. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. eavored to warn the eager victims by caricatures, as wehave seen, but to little purpose. By wanton promises, Barlowsucceeded in selling a hundred thousand acres of what he pro-fessed was the companys domain to hundreds of deluded cli-ents. Among them were ten persons of some notoriety, if notconsideration, who had been founders of the National Assem-bly. There was a reckless folly in these people, who were seek-ing to escape from France, q
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. eavored to warn the eager victims by caricatures, as wehave seen, but to little purpose. By wanton promises, Barlowsucceeded in selling a hundred thousand acres of what he pro-fessed was the companys domain to hundreds of deluded cli-ents. Among them were ten persons of some notoriety, if notconsideration, who had been founders of the National Assem-bly. There was a reckless folly in these people, who were seek-ing to escape from France, quite equal to that of those whowere beginning to make that country the abhorrence of , who was also a member of the Assembly, and who hadbeen in America two years before, was chattering in the cafesin the vein in which he was the next year, in a published book,to help on the movement. He warned the loyal aristocrats, who THE SCIOTO COMPANY. 403 showed a tendency to fly from what was coming, that in thus seek-ing to preserve their titles, their honors, and their privileges,they would fall into a new society [in America], where the titles. , [From The Commerce of America with Europe, by Brissot de Warville, etc., London, 1794.] of pride and chance are despised and even unknown. Hepointed out how Barlows enterprise appealed rather to thepoor, who are deprived of the means of subsistence by therevolution, and who would find open to them an asylumwhere they could obtain a property. So this infatuatedFrenchman secouded the debased purposes of the Scioto schem- 404 THE CONDITIONS OF 1790. ers, and went on generalizing, after his somewhat amusing prac-tice, from evidence insufficient but useful in his task. Barlow,meanwhile, was busy oiling his machinery. On February 28,1790, he wrote to St. Clair to bring to his notice and protec-tion a number of industrious and honest emigrants, who wereseeking new homes on the Ohio, under the direction of and Th
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