In one shape or another, and with varying intensity, separatist agitations took place in all portions of the West.

In Cumberland, on the Holston, among the western mountains of Virginia proper, and in Georgia--which was practically a frontier community--there occurred manifestations of the separatist spirit.

A curious feature of these various agitations was the slight extent to which a separatist movement in any one of these localities depended upon or sympathized with a similar movement in any other.

The national feeling among the separatists was so slight that the very communities which wished to break off from the Atlantic States were also quite indifferent to the deeds and fates of one another.

The only bond among them was their tendency to break loose from the Central Government.