ens 162

Financial distress after the Revolutionary War 163, 164

State of the coinage 165

Cost of the war in money 166

Robert Morris and his immense services 167

The craze for paper money 168

Agitation in the southern and middle states 169-171

Distress in New England 172

Imprisonment for debt 173

Rag-money victorious in Rhode Island; the "Know Ye" measures 174-176

Rag-money defeated in Massachusetts; the Shays insurrection 177-181

The insurrection suppressed by state troops 182

Conduct of the neighbouring states 183

The rebels pardoned 184

Timidity of Congress 185, 186

CHAPTER V.

GERMS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY.

Creation of a national domain beyond the Alleghanies 187, 188

Conflicting claims to the western territory 189

Claims of Massachusetts and Connecticut 189, 190

Claims of New York 190

Virginia's claims 191

Maryland's novel and beneficent suggestion 192

The several states yield their claims in favour of the United
States 193, 194

Magnanimity of Virginia 195

Jefferson proposes a scheme of government for the northwestern
territory 196

Names of the proposed ten states 197

Jefferson wishes to prohibit slavery in the national domain 198

North Carolina's cession of western lands 199

John Sevier and the state of Franklin 200, 201

The northwestern territory 202

Origin of the Ohio company