Mr.  Worthington  was  on  the  Committee  of  Privileges  and  Elec-
tions, and  that  on  Levying  a  Territorial  Land  Tax.  On  Decem-
ber 21  was  introduced  the  act  declaring  the  assent  of  the  Territory
to  an  alteration  in  the  ordinance.  The  object  of  this  was  to  make
three  Territories,  with  the  Scioto  as  the  western  boundary  of  the
eastern  division.  In  a  letter  to  Dudley  Woolbridge,  December  24,
1801,  Gov.  St.  Clair  says:  "The  bill  *  *  *  is  passed  and
goes  to  Mr.  Fearing  to  be  laid  before  Congress.  You  cannot
imagine  the  agitation  it  has  created  among  the  people  here ;  and  a
petition  to  Congress  against  the  measure,  formed  by  a  committee
of  this  town,  praying  that  Congress  may  not  consent  to  it,  is  in
circulation.  Mr.  Worthington  and  Mr.  Baldwin  are  appointed  to
go  to  Washington  to  advocate  the  petition  in  person."  Commit-
tees were  also  sent  in  favor  of  the  Governor's  positioa

The  introduction  of  a  bill  changing  the  capital  from  Chilli-
cothe  to  Cincinnati,  and  the  fact  that  it  would  be  passed  by  the
union  of  the  Miami  Valley  Delegates  with  those  from  Wayne
County  (Detroit),  and  Trumbull  County  (Cleveland,  Warren),
caused  a  riot,  in  which  an  attempt  to  burn  the  Governor  in  effigy
was  suppressed  by  "the  splendid  exertion  of  Mr.  Worthington."
The  next  evening  the  mob  invaded  the  house  where  the  Gov-
ernor boarded,  and  "after  they  were  once  dispersed  one  of  the
most  violent  returned,  and  had  not  Mr.  Worthington  come  in
about  the  same  time  mischief  would  have  ensued."1

In  the  same  letter  the  Governor  says :  "Can  you  not  convey
to  him  (President  Jefferson)  that  I  have  but  five  enemies  in  the
Territory  except  some  they  have  misled,  and  who  probably  never
saw  me.  These  are  Worthington,  Tiffin,  Massie,  Darlington  and
Baldwin."


*  Do.,  p.  531.
