The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-05-29


Fort Washington He arrived al bis post
few days after the unfortunate defeat q
General ST Clair, near The Mama villages,
~ the onfederated Indians under The COM
i mand Of The celebrated Chief, Little Turtle,
and Joseph Branf. This disastrous defeat,
lin which ST. Glars army was destroyed,
with the loss Of nearly thousand men, kill
ed or taken prisoners, left the whole Of our
Northwestern frontier exposed to the raw
ages Of a meTciless enemy, and added great
| Ii to the general Consideration before exist
ING,
III this state Of things, our government
saw the necessity Of adopting immediate
and efficient means 10 put an end to this
savage conflict Anotherarmy was prompt-
Nv raised. and abe command given - fiens
Anthony Wayne gallant and sAiifal offiS
Ger, who had earned brilliant reputationrin
the Revolutionary War. Wayne's Legion,
as his army was called in the new organiza-
ton, assembled at PittsbuFg, in the summer
| Of 1882 and in the ensuing month Of NoVem=
her, they left that place, and went into whit
er quarters, at Legi6nville, on the Ohio, %
miles below Pittsb1rg.
About this time Harrison was promoted
to lieIenancy; and shortly after, he joined
Wayne's Legion. His fearlessness and ener-
gy. with his strict attention to discipline,
soon attracted the notice of his commander
jin-chief, himselfa bold and daring soldier
and rigid disciplinarian; and Gen. Wayne,
not long after his arrival, selected him as
one of his aid-de-camps, at the age Of nine
4 teen. haf
We have entered thus infinitely into this
/ detail, because we wish TO point out at how
fearly an age, and in what trying times, young
4 Harrison was thought worthy of honorable
/ distinction.
4 Lieutenant Harrison acted as aid to Gen.
Wayne during the whole of the ensuing
campaigns; and his bravery and gallant con-
lduct Throughout were such, that be was re-
Ipeatedlg officially noticed in terms Of the
highest encomium. The war was conduct
led by General Wayne with all the cool dar-
ling Of veteran soldier, and the sagacity Of
prudent geUeTal-until finally, on the 10Th
lof August, 1894, he fought the bloody and
desperate battle Of the Miamis, in which
the confederated Indians, with their allies,
were totally defeated. Their heavy losses
in this battle so disheartened the Indians,
that a few months after, they entered into
negotiations for treaty of peace, giving
. hostages for their good faith-and thus with
the close of this war, were extingnished
what may be considered the last embers Of
our Revolutionary struggle. In his despatch
! |, to the Secretary of War, after this decisive
victory, General Wayne, in mentioning those
! whose good conduct made them conspicuous
on this occasion, says My faiihfuland gall
LIANT aids-de-camp, Captain de Butts and i.
! Lewis, and Lieutenant Harrison, with the
; Adiutant General, Major Mills, rendered the
most essential service, by communicating
my orders in every direction, and by their
conduct and bravery, exciting the troops to
. press for victory"
Soon after this battle, Lieutenant Harri-
son received the commission of Captain,
and was placed in command of Fort Wash
ington, the most important station on the
! Western Frontier. lie remained in the
4 army till the close Of the year 1891, when,
as there was no longer any opportunity to-.
serve his country in the field, he resigRe62
his commission, 10 commence his career Of
2 civil services. He was almost immed lately
j appointed Secretary, and er-o6iciO IieOten-.
. ant Governor of the North Western Terri
: torys which then embraced the whole extent
4 of our country lying Northwest Of the Ohio
= riveF-thus receiving his first civil appOiai-
|. ment in that of our country which he had
! perrilled his life to defend.
) While in this station, he cate red so WaTni-
!, IL into the interests Of the people, and his
i Intelligence and the kindIles and urbanity
j Of manners rendered hirn so popular, that
when, ia the following year, they became
= entitled to representation . IA the councils
4 Of the nation, they ain Os unanimously elec-
4 ted him their FIRST delegate 10 COngress.-{
. Mr.. Harrison was, a. 4 ais time, about twenty
/. six years Of age.
ssh He took his se'lt IN the House Of Repre-
on1 sentatiVes. at the first session Of the sixth
ar Congress. in d &c yembeF, 1899 There were
ca then in Cong re IS soma Of the ablest and
,er most enligh .eIied statesmen, ana some Of
as the most eloquent men, orr country has
Of ever pFod'lc ed. Yet in'this severe oIdeal
he the ablF les and manly energies Of Mr
ess HaTEise a soon commanded universal respect
an AT tbs period, The altengFossing subject 4
ma the Nest, and one ia which our whole coun
- try Lad deep interest, was the sale 81 on
ZEN p'lt,lic lands-T The nanhef in which thesl
ZEN la.ads had hitherto been disposed Of, hal
I'll. created great dissatisfaction among The pee
tie ple. They had only been sold b iaIg
yal. tracts, The smallest &c which incladed,
49,, least. four thousand acres. Our hardy yes
|. - many, with limited pecuhiary means, wel
sse5 thus shut out from an chance Of compet
tbel ton with wealthy spectators aid gIaspin
e,op, f,onop0iisls, ii The purchase Of these lan.
w;th aa-ths poorer emigrinis were becoming 81
apd heartened af the chilling prospects beio
.,nnslthem, and he settlement of the new ccu
she;.l nv vas greatly retarded. Fully aware
80 fha impolicv and injustice OF this state