But however prominent or conspicuous the military ele ment may appear in the inception, it must not be inferred or understood that the moral or intellectual welfare of the people was overlooked or even subordinated, for we find that in the sub-division of this grant, one lot was assigned to the first settled minister, one lot to the ministry, and one to that great American institution, the common school.

So far, then, as the art of war entered into the habits of the pioneer settlers, it was an art cultivated and practiced for defencive purposes only, to give protection in the field and security at the fireside against assaults that were never tempered with mercy nor conducted by the rules of civil ized warfare, against a foe who recognized no non-combat ants, who respected not defenceless womanhood, the inno cence of childhood, or the helplessness of the couch of sickness and pain, a foe who came not with drum beat and banners waving, but skulking in ambush, or like a thief at night, under cover of its darkness.

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