Settler life on the western frontier
Document 1792Reverend McClure writes Secretary Knox on Arthur St. Clair's campaign. Discusses Indian warfare and frontier and pioneer life. The southern people today experience what the first settlers of New England felt, writes McClure. The foundations of all empires are laid in blood. Suggests that difficulties with Indians will prevent too extensive an immigration over the Western Territory, which if unchecked, could result in some to "lose the habits of subordination in society". He is worried that the frontiersmen will not have the "restraints of law and government" and will "adopt the habits of savages." Also mentions his brother James who lost a leg in the war, and who died in Dublin; he was master of a ship from Exeter.
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