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one way or the other. There still exist dying jeal 

 ousies between different States and sections, but 

 this particular feeling does not enter into them in 

 any way whatsoever. 



At the time when Kentucky was struggling for 

 Statehood, this feeling, though it had been given its 

 death-blow by the success of the Revolution, still 

 lingered here and there on the Atlantic coast. It 

 was manifest in the attitude of many prominent 

 people the leaders in their communities toward 

 the new commonwealths growing up beyond the 

 Alleghanies. Had this intolerant sectional feeling 

 ever prevailed and been adopted as the policy of the 

 Atlantic States, the West would have revolted, and 

 would have been right in revolting. But the mani 

 festations of this sectionalism proved abortive; the 

 broad patriotism of leaders like Washington pre 

 vailed. In the actual event the East did full and 

 free justice to the West. In consequence we are 

 now one nation. 



While many of the people on the Eastern sea 

 board thus took an indefensible position in refer 

 ence to the trans-Alleghany settlements, in the pe 

 riod immediately succeeding the Revolution, there 

 were large bodies of the population of these same 

 settlements, including very many of their popular 

 leaders, whose own attitude toward the Union was, 

 if anything, even more blameworthy. They were 

 clamorous about their rights, and were not unready 

 to use veiled threats of disunion when they deemed 

 these rights infringed ; but they showed little appre- 



