While the Lake Posts were held by the garrisons of a foreign power, the work of settling the northwestern territory was bound to go forward slowly and painfully; but while the navigation of the Mississippi was barred, even the settlements already founded could not attain to their proper prosperity and importance.
This statement illustrates the challenges of settlement and development in the northwest due to foreign control over key territories and waterways.
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