The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . that day. They had defied the power of Great Britain, and conquered theirliberties. When they came to Ohio they laid the foundation in morality,integrity, intelligence and honor of that great commonwealth whose glorieswe are celebrating this day. They followed out their careers here ; theyfought the Indians, breasted the storms and privations of the wilderness;sometimes they were lead by Mad Anthony Wayne ; sometimes by ArthurSt. Clair, the first governor of the territory. They reared such pioneers asSimon Kenton, and others whose name
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . that day. They had defied the power of Great Britain, and conquered theirliberties. When they came to Ohio they laid the foundation in morality,integrity, intelligence and honor of that great commonwealth whose glorieswe are celebrating this day. They followed out their careers here ; theyfought the Indians, breasted the storms and privations of the wilderness;sometimes they were lead by Mad Anthony Wayne ; sometimes by ArthurSt. Clair, the first governor of the territory. They reared such pioneers asSimon Kenton, and others whose names we cannot pause to recall, but allof whom will enter into the history of the state forever. Then came the second generation, and with them the war of is scarcely one of you now^ in middle life but, in his own household,has heard the old people tell the story of that struggle with the treacherousIndian, supported by the power of Great Britain. I have recollections goingback to the stories of my grandmother, who, upon a certain Sunday, riding. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. lOI along to visit her father, sat behind my grandfather on a pilHon, with a babyin her arms, and there came a courier, his horse covered with foam, gallopingdown the muddy roads crying out to the houses on the right and the left,and to those whom he met, the terrible tidings of Hulls surrender. Themen went at once to the conflict, and the women remained at home in dread. After this war the people turned their attentii>n to the arts of peace, andwere soon running steamboats down the Ohio river, to the intense surprise,and in some cases alarm of the untutored people of the country. The wil-derness was opened, roads and canals were built, and, with the exception ofthe Mexican war, which gave to Ohio Hatner and Morgan, and a few otherheroes, there was scarcely a break in the peaceful growth and improvementof the country until railroads and telegraphs seemed to crown the summit ofhuman
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