More satisfactory testimony in favour of St.Clair is furnished by the circumstance, that he still retained the undiminished esteem and good opinion of the President.
The Indian war now assumed a still more serious aspect.

There was reason to fear that the hostile tribes would derive a great accession of strength from the impression which their success would make upon their neighbours; and the reputation of the government was deeply concerned in retrieving the fortune of its arms, and affording protection to its citizens.

The President, therefore, lost no time in causing the estimates for a competent force to be prepared and laid before congress.

In conformity with a report made by the secretary of war, a bill was brought into the house of representatives, directing three additional regiments of infantry, and a squadron of cavalry to be raised, to serve for three years, if not sooner discharged.

The whole military establishment, if completed, would amount to about five thousand men.