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" Blow, blow, ye boisterous winds, ye gentle zephyrs play, And let December frosts produce the flowers of May."
1808. July 4th, Sunday-Sermon by Rev. Joshua L. Wilson : "Salvation belongeth to the Lord." Orchard of Thomas M'Farland, Front Street. Orator, Ethan Allen Brown ; reader, Thomas Hender- son ; Marshal, Colonel John Riddle. Nine cheers and two guns by independent artillery. As Senator Smith had received a vote in the
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U. S. Senate for his connection with Burr, this toast was given as a harsh reminder: " His clerical highness, our ex-Senator ; nineteen to ten, and two walked away; 'weight, worth, and talents,' all on his side; may he speedily reach his destination and receive the embrace of his Mexican friends."
June 27th-Lieutenant James W. Bryson, Newport Barracks, married to Miss Ann, daughter of Major Thomas Martin, Military Store-keeper. This widow lady and her widowed daughter are present, and members of this association. This year, Thespian benefit for the fire company.
1809. Seventeen guns fired ; military salute in the morning ; Colonel Riddle, Marshal. At the Court-house-Declaration of Independence, by Ethan A. Brown; John O'Ferrell, President ; D. Symmes, Vice- President. They marched to the foot of Elm, and dined at Swing's. The Socratic Society marched to farm of Mennessier's, Deer-Creek Valley, and dined there ; address by young Francis J. Mennessier, who fancied he was a young Napoleon, and went South in the Miranda expedition. Vote in Cincinnati in 1808, 298; 1810, 388. Vote in Hamilton County in 1808, 1, 116 ; in 1810, 2,320.
ISIO. July 4th -- At Court-house to Beach Grove, near Mound- Declaration of Independence by James H. Looker; Seth M. Leaven- worth, orator.
18II. July 4th-At Court-house: Declaration, Elias Glover ; Judge Symmes, orator. He gave an account of early days' settlement. Colonel Riddle marshaled procession to new rope-walk of L'Homme- dieu. Dinner by Fowble. Judge C. W. Byrd, President ; Judge James Silvers, Vice-President. Republican Celebration : Parade of military and citizens from Columbia Street to First Presbyterian Church. Reader, Robert Wallace, Jr. ; orator, Colonel John Monroe. Dinner at Wheat Sheaf Hotel. At Columbian Inn : Dr. Allison, Gen- eral Gano. Artillery, cavalry, and infantry. Celebration in a bower at Ezekiel Hutchinson's Spring, present home of ex-President Jacob Hoffner, then sign Fox Chase.
1812. July 4th-There was a senior corps here (while the boys were at the war), Wm. Lytle in command. News just received of declaration of war. Lieutenant Hugh Moore had a recruiting station here. Met at Court-house. Salute from Jenkinson's Artillery. Mar- shal, Colonel Riddle. Declaration of Independence, and declaration of war and proclamation of the President read by David Wade. Ora- tion by William Hendricks, then teaching school at the Court-house.
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General Harrison, General Gano, Colonel Spencer, Othniel Looker, Dr. Allison, present at the orchard, on the south side of Columbia Street. Toasts-"The Northwestern Army; Our Brethren and Fel- low-citizens now on the Frontier-
"'Nor do they sigh ingloriously to return, But breathe revenge, and for the battle burn.'
May they have pleasant paths, and unclouded spirit.'" Little antici- pating the issue soon to follow, General Harrison gave this toast : "General Hull and his Army-They have passed that scene immor- talized by the victory of Wayne ; the spirit of that hero will animate them to deeds like his, and teach them the lesson of victory or death." General Harrison gave also this toast: "The American Backwoods- man-Clad in his hunting-shirt, the product of his domestic industry, fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of an European despot." The great massacre at Ft. Dearborn, site of Chicago, then a small stockade, Lieutenant Heald ; twenty-six out of fifty-four regulars killed, and all of twelve militia. Celebration at Newtown; Hatfield, Richardson, Rev. Tom Corbly; Colonel Clayton Webb, reader ; Wm. DeCourcy, of Clough Creek, orator.
1813. July 4th-First Presbyterian meeting-house: Marshal, Wm. Stanly ; reader, Josiah Meigs; orator, Hon. Stanley Griswold ; dinner in the Court-house yard, prepared by Andy Burt (father of our late member, A. G. Burt), who married daughter of General Gano.
