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Excerpt from The Torch, a Pageant of Light: From the Early History of Urbana, Ohio This Pageant is written as an act of veneration to the signal and unique moment in man's political history winch it sets forth. There was the temptation, dear to a writer, to put it into such literary form as to endure, as books endure; but this was put aside for the better purpose of placing it in the bands of its natural children as a symbolic feast, game or rite. In such a form they will be in the position to speak aloud and to act forth at whatever time they are so minded, upon the very sod where stood the brave and forlorn originals, their words and deeds to justify them. Their very moving in the sunshine of gala days through these scenes of dogged lonely faith will be thus in itself a deed of gratitude. The moment was signal and unique because it might so easily have been less. A few men, powerful in themselves, conquerors of every known obstacle to mankind, seeking, above all things, liberty and self-government, chose to abide by a distant ideal which bound them to others. And this choice was not by debate, consultation and decision: it was by instinct. May it not justly seem that a torch went before them? Remembering those things during the play of the Episode The Wilderness and the Revolution, that speech by the unnamed officer at Fort Gower see Randall and Ryan's History of Ohio, Vol. II, Rise and Progress of an American State, p. 129, (reproduced in the Pageant nearly word for word), which was delivered to the amazed and gory soldiers on the very day after the terrible Indian battle of Point Pleasant, should have a peculiar thrill in the speaking of it. Their enemies had been not only those which a wilderness provides, but were also the protected wards of their own king, and the assassins he had hired against them. The occasion of the speech and the dramatic resolutions that followed upon it was the scanty backwoods gossip, that morning arrived, concerning the action of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia on Sept. 5 1774, two months before, in which it declared its first rights and its intention of standing by them. The moment is therefore full six months before the first shot of Lexington and Concord, and this signing by them of a groping Declaration of Independence, affixing themselves to a vision veiled by the very oak-branches that shade their children's Pageant, should move the core of any Ohioan's heart. (Fort Gower is no more: it was a stockade at the juncture of the Hocking River and the Ohio. It will be plain therefore, why I have omitted the great Revolutionary figures of Washington, Lafayette and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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