sequence than in Southwest.
Ohio Company, formed in 1786;
secures abolition of slavery in Northwest;
purchase of lands on Ohio;
founds town of Marietta;
importance of its action;
contrasts with feats of early pioneers.
Ohio, first permanent settlers in.
Ohio, river, fertile lands along;
speculation in;
river route, chief highway for immigrants;
immense number of immigrants using it.
Ordinance concerning sale of public lands.
Ordinance of 1787, vital to Northwest;
importance of;
its history;
good conduct of Southern States on slavery question;
provisions of ordinance;
articles of compact;
prohibits slavery;
importance of, as state paper;
formulates new departure in colonial system.
Outlaw, backwoods colonel, kills friendly Cherokees.
Patterson, Robert, Colonel, good conduct of.
Patton, skirmish with Indians.
Pickens, Andrew, and his fellow-justices of Abbeville, S. C.,
denounce Franklin men for murder of Cherokees.
Pioneers, changes among;
succession of types among;
characteristics of different types.
Presbyterian ministers.
Putnam, Rufus, one of founders of Ohio.
Robertson, James, attacks Indians at Coldwater;
writes to Illinois about the slain French traders;
and to Delaware;
writes to McGillivray about separation of Southwest from Union;
lack of national feeling;
correspondence about Indians with Miro and Gardoqui;
attends North Carolina Legislature;
son and brother killed by Indians;
letter to McGillivray;
to Martin;
encourages immigration to Cumberland;
wounded by Indians;
commands militia;
brigadier-general.
Scott, Charles, a Kentucky Indian fighter.
Scott, settler, family butchered by Indians.
Sebastian, Judge, in pay of Spaniards;
ally of Wilkinson;
conspires to dismember the Union;
corrupt.
Sectional intolerance.
Separatist spirit, strength of, at different times in
different sections;
leaders of;
similarity to Spanish-American revolutionists;
their evil influence;
partial justification of separatist movement by narrowness of
eastern people;
especially of New Englanders;
examples of this narrowness;
excuses for certain;
separatist leaders;