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elected by the people. They provided a government 

 which accentuated, instead of softening, the defects 

 in their own social system. They were in no dan- 

 ger of suffering from tyranny; they were in no 

 danger of losing the liberty which they so jealously 

 guarded. The perils that threatened them were 

 lawlessness, lack of order, and lack of capacity to 

 concentrate their efforts in time of danger from 

 within or from an external enemy ; and against these 

 perils they made no provision whatever. 



The inhabitants of Ohio Territory were just as 

 bitter against St. Clair as the inhabitants of Missis- 

 sippi Territory were against Sargent. The Missis- 

 sippians did not object to Sargent as a Northern 

 man, but, in common with the men of Ohio, they 

 objected to governors who were Eastern men and 

 out of touch with the West. At the end of the 

 eighteenth century, and during the early years of the 

 nineteenth, the important fact to be remembered in 

 treating of the Westerners was their fundamental 

 unity, in blood, in ways of life, and in habits of 

 thought. 7 They were predominantly of Southern, 

 not of Northern blood; though it was the blood of 

 the Southerners of the uplands, not of the low coast 

 regions, so that they were far more closely kin to 

 the Northerners than were the seaboard planters. 

 In Kentucky and Tennessee, in Indiana and Missis- 

 sippi, the settlers were of the same quality. They 



1 Prof. Frederick A. Turner, of the University of Michi- 

 gan, deserves especial credit for the stress he has laid upon 

 this point. 



