Washington and the West: Being George Washington's Diary of September, 1784 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Washington and the West: Being George Washington's Diary of September, 1784

Washington met it with an answer prophetically strong: France and England had held the West by a military rule that was wholly artificial and endlessly expensive; Washington stood for a new system, for a possession of the West that meant a blessing to possessor and possessed, by means of a commercial union. It was a pioneer idea in stinct with genius, and Washington's advocacy of it marked a new epoch in American history, and marks him as the first commercial American the first man typical of the America that was to be. England had restrained Western immigra tion in order to monopolize more effectively the fur trade; this commerce was a pitifully one-sided affair that excluded all the other industries. How vastly opposed to this was the policy that threw the West open to the flood-tides of pioneers, and then welded it to the East by such bands of com merce as Washington now began to forge in 1784!

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