The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley I purpose to write, in outline, the Ancestry, Life, and Times of Henry Hasting Sibley, the historic starting point of whose pedigree is first descried in the gray foretime, near the Plantagenets, and not remote from Norman conquest, when Saxons fought against their proud invaders. Briefly, I desire to indicate historic names in the line descendiug thence, conspicuous through the scenes of English history, down to the times of the Pilgrim Fathers and days of Cromwell, the times of Carver, Standish, and of Endicott´s and Winthrop´s fleets, when, as part of a vast immigration, the Sibleys crossed the seas, while "Westward the course of empire took its way;" a line thence lengthening and widening through the mazes of American colonial and revolutionary strife; crossing the epoch of the Great Ordinance of 1787, continuing to the War of 1812, when the subject of this sketch was a babe a year old, and a prisoner of war in British hands; thence, hitherward, spreading through the settlement of the Northwest Territory, and particularly of Minnesota, before it had a state or territorial name, and advancing to the period of the present writing. It is a long and sometimes tortuous road to travel, and much of our march must imitate the steps of Homer´s gods in space. The task, not less pleasing than severe, recites the story of one whose fortunes were not only unsunderable from the birth and history of Minnesota! but are so interwoven with the fortunes of the whole Northwest, that the dimensions of a single volume are insufficient to compass the wealth of material by which the treatment of the theme is embarrassed. The fabled Atlas, with the globe on his shoulders, illustrates, in measure, the relation to the State of Minnesota of one who, with universal consent repeated public expression, and on anniversary occasions, has been by his contemporaries accorded the rank of "First Citizen of Minnesaia," and to whose health the magnates of the state, met in semi-centenary banquet, responded, rising to their feet in honor of their guest, and applauding the toast "Long Live the King!" This meed of meritorious praise - not a vain flattery - precludes the possibility of exaggeration on the part of a historian, and binds him to respect the public judgment. 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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