169.] Congress made the proviso that the State Constitution should accord with the Constitution of the United States, and should embody the doctrines contained in the Ordinance of 1787.

[Footnote: The question of the boundaries of the Northwestern States is well treated in "The Boundaries of Wisconsin," by Reuben G.Thwaites, the Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.] The rapid settlement of southeastern Ohio was hindered by the fact that the speculative land companies, the Ohio and Scioto associations, held great tracts of territory which the pioneers passed by in their desire to get to lands which they could acquire in their own right.

This was one of the many bad effects which resulted from the Government's policy of disposing of its land in large blocks to the highest bidder, instead of allotting it, as has since been done, in quarter sections to actual settlers.

[Footnote: Mr.Eli Thayer, in his various writings, has rightly laid especial stress on this point.] Harrison, St.Clair, and Sargent.
Lessons Taught by Blount's Experience.
Harrison was thoroughly in sympathy with the Westerners.

He had thrown in his lot with theirs; he deemed himself one of them, and was accepted by them as a fit representative.