Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . cause of his native country,and in her hopeless struggle for liberty and justice had be-come renowned among men. After suffering capture andescaping the sentence of death, he had been exiled to theother side of the world. Escaping from captivity he hadbecome an American citizen and living in New York wasfamous and popular among all classes of citizens whom hedelighted with his magnetic eloquence, and the finished andbeautiful productions of his pen. ^ Then began the terrible war between the Government ofthe Union and the seceding states. Bel
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . cause of his native country,and in her hopeless struggle for liberty and justice had be-come renowned among men. After suffering capture andescaping the sentence of death, he had been exiled to theother side of the world. Escaping from captivity he hadbecome an American citizen and living in New York wasfamous and popular among all classes of citizens whom hedelighted with his magnetic eloquence, and the finished andbeautiful productions of his pen. ^ Then began the terrible war between the Government ofthe Union and the seceding states. Believing that the pres-ervation of the Union was the hope of mankind, he threwhimself into the conflict with all the brilliancy of his intei-lect and all the power of his manhood. The commands thathe organized and lead, fought with courage and despera-tion and won a never fading wreath of immortality. Itwas all over and he sought new scenes and new lands, whereenterpris«^ and courage would found new states, his own !z; C 0 »w !«? 0KWW 02 n s 2H. DEDICATION OF THE STATUE OF THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER. 103 veteran soldiers and scattered countrymen, new hopes andnew homes. Here his pen wonlcl find new scenes to depict,his words new multitudes to direct and he turned histhoughts and aspirations to the new glories of the West, Being too late in the year to connect with any of the ex-peditions across the plains, or any of the fleets of steam-boats ascending the Missouri, he crossed the isthmus andcoming up the coast, came by the way of the pack trails fromOregon and the Mullan road. He visited the old missions,and wrote most charming and graceful descriptions of theseand of the entire route for Harpers Magazine which thusbecame the first bearer of the character, scenery and re-sources of the new country to the reading people of theStates. In the beautiful days of a M outana September, he arrivedat Virginia City, then the capital of the Territory. Hefound the mines yielding prodigiously
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