BlockFairfield County, Ohio - Chapter 3: Indian Occupation, 1912 (part 2 of 2)
From History of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1912. 365 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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365 wordsMachine-read from scans of History of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1912. Nothing has been corrected: fixing what looks like a misspelled name is how an invented one gets published. Source changes are marked where they occur.
"The poor child of Nature knew not the God of Revelation, but the God of the universe he acknowledged in everything around. He beheld him in the star that sank in beauty behind his lonely dwelling: in the sacred orb that flamed on him from his mid-day throne: in the flower that snapped in the morning breeze ; in the lofty pine that had defied a thousand whirlwinds: in the timid warbler that never left his native grove; in the fearless eagle whose untired pinion was wet in clouds : in the worm that crawled at his feet; and in tion have been too powerful for the tribes of the ignorant. Here and there a stricken few remain ; but how unlike their bold, untamed, untamable progenitors ! The Indian of falcon glance, and lion bearing, the theme of the touching ballad, the hero of the pathetic tale.
you; the latter sprang up in the path of the simple native. Two hundred years have changed the character of a great continent, and blotted forever from its face a whole peculiar people. Art has unsurped the bowers of Nature, and the annointed children of educais gone ! and his degraded offspring crawl upon the soil where he walked in majesty, to remind us how miserable is man when the foot of the conquerer is on his neck.
spring are dried up, their cabins are in the dust. Their council-fire has long since gone out on the shore, and their war cry is fast dying away to the untrodden West. Slowly and sadly they climb the distant mountains and read their doom in the setting sun. They are shrinking before the mighty tide that is pressing them away; they must soon hear the roar of the last wave which will settle over them forever. Ages hence, the inquisitive white man, as he stands by some growing city, will ponder on the structure of their disturbed remains, and wonder to what manner or persons they belonged. They will live only in songs and chronicles of their exterminators. Let these be faithful to their rude virtues as men, and pay due tribute to their unhappy fate as a people.
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Text from History of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1912, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive.