In each case there were two parties in the district desiring separation, one of them favoring immediate and revolutionary action, while the other, with much greater wisdom and propriety, wished to act through the forms of law and with the consent of the parent State.

In Kentucky the latter party triumphed.

Moreover, while up to the time of this meeting of the May convention the leaders in the movement had been the old Indian fighters, after this date the lead was taken by men who had come to Kentucky only after the great rush of immigrants began.

The new men were not backwoods hunter-warriors, like Clark and Logan, Sevier, Robertson, and Tipton.

They were politicians of the Virginia stamp.