Excerpt from Expedition Against Spain

The most charming of all the ten islands on the Ohio river frontage, within the area of Wood county, was one destined to be historic in American events. It rested, ere the dawn of the century, like a gem of beauty on the fair bosom of the current, while the parting waters, golden at evening and radiant at morn, welcomed the kissing sunlight as it fell alike over surrounding hill and vale.

In the bend of a magnificent river, with the vinewreathed and willow-fringed stately trees, looking in kingly air, down upon its pebble-decorated sands in front, it was like a poetic dream of Nature disclosing itself to the eye of the traveler as he, on his exploring way southward and westward, passed reluctantly on.

Perhaps had every daring beholder, whose vision greeted this delightful scene, gone on his way toward the dominions of Spain with unfaltering oar strokes, there would have been no record in this volume of a great mystery and conspiracy, and the tranquility of a happy home and patriotic people would have been undisturbed.

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