In answer I tell you, if any nations should call themselves the owners of it they would be guilty of falsehood; our claim to it is equal; our Elder Brother has conquered it." [Footnote: American State Papers, IV., 562-583.] Wayne's Great Achievement.
Wayne had brought peace by the sword.

It was the first time the border had been quiet for over a generation; and for fifteen years the quiet lasted unbroken.

The credit belongs to Wayne and his army, and to the Government which stood behind both.

Because it thus finally stood behind them we can forgive its manifold shortcomings and vacillations, its futile efforts to beg a peace, and its reluctance to go to war.

We can forgive all this; but we should not forget it.