Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals and Future Prospectsthe Author, 1841 - 288 pages |
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Page 286 - ... above facts and deductions, do our readers ask for examples? They are at hand. The first city of which we have any record is Nineveh, situated on the Tigris, not less than 700 miles from its mouth. Babylon, built not long after, was also situated far in the interior, on the river Euphrates. Most of the great cities of antiquity, some of which were of immense extent, were situated in the interior, and chiefly in the vallies of large rivers, meandering through rich alluvial territories.
Page 275 - Morris — with too much pride to study and too much wit to think, undervalue what they do not understand, and condemn what they do not comprehend,' I venture the prediction, that within one hundred years from this time, Cincinnati will be the greatest city in America ; and by the year of our Lord, 2000, the greatest city in the world.
Page 289 - ... into use; and he is a bold man who, casting his eye 100 years into the future, shall undertake to tell the present generation what will be their effect on our North American valley, when their energies shall be brought to bear over all its broad surface. "Let it not be forgotten that, while many other countries have territories bordering the ocean, greatly superior to our Atlantic slope, no one government has an interior at all worthy a comparison with ours. It will be observed that, in speaking...
Page 23 - Darke was accordingly ordered to make a charge with part of the second line, and to turn the left flank of the enemy. This was executed with great spirit. The Indians instantly gave way, and were driven back three or four hundred yards ; but for want of a sufficient number of riflemen to pursue this advantage, they soon returned, and the troops were obliged to give back in their turn.
Page 23 - The fire, however, of the front line checked them; but almost instantly a very heavy attack began upon that line ; and in a few minutes it was extended to the second likewise. The great weight of it was directed against the centre of each, where the artillery was placed, and from which the men were repeatedly driven with great slaughter.
Page 203 - I embarked with the bow of ray boat even with the high bank on which my house, at that place, is built. When we arrived at Columbia, I found the place deluged in water; but one house on a higher spot of ground escaped. The soldiers had been driven from the ground-floor of their block-house into the loft, and from the loft into a boat which they had wisely preserved from the destruction of the previous ice, and the then raging torrent of the Ohio ; we tarried but one night, and proceeded to Losantiville...
Page 26 - Canadian militia and volunteers were driven from all their coverts in so short a time, that although every possible exertion was used by the officers of the second line of the legion, and by Generals Scott, Todd, and Barbee, of the mounted volunteers, to gain their proper positions...
Page 26 - I soon discovered, from the weight of the fire and extent of their lines, that the enemy were in full force in front, in possession of their favorite ground, and endeavoring to turn our left flank.
Page 278 - Foreign trade is not the creator of any economic interest ; it is but the officiating minister of our enjoyments. Should we consent to forego those enjoyments, then, at the bidding of our will, the whole strength at present embarked in the service of procuring them would be transferred to other services — to the extension of home trade ; to the enlargement of our national establishments ; to the service of defense, or conquest, or scientific research, or Christian .philanthropy.
Page 26 - I ordered the front line to advance and charge with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet, and when up, to deliver a close and well directed fire on their backs, followed by a brisk charge, so as not to give them time to load again.