New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-19
PIONEER DAY AT MARIETTA.
CREATIONS BY SENATOR DANIEL AND GEN.
ERAL EWING.
WORK OF SOUTHERN STATESMEN IN THE NORTH
wEsT-TRADITIoNs OF EARLY DAYS
BRAVERY OF THE WOMEN ON THE FROM.


wrsr-TRADITIONs OF EARLY DAYS
pRAvrRY OF THE WOMEN ON THE FROM.
TIER.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBUNsJ
Marietta. Ohio, July IA violent summer rain
d,d M, nrcvcnt an audience OF 900 1000 persons
Gathering I'm the Centennial Auditorium this afternoon
IN listen TO an Grafton from Senator Daniel, OF VII
gina. The Senator has n smoothiy-sna'on, s
cut face with features that suggest fhose oi Da.c
While he was speaking Senator sherman can'o on n'
stage and took a seat between Governor anu 'i,''
Foraker chatting with them easily ana picas"''S'
A good many people who have lent Wiling cai' "
the r,Imors about a breach between sherman al"
Foraker have scanned with close scrutiny the acuohS
of the two men. but the most searching cr''c eau 'oO
no surface Indication OF the existence oi ihio0"e
Senator Daniel has a fine, deep musicai VOICE. ,i
held his audience spellbound with tho music Vi n'
words lie discarded the ofttold story OF the settle
ment OF the Northwest and dwet at ength upon 'no
unbeaten paths of history. He said that INC scene GU
acted here one hundred years ago, when Arthur
st. Clair was nducted into office with inc nc" so'.i'i
grouped about him in leafy bower, win the oru'nd'0
OF 1877 for a constitution, was picture worthy
frame OF diamonds and gold and was grandcr nraha
than any ever seen in the white temples OF inc
Greeks or Romans. Tho Marietta colonlsts were
tho nrrims OF the great west IL
took the rest of the country hreequarers OF century
IN catch I'D with the flag flung TO the breeze az
Marietta in 1888. when tho immortal ordinance oi
1877 excluding slavery became their fundamental
law He gave Jefferson high credit for drafting inc
laws providing for religious liberty In virginia. '"o
wears before tho pioneers came TO Ohio'
In some respects Senator DanePs speech was nio'
70, an og cot 70 that OF Senator Eyars. In that It as
cribed most of the present glory OF inc grca' "eS'
10 the wisdom and patriotism Of Southern statesnleu'
Tho senator called attention to Salmon p Chases
statement that the Northwest Territory pcionseu W n
limited States and held in trust by congress LOT INC
common good and said that It was not conssten. win
the facts Virginia had good tue 10 inc 'or'n"o''
Territory resting on the royal charter an ADMISSION
IN tho ordinance OF 1877 and the right oil conquest
Ito ouoted Garfelds eulogy Of George Rogers oiarh'
and claimed that his travels in the West hxed virginia
title. This part Of Senator Daners speech ha' poon
criticised and will bear careful reading TOT IL - oo
interesting and instructive III, .
Tn tho cveninp Governor and Mrs Foraker heid
largo reception at the Centennial Auditoriuiii' m
co,ehration closes on Thursday, which Is ONO guy
The sneakers will be Senator sherman, Governor rO
aler ex Governor Foster, General W. H. ",o' ~.
eraI C. H. Grosvenor, Acknowledgement d. ~ "a''on
General James Robinson, Secretary Oh ot@''' 'N'
anti Governor Lyon and j. Z. Lee. ~
pIonecr Day at the Centennial was deVo'co 70 "
! ,.aI recention which brought together large
number OF Witch haired men and women. iho eN
ciscs began with the presentation OF saVei - o
era Thomas Ewing, by Governor foraAoi' ~ =,
ernor made happy speech. General h"ink wa, ~
troduced nv George NJ Woodbridge, who euiogIeo MS
father General Ewing wore cluster Oh puoAo'o ~
HIS button.hole, and used chair lavisnis ''i''"D
/ ,,h h,chaves His audience a splendid one anu
bad in It the greatest number of descendants Oh inc
| o,opIsts who came to Ohio in 1857 that couiu pc
brought together , -.
