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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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antHarrison, he said, was in the foremostfront of the hottest battle. His personwas exposed from the commencement tothe close of the action. Wherever dutycalled him he hastened regardless of danger,and by his efforts and example contributedas much to secure the fortunes of the dayas any other officer subordinate to theCommander-in-Chief. His new renown and his chiefs recom-mendation now made Harrison a captainin the regular army and he was given com-mand of Fort Washington. His energyand capacity in his new post soon led to hisappointment as secretary of the North-west Territory; and when three yearslater, at the beginning of the new century,a division of the territory was made andOhio set off, because of his knowledge ofWestern affairs and his enterprise he be-came governor of the remaining territory,then called Indiana. He was but twenty-seven years of age atthis time, but was already looked upon bythe authorities at Washington as a man offine parts and more than ordinary ca-pacity.
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The Prophet . . ._ professed peace and asked for another talk. (Harrison and Tecumseh at Vincennes.) Drawing by Stanley M. Arthurs. 734 The Outing Magazine It was no accident that made WilliamHenry Harrison the first Governor of In-diana rerritory, rheodore Roosevelt hassaid, and to those who believe in the directintervention of Providence, the sequenceof events will amply justify the declara-tion. To appreciate the difficulties withwhich he was surrounded would requirea chapter in history. But we may say thatthe questions of slavery and Indian landswore the most important ones with whichhe had to deal. Though it had been pro-vided that slavery should never become aninstitution of the territory north of theOhio, yet the settlers from the slave stateswere in the majority, and Harrison, him-self from a slaveholding family, gave hisaid to the various schemes for its establish-ment in some form. But as settlers fromthe eastern states began to pour in and soonformed a great majority, the p

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