Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . ans hoped in due time to be translated. Still many years passed by, and although the old rumors ofthe coming of the white man with his smoking, thundering, deadlygun, and blade of flashing steel, crystallized at last into absolutecertainty, it was yet a far cry, and the savage ear in this remotesection grew accustomed to it, and ceased to give it marked atten-tion. At last, however, the day arrived when the skirmish lineof advancing civilization, crossing the Alleghanies, entered thevalleys of the Ohio and its tributaries and setting up its standar
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . ans hoped in due time to be translated. Still many years passed by, and although the old rumors ofthe coming of the white man with his smoking, thundering, deadlygun, and blade of flashing steel, crystallized at last into absolutecertainty, it was yet a far cry, and the savage ear in this remotesection grew accustomed to it, and ceased to give it marked atten-tion. At last, however, the day arrived when the skirmish lineof advancing civilization, crossing the Alleghanies, entered thevalleys of the Ohio and its tributaries and setting up its standards,built stockades and domiciles, and made known its purpose tooccupy the land. Then there followed years of desultory warfarein which wives and children were not spared; and this conditionof unrest and blood and midnight burnings continued until finallythe more intelligent of the native race were made to comprehendthat it was a heedless and cruel waste of life to prolong the con-test against constantly increasing numbers and so, in LUCAS SUIvIvIVANT. Franklinton — Aii Historical Address. 61 rather than in whole, friendly relations were established betweenthe new comers and the old inhabitants. It was then — just one hundred years ago — that Lucas Sulli-vant — an Irishman in name and paternal ancestry, a Virginian bybirth, a Kentuckian by residence, a civil engineer by professionand a gentleman by instinct and education, founded the town thecentennial anniversary of whose birthyear we have gathered herethis day to celebrate. The founding of a town may be an event creditable to thefounder and it may not. Paper towns, and towns which perishedin infancy, or struggled on to a dilapidated old age, may be heardof or seen in almost every section of our country. It is theprophetic discrimination of the founder which alone renders theact of founding a matter worthy of consideration. In otherwords, the wisdom of the man as demonstrated by the merit andsuccess of the en
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