Wa assorble here with the representatives. OIL the
Commonwealths Of Virginia and New foA' wiz, So
the Northwest Territory TO the Kepuonc' anu "
-. o,a roverf,l States formed OF II, to commemorate
the glorious and bcnefceNt event. nn' man, " 70
have come with more than the general interest oi n
lean patriots in the ocas'on VIC arc 'N' ~
- hat immortal band through whose enterprise courage
,.r,o,sb, and love Of their feow-man THIS "iioer-
ness was settled and the foundations OF 'he he" Nv
nubllc laid Probably no large mgratiohs Vi MT" -
! v.i,hout sDecal Divine purpose ana orec'o"'
landing on Plymouth Rock Of the broken remnants Oi shd
80. 40 cd ,earinp democracy who smote the hrst
ch,res and were smltten by the second ioreoruhou
the separation Of the colonsts from the ero"n -
this movement the Divine purpose apparently ""'
omen the great continent to settlement oi ~io
W - ,oor not only OF the colonies but also OF
ru,ono where each family could dwell under Its own
vine and ngr tree found new States IN Ihae io'S UNI
equality for which Sidney died, and which Jeherson pro-
claimed in the Declaration OF Independence anu 'e
ho ,reuence NJ such new States 10 establish popular
Government through, ut tho Republic and in time
! throughout the world.
The curse OF land monopoly had blighted most OF the
colonies The grants to the Duke OF York, LORD Deia
ware Lord Baltimore, Lord Fairfax and others co'ereu
vast domains OF the Lands and had been SOLD gen.
orally in large to wealthy holders This eVN was
being perpetuatea in many States by laws OF primo
Renture and entail and by limiting suffrage ana omceS
TO freeholders establishing as far rs practcaoie
| landed arlstocracy second was aavery-the
twin and ally OF land monopoly both operating 10 oe
grade labor; both repelling immigration OF poor "c
men, both enemies of democratcrepublican government
That was a hard saying of Judge fancy In the Dfed
Scott case that opinion OF those who formed ana
ratified the Federal Constitution black men had no
| rights which white were bound TO respect IL
shocked and angered the North. The declaration was
| too broad hut II limited the great majority OF the
people, sadly true. There were among our lore
fathers many political disciples OF Milton Russell and
| Algernon Sidney, who worshipped Liberty and were
ready TO die in her or such the men OF the
Ohio Company The Ordinance OF 's7, for which the
world indebted largely to the Marietta Colony, STANDS
and prc-eminent among free institutions OF govern
ment the great fundamental propositions OF civil
and religious liberty recognized as the American
Magma Chara are declared therein merely for the
government Of the Territory but also for the six States
be formed therefrom. and for perpetual covenant
between those States and all OF their sisters These
guarantees found place In the Federal Constitution
until four years after the passage Of the Ordinance,
when they incorporated the first ten amend
mens In that ordinance tho union Of the States is
declared DO ndissoluble. The failure to assert sim
lar provision in the Constitution OF the United States
left tho door aar for secession and led the great
Rebellion And at last the constitutions OF oil the once
slave States and the Federal Constitution ITSELF has
adopted that ordinance the FIRST words OF prohi
bitlon OF slavery put In American Constitution.
There shall bo neither slavery involuntary servi,
ude otherwise than in punishment OF crimes whereof the
party shall have been duly conyicted.'
The pioneers Of the OHIO Company were thus the
architects OF the Republic. They have ed into the Union
fourteen States free, born which the collar
OF colonial subsection had landed aristocracy,
or derived title to from the crown or had a
slave, religious, land money qualification for
Office suffrage; and which have Illustrated BY their
benign and orderly rule throughout their history the
priceless value OF government by the people
OF many the Pioneers been published
and OF others still be told from family records and
dtons As body they such rarely II ever,
united In small community. For myself have but
words Say OF my grandparents who settled here.
Broken in fortune by a military service which extended
from the campaign against Quebec year before the Dec
Independence tho close OF the War OF the Rev