Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-07-06

Oliver House, Toledo, a daugh'
ter of Col. Oliver a conspicu'
ous soldier of the war of 1912,
inviting us to visit that city as
her guests. In this connection,
it may not be out of place to
state, that Col. Chas. S. Todd,
informed us, that he was a
groomsman of the gallant Col,
Oliver-whose daughter on
this occasion had so kindly and
generously received us.
About three o'clock Thurs.
day afternoon we were met at
Pleasant Grove by Hon. M. r.
Waite, of Toledo, Mayor Ty-
Ter, of Perrysburg, and the
Committee from Maumee City,
who accompanied us to Perrys-
burg. We reached the latter
city about FIVE o'clock, and
were received by a large con-
course Of citizens, with the
band, who escorted the veter-
ans to the Exchange Hotel,
where, after prayer by Rev.
Mr.. Swami, they were formally
welcomed by Mayor Tyler, and
comfortable quarters assigned
them.
The preparations for the re-
ception and entertainment were
on the most liberal scale. At
ten o'clock Friday morning, a
procession of citizens was form
ed, accompanied by the Toledo
and Maumee City bands, which
escorted the old soldiers to Ft.
Meigs. 1t was an occasion
deeply interesting to all who
participated in it. After an
absence of nearly sixty years,
the men who had gallantly de-
Tended Fort Meigs returned to
look-many of them for the
last time-upon the ballowed
ground made historic by their
heroism. They formed as it
were a connecting link between
the past and the present. 1t
was no wonder that mothers
brought forth their little ones
to gaze upon the forms of the
venerable men who ffty.seven
years before had saved from the
enemy the soil upon which now
stood their homes and the
homes Of their children. 1t
was a fitting occasion to recall
much that was pleasant in the
past serving to impress upon
the minds of the young that in
days gone by the some of Ken
lucky rushed to their defense,
and saved Etheir country from
the British and the Indian. To
recall such string events in the
history Of a people can only be
productive of good, And the
child who last Friday saw so
many of the defenders of Fort
will, in after times, tell
to his little ones the story of
this visit, and thus the recol-
lection of their deeds will be
banded down from generation
to generation and kept green in
their memories forever. To the
old soldiers the visit was of
interest. In 1872
'l3 the place where they now
stood was a dense forest,
which roads had to be
cut to the fort. They seemed
familiar with every foot of
In this trench they
had watched by day and by |
night the stealthy approach Of
the savage; looking across the
river on that ill-fated day had
witnessed Dudley's bloody de,
feat ; here forfourteen days they
had been besieged by the for
ces of the British and Indians
flushed with their successes at
Detroit, at the Raisin and
across the Maumee. Among
those present was our venerable
fellow-countyman, Peter Bonita,
who lost two brothers in these
conflicts, and whose
lie buried here. The
young men Of that day are the
old men of to-day. Fifty.seven
years ago they went into the
action in The flush of young
and vigorous manhood; to-day
D few of them, bowed down by
lge and feeble and tottering
approach these sacred grounds.
It was a scene which can never