In Clermont County, at the farm of S. Kyle, four hundred ladies and gents were present in the grove. John Pollock, President; James Broadwell, Vice-President; reader, Daniel F. Barnes; orator, Rev. Moses Frazee.
New museum of wax-works-Jerome & Clark-at Harlow's tavern ; transparencies of Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Manly.
In March, the Court-house, occupied by United States soldiers re- turned from the war, caught fire and burned down.
1814. July 4th-The Tammanies met at the circus inclosure, on the east side of Main, below Fourth. (This became the Thespian's "Shell-bark" Theater. Actors-Griffin Taylor, E. Webb, Calvin Fletcher, Joseph Thomas, Wm. Douglas, John F. Stall, Thomas Hen- derson, Nathaniel Sloo, Abijah Furguson, Hepburn, two Hurdus, Sam Findlay, Bensons, Junius and John H. James. Music -- Zummer, bassoon ; Cazelles, Doane ; violin, Sam Best; bass drum, Joe and Sam
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Harrison; clarionet, C. Thomas. Joseph Hurdus, scene-painter and low comedian. Ben Drake, President; P. S. Symmes, Secretary). Orator, Rev. Thomas Hersey, Chaplain United States Army; reader, Thomas Henderson. The Cap of Liberty was borne by two revenue officers. Dinner by Joel Williams, at Cummins' orchard.
Great victory at Chippewa. Fort Erie taken on July 3d.
1815. July 4th-Population of Cincinnati, 3,451.
Cincinnati Light Infantry met at the Cincinnati Hotel, and paraded to the Baptist church on Sixth Street. Rev. A. Denniston, assisted by Rev. Josh. L. Wilson ; oration, D. K. Este; reader, Samuel W. Davies. Dinner at Republican Springs, on the bank, near new reser- voir. Peyton S. Symmes, in memory of Captain John Fenno Mans- field, of the Cincinnati Infantry, who came back from the army to die from exposure :
"From kindred, friends, and country early torn, Leaving that country sad, those friends forlorn. Just on op'ning morn of manhood's pride, In honor's blooming path our Mansfield died. Had fate awarded but a Jater doom, And saved his dawning glories from the tomb, Science and taste united would have shed A living luster round his honored head.
The martial ardor glowing in his breast Erelong had brightly starred his radiant crest, And every wreath that can entwine the brow Of Genius, Truth, or Zeal-adorned him now. Let, then, the memory of departed worth, Long-lingering, sorrow o'er his sacred earth ; And pay the grateful homage of a sigh 'To his ethereal shade that hovers nigh !"
Also, dinner at Newtown.
The Tammanies met at the wigwam of Joel Williams, and paraded to Gaston's fire-works inclosure, at Fourth and Broadway. Long talk from Thomas Henderson. Dinner at Williams'. J. W. Gazlay, reader ; Rev. Ithiel Smead. ,
1816. July 4th-Dinner at Goodwin's, south-east corner Fifth and and Main streets-D. Wade, Dr. Drake, S. M'Farland, Daniel Gano. Cincinati Light Infantry-from Cincinnati Hotel to Sixth Street Bap- tist Church-Revs. A. Denniston, J. L. W. Reader, Mr. S. W. Davies ; orator, D. K. Este. Dinner at Republican Springs. The Tammanies had a long talk at their Wigwam, from J. W. Gazlay;
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Thomas Henderson, reader. Dinner at Joel Williams'. An explosion occurred at Newport in firing a salute ; gunner lost his arm.
1817. Not a railroad in the United States, and no canal west of the Alleghanies. The first Hebrew, Joseph Jonas, came to reside here. Wealth, worth, and wisdom distinguish them as a people now.
July 4th-At a celebration in Miamitown, the Declaration of Inde- pendence was read by General Harrison. At dinner, his volunteer toast: "May the fertile banks of the Miami River never be disgraced by the cultivation of a slave, or the revenue they afford go to enrich · the coffers of a despot."
