
name Of Oliver Culver, who was then pres
ent, was in the list. Cleayeland's journal,
which Judge Spalding quotes respecting the
landing at Conneaut, reads: There were
in all, including men, women and children
fifty in number" Celebrating Indepsnd-
ence on the day of their arrival at Conneaut
then named " Port Independence" the 4th
toast was " May the Port Of independence
and the 80 sons and daughters who have en-
tered it this day, be successful and prosper
GUS" The 9th toast: " May these 90 son:
and daughters multiply in l6 years l6 times
80" Howe's Historical Collections o
Ohio" quoting from a published account by
Judge Barr, gives the names Of forty-fv,
persons, and four whose names are not men
toned, and two females and one child, max
ing 50. Col. Charles Whittlesey, in his ad
dress at the Pioneer Celebration in New
burgh, June 1860, exhibited an original pa
per bv one of the Surveyors" giving tn,
names composing the party-the number
was Al. Gen. Bierce, in his address GbOyu
referred TO, speaking Of the surveying party
SAYS: "That noble pand have all passeC
away, and exist only in history" Gen. B
should have made one exceptiOn-Olive
Culver, who, in good health, an invite,
guest, was at Cleveland sixty-four years af
ter his first visit, to witness the Inauguration
OF the Perry Monument on the 10th Sept.
lS6O-his height feet 80 inches; hi
weight l64 pounds, as measured and weighe'
on that day. P.