This was too much for the patience of the Governor.

He ordered out the State troops to co-operate with the small Federal force, and Clark and his men were ignominiously expelled from their new government and forced to return to Georgia.

[Footnote: Steven's "Georgia," II., 401.] Benefit of Washington's Administration to the West.
In such a welter of intrigue, of land speculation, and of more or less piratical aggression, there was immanent danger that the West would relapse into anarchy unless a firm government were established, and unless the boundaries with England and Spain were definitely established.

As Washington's administration grew steadily in strength and in the confidence of the people the first condition was met.

The necessary fixity of boundary was finally obtained by the treaties negotiated through John Jay with England, and through Thomas Pinckney with Spain.
Jay's Treaty.
Jay's treaty aroused a perfect torrent of wrath throughout the country, and nowhere more than in the West.