on was the son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the
scion of one of Virginia's most honored families. Entering the army in
1791, he had served as an aide-de-camp to Wayne in the campaign which
ended at Fallen Timbers, and at the time of his election was acting as
Secretary of the Territory and ex-officio Lieutenant-Governor.

Although but twenty-six years of age, and without a vote in the House of
Representatives, Harrison succeeded in procuring from Congress in 1800
an act dividing the Territory into two distinct "governments," separated
by the old Greenville treaty line as far as Fort Recovery and then by
a line running due north to the Canadian boundary. The division to the
east was named Ohio, that to the west Indiana; and Harrison was made
Governor of the latter, with his residence at Vincennes. In 1802 the
development of the back country was freshly emphasized by the admission
of Ohio as a State.

Meanwhile the equilibrium between the white man and the red again became
unstable. In the Treaty of 1795 the natives had ceded only southern
Ohio, southeastern Indiana, and a few other small and scattered areas.
Northward and westward, their country stretched to the Lakes and the
Mississippi, unbroken except by military posts and widely scattered
settlements; and title to all of this territory had been solemnly
guaranteed. As late as 1800 the white population of what is now Indiana
was practically confined to Clark's Grant, near the falls of the
Ohio, and a small region around Vincennes. It numbered not more than
twenty-five hundred persons. But thereafter immigration from the
seaboard States, and from the nearer lands of Kentucky and Tennessee,
set in on a new scale. By 1810 Indiana had a white population of
twenty-five thousand, and the cabins of the energetic settlers dotted
river valleys and hillsides never before trodden by white man.

In this new rush of pioneers the rights of the Indians received scant
consideration. Hardy and well-armed Virginians and Kentuckians broke
across treaty boundaries and possessed themselves of fertile lands to
which they had no valid claim. White hunters trespassed far and wide
on Indian territory, until by 1810 great regions, which a quarter of
a century earlier abounded in deer, bear, and buffalo, were made as
useless for Indian purposes as barren wastes. Although entitled to the
protection of law in his person and property, the native was cheated and
overawed at eve