and the Republican Thomas Jefferson. Harrison and his supporters hoped to build a plantation society by repealing the antislavery provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. One of Harrison's principal opponents, John Badollet, the register of the land office at the time denounced him as a "proconsul" and an "unrelenting tyrant," who was trying to introduce to the territory "his darling and never abandoned plan of slavery."
             The main task facing Harrison as governor was to obtain title to more Indian lands so settlers could move forward into the western wilderness. He negotiated a series of treaties with the Indians resulting in millions of acres of land opening up to white settlement. This encroachment on Indian hunting grounds was not without opposition among the Indian population. Harrison had to defend the settlements against the building hostilities. The
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