71, vol.ii., p.503.Report of Dec.

19, 1786.] and gave Clark's version of the facts, but reprobated and disowned his course.

Some of the members of this Convention were afterwards identified with various separatist movements, and skirted the field of perilous intrigue with a foreign power; but they recognized the impossibility of countenancing such mere buccaneering lawlessness as Clark's; and not only joined with their colleagues in denouncing it to the Virginia Government, but warned the latter that Clark's habits were such as to render him unfit longer to be trusted with work of importance.

[Footnote: Green, p.

78.] Experience of a Cumberland Trader.
The rougher spirits, all along the border of course sympathized with Clark.