Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-11-29
THE REPUBLICAN.
CLEARFIELD, PA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV 20, 1871.
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.


While countless ages slowly passedhwa
The western world in heather darkness lay.
Tie God of nature hore had intertwined
| The graudes features of our globe designed
Huge mountain systems rose In towering might,
With peaks illumined by volcanic light
Uunuinbcred rivers through the tranquil land,
Flowed onward toward the distant stormy strand
Great catRracts poured down with thunderou'
sound,
And cavorns yawned for miles beneath tho ground
Fresh water lakes spread out among the trees,
With all the seeming Of vast inland seas
Rude, savage tribes possessed the vast domains
of forest wilds and blooming prairie plains.
But cultivated minds of early times,
Knew nothing of these isolated elimes.
The period Of the Aborginies
Is yeiled in deep, unfnthomod mysteries.
No written records Of their acts appear
! No annals Of the nations buried here.
But moldcring cities times dim deeds recall
Whore totterng turrcts crushed aud crumbling
fall.
From where the famous Newport tower is found,
To where Cholula's pyramids abound,
Remains Of earthcrn forts LEFT to show
That warlike nations lourshcd long ago.
| And countless mounds TO these late ages tell
| OF those who in these regions used to dwell,
When their progouitors set out to roam
From mankind's common, Asiatc home.
The straits Of Bchring iuny have been the way,
That led them safely % America.
| Their cities may for centuries have gracod
The sites where now no yestiges are traced;
Till ruder tribes from northern countries poured.
| DemOlishing what never was restored.
Thus crushed beneath a fierce, harbaric might,
The continent relapsed in hopeless night;
Or separate quite, from eastern nations riyen,
| Their origin may be direct from Heaven.
But theories transmit TO us alone,
| What truthful history has never shown.
| Fast of thA Miggissiupis turbil girpam
| And south of where st. Lawronces waters CLEAN,
With habits fixed, unalterable, vile,
Or strangely mixed with rectitude and guile,
Divided into tribes and rowing round,
Eight Indian families the white men found
The Algonquin possessed a vast extent
OF this great section Of the continent.
The Huron Iroquois and Cherokee,
Moblian, Matches, Sioux and fierce Uchco,
| With the Catawbas, formed the other bands
| Who occupied our wide Columbian lands.
As ornaments they belts Of wampum wore
Which served as currency the country Ger.
They scalped their enemies with savage glee;
! Their women led life Of slavery.
With bark Of trees they huts or wigwams made,
Aud war aud hunting formed their leading trade.
| The fauna aud the fard here unfurled,
| Are different from those in the eastern world;
| New genera and species far and wide,
Into untold varieties diyidei
And everywhere from Natures hand outpours
The most prolific and abundant stores.
The Europeans long had sought way,
| BY sea alone, to distant India,
Columbus aimed this wished for route 10 gain,
BY boldly crossing DER the western main.
| For eighteen years at many courts he tried
| To have essentials for bis plan supplied;
| When Isabella Of the Spanish throne,
Came nobly forward to his aid alone.
| With three small vessels and but ninety men,
He on his daring project started then.
| A 4. hi L. IL.
When with ouccess his fondest hopes were crowned.
October twelfth in fourteen ninety-two,
| The isle Of Guaushani came in view.
How welcome to this ocean daring band,
/ Must now have been the welcome cry of land
They knew not that ten thousand miles and more,
stil stretched between them and the Indian shore.
Three other voyages Columbus made,
| And gained q fame which time can never fade.
| lie gave new world 10 the human race,
And it became his final resting place.
| His glory and his wrongs are widely known,
| Through all the realms Of every zone,
| The NOrthmen many centuries before,
Had sailed the northern regions to explore,
And roved the sterile iee-bound country DER
From Greenland's snow clad hills to Labrador,
And colonies were planted on its shore,
| According to the ancient Runc lore
Bu, they had been abandoned long ago,
As regions Of eternal frost and snow,
| When voyagers from southern Europe tried
| To cross Atlantc's ever restless tide.
America was quickly seized upon,
Aud many settlements were soon begun,
| By Spain, which started far in the advance. ban
| And England, Holland, Portugal aud France.
Vcspucci came In quest Of fame and polf,
| And bad II named in honor Of himself.
Balboa with his comrades rude and free,
FIRST visited the great Pacific sea.
Ponce do Leon discovered blooming wilds,
Illuminod by the southern summer smilesi
| And rowing all their gorgeous tanges round,
The Fount Of Youth he sought--but never found.
| The two Cabats came over TO explore
The northern section ofth eastern shore.
Then VcrraEani and his hardy crew,
| And Cartier, came to make discoveries too.
| De Soto in the conquest Of his foes,
| FiIst reached the line where Mississippi flows,
And Gasnold seeking Massachusetts, shore,
| The route condensed thousand leagues or more.
Sir Walter Raleigh, iayorite Of Queen Bess,
Essayed colony, without success.
A century passed, as history relates,
| with none to settle the United States.
| But by and by, with energy inspired,
| Two noted companies the land acquired
| And in the progress Of succeeding years,
Had founded many homes Of pioneers.
Within the nations bounds as they are traced
To-day, the following colonies were placed
| In earlier times, in permanent array;
The first st. Augustine IN Florida,
A Spanish settlement Of old rcnown,
| Succeeded by the English at jamestown.
| 81. Mary's was established in the SOuthj
New Amsterdam quite near the Hudson's mouth.
| The Mayliowers persecucd Pilgrim flock
| OF exiles landed here on Plymouth rock
| And Roger Williams, soon eNiod from thence,
Near NeGaganfctt founded Providence.
| This is the sacred spot whore FIRST we find
Religious Tolerance to inankindi
| Whore Church aud State were in no way combined,
But every one could think as be inclined,
with the inalienable right assigned
/ To worship God according TO his mind.
| In Christian rectitude was settled then,
BY deeds Of rosce, the land Of William Penn.
The story Of his government affords
| Unbroken faith with all the Indian hordcs.
James Oglcthorpe to Georgia led the way,
And thus the States were formed in fair array.
By emigration from the distant East
The population rapidly increased.
With hre aud sword and toll surrounding them,
They dared the perils OF these wilds TO stem.
The natives tribes, to fury of cnragcd,
Against the oolonsts In engaged
But freemen, in true courage uneNcced,
They pcrsovered til all their foes were quelled.
The French aud Indian con1 here we greet,
with years of crime and misery replete,
Where Washington In battle first we meet,
And Braddoek had his terrible defeat;
Where western settlers countless wrongs endured,
And Canada the British King secured.
But troubles wcightior than the Indian wars,
Were doomed TO break out on our devoted shores.
For many years the king and Parliament
Had aimed to tax MS without our consent;
And hreling troops were moved across the waves,
To help reduce us to state Of slaves.
Twas then the Boston Massacre occurred;
The Revolution was not long deferred.
On using nothing wrongly taxed intent,
Some fiiy men disguised as Indians went
Aud into Boston Ilarbar thew the tea,
Which spread about and floaied out to sea.
The military movements were begun
Upon the crimson field Of Lexington
Aud followed mp with energy and skill,
In the far famed defence Of Bankers llill;
Which numbcrlcss heroic deeds comprised,
And where brave Warrcn's life was sacrificed.
Tioondcrnga daring Allen gained
Crown Point by him soon after was obtained.
An ill.starrcd expedition moved away,
To meet the foe in distant Canada