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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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zens, American liberty has cost something. It is asingular fact that those great blessings to the human race which itmost longs for, which it most prays for, always come at the greatest The Croghan Celebration. 29 cost. Humanity, in all her march, back from the early mist of history,down to this present hour, has won her victories for liberty mainlyupon the battle field. We who are here to-day are in the enjoymentof liberty which was won upon the field of battle. We are a great,happy, contented nation of eighty millions. We look out across the seato the Empire of Russia, with her one hundred and forty millionsstruggling with the great problems of human liberty. We see their wars,we see their massacres, we see their bloodshed unspeakable. We eachartd every one wish that those people could come out of the bondageof iron rule into the glad sunshine of liberty. America has had five wars: the War of the American Revolution;the War of 1812 which made us forever secure against the efforts of
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VICE PRES. FAIRBANKS IN PARADE. Great Britain to wrest liberty from us — the liberty fought for by ourcontinental fathers; the war with Mexico was the third, and I am gladto see here to-day and take by the hand several of the survivors of thewar with Mexico. Their presence is an inspiration. It is a curiouscoincidence that there is now present a man who knew Croghan in theMexican War. It seems to carry us back from the present to the verypresence of the hero of Fort Stephenson. Then the war of the greatRebellion — the mightiest war in the history of man. There are hereto-day scores of men bearing upon their breasts the evidence of theirloyalty to the Union in the hour of its supremest exigency. And latercame the war with Spain. These five wars were fought by the people of the United States, 30 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. not to enslave men but to make men free, to enlarge in a vast degreethe zone of Republican government. All honor to George Croghan and his heroic b

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