The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-29
Turning Over An
Old Leaf
By Phillip A. Gladheim


"There were faces TO remember in the
Valley Of the Shadow;
Ihefe were races uhfegafded'
M. tiieIe "ers l"ces ~ loi 60
+ba+ ara . fnv, fo,.oottan asbes.
There were sparkes of recognition
that are not FORGOTTEN yet
A few weeks ago | spent pleasant
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs, c. E..
Trembly of Terra Alta, W. Va. We
gave our attention to folk song and
folklore. Mr.. Trembly during the con-
versation went to his library and re-
turned with a leather-bound, yellow
leafed book. 1t was entitled "Chron-
icles Of Border Warfare and its au-
thor Alexander S. Withers. 1t was
published IN ClarkSburg, Va. (noW W..
Na.) in 1892 by Joseph Israel.
Here is book that is indispensable
to the student of local pioneer history.
1t gives a detailed record Of the set
Element of the white people in north
western Virginia (now West Nir-
ginia). This record is interviewer with
complete account OF the Indian
Wars and massacres. Mr. Wlthers
was bold writer. He furnishes proof
for his statements: I'm the whole his
tory Of America, from the time when
it first became apparent that the oc-
cupancy of the country was the OBJ
iect Of the whites, up to the present
period, is there perhaps to be found
a solitary instance, IN which an at
tempt, made by the English to effect
settlement IN wilderness claimed
by the Natives, was not succeeded by
immediate acts OF hostility on the part
OF the latter. Up. 1857 Also: The
cruelties which have been exercised on
the Aborglnes OF America, the wrong
and outrage heaped on them from the
days OF Montezuma and GuatlmoZln,
to the present period, while they eX-
cite sympathy Tor their Suttenngs,
should eXtenuate, if not justify the
bloody deeds, which revenge prompted
the untutored saVages to commit
Driven as they were from the lands OF
which they were the rightful proprie-
tors-ylelding to encroachment after
encroachment till forced to apprehend
their utter Observation-Disclosures
the destruction of their village, the
prostratlon OF their towns and the
sacking Of cities adorned with SPLEEN
did magnificence, who can feel sur
pllsed at any attempt which they
might make to rid the country OF its
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Inc Introduction is divided INTO
three chapters. The first gives a COM
prehenSlVe summary OF exploration,
advancing the theory then prevalent
that exploration OF the world was flrst
undertaken by the Phoemclans, and
followed by their colonies IN Cartha-
GINA Wlthers then Celebrates on eX-
ploratlons and attempts at colonial
ton IN the new world IN the late
renaissance same ne second chapVef
uedi' viii ''ie VI lslii Vi 'ie amer caii
li'(''F1li' ~ &c ','eoi leS "le leEle"e"
~ ri'iiil"iIuel "e Nolae|' ne illalH-
'"li'eo 'iie ENiiieilliuS N1ie Cecilliicai
ii"i'ie covering an lhoiai' ClloeS ol lile
TWO american coiiIlhehIS) were OF
OdGIIdglnldn ancestry. lleN migrated