1818. This year the first Roman Catholic Society was formed in Cincinnati. Freedom and fair play, America guarantees.
1819. July 4th, evening -- Mrs. Belinda Groshon's (an English ac- tress) wonderful display of genius and talent in " Isabella." The Critic says: "We have not seen it surpassed. In the higher walks of the drama she has no rival in America." She died a short time after. A monument in Spring Grove Cemetery further records her fame. On the same evening, the patriotic gazed on an illuminated painting of the then recent engagement (a sea piece) of the Java, an American, with a British ship of war. On the 4th, the first throw of water (from a tin pen-stock. conveyed from the small reservoir on the hill-side through log pipes) was made at the south-east corner of Sycamore and Fifth Streets.
July 5th-The Cincinnati Guards met at the Olympian inclosure, Sixth Street, and marched to the First Presbyterian Church, Dr. Wil- son's. Reader, Wm. Corry ;' orator, Bellamy Storer. Their dinner was partaken of at the City Hotel. Toasts. The Columbia Street Theater started. Phil Yost referred to the continued opposition of Rev. Joshua L. Wilson ; twelve articles opposed to theaters. "The Cincinnati Theater-may it not, like the walls of Jericho, fall at the ·sound of Joshua's horn." N. G. Pendleton's encouragement to a new branch of industry in the city-the Cincinnati Woolen Manufactory- by a toast: "Blanket coats for the dandies." Nathaniel Wright : "Lawyers have their demurrers, but the soldier has his declarations and executions. Honor to General Jackson, the hero who protected from capture and pillage New Orleans, the great reservoir of our trade." J. M. Salter: "Blast the windmills ; dam the canals ; and con- sumption to our manufacturers." The Light Infantry dined, with Mayor and Aldermen, at Christ Walker's, at four in the afternoon, Mayor Isaac G. Burnet presiding. Eight hundred mechanics met at Green-
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leaf's Hotel, Vauxhall Garden, and marched to the stone meeting- house, and were addressed by J. Barfoot Smith, father of H. R. Smith, one of our members now present with us.
At Lexington, Kentucky, President Madison was entertained. He had been expected to visit Chillicothe and Cincinnati, but did not.
1820. July 4th -- Trial of fire-engines. First Presbyterian Meet- ing-house : oration by William M. Worthington. Mechanical proces- sion ; were addressed by A. Jocelyn, in Olympian Circus inclosure of Dodson, corner of Walnut and Sixth Streets.
1821. July 4th-Thirty-one mechanical and the college societies were in procession ; exercises at the First Presbyterian meeting-house -Reader, J. B. Smith; orator, N. G. Pendleton. Engine-house of Independent moved to lot next Council-house, then on Fourth Street near corner of Walnut Street.
1822. July 4th -- First Presbyterian meeting-house : Prayer by. Rev. Mr. Eastman; reader, Benjamin M. Piatt; orator, William Greene, late Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island ; grand marshal, Francis Carr; assistant, Colonel Borden. Thirty-one mechanical societies, judges, college officers and teachers, Sabbath-schools. Mili- tary-Infantry, Captain M'Farland ; Cincinnati Guards, Captain James. Abelino Society : Captain, William Barr. At College Hall- Addresses : Erophebic Society, G. W. Burnet, Jacob Wykoff Piatt ; Philomath, C. S. Ramsay. There was to have been a great parade of school children to Cutter's Woods, but the weather prevented, and it was held in a church. Ode by Horace, in Cincinnati. Sermon at - night in Jerusalem Temple, by Daniel Parker, Restorationist. At Milford, in a wood of John Pollock-Declamation by William M'Chesney ; oration by E. Pearson ; dinner by Samuel Shaw.
"Freedom, the pearl of life-the poor man's store, But life is death if freedom is no more."
And. Jackson Allen at the Pavilion, aiding in sending up balloons.
