The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04

MI. McElros speaks of Hendarsa.
the last OF Americas Lords ~ .- as
e'ors' although Henderson ea--aE...t-
sought to secure the acknov-ra4 "7>"y
of the colony OF Transylyarfs ""rnt
Continental Congress as tn fn+ The
American colony. 1t is ntar.s.-"ta
any rate, to read Professor nr.It'-. al
words: presumably this tr~.-..,
MA was a good place to +r-. Na-
the ancient experiment of q T.~t "7-'
prietorship, but we can now To-
even under the most ideal cars:-t-1-
no Sucn system Of governments
nave lasted long in the Amar... WI.
40. n WINDS of political dl..r,r',
had long been blowing i'm a a., 'e
quite contrary TO such an ."-H
ment, as the heirs of the p.rrl
n CaiVerts had already cone 49, 800"
derstand." " N'-
Just before the public an0o.,o.
ment throughout the r'I4r, '"[''
the Pennsylvania Company of ny
vast scheme of promoti.0 "r'-
Western colonization, DR.. r r ~
Smyth met Richard H4r4.o
at the home of Colonel LON W.,
liams. Although Smyth. in his u'i,
V as a British spy. had s.1,
many of the greatest men in Amart,a
he p~ronounces Henderson .'one of H..
most singular and extraordinary nar-
sons anG executive geniuses i'm nsr
lea, n perhaps in the world. rn-
deed. the daring project Of Western
colonization in which Richard FIender-
son risked his all seemed at tha linn.
little short OF a numerical dream. Hen
derson and his associates, it is of .ha
highest consequence to recognize. vera
engaged in no shoddy Speculative
scheme from which they hoped ta raau
golden profits while leaving Others IN
bear the brunt Of danger and disaster
Richard Henderson furnished the world
a commanding example Of a man will
ing to TAX supreme personal as we'll
as financial risk in VindiCatiou of his
faith in a great venture of promotion
and colonization. "FrOm any stand
point says Prof. A. b. HulUurt.
Orchard Henderson's brave advance
into Kentucky in April, 1715. must I've
considered as one of the most heroic
displays Of h q typical American epir-
it Of comprehensive ACKNOWLEDGMENT If
which SO much is heard today" The
moral influence exerted by the Tran
sylvania Company was Invaluable.
HendersOn's first great service To he
American nation was the marking out.
through the hand of Boone. Of that
romantic road through a Wilderness IF
laurel thickets, which is famous in
history as the Wilderness Road. His
purchase at Watauga, his unresting
march over h b~lOOd-haunted Wilder
ness Trail, and his settlement uf Ken
lucky may well be ClasSed by hlst0-
rians as a movement Of iuc3ioulabiv
signal moment and ~prOvidentiaI time
illness in our early history. The set
Element of BoonesbOrOugh alone made
possible the spectacular II meteo"'
campaign in Western hiStoTN-cosl0g
only when George Rogers Clark and
his unterrified frontiersmen grounded
their arms in kaskaSkia. and :lnnonntS
HAD it not been for Henderson and
Boone" says Mr.. Roosevelt i'll The
Winning Of the West, it Is most Do-
likely that the and would have been
settled at all until after the k@\ola-
tionary War, when peri: Is .t n.sht
have been British soil.
If Patrick Henry was the Domestic
mes Of America, if George Rogers
Clark was the Hannibal of Amrrloa,
Richard Henderson was Americas
Cecil Rhodes. Just when NatanH'"-
land seemed destined TO pass i"rravoca-
bly, into other hands, Rhodes organ
lied a company. entered the country
the head Of an armed band. pHffI"7-
ed the mining concessions ana me P'
sition Of most favored nation f.""
Lobegula, the native chief. ai'o sd 7",-
ed the vast "hinterland' Of IHodTN.1
for the British Empire. hna""l"
with the same eyrsoire building '-1-
ination, Henderson I~ncofp"Ia'." "
company just when the West OBI j.
outbreak of the Revolution, s1'tl'D -'
danger of passing beyond Wh|'r 5o-
troll; purchased from the i@7l i""--4
claimants their rights to TINS 80
theatre Of savage warfare, mar.. .Ea
at the head of an armed baho ~,
objective focus of conflict; anu Ds
courage and the moral intIu@A. t--
his company, saved the vast "~
terland.' not only of kento'A< mi.
ultimately of Ohio. Indiana ana w. w.
nois, to the American nation .-ra
Pennsylvania company u e'e- o.,
and early extinction. But t'" '.r.s
Henderson and MS ASSOCIATE '.
It is fortunate that the vast .E''. -Mz
land which Henderson ga Il. " 4
American people as the "'7' '.- ne
remarkable career. stu pea --.~.
name Of the sweet m~eado"@ "rr-