THE RESCUE O THE LAMB. The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one,— He lies where pearls lie deep; He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep. One sleeps where southern vines are dressed Above the noble slain; He wrapt his colors round his breast And one-o'er her the myrtle showers And parted thus, they rest who played They that with smiles lit up the hall, And naught beyond, O Earth! 253 MRS. HEMANS, CIV. THE RESCUE OF THE LAMB. Sud, n., aid in distress. TRY'UMPH (-umf), n., joy for success. GUARD'I-AN, n., a defender. CHANNEL, n., course for a stream. Walker and Worcester pronounce leaped lept, rhyming with kept. SEEK who will delight in fable, I shall tell you truth. A lamb Far and wide on hill and valley 254 EARLY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY. But, as chanced, a cottage maiden- Whirled adown the rocky channel, Peace and rest, as seems, before them O! it was a frightful current, Whose fierce wrath the girl had braved ;- Saved by courage that with danger And belike a guardian angel Came with succor from above. WM. WORDSWORTH. (1770- 1850.) CV. EARLY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY. POULTRY n., domestic fowls. LEISURE, n., vacant time. SKILLFUL OF SKIL'FUL, a., ex-pert'. STOCK-ADE', n., a line of stakes as a defense or barrier. KNIGHT-ER'RANT-RY, n., the feats, &c., of an errant or roving knight. IN'STI-GATE, v. t., to urge; to incite. BA-RO'NI-AL, a., relating to a baron. In dis-cover-y, cov'ered, mod'ern, &c., heed the sound of er. Do not say thust for thirst; keows for cows. The second a in ap-par'ent has the sound of a in care. 1. THE English have never displayed the same thirst of discovery as the Spaniards and French, either in North or South America. A love of adventure, an eager curiosity, a desire of change, or some like motive, had carried the French all over the continent, while the English colonists continued quietly v hin EARLY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY. 255 their own limits. The French missionaries coasted along the lakes, and descended the Mississippi, a whole century before the Virginians began to cross the Alleghany ridge, to get a glimpse of the noble inheritance, which had remained undisturbed for centuries, waiting their coming. 2. It was not till the year 1767,- only eight years before the breaking out of the revolutionary war,- that John Finley, of North Carolina, descended into Kentucky for the purpose of hunting and trading. The feelings of wonder and delight experienced by this early pioneer in passing through the rich lands, which were filled with deer, buffaloes, and every kind of game, and covered with the majestic growth of centu ries, soon communicated themselves to others. Like the spies, who returned from Palestine, they declared, "The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land." They compared it to parks and gardens, or a succession of farms stocked with cattle, and full of birds tame as barn-yard poultry. 3. Instigated by these descriptions, in 1769, Daniel Boone, a man much distinguished for bravery and skill, entered Kentucky. And now commenced a scene of enterprise, romantic adventure, chivalric daring, and patient endurance, not surpassed in the history of modern times. Nothing in those voluminous tales of knight-ĕrrantry, which occupied the leisure of pages and squires of old baronial days, or in the Waverley novels and their train of romances of the second class, which amuse modern gentlemen and ladies, nothing in these works of imagination can exceed the reälities of early Kentucky history. 4. From 1769 till Wayne's victory on the Maumee, in 1794, a period of twenty-five years, including the whole revolutionary war, the people of Kentucky were engaged in Indian warfare, for life and home. 256 EARLY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY. Surrounded by an enemy far outnumberin deadly in hatred, of ferocious cruelty, wi same rifle with themselves, and as skillful in the intrepid immigrants took possession of try, felled the forest, built towns, laid out changed the wilderness into a garden. 5. No man could open his cabin-door, in ing, without danger of receiving a rifle-bull lurking Indian; no woman could go out to cows, without risk of having a scalping-kni forehead before she returned. Many a man from hunting, only to find a smoking ruin had left a happy home with wife and child did this constant danger create a constant Did they live in terror? Fightings were were fears within? By no means. 6. If you talk with the survivors of those d will tell you: “We soon came to think our good men as the Indians. We believed we strong as they, as good marksmen, as quick and as likely to see them as they were to se there was no use in being afraid of them danger produced a constant watchfulness, a intelligence, a prompt decision; traits still apparent in the Kentucky character; traits wh done much for the prosperity of the people. 7. By the same causes, other, more amia social qualities, were developed. While eve was forced to depend on himself, and trust to courage, coolness and skill, every man felt depended on his neighbor for help in cases w own powers could no longer avail him. And could decline making an effort for another, w knew that he might need a like aid before the s down. Hence we have frequent examples of o risking his life to save that of another and ON INDIFFERENCE TO POPULAR ELECTIONS. 257 perate exertions made for the common safety of the dwellers in fort or stockade. 8. Can we, then, wonder at the strong family attach. ments still existing in Kentucky? The remembrance of hours of common danger, and mutual sacrifice, and generous disregard of self, must have sunk deep into the hearts of those earnest men, the early settlers. "He saved my life, at the risk of his own." "He helped me bring back my wife from the Indians." "He shot the man who was about to dash out my infant's brains." Here was a foundation for friendships, which nothing could root up. 9. "Whispering tongues can poison truth;" but no tongues could do away such evidences of true friendship as these. No subsequent coldness, no after injury, could efface their remembrance. They must have been treasured up, in the deepest cells of the heart, with a sacred gratitude, a religious care. And hence, while Indian warfare developed all the stronger and selfrelying faculties, it cultivated also all the sympathies, the confiding trust, the generous affections, which, to the present hour, are marked on the heart of that people's character. CVI. ON INDIFFERENCE TO POPULAR ELECTIONS. HAND'I-CRAFT, n., work of the hand. AP'A-THY, n., want of feeling. FACTION-IST, n., one who promotes faction and disagreement. LETH'AR-GY (-jy), n., a morbid (dis- SPECIAL (spĕsh'al), a., particular. cased) drowsiness. VES'TAL, a., pertaining to Vesta; pure; chaste. RE-LUME, v. t., to re-light. AS-CEND'EN-CY, n., influence; power. GAN'GRENE (gang'grene), n., mortifi PRO-ME THE-AN, a., having the life- In en'er-gy, in'ter-est, lib'er-ty, ex'er-cise, &c., do not slur the er. 1. WE have been frequently told that the farmer should attend to the plow, and the mechanic to his |