They could not be kept in pupilage.

Like other Americans, they had to be left to strike out for themselves and to sink or swim according to the measure of their own capacities.

When this was done it was certain that they would commit many blunders, and that some of these blunders would work harm not only to themselves but to the whole nation.

Nevertheless, all this had to be accepted as part of the penalty paid for free government.

It was wise to accept it in the first place, and in the second place, whether wise or not, it was inevitable.
Many of the Federalists saw this; and to many of them, the Adamses, for instance, and Jay and Pinckney, the West owed more than it did to most of the Republican statesmen; but as a whole, the attitude of the Federalists, especially in the Northeast, toward the West was ungenerous and improper, while the Jeffersonians, with all their unwisdom and demagogy, were nevertheless the Western champions.
Vagaries of Western Constitution-Making.
Mississippi and Ohio had squabbled with their Territorial governors much as the Old Thirteen Colonies had squabbled with the governors appointed by the Crown.