[Footnote: Va.

State Papers, III., pp.
585, 589.] The people who distrusted the frontiersmen complained that among them were many knaves and outlaws from every State in the Union, who flew to the frontier as to a refuge; while even those who did not share this distrust admitted that the fact that the people in Kentucky came from many different States helped to make them discontented with Virginia.

[Footnote: Draper MSS.

Clark Papers, Walter Darrell to William Fleming, April 14, 1783.] Georgia and the Frontiersmen In Georgia the conditions were much as they were on the Ohio.

Georgia was a frontier State, with the ambitions and the lawlessness of the frontier; and the backwoodsmen felt towards her as they did towards no other member of the old Thirteen.