This was denied him, as it appears now, not through his own errors, which had not at that time taken hold on him, but through the influence of powerful enemies.

It is said that both Spain and England, seeing a great soldier without service for his sword, made him offers, which he refused.

As long as any acreage remained to him on which to raise money, he continued to pay the debts he had contracted to finance his expeditions, and in this course he had the assistance of his youngest brother, William, to whom he assigned his Indiana grant.
His health impaired by hardship and exposure and his heart broken by his country's indifference, Clark sank into alcoholic excesses.

In his sixtieth year, just six years before his death, and when he was a helpless paralytic, he was granted a pension of four hundred dollars.
There is a ring of bitter irony in the words with which he accepted the sword sent him by Virginia in his crippled old age: "When Virginia needed a sword I gave her one." He died near Louisville on February 13, 1818.
Kentucky was admitted to the Union in 1792.

But even before Kentucky became a State her affairs, particularly as to land, were arranged, let us say, on a practical business basis.