302 The Winning of the West 



Yet a fourth class was composed of the men of 

 means, of the well-to-do planters, merchants, and 

 lawyers, of the men whose families already stood 

 high on the Atlantic slope. The Marshalls were 

 such men; and there were many other families of 

 the kind in Kentucky. Among them were an un 

 usually large proportion of the families who came 

 from the fertile limestone region of Botetourt 

 County in Virginia, leaving behind them, in the 

 hands of their kinsmen, their roomy, comfortable 

 houses, which stand to this day. These men soon 

 grew to take the leading places in the new common 

 wealth. They were of good blood using the words 

 as they should be used, as meaning blood that has 

 flowed through the veins of generations of self-re 

 straint and courage and hard work, and careful 

 training in mind and in the manly virtues. Their 

 inheritance of sturdy and self-reliant manhood 

 helped them greatly; their blood told in their favor 

 as blood generally does tell when other things are 

 equal. If they prized intellect they prized character 

 more; they were strong in body and mind, stout 

 of heart, and resolute of will. They felt that pride 

 of race which spurs a man to effort, instead of mak 

 ing him feel that he is excused from effort. They 

 realized that the qualities they inherited from their 

 forefathers ought to be further developed by them 

 as their forefathers had originally developed them. 

 They knew that their blood and breeding, though 

 making it probable that they would with proper 

 effort succeed, yet entitled them to no success which 



