Ohio History Journal
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three hundred thousand soldiers in the great Civil War that was to cement and weld into one indissoluble federation the nation the forefathers made independent. With filial reverence we erect monuments of marble and tablets of brass upon the sites most memorable in the storm and stress of the early pioneer days. But greater than all the memorials of art to noble founders are the products of industry, progress, prosperity and humanity, which their sons have reared upon the firm foundation laid by their an- cestors. Beneath the floor in the crypt of St. Paul's. London, lie the remains of Sir Christopher Wren, the great genius who built that temple, a spacious altar scarcely second to any reared to a Christian faith. On the little bronze plate that so modestly marks the last resting place of the great architect, are these words; Si monumentum requiris, circumspice." (If you seek his monument, look about you.) And so we say to-day, if you seek for the monument of the patriotic pioneers, look about you and behold our grand and stately commonwealth, with its crowded cities, its teeming villages, its freight-laden thoroughfares, its marvelous, unrivalled and world-inspiring civilization.
ADDRESS OF GEN. R. BRINKERHOFF. As President of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Soci- |
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ety it is not incumibent upon me to make an extended address but simply to accept the obligation imposed upon us by the state to properly care for, in the future, the monument, which we are here to-day to dedicate. We are here also to remember and com- memorate the event which this monument perpetuates. We are here also to remember gratefully the many other sacrifices made by the early settlers of Ohio in building up the civiliza- |
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tion we now enjoy. At this place where we are now gathered, in the late autumn of the year 1790, one hundred and fifteen years ago, twelve set- tlers were slaughtered by the Indians. |