Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-04

liberty. and law triumphantiy established
for them and their SUCCESSORS. If those
were just,sentiments on that occasion, and
as addressed to the descendants of the Pill
Srins. the same sentiments would be equal
ly just and appropriate in their dedication
to yourselves on the present occasion. 1t
is true, '.the duh cold ear of death's cannot
be- reached either by our eulogy or our
sorrow |; but still the obligation of grati-
thde and veneratioYf for the memory
Of those who yhave gone before us,
none the less rests and presses upon
us as the beneficiaries of their enter
prize and labors.. Bit While It is a CRATE
ful, Tit isoi also a sad office to con-
template the great change which time has
made in the early settlers Of Franklin coun-
ty ah But few of them remain among us. /
was t0reibly and painfully struck with this
fact four years ago, when addressing q
Township Fair Gr6uds. In all that large
assemblage of people, found but two In
dividuals who had been companions in nv
childh6od. Death and emig ration had done
their work. whole generation had passed
away. My acqhaintance with the older
men, when a boy in their midst nearly p
and confined to small neighborhood !; but
even with that small number death has
made sad havoc. From among the early
residents of the southeastern portion Of the
county, and my recoilections are confined
| to that section the elder Phrcells, the
ees the the wG6sy Isyl0FS the wsangs sssFgs The The
Godmans, the Caldwelts,i the Ly1es,
the Weatheringtons, the Wiliiamses,
the Earharts, the Rathmills, the Hay s. the
Ryles, the Shannous, the Gandas, and the
Seymours, have long since passed TO s'that
bourne from whence no traveller returns !"
their honored heads have long since been
layed upon pillows of kindred clay. .sAfter
life's fitful fever they sleep we'll" They
have nobly fulfilled their mission here on
earth, and are now reapfng the beatified
reward of duty well performed. They may
have done nothing, in the common accep-
tation of the worlds estimate of heroes In
the proves of arms or of intellect, to make
their names live in story or to perpetuate
their deeds upon the pages of history !;
none of them may have met with the thrill
ling adventures of Boone or a Kenton, in
the struggle between civilization and bar
barism; for them, in their pioneer life,
there may have been none of the horrors of
the guantlet, the scalping knife, or the in
long Indian captivity, such as fell to the
lot of their neighbors, Armstrong
and Bickle; yet their self-devotion
and self-denial- in cheeriully submit
ting themselves and their families
to the miasmatic disease of the new
country, scarcely less terrible than, the
tomahawk of the savage, and to all the de-
privations and discomforts incident to a
frontier life, entitle them to our warmest
gratitude and highest veneration.. Let US,
then, by successive celebrations like this,
and by all other proper and appropriate
means, cherish their memories, and the
memory, of their compeers,. with all the
feelings of a grateful affection. Let us
earnestly strive to emulate their yirtures:
and itVher tha dread Kino Of Terrnrs shall
deavor to leave behind us such a record Of
II just action, of Christian kindness, and OF
love of country and its noble Institutions
J as those who shall in turn come after as
may also approve and emulate.