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possessed the same virtues and the same shortcom- 

 ings, the same ideals and the same practices. There 

 was already a considerable Eastern emigration to 

 the West, but it went as much to Kentucky as to 

 Ohio, and almost as much to Tennessee and Missis- 

 sippi as to Indiana. As yet the Northeasterners 

 were chiefly engaged in filling the vacant spaces in 

 New England, New York, and Pennsylvania. The 

 great flood of Eastern emigration to the West, the 

 flood which followed the parallels of latitude, and 

 made the Northwest like the Northeast, did not be- 

 gin until after the War of 1812. It was no accident 

 that made Harrison, the first Governor of Indiana 

 and long the typical representative of the Northwest, 

 by birth a Virginian and the son of one of the 

 Virginian signers of the Declaration of Independ- 

 ence. The Northwest was at this time in closer 

 touch with Virginia than with New England. 



There was as yet no hard and fast line drawn 

 between North and South among the men of the 

 Western waters. Their sense of political cohesion 

 was not fully developed, and the same qualities that 

 at times made them loose in their ideas of allegiance 

 to the Union at times also prevented a vivid realiza- 

 tion on their part of their own political and social 

 solidarity; but they were always more or less con- 

 scious of this solidarity, and, as a rule, they acted 

 together. 



Most important of all, the slavery question, which 

 afterward rived in sunder the men west of the Al- 

 leghanies as it rived in sunder those east of them, 



