But time was necessary to procure the requisite testimonials; and those officers who had notoriously offended in this respect, were not so discountenanced by their government as to be deterred from a repetition of the offence.

There was too, one class of citizens, concerning whose rights a difference of opinion prevailed, which has not even yet been adjusted.

These were British subjects who had migrated to, and been adopted by, the United States.
The continuance of the Indian war added still another item to this catalogue of discontents.
The efforts of the United States to make a treaty with the savages of the Miamis had proved abortive.

The Indians insisted on the Ohio as the boundary between them and the whites; and, although the American commissioners expressed a willingness to relinquish some of the lands purchased at the treaty of fort Harmar, and pressed them to propose some line between the boundary established by that treaty and the Ohio, they adhered inflexibly to their original demand.
It was extensively believed in America, and information collected from the Indians countenanced the opinion, that they were encouraged by the government of Canada to persevere in this claim, and that the treaty was defeated by British influence.

The conviction was universal that this influence would continue so long as the posts south of the lakes should be occupied by British troops; and the uneasiness which the detention of those posts created, daily acquired strength.
Unfortunately, the original pretext for detaining them was not yet removed.