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Washington in his speech, before congress, mentioned Wayne's 

 operations with well merited applause, but congress in their 

 reply, refused even to allude to them. Mr. Madison then led 

 the opposition in the house, and though he offered something in 

 lieu of it, yet, it was couched in such offensive terms, that the 

 President's friends would not vote for the amendment. The 

 whiskey insurrection, which grew out of the expenditures to 

 carry on this war, had soured the minds of some members; and 

 the wonderful French revolution, which was to make all hon- 

 est men happy, by shedding their blood, had poisoned the 

 minds, of still more. No mention was made of Wayne, nor of 

 his meritorious services, by congress. 



Next summer Wayne held a council with all the Indians 

 living in this territory, and on the third day of August 1795, 

 at Greenville, he purchased all the territory, not before ceded, 

 within certain limits, comprehending in all, about four fifths of 

 the present state of Ohio. The line is called to this day, " the 

 Greenville treaty line." The Indians were left with about one 

 fifth part of the territory which is now Ohio, lying in its north- 

 west corner. Thus ended all the Indian warfare, in Ohio, 

 worth naming, which we here put together, for the sake of 

 unity. 



After all these great, splendid and meritorious services of 

 General Wayne, congress took no notice of him, not so much 

 as to allow, even his name to be mentioned on their journal ! 

 On his way home, in Pennsylvania, he died, almost unattend- 

 ed, at a wretched hovel of an inn, in the then paltry village of 

 Presque Isle. He was there interred, without a stone to tell 

 where he was buried. Years afterwards, his son Isaac 

 Wayne accompanied by a few of his old friends and neighbors, 

 transferred his bones, to the place of his nativity where they 

 now rest in peace. 



That General Anthony Wayne was a man, of most splendid 

 talents, both natural and acquired, no one can doubt for a 

 moment, who reads his history. Every action of his life, from 

 youth to age, shows this fact; and no panegyric of ours can 

 render it more plain or make his character shine brighter. 



