Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-08-28

all know how Raleigh one day sent his servant ont
for mug Of ale, and while he was absent Raleigh
concluded to take q smoke and as the servant came
into the room he was astonished to see his master
reclining in q chair and a great yolum. of smoke
coming from bis mouth. Thinking his master was
on fire, he threw the ale into his face to put him out
and he did it, too. Uaughter.)
The king,-or no 1t was queen Queen Elizabeth,
became interested in smoking and Raleigh told her
hec could tell ths weight Of the smoke, which hung
in clouds above them. he did It by taking a pound
OF tobacco aud after smoking IL he weighed the ash
es and OF course the diference between the to-
bacco and ashes was the weight Of the smoke.
| (Laughter).
Then It came into the hands of a company. we
would caIl 1t syndicate, by grant of King James.
They did not kn how to describe 1t and so it read
conveying all the territory between latitude 81 and As
and from ocean to ocean, to the English company.
Thus Henry County once belonged to the London
| company and that was where you had to 20 to see
your county officers. II you had to pay your taxes
you had to go to London. Did you know that at
one time you were all Virginisns2 Well you were.
You were all residents Of Orange County, Your
Court House was in Orange County. You were in
| excellent company. James Madison was resi-
dent Of that county. Did you ever know that you
had such man as that in your midst? The frst
man whoever suggested the idea Of constitutional
convention, man to whom is due the major Dor
ton Of the Constitution and the original Of which
is written in his hand writing than that of any
other man9 man who had no peer as states
man and withal one of the greatest and grandest
characters this country has ever known? Well he
uaa ~
A little later they changed Orange county, this
was In l76s, to Betetourt, Va, that included your
county. That included all the northwest territory.
Chicago was in that co unity. 1t was not much of q
town then. In the latter county the Sheriff had
suit against spaniards in st Louis for the un-
lawful occupancy of some lands. He had to serve
some writs. He took them and travelled 900 miles
west from Fincastle, and Sc rived them. Think of
the mileage he computed, 900 miles and ba ok. You
sometimes object to the cost in your law suits and
to the mileage computed. Well they knew how to
compute then as we'll as now, and that sheriff COM
puted his mileage Al times, once for. each writ,
|-(Laughter).
Along about l776 the people in one portion of the
county objected TO living in large county, and
accordingly the county of Kentucky was carved
out. After that was done they made the county Of
Illinois. That included all the country west of the
Ohio River and the county seat was in Kankakee,
Ill.
Everybody is mad at the census. 1t has treat
ed some of us pretty badly. Now Ohio has lost its
place, which it has held for three censuses and I-
nos has got 1t, well we in Illinois, Laugh
tert Then In 1777 Virginia madeover to the nation
all the northwest territory and now the nation owns
Auain n ChanUad md aro q, t,a -
Marietta. We people in Henry County are emit tied
to part of the glory of that county. Then we are
put in Wayne County, but the capital is no longer
here 1t is in Detroit Mich, and III at s not SO bad
trip as to Williamsburg, Va.
After that came other counties and gradually came
the State Of Ohio But we are not in any of Ohio's
counties, but no county is here, we are an Indian
reservation and IL want to have county seat it is
in some Pattowatomie camp. tLaughtsr.) Then the
workings of our system Of Jurisprudence were not o.
complete or perfect ss they are now. Then Gil you
had to do was to say John Smith has stolen my
horse and take the law in your own hands. Then
one was complainant, judge, jury and ndexecutioner,
of course tomahawk played an active part (Laugh-
| ter.)
| This continued up to 1920, when the legislature
sanctioned treaty made by Cass and Arthur by the
terms Of which this country here passed to the
Union and now We were in Ohio, and our capitol
was at Columbus. Quite distance, but great deal
better than in some Indian council lodge By an act
Of the legislature of February, $780, this lately ced
ed land was divided into fourteen counties, Henry
being one Of the number Henry county was at
tached to Wood county, then ii was later attached
to williams county, and in 1884 Henry county first
began separate and distinct existence with the
county seat at Napoleon.
Around US are the counties of Fulton, Lucas,
Pauldng, Hancock and Wood. Why is IL called