Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures . essions. A portion of the settlers had, by means of the op-pressive measures of Pennsylvania, become wholly dis-affected with her; and, led on by Colonel Franklin, amost active and able political agitator, they made astand against the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, and ac-tually commenced incipient measures for the organiza-tion of the disputed territory into a new state. Thesettlers were now themselves divided into two factions;one under the influence of Colonel Pickering, who act-ed under the authority of Pennsylvania, and th
Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures . essions. A portion of the settlers had, by means of the op-pressive measures of Pennsylvania, become wholly dis-affected with her; and, led on by Colonel Franklin, amost active and able political agitator, they made astand against the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, and ac-tually commenced incipient measures for the organiza-tion of the disputed territory into a new state. Thesettlers were now themselves divided into two factions;one under the influence of Colonel Pickering, who act-ed under the authority of Pennsylvania, and the otherled on by Colonel Franklin, who acted partly for him-self and partly for the dear people. The feud was,however, finally terminated by the apprehension andimprisonment of Franklin, who, after he had lain injail in Philadelphia for several months, so far lost hisardor as to ask pardon of the Legislature, and promiseallegiance to the state, which promise he for manyyears faithfully fulfilled. So terminated all the warsof the Yalley of Wyoming. ITS HISTORY. 67. COLONEL PICKEEING. After the termination of the wars, Wyoming becamea pleasant, flourishing rural district under the jurisdic-tion of Pennsylvania, and its inhabitants soon attainednot only competency, but many of them wealth andopulence. Look now abroad: another race has filled These populous borders; wide the wood recedes,And towns shoot up, and fertile realms are tilled; The land is full of harvests and green meads ;Streams numberless, that many a fountain feeds, Shine, disembowered, and give to sun and breezeTheir virgin matins ; the full region leads New colonies forth, that toward the western seasSpread like a rapid flame among the autumnal trees. Bryaxt. Their commercial operations were carried on by alaborious process, but they were remunerative. Colo-nel Holenback and others, who commenced life withlittle or nothing, amassed fortunes by trading with thesettlers and the Indians scattered through the wilder-nes
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