53.] Governor Patrick Henry issued a very energetic address on the subject, and the authorities took effective means to prevent the movement from gaining head.
Franklin and Georgia.
Georgia, on the contrary, showed the utmost friendliness towards the new state, and gladly entered into an alliance with her.

[Footnote: Stevens' "Georgia," II., 380.] Georgia had no self-assertive communities of her own children on her western border, as Virginia and North Carolina had, in Kentucky and Franklin.

She was herself a frontier commonwealth, challenging as her own lands that were occupied by the Indians and claimed by the Spainards.

Her interests were identical with those of Franklin.

The Governors of the two communities exchanged complimentary addresses, and sent their rough ambassadors one to the other.