230 The Winning of the West 



quence, the shameful humiliations of the War of 

 1812. This war was in itself eminently necessary 

 and proper, and was excellent in its results, but it 

 was attended by incidents of shame and disgrace to 

 America for which Jefferson and Madison and their 

 political friends and supporters among the politicians 

 and the people have never received a sufficiently se- 

 vere condemnation. 



Jay's treaty was signed late in 1794 and was rati- 

 fied in I795- 26 The indignation of the Kentuckians 

 almost amounted to mania. They denounced the 

 treaty with frantic intemperance, and even threat- 

 ened violence to those of their own number, headed 

 by Humphrey Marshall, who supported it; yet they 

 benefited much by it, for it got them what they 

 would have been absolutely powerless to obtain for 

 themselves, that is, the possession of the British posts 

 on the Lakes. In 1796, the Americans took formal 

 possession of these posts, and the boundary line in 

 the Northwest as nominally established by the treaty 

 of Versailles became in fact the actual line of de- 

 marcation between the American and the British pos- 

 sessions. The work of Jay capped the work of 

 Wayne. Federal garrisons were established at De- 

 troit and elsewhere, and the Indians, who had al- 

 ready entered into the treaty of Greeneville, were 

 prevented from breaking it by this intervention of 

 the American military posts between themselves and 

 their British allies. Peace was firmly established 



American State Papers, Foreign Relations, I, pp. 479. 

 484, 489, 502, 519, etc. 



