From the backwoods. the worksofp. and the plow came the man who gave victory to our arms in the struggles of the Revolution. that upheld our staidard amid the canebrakes of Marioi and on tile bayou of New Orleans. and that have borne it in triumph over the battlefields of our fromtiers. The achieenments of our pioneer army. from the day they first drove back the Iidian tribes from the Atlantic seaboard to the present hour. have been the achievements of science and eivilizatim over the elements.he wiomn ai the R .savage. The settler in search of a new home. long since oecrleaped the Alleghenies. and. having crossed the great central valley of the Mississippi. is ov wending his way to the shores ot the Pacific. the forest stoops to allow the emigrant to pass. and the wilderness gives way to the tide of emigration. Only sixtythree years ago the first white settler of Ohio pitched his tent on the bank of the fuskingum. But little mere than half a century has passed away since this great State. with all its settlements and improvemeats. its mighty canals and growing population. was covered up uder the canvas of a single wagon.".
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