Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-09

w r Binzley-Local.
Defiance Coilege-LOcal.
RK Scott Boots and Shoes.
Emma oriway-Notice Of Appointment.
Address of the Bishop of the Church
ofDivine Fragments, May o. 1885, ,on
the Isle OF Pat mos, formerly known
as Girty's Island, the Home OF that
Notorious Renegade of Revolution
AIRY NotOriety, when Fleeing from the
Just Punishment Ofhis Grimes.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN My address to-
day will partake largely OF the historical and
political history of this country OF the past
loo years, together with thoughts and refiec-
tions on the early history of the Miami lndl-
ans and other powerful tribes, our predecess-
ors in the occupancy of this district, the his
darkness of aboriginal times. The foregoing
thoughts and reflections came to mind as
witnessed the departure of body of citizen
soldiery OF, their way to New York, to swell
the great procession, whose aim and object
was to do honor to that great man, who is
STYLED by his countrymen as first in war, first
in peace and first in the hearts OF his coun-
trymen-George Washington.
It is fact not generally known that the
Miami and Wabash rivers were known and
nayigated by the whites long before the Ohio
was discovered. The only communication
with the Mississippi during the 10th and 17th
centuries, the Jesuites and soldiers being the
travellers, was from the lakes. They ascend
ed the Maumee, crossed the Portage at Fort
Wayne, and descended the Wabash to the
Mississippi.
Thus YOU see we are standing upon histor-
ical ground. A person standing on this spot
78 wears ago last night would or could have
witnessed the passage of l2OO kentuckyans,
all Young men, the flower and chivalry OF the
now great State of Kentucky, under command
of the unfortunate Col. Dudley. They passed
down this river on that night, stopped at the
site of the Snowman and LutZ farms, or what
between Detroit and Ft. Wayne, by the early
voyagers on their way from the great lakes to
the gulf. And it is a historical fact that 70
years ago, at this very hour q o'clock) that
GOO of these brave men were falling victims to
the rife and tomahawk, while others were be-
ing shot and scalped within the walls of old
Fort Miami, in the presence of the whole
British army; while others the night follow
ing fingered in torments at the stake to close
the dire affray. And there was sound of
mourning heard in Kentucky few days af-
ter; Rachels weeping and mourning for their
children, refusing to be comforted, because
they were not. And l was told forty years
ago by a survivor of that day that there was
hardly family of note in Kentucky but what
was represented on that bloody field, which is
now known as the village of Maumee.
Oh yes, my friends, what country, what q
history is ours. Within the memory of few
generations the banks of this river was peo'
pied by powerful tribes, who formerly wo1
their way to dominion by blood and by blood
maintained it. They have disappeared for
Fever; a few mouldering skeletons exhumed By
the floods and the spade of the white man /:
all that exists in this district of these once
powerful tribes! These fragments are thu
broken columns which connect us with tht
past. The ceremonies on which the earl!
settlers gaized with interest will never agaiI
be seen by the white man in this seat of thei
former power. But, thanks to our ascendan
cy, these representations were but an empt!
pageant, but theatrical exhibition which
with barbarous motions and sounds and con
tortions, show how their ancestors conquered
their enemies and now they Dlutted their re
venge in blood. feel like asking myself tn
ouestion, "What blind fatality is this, whicl
without order and with law, sports with tn
destiny of nations; what is that unjust ne
cessity which confoupds the effects of actions
whether of wisdom or of folly?' Was th
anathemas of heaven pronounced over thl
now defunct race; was it divine maledictiol
which perpetuates the Anglo Saxon, an,
doomsthe red man to extinction. .
There is melancholy interest in dwelling
upon the past, and the more obscure the re
cord may be the greater the interest becomes
to preserve historic records of a former age
to Gull the good and true of any time; to rem
der green again the memories and relation
of other days, even though blood and carnag
has marked the fields and footprints of tn
periods, gone with CORY redness, and mad
the rivers and rivulets to run crimson wit
the blood of the slain, is bnt. to perform
common duty to common humanity:
& The primitive traces and early evidences Q
barbaric life, extending from Ft Wayne t
the mouth of Delaware creek above Toledo
are many and various, and with contiguou
localities fully and fairly embalms the bank
. of this river as historic ground. oh, tombs
what virtues are yours. You punish the pow
erful oppressor; you wrest from avarice an
extortion their i'll gotten gains, and you aveng
pensate the miseries OF the poor by the anxlt
ties of the rich; you console the wretched b
opening to him last asylum from distress
and you give to the soul that just eQuipose 3
strength and sensibility which Constitute
wisdom, the true science of life. In lookin
. for the true cause of the dispoilrnent Of tn
red man of the inheritance of his forefatheI
itcan all be traced to the twin sources of CT
pidity and ignorance; these two words are tn
of man. 1t was the cupidity "f the white ma
that led him to covet and seiz' the homes q
the sons of ths forest, and their lgnorant
that enabled him to accomplish his aimes.
Through ignorance and cupidity man ht
armed against man, family against tamll
tribe against tribe, and the earth is fast b,
coming a theatre of tliscord and rapine. L
ignorance and cupitlity civil war was ina'
gurated in the bosom of every State, that SCI
arated citizen from citizen. The same 81
ciety is now constituted as oppressed and Of
pressor, or what was formerly called mast
and slave but now fnown as monopolies an
trusts and unions and orders of forty dine
emit kinds; cupidity is causing the heads
these trusts and monopolies to b
come insoleut and audacious, an
ather mercenary Rvarice is foundlr
a political despotism, which is
wsys. hypocritical and deceitful, and a
calling from heaven religious power to a.
sist their cupidity in forming a religious de-
potism; the cupidity of man and his igno
,ance, these are the evil tgenll that an tunt q
mast have laid waste theseatth;. These are u
decrees Of fate that have overthrown empire
:. These are the celestial anathamas which ha'
srnitten our predecessors in the occupancy
this heautiful valley, and has changed the
Y once happy hunting grounds into sites OF po
ul0us cities and villages whose schlef ador
fn6nts are workshobs, Arsenals and sprison
to be followed by 3, solitude Of mourning a.
Of ruins il the history Of the world for o
!, last four Thousand years are to be taken