1823. July 4th-At College Chapel : Literary Societies-Philo- mathic, Lewis R. Noble; Erophebic, Arthur St. Clair, Jr. First Presbyterian Meeting-house ; Declaration, by Rev. Philander Chase, then President of Cincinnati College ; afterward founder of Kenyon College ; orator, Daniel Vanmatre. At Harrison : Dr. Crookshank presided. Nine-story steam mill on bank of river, east of Broadway, burned. Vincent Dumilleiz and Charles (French) had Vauxhall Gar- den, the old orchard of General Gano, east side of Main Street, above
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Fifth; John Vanholt had fire-works. Evening, at Globe Theater : Everdale, leader of orchestra ; play, "Venice Preserved ;" Jaffier, Edwin Forrest, a youth of sixteen years. It was Cargill's benefit, assisted by Amelia Seymour, whom he had just married. The drop scene of the theater was Cincinnati as viewed from Newport, painted by Lucas. M'Grew, Luman Watson, and others, met at the Globe and recommended Captain John Cleves Symmes's theory.
1824. July 4th-The City Guards have a dinner at the Globe Inn, Captain Woodruff at Vauxhall Garden; the speaking in chapel of Cincinnati College, Dr. Slack, Chaplain ; General Harrison presided ; prayer by Dr. Martin Ruter ; Samuel Findlay, orator. Toast of John O. Clark : "The hero of Tippecanoe." Toast of J. W. Gazlay : "National industry the true source of wealth and happiness." Eleven hundred and four white and two hundred and eight black children of the Sabbath-schools in the afternoon march in procession. Bank of the United States leased to Lytle, property corner of Lawrence and Third ; agreed he should occupy office and house one year, and use wood on the ground, but not to cut any more trees down. Fourth Street, east of Lawrence, was not then open. Pepin & Barnes' Circus, grand pan-regal, musical instruments twenty-four feet long ; exhibited also thirteen figures, life-size, performing on trumpets. May 19th- Corner-stone of St. Xavier Church, on Sycamore Street, laid : Bishop Ed. Fenwick.
1825. July 4th-At College Chapel: the Erophebic Society ; declamation, by Benjamin Harrison. Philomath Society ; oration by - A. S. Reeder. Mechanical and military procession. At First Pres- byterian meeting-house : reader, Ethan Stone ; orator, John H. James ; ode sung by Samuel Lee; General Harrison asks its repetition. At Globe Inn : Captain Woodruff dined the Lafayette Grays; Captain Harrison presided ; Louis R. Noble, Lieutenant Burley, and Lieuten- ant Henry E. Spencer. S. S. Smith (presnt with us), on the reception of General Lafayette, sung, on the stage, verses in honor of the hero, to the tune of " The Star-spangled Banner." This year, on July Fourth, at Licking Summit, were ceremonies, where Governor DeWitt Clinton, of New York, attended, and the first spadeful of earth was dug of the projected Ohio Canal ; Thomas Ewing, orator.
1826. Fiftieth Anniversary. This was the day that bore witness to the mortality and immortality of ex-Presidents Adams and Jefferson. July 4th -- Military : Cincinnati Huzzars, Captain Morsell ; Washing- ton Artillery, Captain Brinkerhoff; Lafayette Grays, Captain Harri-
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son ; Cincinnati Guards, Captain Emerson. At First Presbyterian meeting-house: Prayer by Rev. Martin Ruter ; reader, Othniel Looker orator, William H. Harrison, Jr. Petticolas sending up balloons from Vauxhall. Place of resort, Appolonian Garden ; of "Longworth on Deercreek," by Martin Dollard. At Globe Inn: Watson, Octavia, in " Mountaineer." At Cleveland the opening of the canal from Akron was celebrated ; Governor Trimble was present ; toast : "Education, Internal Improvements, and Domestic Manufactures ;" oration by Reuben Wood.
1827. At First Presbyterian meeting-house : Reader, James Lyon ; orator, Robert T. Lytle. Major-General Brown, the hero of Bridgewater, was present, with several of the officers, and joined in the procession. July 4th -- Benefit of Alexander Drake; song: "Snarlers, or Dogs of all Descriptions."
1828. General Harrison Minister to South America.
1829. July 4th-Scholars of L. C. Levin's school, Sixth and Vine ; parade of the Fire Department ; balloons sent up by D. Banvard.
1830. Mechanical procession to Second Presbyterian Church : reader, David Churchill ; orator, John Scudder. July 5th-Franklin Typographical Society, at City Hall ; dinner by Scudder ; J. Milford President ; Sackett Reynolds, Lewis D. Campbell, Isaac Hefley, John Whetstone, W. P. Stratton, John B. Dillon, E. S. Thomas, Benjamin Drake; toast of Charles Hammond: "Our Country-composed of letters of every fount, may all letters be attached to each other." Arrival of show of Macomber & Co., Sixth and Walnut ; white bear leopard, and tiger. Evening-Herr Cline, at the theater, wheels a barrow from stage to gallery.
