New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-21
THE PIONEER.

NJ Poosevelt embassies the fact that the
,,oven,ent n, nonulation 10 the West from New
England did not begin to be appreciate unt'i
after the War Of 1912 A famous settlement IKE
that OF Marietta only proves the rule IN 'he
earlier period the settlers were from the southern
Statesmen from the prosperous class OF io"ia"o
planters, but from the hardy men OF the nils ana
mountains who had really been pioneers all lhesr
lives as their fathers had been before theni III
blood and In beliefs these people were more he-'i''
allied 70 the Northerners than they were 10 inc
Southern planters. The people OF the >or'.eiA
"a eastern States who went Wet in those days
we're as likely TO settle IN kentucKy aS J." '
ora thew migrated as readily ITO Tennessee ana
Mississippi as 10 Indiana mus II cam g."
.n,t "an kentucky and Tennessee. in Indiana ana
.,,-,,.,, .ha s.ttlers were Of the same quality.
Thev possessed the same virtues and the same
,or,conoinSs The same ideals and the same prac-
.,os" Tho investigator who desires 70 Kho"
-,h.. ,bs average was in pioneer Dfe-Mr Roose-
,o,, does NOT saw this but 1t Is true-neeo o'i''
-rora tour among the mountains from 'he
po,orac 10 the southernmost foothiiis OF '"'
Aleghanies and the Blue Ridge.
II. ru, find there the words ana PHRASES
eth IN use which made the speec" VI
.ar,v Kentucky and Ohio interesting oe
che West as we'll as the East zen '"
,,s dead level OF the school-book dlalec'' ine'e
ava places where these peculariues hnger eve"
Va, inst as there are bits of oak ana peac" io'e''
moro than usually expansive wnere lew yeas
ago even in Central Ohio cabin couid oe iou'''
newly built the ends Of the logs ginning win
tho 1,oNsh given. them BY sharp axe anu ''e
earth floor within. more primitive Una" '"e
luncheon beaten down TO the CONSISTENCY Vi
dressed brick II is the fashion Win poi''i''""'
and novel writer's OF the present day 70 oeprec'a'e
,bs.e r,ountaineers. They settle their feuds WIN
the rife. they make Illicit whiskey ana IN spite
~ their Scotch-Irish Presbyterian origin they are
addicted 10 avery picturesque profanity Du'
they are 10 this day and they always VIII oe-suo
,ec, 10 the rivalry Of the Rocky MountAi'a III
centuries to come-the source or the heai'"'es
humanity in North America 1t VIII @Ke gen
.At,,, sometimes two generations. to tame them
down TO ordinary life, but they Will always De
,o,,nd u-here the peril Is greatest just as Long
streets veterans mostly these very mountaiheels'
are said to have kept on charging even when their
80 zero sbot o-Y and they had to crawl on their
hands and knees.
All those questions which became annoying IN
,o,ar years were positively unknown at this time
rhere were negro slaves wherever the famous
Ordinance O. Eighty Seven failed to run But II
surprjsed nobody when the owner OF slaves ex-
pressed himself as in theory what afterward was
called an aboltionist. The STAKEHOLDER ana the
outspoken opponen. OF slavery dwet side by SIDE
IN perfect harmony. TIE sayeowner and the
slave were both laborers and in nine cases OUT OF
ten the STAKEHOLDER was far the harder worker OF
the Two It was under these conditions that
slavery vanished from the Northwest The same
conditions made impossible any sort or DIVISION
between the men Of the North and the men OF the
South west Of the A!leghanies until Immigration
began to follow not exactly the parallels OF Iati-
+ude mentioned by Mr.. Roosevelt, but the lines OF
climate With prescience which was not always
shown 4. matters of immediate Importance, Con-
Rress refused TO change the Ordinance Of 1871 so
rs to make slavery lawful In the Northwest. and
this legislative refusal was as likely TO be praised
by Southerners as not, while the Northerners did
not az vet feel any very violent antagonism to
eIavery There could not be wide estrangement
geographicelly as long the typical settler
everywhere was still the man Of the axe and the
rife the small pioneer farmer who lived by him
self with his wife and swarnlns children on big
tract OF wooded land, perhaps three or four hum
bred acres In extent. OF this three or four hum
bred acres he rarely cleared more than eight or
ten; and these we're cleared mperfectly. On this
clearing he titled the soil and there he lived In his
rough loghouse with but one room. or at most two
and loft"