History of Franklin County: A Collection of Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of the County : with Biographical Sketches and a Complete History of the County to the Present Time |
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Page 325 - Equality of rights is Nature's plan, And following nature is the march of man ; Based on its rock of right your empire lies, On walls of wisdom let the fabric rise. Preserve your principles, their force unfold, Let nations prove them, and let kings behold. Equality your first firm grounded stand, Then free
Page 360 - time, until we find ourselves able to give you a compensation for the whole of your time, in like proportion, during the time of your being and continuing the regular pastor of this church. In testimony whereof, we have respectively subscribed our names, this
Page 95 - AH Lazell, John Burr, Alexander E. Glenn, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby incorporated by the name and style of the Columbus Horticultural Society, for the purpose of encouraging and improving the science and practice of horticulture, and the promoting
Page 111 - cannot hunt ; I thought you would be a support to my age ; I leaned on you as on a staff. Now it is broken — you are going to leave me, and I have no right to say a word — but I am ruined.
Page 111 - I remembered ; and this latter thought predominated, and I said : ' I will go with my kin.' The old man then said : ' I have raised you ; I have learned you to hunt ; you are a good hunter ; you have been better to me than my own sons ; I am now getting old and
Page 111 - color, I have no right to say a word ; but if you choose to stay with me, your people have no right to speak. Now, reflect on it, and take your choice ; and tell us as soon as you make up your mind.'
Page 2 - range, surveyed by John Matthews, thence west until it intersects the eastern boundary line of Greene County, thence north with said line until it intersects the State line, thence eastwardly with the said line to the north-west corner of Fairfield County, thence with the western boundary line of Fairfield to the point of beginning.
Page 29 - hours took place ; the accusing party spoke with warmth and bitterness of feeling. Leatherlips was calm and dispassionate in his replies. The sentence of death, which had been previously passed upon him, was reaffirmed. The prisoner then walked slowly to his camp, partook of a dinner of jerked venison, washed and arrayed himself in his best apparel,
Page 310 - law, to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio, and other banking companies, was passed. Books were immediately opened, and the requisite amount of stock soon subscribed for three new banks — the Exchange Branch and the Franklin Branch of the State Bank; and the City Bank,
Page 343 - That no person shall be appointed to any office within any county, who shall not have been a