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treason; second, coward ise, and third, unofficer like conduct. 

 He was found guilty of the two last, condemned to death, and 

 pardoned by the President, who had appointed such an inef^ 

 ficient creature to his high station of commander-in-chief of 

 the North. Western army. He was broke though, and we do 

 not regret to state, is long since dead. We now return to 

 Ohio. 



Before the surrender of Hull's army, the then Governor of 

 Kentucky, Charles Scott, had invited general Harrison, gover- 

 nor of Indiana territory, to visit Frankfort to consult on the 

 subject of defending the northwestern frontier. This was early 

 in July, before Hull's disaster. Governor Harrison had visited 

 Governor Scott, and finally on the 25th of August, 1812, 

 having accepted the appointment of major general of the 

 Kentucky militia, escorted by lieutenant colonel Martin D. 

 Hardin, of Allen's regiment, by riding all night, reached 

 Cincinnati, at 8 o'clock in the morning of the 27th of that 

 month. On the 30th of August he left Cincinnati, and fol- 

 lowing the regiments, which he was about to command, and 

 who were marching to Piqua, he overtook them forty miles on 

 their route, below Dayton, on the morning of the thirty-first. 

 These troops as he passed them from rear to front gave their 

 General three hearty cheers of welcome. On the 1st of Sep- 

 tember, these troops reached Dayton. As they were marching 

 between Dayton and Piqua, Harrison was overtaken by an 

 express from the war department, informing him that he was 

 on the 22d of August, appointed a brigadier general in the Uni- 

 ted States army, to command all the troops in Indiana and 

 Illinois territories. Until he could hear from the government 

 after the fall of Hull's army was known, and acted on, Harri- 

 son declined accepting this commission. On the 3d of Septem- 

 ber the troops arrived at Piqua. Harrison now learned that 

 Fort Wayne was about to be besieged by the Indians, he 

 therefore despatched colonel Allen's regiment, and three com-! 

 panics from his other regiments with instructions to make for- 

 ced marches for the relief of the garrison. A regiment of 

 Ohio volunteers seven hundred strong, he ordered forward to 



