21, 1787.

Wallace himself shared this view.] It was no discredit to Jay to hold the views he did when they were shared by intelligent men of affairs who were actually in the district most concerned.

He was merely somewhat slow in abandoning opinions which half a dozen years before were held generally throughout the Union.
Nevertheless it was fortunate for the country that the southern States, headed by Virginia, were so resolute in their opposition, and that Gardoqui, a fit representative of his government, declined to agree to a treaty which if ratified would have benefited Spain, and would have brought undreamed of evil upon the United States.

Jefferson, to his credit, was very hostile to the proposition.

As a statesman Jefferson stood for many ideas which in their actual working have proved pernicious to our country, but he deserves well of all Americans, in the first place because of his services to science, and in the next place, what was of far more importance, because of his steadfast friendship for the great West, and his appreciation of its magnificent future.
Methods of the River Trade.
As soon as the Revolutionary War came to an end adventurers in Kentucky began to trade down the Mississippi.