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My new horse was terribly frightened and trembled like an aspen; but he was not half so badly frightened as my companion, Mr. Payne, who deserted me after this last experience, and took passage on a freight wagon for Maysville. Every time I attempted to start, my new horse would commence to kick. I was in quite a dilemma for a time.
Four companies broke camp and crossed the river at Maysville, Ky., on the 21st of December, and took up their march for Danville, Ky., reaching there on the 24th, Lt. Colonel commanding. In obedience to orders of Gen. Baird, commanding at Danville, Company E, Capt.
Kentucky has been one of the United States since 1792. Its present white population is about six hundred thousand. The details which follow show still further that those who unite to plunder of their rights one class of human beings, regard as sacred the rights of no class. The following affair at Maysville, Kentucky, is extracted from the Maryland Republican, January 30, 1838.
While still quite young I had visited Cincinnati, forty-five miles away, several times, alone; also Maysville, Kentucky, often, and once Louisville. The journey to Louisville was a big one for a boy of that day.
Abram has a wife at Colonel Stewart's, in Liberty County, and a mother at Thunderbolt, and a sister in Savannah. "Fifty dollars reward Ran away from the subscriber a Negro girl named Maria. She is of a copper color, between thirteen and fourteen years of age bareheaded and barefooted. She is small for her age very sprightly and very likely. She stated she was going to see her mother at Maysville.
My views in regard to the expediency of making appropriations for works which are claimed to be of a national character and prosecuted under State authority assuming that Congress have the right to do so were stated in my annual message to Congress in 1830, and also in that containing my objections to the Maysville road bill.
Ebenezer Zane, the founder of Wheeling, had just opened across Ohio the famous landward route from the Monongahela country to Kentucky, which it entered at Limestone, the present Maysville. This famous road, passing through Zanesville, Lancaster, and Chillicothe, though at that time safe only for men in parties, was a common route to and from Kentucky.
Having spent some time at the Lower Blue Lick Springs, the proposed site where this summer are over five hundred guests of our finest Southern society they afterwards were drawn around with immense solidity towards Louisville, Frankfort, Maysville, Paris, and Lexington, being everywhere received with such honors and provisions that these great guns were in danger of becoming spiked forever in both barrel and tube.
I am unable to approve this bill, and would respectfully refer the Senate to my message to the House of Representatives on returning to that House the bill "to authorize a subscription of stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris and Lexington Turnpike Road Company" for a statement of my objections to the bill herewith returned.
Once in Maysville I could borrow a horse from an uncle who lived there; but I was more than a day's travel from that point. Finally I took out my bandanna the style of handkerchief in universal use then and with this blindfolded my horse. In this way I reached Maysville safely the next day, no doubt much to the surprise of my friend.
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