1832. J. H. Caldwell opened his theater on Third Street, near Broadway. Address by Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz ; $50 prize, read by Caldwell ; $100 prize, "Vindication of the Drama," by Isaac A. Jewett, Cincinnati.
1832. July 3d-Russell and Row: benefit of Edwin Forrest as Lear ; Cordelia, Mrs. Rowe. July 4th-Mrs. Knight, in " Perfection, and Invincible or the Little Corporal." Samuel Borden, Marshal ; Assistants, Colonel Samuel Scott, Major William Irwin, Colonel Devou, Colonel Perry. Cincinnati Light Dragoons, Light Infantry, to Second Presbyterian Church. Poem. William D. Gallagher, " Hal- lowed, All Hallowed Day."
"Save the great empire of the free,
Where man is such as man should be."
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At Cheviot --. A cavalcade escorted General Harrison, the orator- Fenton's Cheviot Infantry and Palmerton's Delhi Infantry-to Presby- terian Church. Revs. Williamson and Biddle ; reader Carson ; din- ner at Rush Hotel; Price and Carpenter, committee; song, "The Death of Warren."
1834. July 4th-Forty-five mechanical associations : Samuel Bor- den, marshal ; assistants, Major William Irwin, Major Samuel Findlay, Major John C. Avery, Robert Johnson, Samuel Fosdick, Captain Joe Pearce-to Second Presbyterian Church. Amusements : Letton's Museum, "M'Carty's Invention," a new principle ; saw-mill operated by two bears ; glass spinning. Balloon enterprise-Leger complains of failure from accident ; the man that threw the stone that did the mischief was publicly threatened if he did not come to Race, between Third and Columbia, he would be prosecuted. Mrs. A. Drake played Julia in the "Hunchback," with Pearson.
1835. July 4th-Franklin Typographical Society : William P. Stratton, President-our present Worthy Chaplain. Dinner at J. Hildreth's, corner Elm and Fifth. Thirteenth toast: "The Fair ;" tune, "Come, Haste to the Wedding."
1836. July 4th-10 A. M., at Jerusalem . Temple, Longworth Street, then called Center Street: Address by Alexander Kinmont ; William Doty, grand marshal ; procession from Cincinnati Exchange, on Front Street, east of Main ; Cincinnati Grays, Captain A. Bowman. Cincinnati Union (colored) Society, Henry Blue, grand marshal ; committee, E. Foote, R. Patrick, J. Reagon, J. P. Johnson, A. Taylor ; from Elm and Columbia by New Street to Deer-creek Church. Dinner at Forbes's, up Race. On Western Row, near corporation line, E. Conklin gave inducements, by offer of jewels, a cow and a calf, to marksmen, at his garden, to shoot at mark. Phillip Skinner gave a trip by canal to Locust Grove. Theater : "Bold Stroke for a Hus- band," "Don Cæsar ;" first appearance of Mr. Mason, Miss Russell, Miss Meadows.
1837. July 4th-Clayton, in his balloon, " The Star of the West," ascended from the inclosure on Seventh Street, between Walnut and Vine. Bates & Surtees having erected the National Theater, lease it to Scott & Thorne, who open it with Thorne in "Honeymoon " and " Raising the Wind." Miss Mason recited a prize address by F. W. Thomas. Fourth at Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant : Rev. Andrew Benton ; orator, Daniel Vanmatre. At Madison : John H. Gerard, President ; General John Snyder, Messenger ; Colonel George Samp-
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son, Rev. A. M. Lorain ; reader, William B. Tizzard ; orator, David T. Disney. Dinner at Major Oliver Jones's.
1838. July 4th-The Mill Creek Philomathic Society, J. C. Ludlow, at Ludlow's Station ; the Buckeye Band of Cincinnati, music. Mar- shal, Dr. Mount ; prayer, Rev. Walter Scott ; reader, Robert M'Ilvaine ; orator, J. C. Clopper ; poem, J. O. Wattles. Dinner on temperance plan : toasts in " Cold Water." High standard of toasts: " A Congress of Nations ;" " A Supreme Court of the World ;" "The Triumph of Intellect over Brute Force ;" "The Morning Star of Universal Peace."
