The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . l defects. Withreference to all the Indian tribes he was made thegeneral agent and representative of the United Statesin charge of treaties and treaty payments, and his-corresponde
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . l defects. Withreference to all the Indian tribes he was made thegeneral agent and representative of the United Statesin charge of treaties and treaty payments, and his-correspondence with the government at Washingtonrelating to the vast mass of Indian affairs involved,became one of the onerous burdens of his Louisiana was regained (1803), all of upperLouisiana with line boundaries, except upon the east,was added to lus jurisdiction. He had many op-portunities for the acquisitions of wealth bj^ judiciousinvestments in land, but in his whole administrationhe was so full of integrity and so morbidly sensitiveto public opinion and criticism, that it seemed as ifhe feared to acquire property lest it should becharged upon him that he had gotten it through ad-vantage given him by his ofllcial place and discharge of duty now required long and peril-ous journeys from place to place, on horsebackthrough the woods or in boats up and down rivera -,,- ^. carried with it the superintendency of Indian affairs)in 1801. Tlien there were but three considerablesettlements in all the territory, one Clarks grant,very nearly opposite Louisville, Ky., one at Vin-cenncs on the Wabash river in what is now Indiana,and the third a string of French villages along theMississippi, from Kaskaslda (111), to Cohokia in thepresent Missouri Here Gov. Harrison was investedwith one of the most extraordinary commissions inthe history of the countiy. The new republican in-stitutions of the territory were to be fostered anddeveloped, says his biographer, under his au
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