Year: 1874

"REMINISCENCES OF THE sCIoTo VALLEY.


On the 4th the Pioneers of Ohio celebra-
ted the day bya grand gathering at Pixies
Opera House in Cincinnati. John D.
Caldwell read a historical review of the
past, when Governor Allen was introduced
and ssId:


FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS, OLD
AND YoUNa:-You will rot expect from
me on an occasion like this regular and
systematic speech, 1t would be out Of
place-entIrely out of haTmony-With the
purposes and wishes of this assembly.


There has been observed throughout the
United States and throughout most of the
European countries, where the people are
allowed to assembled with security and in
peace, striking propensity for all The dif-
feEent classes and all orders-of the commu-
nlty, to assemble periodically to promote
their peculiar or special interests. We
cannot pick up paper without seeing that
there is q onVention of some portion of
the American people for some specific pur-
pose. all this implies-frst, an unre.
stricted freedom upon the part of the peo-
pie to meet and consult for thei' own
benefit and their own welfare. Secondly,
it implies a vivid interest on the part Of
every subdivision of the American commu-
nifty to take care of its own Welfare, and
to promote prosperity toward the accom-
plishment Of it own object. Instead of its
being considered as an evidence of public
discomfort it is an eYideRce Of popular sat
isfactien with the Government under which
they live, and the determination of every
branch Of the community TO profit BY that
liberty which invites all to seek in the fu-
ture that happiness which 1t Is hoped IS in
store for US all. l know of no association
Of any kind out of ten thousand that year
ly. are observed among the people, know
Of no association more rational, more disin.
terested, more worthy of great and free
people than an association Of the aged, and
intelligent periodical renewal ofthelr recol-
lection OF the deeds of their pioneer faith
ers; [applausel, to promote Though all
coming time the true history of that eX-
traordInary race of men we call pioneers.
fApplause From the very nature Of
things this country could have been civil
lied in no other way than that in which it
was civilized, [applauselr by sending stout
hearts and determined spirits away into
the unmeasured wilderness [applausel to
find out what was there and VINO was
there [Applause.l Organized armies
could not do this. Organized armies want
roads and all the facilities for moving great
armies of men to the point proposed. Or
ganized armies were impossible. This
country had been pervaded by the stout
hsarts and determined spirits that first
entered Ohio and Kentucky, long before
the Government had an organized army
west the Allegheny mountains. Zap
plause


There wera two classes of pioneers, one
was those who went forward as men OF
enterprise, who loved the life and perils OF
the frontier settler; men who went without
intending to locate lands or make money
| men that belonged to the class of Boone
who went out there when they had not the
least idea of fmakinga permanent location
| for themselves, for that was absolutely
impossible, the Indians being so thick.
can not now go into detailed history
embracing all that class of first adventures
I will name one or two as connected more
| Immediately with the history Of this


vicinity and the vicinity of the Seiotc
| Valley.