History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, Volume 1Lewis Pub., 1914 - Miami County (Ind.) |
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Page 73 - I take this method of requesting such of you as are true citizens, and willing to enjoy the liberty I bring you, to remain still in your houses. And those, if any there...
Page 23 - It is well known by all my brothers present, that my forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit ; from thence he extended his lines to the head waters of Scioto ; from thence to its mouth; from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash ; and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
Page 27 - That no purchase or grant of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indians, or nation or tribe of Indians, within the bounds of the United States, shall be of any validity, in law or equity, unless the same be made by a treaty or convention entered into pursuant to the constitution.
Page 74 - For if I am obliged to storm, you may depend on such treatment as- is justly due to a murderer. Beware of destroying stores of any kind, or any papers or letters that are in your possession, or hurting one house in town — for, by Heavens! if you do, there shall be no mercy shown you. [Signed,] "GR CLARK.
Page 310 - A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Page 38 - Witnesses should always write their respective places of residence after their names, their signatures being written in the presence of each other and in the presence of the testator.
Page 291 - After noon the catechising is held, at which all are present, Christians and catechumens, men and children, young and old, and where each, without distinction of rank or age, answers the questions put by the missionary. As these people have no books, and are naturally indolent, they would shortly forget the principles of religion if the remembrance of them was not recalled by these almost continual instructions. Our visits to their wigwams occupy the rest of the day.
Page 254 - You are welcome to the use of the school house to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the Word of God about them. If God had designed that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour by steam, He would clearly have foretold it through His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell.
Page 73 - And if any such as do not go to the fort shall be discovered afterward, they may depend on severe punishment. On the contrary, those who are true friends to liberty may depend on being well treated ; and I once more request them to keep out of the streets. For every one I find in arms on my arrival, I shall treat as an enemy. '" (Signed,) GR CLARK/ " A little before sunset we moved and displayed ourselves in full view of the town — crowds gazing at us.
Page 57 - DEAR SIR, — In the hope that some good may result from it, I have taken this means of giving to your fellow-citizens — say the descendants of the early settlers of the Susquehanna — the following information ; and if there be any now living whose name is Slocum, to them, I hope, the following may be communicated through the public prints of your place. " There is now living near this place, among the Miami tribe of Indians, an aged white woman, who a few days...