Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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Snbiana— (! nc Jlunbreb gearg go HOSTILITIES OX THE FRONTIEK. TN the Indiana Territory House Kecords or- - - curs the following entry for February. 11, 181H: ••Whereas, the hostile disposition of the Indians, and the danger to which the village of Vinceiiiir i fhcrc1., -iilij. ■(•(,. ,1. and for the pn ' S( ' r aticiii u ' the piililic .ni- and the records of the territory in tlii . om- pi-rilous situation, make it necessary that the seat of government of the territory should he removed to a place where the archives of the state and the claims of individuals should not be endangered. ' A few ' days after tlie IIoux ' adopted the pre- amble above, together [ a resolution to remove the capital from Vim ennes, the West- eTii Sun at Vincennes published the following : It again becomes our duty to record the melan- choly news of the murder of three more of our fellow citizens by the Indians. In the course of the present week there has not Ijeen less than 15 or ' 20 horses stolen from the neighborhood. It had l)een just fifty years since King George III issued a proclamation forbidding his subjects in America to cross the ridge of the Alleghanies, to enter the fertile valleys beyond. In those fifty years the frontier line of white settlement had been transposed. The tide of settlers had reached the mountain passes, and had flowed through these gateways to Ten- nessee and Kentucky. Again the tide had set in across the Ohio and down this I ' iver until the whole north bank of the river was occupied by white settlements. Time and again the whites had met the red men around the council fires and had impelled them to barter away their lands. Yet not always by jDeacef iil meth- ods, for the Indians fought every inch of the way, trying to save their hunting grounds, their fishing brooks, and their plots of grow- ing corn. This is a romantic period, and full of heroic adventure. The names of Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Lewis AVetzel, and scores of others take similar places in the early history of the trans-Allegheny region that the name of Miles Standish fills in the history of Plymouth, or that of Roinulus in the history of Rome. The net results of the period is that the frontier line advanced north from the Ohio, and in 1813 the Indians were again tak- ing their stand against the whites. Indiana had grown from one county with two settlements in 1800 to a territory with a representative government and ten counties in 1813. (See map.) The settlements had ar- ranged themselves in the form of a crescent, resting upon the Ohio, the eastern tijD being near the site of Eichmond, and the western tip near the site of Terre Haute. Kentuckians had been crossing the Ohio into the territory and other Southerners had found their way through Cumberland Gap and down the Ohio to seek their fortunes in the land of promise. Pennsylvania had joined the tide drifting down the Ohio, and other settlers from the new state of Ohio had helped to settle up the AVhitewater basin. Settlements were pushing toward the interior when the Indian hostili- ties in 1811 brought a halt to the advance of the frontier line which began so decidedly fol- lowing the land sales in 1806 and 1807. TECUJITHA. There wei-e various reasons why Tecumtha went on the warpath in 1811, and the most of these causes operated in instigating the In- dians against the settlers in Indiana from 1812-1815. There had been little, if any, open hostilities toward the whites since the treaty