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Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications.
ADDRESS OF HON. SAMUEL H. DOYLE.
DELIVERED AT GREENVILLE, OHIO, AUGUST 3, 1895.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I come to you from the adjoining State to join with you in
this celebration. We have a common
interest in this historic
event with you. I will detain you but a
few minutes. We have
been together and associated together in
four of the great im-
portant events that have touched the
Northwest. When Wolfe
met the French at Quebec this territory
was transferred from
France to Great Britain. When General
George Rodgers Clark
found the British holding the forts in
the Northwest, and
throughout this territory, he was
enabled to capture Kaskaskia
and Vincennes, and this country was
turned over to the United
States, all that rich domain northwest
of the Ohio being secured
to the Republic in consequence of his
prowess. Again, Indiana
was associated with you when the
Ordinance of 1787 was
adopted, - the grandest ordinance for
the government of ter-
ritory that has ever been conceived by
man. Its influence has
been radiating from that day to this.
Again, we were interested
and associated with you when the
splendid victories were made
after a series of defeats that
culminated in the Treaty in your
city, which you are honoring to-day.
The respect that you are showing here is
appreciated not
only by Ohio, but by every State in the
Northwest. The paper
presented gave us a fine historical
account of how we have trav-
eled together, how we have been
associated together. Yours
was the first State formed under the
Ordinance of 1787; my
good State, Indiana, was the second; but
from the days of that
Ordinance and from the days of this
Treaty, we have moved a
pace that has incited the admiration of
the world. The Indians,
up to the time that Wayne passed through
with his army held
this country in their grasp. The
Revolutionary War had been
closed for a number of years, and there
was a large portion of
the population that wanted to come
westward. But the Indian