1839. July 4th-At Madison : Captain Black's Artillery in grove of George Ward ; J. H. Gerard, President ; prayer, Rev. Ad. Miller ; address by Ed. C. Roll ; reader, George W. Holmes. A Revolution- ary soldier, Daniel Davis, aged ninety, was in attendance.
1840. July 4th-Franklin Literary Society, George Street : Ode, Mr. Enos ; address, A. J. Rikoff ; orator, G. L. L. Stuff. At Wesley Chapel : Sabbath-schools and temperance societies. Numerous ban- ners, painted by Baldwin and Lyon. Governor Poindexter, of Missis- sippi, Messrs. Governor Van Rensselaer, of New York, and General Chambers, of Kentucky, were in attendance. Military parade of com- panies from Louisville, Troy, and Piqua.
1841. July 4th-Sabbath-schools at Methodist Protestant Church were addressed by Rev. Samuel W. Lynd. Juvenile Temperance Society at Wesley Chapel : address, E. W. Sehon. At Cheviot : Judge Moore presided ; chaplain, Rev. George Catt ; reader, W. J. Carson ; orator, Dr. J. D. Talbott.
The subject will be resumed, perhaps, for the centennial period of the 4th of July, 1876, which glorious day will be duly observed by the Cincinnati Pioneers.
The Cincinnati Pioneer Association was organized in 1856, com- posed of natives or emigrants to Ohio previous to July 4, 1812. Two years ago the limit of July 4, 1815, was adopted.
By numerous excursions, by anniversary observations, the Associa- tion has sought to keep alive a devoted remembrance of the times and virtues of the Pioneer settlers.
They have observed the Fourth of July as a day of social reunion, and the occasions have been well improved. It has kept prominently in the foreground the 7th of April, in memorial of the first settlement of Ohio, April 7, 1788, at the mouth of the Muskingum River. The Governors of Ohio have taken part in our meetings and festivities,
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and a true Buckeye feeling of respect has been promoted as to the State of Ohio. We have the honor of the attendance and sympathy of Governor Allen. We trust and believe that our citizens will con- tinue their interest in a society that is so active and unselfish.
It was nearly half-past three when the close of the address was the signal for the introduction of the great and worthy orator of the day,
GOVERNOR WILLIAM ALLEN.
It was a sight to see the tall form of the venerable statesman gracing the stage with a dignity of person, and looking down calmly upon the audience with a dignity of manner, which seemed to indicate the massive strength of character, and the fearless self-control and unconquerable bravery peculiar to the Pioneer life, and the sign and condition of that hardier enterprise now almost obsolete. He stood a full minute surveying the old settlers of the city with his keen, un- dimmed eyes, letting the idea of his strong manhood grow upon the comprehension of the audience. The outlines of his face are said by those who know to be very much in appearance like those of General Harrison, while his clear, penetrating eyes, arching brows, and general bearing, make up more of a resemblance to Henry Clay. But he is not great by such accidental resemblance; it is impossible to come into his presence without feeling that he is great in himself; that his life, not only in public service, but in private virtue, has been a great example to his country, and the citizens who have already delighted to honor him by the highest position in the State would have felt, if they could have seen and heard him yesterday, like subscribing to the senti- ment expressed by some one in the audience when the speech was over : " Governor, we're not done with you yet !"
He began in a weak voice, the low tones of which were scarcely audible as far as the center of the house; but as he warmed to the work, and began to glow with pride and patriotism, as he spoke of old- time courage, noble ancestors, and distinguished deeds done in the Scioto Valley, the house was not large enough to contain his voice ; the clear, strong Saxon eloquence echoed along the corridors, and thrilled the careless eaves-droppers of the present generation with martial thoughts, and suggestions of what heroes they might have been if they had only been born in the log-cabin period, instead of in the times of brown-stone fronts.
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THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS, OLD AND YOUNG-You will not expect from me, on an occasion like this, a regular and systematic speech. If would be out of place-entirely out of harmony-with the purposes and wishes of this assembly.
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