“_Resolved_, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate out of his contingent fund a sufficient sum to pay for printing and lithographing discharges for the patriotic men of the state who responded to the call of the governor and went to the southern border to repel the invader, who will be known in history as ‘The Squirrel Hunters,’ “JAMES R. HUBBELL, _Speaker of the House of Representatives._ P. HITCHCOCK, _President pro tem. of the Senate._ COLUMBUS, _March 11, 1863_.” [Illustration: Governor’s Certificate of Honorable Membership.] To this joint resolution of the legislature the governor responded with a handsome souvenir entitled THE SQUIRREL HUNTER’S DISCHARGE. [Illustration: Honorable Discharge.] A year after the services were performed, fifteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-six were issued to Squirrel Hunters, which, however, did not embrace more than one-third of the number that responded to the call and took part in the defense of Cincinnati and the Kentucky cities. Those with certificates and those having none, but who responded to the call, are no less “Squirrel Hunters,” descendants of the Spirit of ’76--a chosen people to maintain and perpetuate the model government of the world. From the Declaration of Independence to the present time the power of this free people has been as manifestly directed by unseen forces as ever was that of the favorite nation which came out from Egypt under a cloud; and the influences which dictated the dedication of the North-west to freedom will not likely permit the purpose to be compromised or changed.