Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-01

~ genius and his daring. won 70
the United States tnat marvel
ously rich territory embraced b!
the States of Ohio Indiana. Illinois
Michigan and Wisconsin and that por
ton OF Minnesota east of the Missis
sippl river. George Rogers Clark ha;
received but Scant recognition from
the Republic. He should be ranked
among the greatest figures of Revolu
tionary days. 1t was unfortunate fol
him, perhaps. that he served simply
as a militiaman of the state of Virginia
and not as an officer OF the continental
army In the Jealousies that developed
: among the states soon after the In
dependence OF the nation was acknowl-
eyed by England little notice was given
to his achievements, and even Virginia
did not do justice to him while he lived.
Broken in spirits. in body and in purse
he passed the last years OF his life sad
and embittered. There Is a story that
when. in his ola age, commissioners
brought to him a richhly ornamented
sword the state OF Virginia voted to
him, he broke the sword with his
crutch and exclaimed: When Virginia
needed sword l gave her one Now
she sends me n toy. I want bread"
Clark was born Nov. 49, 1852. He was
less than 81 years old when at old
Vlncennes he won what was then the
northwest. Like Lafayette, he was red
headed, but he was cast in ruder and
sterner mold than the marquis. His
birthplace was near Monticello. Va,
and he and James Madison were play
mates in boyhood. The fields and the
forests had more attraction for him
than the schoolroom. but he picked up
fair education nevertheless. He was
good at mathematics, but never won
Dat h. G
he was q surveyor and had crossed the
Allcghanles and had traversed hun
drcds OF miles of what then was the
Wilderness beyond
BEYOND THE ALLEGHANIES.
That land beyond the Alleghanics
fascinated him. He pictured the
beauties of Kentucky to his father and
urged him to emigrate. In all Ken
lucky at that time there were only a
few hundred whites and these were in
constant danger of attack by the In
dians. King George III did not favor
immigration. In fact he prohibited II
except by royal grant He wanted all
the territory between the Alleghanies
and the Mississippi left open as an In
dian hunting ground. His royal ma
jesty was not actuated by motives of
! regard for the red men exactly, but the
Indians sold the skins of the animals
they hunted and trapped to the English
and French traders at Detroit. Mack
mac, Vincennes and other posts and
bought their supplies there. There was
: an immense profit in this business.
nearly all OF which was handled
through the English companies at
Montreal that had succeeded the old
French concerns. King George, too.
was not at all pleased with the way
his subjects In the 13 colonies behaved
toward him. They were not so obedient
and subservicnt rs his Canadian sub
tects and he did not want them to en-
croach on the territory which brought
such good returns to his more loyal
people.
The royal mandate was not OF much
consideration to the people who saw i'm
the beautiful valleys beyond the Allie
ghanics homes for those who were
strong and brave enough to defend
them. AS their hunting grounds were
encroached upon the Indians sought to
drive out the invaders. Massacre fol-
lowed massacre, and for time the In
vasion would be halted. but only for
a time. When. in 1774 the Indian
tribes combined and harried the whole
borderland of the colony from Lake
Erie 10 Cumberland Gap. Lord Dun
more. governor of Virginia, led an
army against them. The Indians were