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, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself
 in his own rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself,
These are the coordinates of the historical analysis. Historical figures like kings and queens’s and historical events like successions or war, calamities, and politics. 
 While the previous stanza seems to cast historians in a more positive light, in these lines, he conveys a bit of animosity towards these scholars of the past. He claims that historians treat man as a “creature,” a sub-human being and a mere object of study.
To a Historian