Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-06-23
Morgan County Democrat Thursday

among the people with a view t
prevent it,. "...While Il regre
the baseness and malevolence of tn
authors. they have nothing t
dread from he, bur the contemp
they justly merit
In reply from the legislative coun
Gil to his address they made thi
notation: "....It is with real cOncerl
and indignation that we view th'
malicious attempts to asperse th'
! character of your excellency....
About his remarks concerning The
treatment of the Indians they said
4 I've view with extreme anxiet!
the spirit too prevalent. among {
! certain Glass;. Of the inhabitants Aoi
/ the territory....to invade the rights
OF the Indians. (which) eventually
will produce alarming consequences
to the community at large...''
The question Of the formation Of
new counties again came up and we
find the session little bolder than
before in as much as they prepared
an address and delivered it to ST
Clair. In the course of this we find
them saying: 81. (we) with regret
observe that difference Of opinion
has arisen between the chief magis-
trate of both houses They then
go into the details as outlined in the
ordinance and subsequent legisla-
tiOn regarding it, too much for us
to discuss here, though it has di-
rect bearing on some matters that
l will call to your attention a little
later.
At this session they passed 26
acts, among them we find one to in
corporate the town of Marietta, (in
1900 and another to establish and
confirm the town of Athens in the
county of Washington. Many more
were acted on, but only 26 were ap-
proved by the governor. st. Clair
stood firm in the controversy about
establishing counties ond the land
spectators, led by Worthington and
Massie had to take a back seat,
though they were gaining power
and would eventually be able to put
over their legislation.
We find that some time late in
1900, though no date is given, the
references fix it as in December,
Edward Tiffin, and others, as a COM
mittee, prepared an address dated
at Chillicothe, ITO the inhabitants
of the Northwestern Territory resid
ing east of line that may be drawn
due north from the mouth of the
Great Miami river"
The ordinance had provided that
whenever there shall be 1000 in
habitants residing within the.
hnJJ n q I.iQc thnu cha11 70 nntifIad
to state government and admit
ted....with the original thirteen
states....'
AS this action led to the forma-
ton of the state of Ohio, certain
parts of some correspondence will
be Of interest and value.
AS you will recall Tiffin and his
crowd We're antagonistic to ST. Clair,
the term of office of st. Clair was
nearing its end; his opponents were
doing all they could, both openly
and underhandedly to prevent his
st. Clair knew about all that was
going on and was playing fair
game to maintain his authority and
secure reappointment.
While Tiffin in his address prais
ed ST. Clair, it was understood by
all that the fight was on. Though
st. Clair was favorable to the es-
of state, he did not
want the credit to go to Tiffin and
his follow ers, and so we find him
writing to all those who would
have influence in the final action,
presenting his side of the contro-
versy.
While we do not have many of the
letters written by st. Clair, we do
have several written in reply to his
letters and from them we can fol-