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The Toledo War
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;
Civil War
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