James Duane, Richard Peters, Daniel Carroll, Benjamin Hawkins, Arthur Lee, Resolution to Organize the Northwest Territory (1783)
“ The committee in their report observe further, "that they do not offer the measures which they have suggested as a sufficient security against the increase of feeble, disorderly and dispersed settlements in those remote and wide extended territories; against the depravity of manners which they have a tendency to produce; the endless perplexities in which they must involve the administration of the affairs of the United States ”
