. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. g organization was hopelesslybroken and the forces tending toward democratizationwere allowed to work themselves out in the new Consti-tution. Although there were conservatives and reac-tionaries as well as progressives in the ranks of theDemocrats, as has been shown, the leaders of the partywere devoted to the Jacksonian program, as far as eco-nomic issues were involved. Their hostility to papercurrency was the result of sad experiences with bankinginstitutions which they, themselves, had set up. At timesthey went further in their program of refo
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. g organization was hopelesslybroken and the forces tending toward democratizationwere allowed to work themselves out in the new Consti-tution. Although there were conservatives and reac-tionaries as well as progressives in the ranks of theDemocrats, as has been shown, the leaders of the partywere devoted to the Jacksonian program, as far as eco-nomic issues were involved. Their hostility to papercurrency was the result of sad experiences with bankinginstitutions which they, themselves, had set up. At timesthey went further in their program of reform than was Party Politics in Ohio, 1840-18^0 591 wise, but, in the main, their proposals were financiallysound and their political principles those of the the last analysis the banking question in Ohio was theresult of a lack of adequate state regulation of corpora-tions and the distrust of corporate and privileged inter-ests by the frontier democracy, still dominant in theState. (To he continued in the Quarterly for January, ip2p). OHIO STATE ARCH^OLOGICAL AND HISTORICALSOCIETY REVIEWS, NOTES, AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TO ELIZABETHZANE An event of more than passing Interest in the pioneerhistory of the Ohio Valley was appropriately celebratedat Walnut Grove Cemetery, Martins Ferry, Ohio, May30, 1928. This was the unveiling of a statue as a me-morial to Elizabeth Zane—Heroine of Fort Henry. Fort Henry, named in honor of Patrick Henry, wasbuilt on a hill within the present city limits of Wheeling,West Virginia. It was unsuccessfully attacked by theIndians the year it was built, in 1781, and again by theBritish and Indians September 11, 1782. This last at-tack and successful defense by garrison has sometimesbeen called the last battle of the Revolutionary War. Inthe final siege, we are told the supply of powder havingrun low in the fort, Elizabeth Zane ran several hundredyards to the powder house and brought back a supplvsufficient to save the
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