9097. WESTERN TERRITORY, Division into States.—[continued].
I find Congress have reversed
their division of the Western States and
proposed to make them fewer and larger. This
is reversing the natural order of things. A
tractable people may be governed in large bodies;
but, in proportion as they depart from this
character, the extent of their government must
be less. We see into what small divisions the
Indians are obliged to reduce their societies.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. ii, 66.
Ford ed., iv, 333.
(P.
1786)
