Ohio History Journal

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A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS

A FAMILIAR TALK ABOUT MONARCHISTS

AND JACOBINS.

 

AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM HENRY SMITH.

 

WHEN I received an invitation to address the Historical

Society here to-night, the suggestion was made by a mem-

ber of your committee that I take the life and public

services of John Brough for my theme. Born within the

limits of your city, the son of one of the pioneer fathers,

it were fitting that he should be remembered on an occa-

sion of such historical interest. It was gratifying to be

remembered in connection with one whom I knew and

loved so well. But the greatness of his abilities, the

eminent services he rendered the State in early manhood,

and the self-sacrificing and patriotic devotion to the

National cause during the final struggle which resulted in

the restoration of the Union, required more careful atten-

tion than a very busy man could devote to the subject on

such brief notice. Furthermore, my library, papers, and

private memoranda of conversations during those eventful

years were a thousand miles away, and inaccessible.

Instead of addressing you on that larger and, to me

personally, more interesting subject, I am to talk to you

in a desultory way of the men and parties that controlled

Ohio as a territory and for some years as a State, with

special reference to the life and public career of Jeremiah

Morrow.

The members of the little colony planted here one hun-

dred years ago were ardent Federalists. Their strong per-

sonality was impressed upon every measure establishing

social order, and the settlements made by the Ohio Com-

pany, as well as those on the Scioto and Miami rivers,

and the Lake, grew up and flourished under this influence,

The French on the Wabash, the Illinois and Mississippi,

when they received the Ordinance of 1787 from Governor

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