Nobody dreams of treating the fact that the new commonwealths are offshoots of the old as furnishing grounds for any discrimination in reference to them, one way or the other.

There still exist dying jealousies between different States and sections, but this particular feeling does not enter into them in any way whatsoever.
The East Distrusts the Trans-Alleghany People.
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--towards 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 manifestations of this sectionalism proved abortive; the broad patriotism of leaders like Washington prevailed.