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two or three hundred to the station, anxiously ex- 

 pecting peace, or a legally authorized war from 

 which they would soon wring peace; and adding 

 that they were afraid of war in no shape, but that 

 they asked that their hands be unbound and they 

 be allowed to defend themselves in the only possible 

 manner, by offensive war. They went on to say 

 that, as members of the Nation, they heartily ap- 

 proved of the hostilities which were then being car- 

 ried on against the Algerines for the protection of 

 the seafaring men of the coast-towns, and con- 

 cluded : "The citizens who live in poverty on the 

 extreme frontier are as much entitled to be protected 

 in their lives, their families, and their little proper- 

 ties, as those who roll in luxury, ease, and affluence 

 in the great and opulent Atlantic cities," for in 

 frontier eyes the little seaboard trading-towns as- 

 sumed a rather comical aspect of magnificence. The 

 address was on the whole dignified in tone, and it 

 undoubtedly set forth both the wrong and the rem- 

 edy with entire accuracy. The Tennesseeans felt 

 bitterly that the Federal Government did everything 

 for Kentucky and nothing for themselves, and they 

 were rather inclined to sneer at the difficulty expe- 

 rienced by the Kentuckians and the Federal army in 

 subduing the Northwestern Indians, while they 

 themselves were left single-handed to contend with 

 the more numerous tribes of the South. They were 

 also inclined to laugh at the continual complaints the 

 Georgians made over the comparatively trivial 

 wrongs they suffered from the Indians, and at their 



