1825

Stow, Baron. Oration, delivered at the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, July 4, 1825. Washington City, 1825. 11. Stow, who would become a prominent Baptist minister in New England with a special interest in missions, exhorts his jubilee year audience at what is now George Washington University to engage "in a cause which aims at the civil and moral redemption of a world; and cease not, till the banner of enlightened freedom wave over the demolished battlements of despotism." In doing so, he enjoins this "new people" to shed a tear for the doomed Indians: "We tread, however, upon the ashes of aboriginies; -- and while the mounds that enclose their sacred relics may be distinguished from the everlasting hills, we shall cherish towards them the sentiments of solemn respect. All the heroes of Ossian can never to us possess that thrilling and mournful interest which we feel in the characters and deeds of a Logan, an Alknomok, a Pocahontas. Their fate, and the fate of the many tribes that fished in our rivers, and hunted in our forests, should excite the sympathy of every heart not dead to the feelings of humanity."
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