The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . governor in sonorousperiods on the nations birthday, had called on thegently flowing Ohio to bear him, oh bear him safelyto this anxious spot, and on the beautiful, transparentMuskingum to swell at the moment of his approach andreflect no objects but of pleasure and delight! Amidstthe ruffle of drums and the booming of the li luteof fourteen guns, the commanding figure < inor Arthur St. Clair stepped from the barge ol i lose- lv followed by Judge Parsons and Secret: gent. Attended by the towns-people, they advanced to theCampus Martins, where the
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . governor in sonorousperiods on the nations birthday, had called on thegently flowing Ohio to bear him, oh bear him safelyto this anxious spot, and on the beautiful, transparentMuskingum to swell at the moment of his approach andreflect no objects but of pleasure and delight! Amidstthe ruffle of drums and the booming of the li luteof fourteen guns, the commanding figure < inor Arthur St. Clair stepped from the barge ol i lose- lv followed by Judge Parsons and Secret: gent. Attended by the towns-people, they advanced to theCampus Martins, where the secretary die ordi- nance and the commissions of the officer? gover- nor expatiated to his New -England the ad- vantages of good government! Gi\ bs often follow upon unheralded beginnings; b vas no lack of appreciation of this auspicious occ i Dur-ing the address of his Excellency, write: wit-ness, a profound veneration for the elevated udexalted benevolence of the speaker; the magi )the subject; the high importance of the occas ; t^ 886 1. GENERAL ARTHUR ST. < LAIK THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY immense consequences resulting ; the glory, the grandeurof the new world unfolding ; heaven and earth approv-ing, called forth all the manly emotions of the heart. Indeed, the good people of Marietta had reason tobe proud of their new officials, and particularly of theirgovernor. Born in Caithness, of an ancient Scotchfamily, the early death of his pleasure-loving father hadleft Arthur St. Clair to the care of a mother as intelli-gent as she was devoted ; and after a course of study atthe University of Edinburgh, and a short indenture as astudent of medicine, at the age of twenty-three he wascommissioned an ensign in the Royal Americans, theregiment of his friends Henry Bouquet and Amherst, in the siege of Louisburg, he had earneda lieutenancy even before he climbed the Plains ofAbraham, and, inspired by the undaunted courage ofWolfe, had caught up the colors from the hand
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