From the first the planters in the South Carolina assembly stoutly opposed the terms of Middleton's agreement as impracticable and extortionate. In vain Craven urged observance; how else, he asked, could the further aid promised by Spotswood be expected? The new army bill of August, 1715, proposed to retain in service 100 Virginians at the same wages as the Carolina troops ( viz., £4 per month), providing the treaty were modified. If new terms were refused, the slaves should be sent north sometime before April 1, 1716. 39 [Note 39: JCHA, August 4, 6, 9, 10, 20, 1715] Negotiations failing with the Virginia officers, two commissioners were sent to Williamsburg to propose an equivalent of 50s Carolina currency in lieu of each slave. But the Virginians refused the concession, and in February, 1716, Craven renewed his appeal to the public faith of South Carolina, twice pledged, by treaty and by act of assembly. With mutual recriminations the controversy was prolonged for several years. The Carolinians denounced the Virginian troops as 'the most ignorant creeping naked people that ever was seen,' while Spotswood repeatedly complained to the Board of Trade, to Secretary Stanhope and to his fellow governors of their ill-usage. Virginia's assistance he described as unique in American annals. Her disappointment must discourage intercolonial aid in the future. But Virginia was eventually forced to accept such wages for her soldiers as the Carolina troops had received.40 [Note 40 Ibid., August 23, 1715. Cooper (ed.), Statutes, II. 626 (title only) ; Spotswood, Letters, II. 114, 117, 119, 121, 126-9, 131, 136, 141, 144, 164, 207, 238, 242; Col. Ree. N. C., II. 202, 203, 225, 227, 234, 252-4; JBT, June 28, 1716; Journals of the House of Burgesses, May 8, 1718; H. L. Osgood, Am. Col. in the Eighteenth Century, II]