Part 14 (1/2)
”If you are woes of the court I will do mine If you leave this matter entirely with me, I will be responsible for your safety and insure the accoive you no assurance!”
In the light of present knowledge, the reader of these words, while he respects and admires the spirit in which they were uttered, and the man who spoke them, cannot avoid a mild sense of amusement But this is not to the point Matters proceeded seriously on that sixth of September, 1835 Vanfleet called for twenty volunteers, and these having quickly responded to the call, the Colonel then infores, probably not to their surprise, that the seventh of Septeht; that the law did not specify any ti of court, and that if they would rely upon his protection, they could accomplish their purpose in the face of the foe
”Governor Lucas wants the court held,” he added, ”so that by its record he may show to the world that he has executed the laws of Ohio over the disputed territory in spite of the vaporing threats of Governor Mason
Be prepared to mount your horses to start for Toledo at precisely one o'clock in theI will be ready with my escort”
The appointment was met, and Toledo was reached at three o'clock The party proceeded directly to a school-house, and there court was held in due for deposited in the tall crown of the clerk's hat When business was over, the entire party went to a tavern near by for refreshe in a second cup of cheer, so force, was on his way to arrest them
Glasses were dropped, the little matter of indebtedness to the saloon-keeper aived without cerenitaries remained
When they had placed a sufficient amount of the contested soil between themselves and General Brown, they halted upon a hill to fire a salute, but at that ti the all-important papers, had been knocked off his head by the liht mean capture and the failure of their plan To abandon the recovery of the ly sent back a small detachment to search the road; ”the lost was found,” and, at last triumphant, a loud salute was fired To say that the row under their feet is but a ood authorities, that if the retreating party had charged General Brown's regi away, they could have routed a force twice its size When Congress convened, however, they had the satisfaction of having a favorable verdict pronounced upon their ”unlawful act, lawfully coh Jackson had previously expressed hian The defeated party, to even up iven the northern peninsula between Superior and Huron, now her richest section
During the course of the ”war” Toledo was full of Michigan troops, who left enerally har the townspeople As one of these stories goes, Major Stickney, walking out into his garden one ure in his potato vines He called out to theon there? The call brought to his full length a soldier in unifor potato-tops to make the bottoms volunteer, sir!”
And so, half in jest, and half in earnest, the affair continued and ended
[Illustration: AN OHIO FARM]
When the forests were cleared away and the swamps drained, the dread ood cheer, and prosperity followed Very soon after the trouble with Michigan, the Miami and Erie Canal was built, which has been one of the i coht railways bring into her marts the products of the rich faran and Ohio
Frorain are yearly shi+pped to England either direct, or _via_ Montreal, and her people say, without expecting to be contradicted, that no city in the United States can point to such a wonderful developests the time when Toledo was little more than the dead carcass of speculation, the prey of the tax-gatherer, waiting the resurrection that followed the War of the Rebellion, when men remained her citizens siet away
Commerce takes the lead here, but there is one enterprise of which Toledoans seem to be even prouder, and to see which they take the visitor ”whoreatness” This is the thriving and truly ion Works, put into operation in 1875 and already becos are unusually fine and, architecturally, would leave the uninfor to so
I was enabled to seeto an unforeseen circumstance A little friend who lived in Detroit, and as dying with consumption, had expressed a wish to come to Toledo to see me and er than I intended, that her friends h they hardly hoped that she would survive the journey She was given the pleasure of a quiet trip to Put-in-Bay, the well-known resort, and with this and the gratification of seeing _Paul_, in whom she was deeply interested, her visit ended
Of all the strangers who coiven it by fifty thousand souls, I doubt if any takeupon its business enterprises and individuality than did this bright-irl, just about to relinquish her hold upon earth She knew nothing of the dark pages in its history, and only guessed at the wealth and strength back of the thronged harbor To her it was a happy place--the temporary home of friends
CHAPTER XVI
TOLEDO TO DETROIT
Seventy-second Day
_Erie Hotel_, ERIE, MICHIGAN, _July 22, 1876_
My Toledo friends were ready at the Boody House to give ood-bye when I ht hearty send-off Upon leaving the city, instead of continuing ard as usual toward the ”Golden Gate,” I had deter off fro thence to Chicago This new route would take h Monroe, a tohich the life of General Custer wasthat I would find e of the er anticipation
The ride to Erie being at soion, was rather monotonous Erie itself is a small unimportant hamlet at the western end of the lake, and a modest landmark in my journey from Toledo to Detroit _Paul_, probably impressed with the air of peace that enveloped the place, ood people a display of his e streets in the wildest fashi+on Having thus introduced himself, he pranced after I had dis to his h he would have said, had he been given the power of speech: ”I have been having a fine time, haven't I? and would you like to mount me and enjoy the fun too? but I dare you!”