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 . chief executorof every daring and diflicult under-taking. Carters law, as his codewas called, was regarded by bothwhite and red men with great resiject,and it continued to be the s
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 . chief executorof every daring and diflicult under-taking. Carters law, as his codewas called, was regarded by bothwhite and red men with great resiject,and it continued to be the standard fora long time after regular courts were established inCleveland. Hearing, one day, that a farm-laborerhad left the colony without giving an adequate exclaimed, No man can leave this town inthat manner ! and saddling his , overtook thedeserter, covered him with his musket, and gave himhis clioice of returning or of receiving its his relations with the Indians he was equallyrough and ready, and they firmly believed him to bea magician, especially after he had overcome anddispersed with a poker, snatched from the hearth, aparty of nine who, half intoxicated, had come to killhim and his family. To Mr. Carters tact and vigorthe settlements of northern Ohio were largely in-debted for their immunity from attacks by the sav-ages, and in 1804 he was chosen a major in the mili-.
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