242 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



patriot would make millions, general Harrison has never laid 

 up, even one dollar. He owns the farm, which his father-in- 

 law^ judge Symmes, gave him at the North Bend, but that is 

 all he owns. 



His benevolence is bounded only by his menns; and, could 

 he have his wishes gratified, every human being would be vir- 

 tuous, good and perfectly happy. 



The war may be said to have ended in Ohio, on the 5th day 

 of October, 1813, and all that was done afterwards, was merely 

 guarding this frontier, by general Duncan McArthur, who 

 was appointed a brigadier general, in the regular United States 

 army, and took the command here. Governor Meigs, had 

 been appointed Postmaster general, and settled in Washington 

 city. Harrison resigned his commission, and was elected to 

 congress, by the Cincinnati district. McArthur, made an ex- 

 pedition into Upper Canada, in the summer and autumn of 

 1814, disarmed the militia, and destoyed some public property 

 there. The peace was declared in the spring of 1815, and, 

 all has been peace, ever since, in Ohio. And so may it for- 

 ever remain, in peace and prosperity. The immediate effects 

 of this war, on Ohio, are summed up, in a few sentences. 



The war brought many people, into the state, who finally set- 

 tled down in it, and thus added to oiir numbers. The soldiers, 

 who traversed the country, and were finally discharged, at 

 Chillicothe, in the spring of 1815, continued in the country. 

 The embargo, and the war, drove many families from the At- 

 lantic frontier to Ohio. Large sums of money were disbursed 

 here, and all sorts of provisions and even labor commanded 

 high prices. Farmers entered many tracts of land, and paid 

 the first payment, on them. The conclusion of the Indian war, 

 in 1795, left among us, the remains of Wayne's army: so the 

 war of 1812, added to our numbers in the same manner. 

 Those who traversed so fine a country, saw it, were pleased 

 with it, and tarried in it. But, as the last war, brought more 

 men and more money to support the war, into the country, 

 than the first war did, so the last event, effected more, for this 



