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We should all adopt Commodore Decatur's motto; 'Our country right or wrong. If she be right, our support cannot be refused; if wrong, we should endeavor to set her right, and not, by refusing our support, or by taking up arms against her, see her fall." "Bravo!" cried Mr. Jackson Harmar. "There's the true patriotic sentiment for you. Allow me, Mr.
The other three resided in New Jersey, and were putting up at the same house that of a friend of Higgins'. Old Harmar shook hands with his old camp associates, wishing them many days of health and happiness to come, and trusting that they might meet again before death should claim them.
M'Donald was taken to Fort Dayton the next day, where his leg was amputated; but the blood flowed so freely that he died in a few hours. On his person was found a silver-mounted tomahawk, which had thirty-two scalp notches on the handle, to show how he had imitated the savages." "But what became of the two sons who were captured by the tories and Indians?" inquired young Harmar.
No resistance was encountered; and after burning a few villages of bark huts and destroying some corn he returned to Vincennes. Harmar's Expedition against the Miami Towns. The main expedition was that against the Miami Indians, and was led by General Harmar himself.
In 1785 Colonel Harmar, commanding at Fort Pitt, sent a deputation down the river to drive the intruders back. But his agents returned with the report that the Virginians and Kentuckians were moving into the forbidden country "by the forties and fifties," and that they gave every evidence of proposing to remain there.
In the instructions given by the government to General Rufus Putnam in 1792, this language occurs: "You may say that we conceive the treaty of Fort Harmar to have been formed by the tribes having a just right to make the same, and that it was done with their full understanding and free consent."
"And that reminds me," added young Harmar, "that I've a song here, which I wrote for one of the papers, in relation to Lafayette. It is arranged in the measure of the feeling melody of 'Auld Lang Syne." "Sing it," said Mr. Smith; and the request was echoed by the rest. Mr.
"I don't know as much about it as you may obtain from history," replied old Harmar, speaking for himself. "Our line was in another neighborhood." "I should suppose Mr. Morton was acquainted with the facts, as he was up in that part of the country about that time," observed Wilson. "I was; and do know all that one engaged in the expedition might tell me," replied Morton.
On the other end of the sofa sat Mr. Higgins, a thin, small-featured, bald-headed man, looking much older than old Mr. Harmar. On the opposite sofa sat Mr. Morton and Mr. Wilson. The first was a large-bodied, full-faced man, slightly bald, with a scar across his forehead, from the right eye to the left side of his head.
"Ha! ha! a neat stratagem, and a patriotic woman," exclaimed young Harmar. "Talking of the services of the women during the war," said Higgins, "reminds me of Molly Macauly, or Sergeant Macauly, as we knew her while in the army.
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