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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
Fear God and work hard.
I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
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