The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-23
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
DEZIYERED YESTERDAY ATOLEVE-
 LAND SENATOR HAWLEY

LAND BY SENATOR HIJYLEY
 On tho Occasion of tho Centennial Celo-
 bration-A Masterpiece of Oratory and
 Thought-Coi nc 'ticuts Part in the Set
 clement and Development of Ohio-The
 Duties of Citizens outlined-Living Ma
 tional Questions Discussed Req nj sites
 for the Endurance of the Republic.
 MT. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
 On tie 9th of last February, His Ex- cellency, Governor Bushnell and his military staff, His Honor, Mayor Me Kisson, and number of other repre- sentative citizens of Cleveland, came to Hartford, Conn. to meet our chief magistrate, His Excellenoy, Governor Coffin, His Honor, Mayor Brainard, the city government of Hartford. and a large number of the present citizens of that city, for the express purpose of ex- tending to them and the people of the Commonwealth of Connecticut an invi- " tion of the occurrence of single cir cumstance which now represents in history the founding of this noble Queen City. The hospitable, fraternal and patriotic spirit which brought your delegation was in the highest degree welcome to our people. We apprecia- ted the honor, we accepted the invita- tion, and a goodly delegation from Con- necticut is here. led by our honored Governor Coffin and his staff, to bring to you the hearty thanks, sympathy and congratulations of our people at large.
 We were grateful that you remem- bered so kindly the share New Eng flanders had in the origin of your state, and more especially what Connecticut men did. New Connecticut, the West ern Reserve, the Fire Lands, are terms familiar to every schoolboy of Connect icut who is taught, as all ought to be, something of the history of that com monwealth.
 Our people are proud of the countless relationships between them and the numerous citizens of Ohio who bear Connecticut names. This is true not only of the Reserve, but of the great state in general.
 The Grants came from Windsor next neighbor to Hartford. We all know that the father of the great senator and general bearing the name Sherman was a native of Connecticut So was their grandfather, who was the agent for the disposition of the Fire Lands, and so was Daniel Sherman, their great grandfather, long member of the general assembly, and during the revo- lution member of our council of safe ty. We like to remember that the great Chief Justice Waite was native of Connecticut and the son of a chief justice of our state. The Reverend Dr. Horace Bushnell of Hartford was one of the most eminent divines the coun- try has furnished David Bushnell, a Yale boy in the revolution, was practi- cally the inventor of submarine torpe- does The late Cornelius S. Bushnell of New Haven was the man through whom the first monitor came to be built. And His Excellency, Governor Bushnell, was welcome among us, not falone npon his own merits, but because Sof the name he bears.
 Rutherford Birchard Hayes, noble {both as statesman and citizen; as Q Rutherford, as a Birchard and as a Hayes, was New Englander. The generals mother was a descendant of John Birchard, who settled in Connect ! icut in 164O.
 Rev. Manasseh Cutler, agent of the Massachusetts settlers of the Marietta colony, was distinguished graduate of Yale So was his twin brother in enterprise, General Moses Cleaveland of Connecticut.
 Return Jonathan Meigs of Middle htown, Conn, a brave colonel of the Revolution, was the father of your sGovernor. Return Jonathan Meigs, 8 'snative of Middletown and graduate fo Yale.
 f Gideon Granger of Connecticut, the lWhittleseys, Benedict, Stow, John liWalworth of New London, General Ed ward Payne. were all claimed as sons of Connecticut, and a multitude more. 4 I forbear, and for further names l re- X fer you to the excellent state and local histories and biographies of Ohio and | the records of honored legislators, sol diers and statesmen. And further s.nore, I remind you that as compensa- /, Hion for losses suffered by the raids of ,FTryon and Arnold in the Revolution MConnecticut gave in the western DOT tion of the Reserve five hundred thou sand acres of Fire Lands, and the Land laws of Ohio in eighteen pages record Ashe names and the precise loss of each sufferer.
 E I humbly accepted your very compli- Ynentary invitation to address you but J my courage weakened when began to inspect the vast mass of interesting historical matter, more or less related ! to the occasion.
 I forbear to touch upon the first in- ! telligence of the existence of this vast region and the story of the controver- sies between the English and the French, the Indians, the early settlers and the civil and military officers of the United States That which stands out most prominenetly in the mind of the historical student and the statesman is the ordinance of 1787, (July 13th), and that by which it is best remembered now in the popular mind is the famous sixth section, which seems to have been placed there by direct inspiration of heaven:
 s'There shall be neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude in the said terri tory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"