Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-12
PROUD HISTORY
Of BUCKEYE
STATE
OHIO CELEBRATION AT
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
JudSon Harmon Declares In
Favor of Each Common
wealth Wrestling With Its
Own Problem of Regulating
Wealth.

Norfolk, Va. Sept l1.-Ohio da,
was celebrated at the jamestown ex
position today with appropriate cere.
monies. Governor Andrew l.. Harri.
and a host of distinguished visitor,
from the BuckeVe state took mart ir
the ceremonies. The principal addres.
OF the day was delivered by the Hon
Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati. Mr.
Harmon said:
There are no states at whose cele.
brations Ohio is not a fitting guest
From those older than herself came
the men ana women who opened her
SOIL TO the sunshine and replaced the
shifting wigwams Of the savages with
the fixed habitations of civilization
from which sprang the commonwealth
which sends rs here
ITO the Younger states Ohio> has
given her sons and daughters to do
the like for them. SO that, besides
the bonds of race and political fellow
ship, she is Joined forever to the 9th
er members of the American union by
the closer ties OF kinship. Wherever
she goes II is either to the abodes of
her forhears or to those of her Off
spring, and In both she is equally at
home, because she has proved worthy
or her descent and is proud of her
descendants
THE various peoples of the earth
as thev now exist had their origin in
migrations. These were sometimes In
masses, sometimes as individuals.
sometimes as eonquerors expelling or
absorbing existing inhabitants. some
times as settler of untenanted regions.
to some places they came as a bless
ing. to others as a blight. But never
IN the history OF the world, not even in
PtrH
such migration, or one with such a
result as that which I'm little more
than a century had founded aud per-
tectcd the state which nonors me to-
day as one Of her representatives.
Secured as part of the new repub-
lie at the close OF the revolution by
Sagacity and statesmanship of the
highest order. the region bounded by
the Ohio, the lakes and the Missis-
slppi lay wilderness awaiting a des-
tlny which Washington and JAY alone
foresaw The then three greatest ma
tons of the earth had partly explored
u and had battled and treated about
H. but only as an incident to things
they all thought more important
The few settlements made here and
there along its chief waters were
merely posts for traffic with the In
dlans u was too distant for thought
or general occupation by civilized
men. King George had forbidden all
attempts to settle II and. revoking all
rights of the colonies under their
charters. had made it part Of Canada.
After receiving control of II con-
gress hrst. by the great ordinance
which was the forerunner Of the con-
siitution, devoted this entire region.
whoever might become its inhabitants.
To liberty Justice and equal rights for
ever ana then, having nothing else to
give granted rights in it to the SOL
diers Of the revolution and others who. !
impoverished by the war. had TO o.
gin life anew. Some ~ these Id
their rights. but others risked 10
hardships and peris which beset he /
LONG tourney and awaited them at nc (
end OF it,
THE French had gone around nv /
the laFes and the Spanish up the Mis- |
sissippi. so that not "A settlement had !
fheN made In the easterly part OF this /
territory. But the Americans fol- /
lowing the routes OF the great conti- I
nental pathhnders. the buffalo. reach
ed that nart first. and every body who /
ever saw Ohio knows why they went
There flowed the beautiful river
through the valley where the forces
- nature had for ages collected an
The elements of fertility. with the Mus
Fingim. the Hooking. the Scioto and
the Miamis flowing in from The north L
each through its broad rich valley Il
There was lake Erie smiling at the 4,
cuyahoga. the Sanduskv and the MAN.
m"e as they came TO II from the south
And between the heads Of these rivers
'ireiched the great divide where the
rails Of the Indians and trapners 1
'arrying their canoes across from one \
siream to another had traced the
routes for commerce.
These men did not come as con- I
'Terors 20 overthrow existing institu- I
ions. there we're none. They sought !
IN conflict with the savages who. bent
ilwaYs on killing each other. wan =
tered through the forests, which had :
'vergrown the traces of two other =
aces which had preceded them 70 eN-
inciion They did not come 90 inn
'nse on others religious creed or civil +
uthoriiy They merely sought homes lf
hoy could call their own. where the
oil would reward their husbandry iu
md their children eninv The broader 1 b
'peSibiiifies ~ a new country. IL
some Of them came from New 8
England TO take IN lands reserved tn 7
no grants 20. congress. some from the Y
middle states. where the war had a
.rought the severest domestic iniur- q
's hut from owhere came more or 7
etter settlers than from Virginia This Il
"s nafura' and ~. The pioneers e
Those settlement here three hundred n
cars ago we now celebrate. and their a
uc~essors. had better founded charted d
ghts % the western country than any z
Z the other colonies. Then Virginia x
-nops under General Clarke had
aken 30 from the British during the Il
evolution and T. bad been formally s
tiached 20 the Oid Dominion as the q
nuniy of Tiiiuois These facts had a
nahled Jaw. Franklin and Adams as m
Or peace commissioners 20 make and b
iaintain q ciainT % 60 Iu
And li Vas Virginia which closed a
1e long and often bitter dispute r
fnonE the states over their claims o. ID
lese lands she authorized her dele
ites IN congress 20 convey al her b
Ehts % the United states. Thomas q
efersion carried this authority o. the -
r legation and Vas one of the sfnners