The Life and Diary of John Floyd: Governor of Virginia, Volume 5, Issues 1-2 |
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Page 53 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 53 - Floyd's interests in the Columbia River country are not difficult to determine. George Rogers Clark was the boyhood idol for whom he had later named a son ; his first cousin, Charles Floyd, was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, holding the rank of sergeant and losing his life in the early months of its history ; and the friendship of William Clark, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was an "honor" which Floyd had enjoyed "from his earliest youth.
Page 41 - Czar a formidable factor in South American affairs. No doubt the prominence of the Czar had been enhanced somewhat by the part which he had taken in the formation and maintenance of the Holy Alliance, but Floyd now saw in his designs only a barrier to our ambitions for some day reaching the Pacific coast. But Russian territorial ambitions in America were not sufficient cause of war. Before them came always her designs upon Constantinople in an effort to reach an ice free harbor on the Mediterranean....
Page 53 - Indeed there was little available information about it. Some had read the interesting Diary of Patrick Gass, and, in 1811, Nicholas Biddle had published the Journals of Lewis and Clark. But, as late as 1817, the Columbia Valley was known to William Cullen Bryant only as The continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings. It was left to John Floyd, a young Virginian, himself a child of the frontier, to bring our claims to the Columbia Valley prominently before the...
Page 22 - I shot one through the body. The one he shot dropped his gun; mine had none. The place was covered with thick cane, and being so much elated on recovering the three poor little heartbroken girls, we were prevented from making any further search. We sent the Indians off almost naked, some without their moccasins, and none of them without so much as a knife or tomahawk.
Page 23 - ... measure relieved, by drawing them off to defend their towns. If any thing under Heaven can be done for us, I know of no person who would more willingly engage in forwarding us assistance than yourself. I do, at the request and in behalf of all the distressed women and children and...
Page 22 - Wataga and thereabout, and that fourteen Cherokees were then on the Kentucky waiting to do mischief. If the war becomes general, of which there is the greatest appearance, our situation is truly alarming. We are about finishing a large fort, and intend to keep possession of this place as long as possible.
Page 22 - ... without ammunition. Mr. Boone and myself had each a pretty fair shot, as they began to move off. I am well convinced I shot one through the body. The one he shot dropped his gun — mine had none. The place was covered with thick cane, and being so much elated on recovering the three poor little heartbroken girls, we were prevented from making any further search. We sent the Indians off almost naked — some without their moccasins, and...
Page 68 - As we reach the Rocky Mountains we should be unwise did we not pass that narrow space which separates the mountains from the ocean, to secure advantages far greater than the existing advantages of all the country between the Mississippi and the mountains. Gentlemen are talking of natural boundaries.
Page 56 - there is no longer territory to be obtained by settlement and discovery ' ' in the New World. Spain had not yet relinquished her claims to the territory north of the forty-second degree of north latitude, The Treaty of 1819 for the purchase of Florida remained unratified, but Floyd did not hesitate to restrict Spanish possessions to the northern boundary of Mexico. Thus by a strange elasticity the Louisiana Territory was made to embrace another empire. If, however, doubt...