Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-04
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ladies and Gentlemen Of the Franklin County
P5oaeefr Association ~ y ies 1s s1a .
know 6f no good reason Why L appear sl9 ear
before you to-day, in the character of a
speaker other than that L can reasonably
.eiaim ITO he one Of the pioneers Of your
beautiful and iourishing county. Ter
tainly, it vas peS upon any ssupposition
that could be able to say TO you anything
which would be either new Or Interesting
Ret6ef 20 celebrate. When i saw lam
entitled to put In claim to be accepted as
one Of the pioneers Of the county of Frank
lin, 4 1donot'mean to be understood as one
ofaheEefyleas19 Inhabitants of the county;
for that would carry me back to period
before was born; but mean to say that
f0ftySeigh6a wears ago this summer. was a
bare-footed, raj ged mill lIBoy at what was
thea qkno wn. rasso" +" Ramseg'sT Cnossing'N of
Big!Walnnt where thas snnclassieo buffer
tilizing streams adivides the, townships of
Madison and Hamiltonso At that period. the
npwrich. highl yJcultivatedI and populous
township of Madison was almost an, un-
broken wilderness, except along its two
principal streams and its main public high
way running from olumbns to Lancaster;
and when your beautiful Metropolitan city,
now the busy seat OF trade, of the prondest
phase OF government known to the history
Of man, and of the highest arts OF ciyiiizs1
ton, was but an inconsiderable village OF a
Few scattefing, unpretending houses and a
few hundred frugal and unaspiring inhabi-
vants. Near where now Stands a noble pile
of Gfeeiahs aarchiteeture,i beneath whose
towering dome q hsa INV ia feiEtaq mon
'u s,, ~ "siz Isgislstions solemn eer,.p. siss9
-oply.sasafew years before the period of
which l am speaking, the rude wigwams
of the Wyandotte village were located
The contrast between that period and the
present. perfectly overwhelms the imagin-i
alton; and the poets widest dream, or the
most daring imagery Of the highest intel
teet eoula not eyerdo or exsggerats the
passed over this great continent since the
smoke, OF that Indian village elrled among
the trees and over the silent waters of the
,Scioto At that time, aud in this new land,
no football OF the white man had broken
the, silence of the wilderness; the thousand
rivers Of this western henlis pllere flashed
along IN the s1n-iight Of heaven in solitary
grandeur; the many waterfalls sent up
itheif majestic sounds, and the ear OF the
red man alone drank in their melody; the
deer raced over the hills and drank, un-
scared aadunmolested, from limpid streams
Swhose currents had never touched a mill
wheel or irrigated an inch of cultivated
asoil; the morning star sfniled in sunappre-
5eiated beauty over wooded hill and naked
eplain,s aud ifs otwin-sister of the evening
ssAaf4edl in1 the forehead of the sky, ,''Iswith
mo GhristiGn eyeJte haihtheir rising or their
setting, Without going into an enquiry
by what right we of the Anglo, Saxon race
have seized upon, these rich domains of
their former owners. or through what prin-
ciple of Justice we have almost extermina-
ted the aboriginal Inhabitants, it is perhaps
enough to say, that the inexorable wants
and necessities OF the dominant race re-
qpired the sacrifice. and that the irreversible
decree of what we cali destiny demanded
chat it should be SO. The principle of the
maxim, 1.-THE greatest good of the greatest
many, % will have to settle the question in
time if not in eternity. The original ac-
FqHisition of this sVast domain by the white
man. from the shands of his red brother,
will at last settle itself down in hi story as
,rspgipg either under that convenient 1po-
litical faxiem,e or as belonging to .l,saf s1i
x7sga" the siupie naans oj idsUoI3 Teva
vel That they should takewho have the poaosr $40
ItAnd they shnnld keep who cGH."1 i fs'sR
But however this may, be, it has been the
fiat. destiny that the school house should
take the place of the wigwam ;sthat the
hum of wheels and spindles should mingle
With the noise of water falls, where they
never mingled before; that the sound OF
the sschurch- going bell' should be heard
instead of the lierce yell of the war, conn
Gil; and that the spiritualiZed worship OF 8
pure aOQ 0faHScHCdt F6ilRtO0- -SnOui6 us
plaee the unmraning ineantatiOus of ignO-
rance, and superstitiOn- Such q vast change
OF tspropEietorship-sueh mighty transfer
of title-such u radical Transformation oO1
human isociety-the known history of the
world, whether under the Roman CRsar7o
the Macedonian Alexander, furnishes MOI
even a. iprototype, much, less a, parallel
Since the sound Of the axe aud the sawlwai
first heard within the corporate, limits o
Columbus, fifty five years ago, what won,
derfuf changes have occurred, not only il
the history of Ohio and of the United
States, but of the world - The mind is con
founded and overwhelmed in its efforts x
grasp and comprehend even their presen
palpableresults,w without Vainly attem ptins
to 1anticipateor or measnresth their probable fu
ture consequences. 1t would require tn
highest efforts of the highest genius t
exhibit their wonderful influences upol
the moral and physical condition of man
Since that brief period, a mere point oupol
the chart Of time, three things have occur
red dsto-Wit: the discovery of the power an
application of steam, the iron rail and loco
motive, and the writing electric telegraph
which have done more to revolutionize th
world, than al the armies and all thei
captains since the III TINS Of Caesar hay
'Wesee the monuments of these change
among us and around u.s. AS often as
haVe.Fisited' yoifr beautiful Capital CITY
andlas familiar as have been made wit
its astonishing growth and imp oyement
nothing SO; much makes me feel the impres
sion Of ageyby way of association. as th
contrast which it now presents with wins
it was forty weight years ago. My first i'm
pressions of Columbus are as distinctl
vivid now as they were when / irst stoo
within its corporate limits. 1t was m
business, when a lad of ten or twelve yeal
ofage, once week to drive q little sdasd
wagon, 1--WE, had no buggies and but fel
spring carriages in those days), with ba
of -four, a sack of corn-meal, and perhaT
one or two of bran, from my tather's mil
to the "so-calledo Columbus market; and
was indeed most lucky and .delighte
trader III succeeded in making sale
meeting a sufficient " demand -, for tt
heavy Supply with which ] was freigh
edsm And 1 had but little Competition, #
there were, at that time, but two or thr,
mills il the county Ny principal custom
sjrs were Isaiah Voris, Orris Parish, Robe
Russell, Judge Heyl, and a brother Lal
castrian,i Charles Eofland, Clerk of the CT
eIrit { turt of the United States. Mr.. Lot
lands residence was small one story fran
house, one of the few which were at th
time located of of High street, and st
stands on the corner of State and Pea
streets. Ny venerable friend, Judge Hey
is-the- only survivor of these my ear
patrons.-,IfI failed to find-a market f
my entire cargo (Which often ha
pened) l hadS a standing arrang
kept a small and scantily supplied Meth
isDbook store in a little unpainted fran
buiidingon the lotwhere Am bOs' saloon nc
stands. to exchange the unsold portion
stock" remaining on hand, for such boo
as he was pleased give me. The price
flour at that time was about $l.25 per j
pounds, and corn 10 cents per bushels L
dry OoodH btlsiHesS was conducted OH