The convention for drafting the constitution of Missouri, in
session at St. Louis, adjourned for the day, and for twenty days
thereafter the members wore crape on their arms as a further mark
of respect for the great pioneer. Daniel was laid by Rebecca's
side, on the bank of Teugue Creek, about a mile from the Missouri
River. In 1845, the Missouri legislators hearkened to
oft-repeated pleas from Kentucky and surrendered the remains of
the pioneer couple. Their bones lie now in Frankfort, the capital
of the once Dark and Bloody Ground, and in 1880 a monument was
raised over them.
To us it seems rather that Kentucky itself is Boone's monument;
even as those other great corn States, Illinois and Indiana, are
Clark's. There, these two servants unafraid, who sacrificed
without measure in the wintry winds of man's ingratitude, are
each year memorialized anew; when the earth in summer--the season
when the red man slaughtered--lifts up the full grain in the ear,
the life giving corn; and when autumn smiles in golden peace over
the stubble fields, where the reaping and binding machines have
hummed a nation's harvest song.
Bibliographical Note
The Races And Their Migration
C. A. Hanna, "The Scotch-Irish," 2 vols. New York, 1902. A very
full if somewhat over-enthusiastic study.
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