Excerpt from Facts and Conditions of Progress in the North-West: Being the Annual Discourse for 1850, Before the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio; Delivered April 8, the Sixty-Third Anniversary of the First Settlement of the State

By the constitution of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, it is made the duty of the President of this association, at the anniversary each year, to deliver a public discourse on some subject lying within the appropriate fields of its investigation. Occupying, at the present time, the position referred to, I appear before you, Gentlemen of the Society, for the purpose of discharging the duty thus imposed. And the theme to which I have thought proper to invite your attention, is - The Facts and Conditions of Progress In The Northwestern Section Of The United States.

That part of American Literature, which is made up of the different descriptions of the Public Discourse, delivered on occasions of anniversary and other periodical celebrations, though characterized by a brilliant diction and a philosophic spirit, and informed with the learning of by-gone ages, has been too often deficient in the great events bearing upon our own immediate times, and, consequently, lacking in that prophetic spirit, whose broad and intelligent survey extends at once over the past and the future, and founds upon the present an encouraging hope for man.

The great majority of these discourses, which do not perish in the day that gives them birth, are evidently the work of abilities far beyond my own, and filled with a wisdom to which I make no pretensions.

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