With this in view, I have, with due regard to the important task assigned you, concluded to give you the control of the measures necessary to be adopted in consequence of the peculiar and unpleasant relations which I fear may soon exist between the civil authorities of Ohio and those of this Territory.”
General Brown, under the same date, issues the following address to the militia: ” Fellow Citizens,—A cause which has the sanction of the highest authority in the nation, as well as the laws of our Territory, must be sustained by us, and will meet the approbation of all our common country who respect our institutions and who are capable of appreciating the just claims of the injured and weaker party when they are sought to be trodden down and trampled upon by mere physical force. We cannot submit to an invasion of our soil;
we are determined to repel with force whatever strength the State of Ohio may attempt to bring into our Territory to sustain her usurpations, and let the consequences which may follow rest on the guilty heads of those who attempt to deprive us by force of our rightful jurisdiction.”
On the 23d following the Ohio Legislature asserting the right of that State and declaring that measures should be taken to establish it, Governor Lucas placed a Major General of militia in command, with instructions to enroll the militia of the districts in dispute for the purpose of protection, while running a boundary line which Ohio insisted on accomplishing. The matter of boundary had been laid before Congress, but failed to receive attention, and the acting Governor of Michigan, considering his Territory in possession, ordered General Brown to hold himself in readiness to resist any attempt of Ohio to carry out the threatened measures,
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