the favorite goal; and within eight years after the
battle at Fallen Timbers this region was ready for admission to the
Union as a State. Southern Indiana also filled rapidly.

For a time the westward movement was regarded as of no disadvantage to
the seaboard States. It was supposed that the frontier would attract a
population of such character as could easily be spared in more settled
communities. But it became apparent that the new country did not appeal
simply to broken-down farmers, bankrupts, and ne'er-do-wells. Robust and
industrious men, with growing families, were drawn off in great numbers;
and public protest was raised against the "plots to drain the East of
its best blood." Anti-emigration pamphlets were scattered broadcast,
and, after the manner of the day, the leading western enterprises were
belabored with much bad verse. A rude cut which gained wide circulation
represented a stout, ruddy, well-dressed man on a sleek horse, with a
label, "I am going to Ohio," meeting a pale and ghastly skeleton of
a man, in rags, on the wreck of what had once been a horse, with the
label, "I have been to Ohio."

The streams of migration flowed from many sources. New England
contributed heavily. Marietta, Cincinnati, and many other rising river
towns received some of the best blood of that remote section. The
Western Reserve--a tract bordering on Lake Erie which Connecticut had
not ceded to the Federal Government--drew largely from the Nutmeg
State. A month before Wayne set out to take possession of Detroit, Moses
Cleaveland with a party of fifty Connecticut homeseekers started off to
found a settlement in the Reserve; and the town which took its name from
the leader was but the first of a score which promptly sprang up in
this inviting district. The "Seven Ranges," lying directly south of the
Reserve, drew emigrants from Pennsylvania, with some from farther
south. The Scioto valley attracted chiefly Virginians, who early made
Chillicothe their principal center. In the west, and north of the Symmes
tract, Kentuckians poured in by the thousands.

Thus in a decade Ohio became a frontier melting-pot. Puritan, Cavalier,
Irishman, Scotch-Irishman, German--all were poured into the crucible.
Ideals clashed, and differing customs grated harshly. But the product of
a hundred years of cross-breeding was a splendid type of citizenship. At
the presidential inaugural ceremonies of March 4, 1881, six men chiefly
attracted the attenti