[Footnote: Draper MSS., J.Clark to G.R.
Clark, Dec.

27, 1792.] He had a right to feel aggrieved at the State's penuriousness and her indifference to her moral obligations; and just at the time when he was most angered came the news that Genet was agitating throughout the United States for a war with England, in open defiance of Washington, and that among his plans he included a Western movement against Louisiana.

Clark at once wrote to him expressing intense sympathy with the French objects and offering to undertake an expedition for the conquest of St.Louis and upper Louisiana if he was provided with the means to obtain provisions and stores.

Clark further informed Genet that his country had been utterly ungrateful to him, and that as soon as he received Genet's approbation of what he proposed to do he would get himself "expatriated." He asked for commissions for officers, and stated his belief that the Creoles would rise, that the adventurous Westerners would gladly throng to the contest, and that the army would soon be at the gates of New Orleans.

[Footnote: _Do_., Letter of George Rogers Clark, Feb.