The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-19
MRS. LONGWORTH
UNVEILS TABLET
First Settlement in Old North
west Territory Comment
grated at Marietta.
NOR HARRIS OF OHIO WERE
AMONG THE SPEAKERS ON THE
PROGRAM.

Marietta, o., Oct ia tablet COM
memorating the first permanent set
tlemcnt in the old Northwest Terri
tory" was unveiled here on the college
campus in the presence of a large and
distinguished gathering of prominent
citizens from all parts of the country.
Whitelaw Reid is the president Of the
Ohio company, which, although or
ganized in 1856, was not incorporated
until 1902, and the present memorial
was prepared under the auspices of
that society and unveiled by Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, daughter OF
President Roosevelt.
Homer Lee, as first vice president
Of the Ohio society, was selected to
make the formal presentation of the
tablet, the president being unable to
be present because OF his duties as
ambassador of the United States to
Great Britain. Mayor Leeper of the
city of Marietta, and President Perry
of Marietta college, represented the
city and college in accepting the tab
let Governor Andrew L. Harris and
v lCc IkSSiuSAl - W. Il Oil bchho oPohS
and the historical address on the &C.
casion was by Professor Albert Bush
nell Hart of Harvard university.
Governor Harris said In the ex-
pertinent of century ago, there is
lesson for the present. Tnis beacon
light of liberty that tbs founders
raised in the wilderness called over
the mountains and across the river
people alien neither in race nor in
spirit to our institutions. Some of the
vanguard of this western migration
had shown their devotion to the infant
republic on the fields of the Revolu-
ton. When the chivalrous Lafayette
visited this spot in 1925, truly did he
say of those veteran pioneers: Il knew
them all. l saw them at the Brandy
wine, at Yorktown and Rhode Island.
They were the bravest of the brave.
The pioneers came to dignity labor
by rearing homes with their own
hands In this favored land. The for
ests made room for the garden, the
orchard and the grain fields; the soil
tude was vibrant with the sound of
industry and vocal with the songs of
state loved the fields cleared by their
hands. In the triumph of free labor
they and their sons rejoiced and flour
fshed. From the beginning this goodly
land was devoted to religious freedom
and popular education. Churches and
schools and colleges have risen on
every hand. surprising the most san
guine anticipations of the fathers
Professor Hart brought out in his
address the influences of the west on
the east, and incidentally the infiu-
enceS of New England on the western
states. His paper was largely histori-
CAL containing many comparisons of
Ohio and New England conditions
The tablet is mounted on gigantic
block of Bedford sandstone weighing
Il tons, located on the campus of Mar
ietta college. 1t bears the following
inscription.
This tablet commentaries the
first permanent settlement in the
Territory Northwest of the Ohio.
consecrated to Freedom by the Or
dinance of 1877; and the first or
ganization of its free institutions.
ManasSah Cutler. represe ting SOL
diers OF the Revolutionary Army.
organized as THE Ohio Company
OF Associates" purchased from the
Board of Treasury of the United
States authority granted by the
Continental Congress July s1th
1857, million and a half acres of
these waste and vacant lands. The
first body of settlers. forty-eight in
number. headed by General Rufus
Putnam. landed at the mouth of
the MusFsngTm April It'll. 17sS
General Arthur ST. Clair. first Gov
h1l y,,I,
eth. 17SS ard upon his official en-
try into Marietta July 18th, civil
government in the Territory was
established.