To a Historian

TO A HISTORIAN.

YOU who celebrate bygones! Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the
races—the life that has exhibited itself; Who have treated of man as the creature of politics,
aggregates, rulers and priests; I, habitué of the Alleghanies, treating man as he is in
himself, in his own rights, Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom ex-
hibited itself, (the great pride of man in him-
self;) Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.