In the last decade of the eighteenth century the acute friction was not between North and South, but between East and West.

The men who, from various motives, wished to see a new republic created, hoped that this republic would take in all the people of the western waters.

These men never actually succeeded in carrying the West with them.

At the pinch the majority of the Westerners remained loyal to the idea of national unity; but there was a very strong separatist party, and there were very many men who, though not separatists, were disposed to grumble loudly about the shortcomings of the Federal government.
Their Influence in Kentucky.
Their Fatuity.
These men were especially numerous and powerful in Kentucky, and they had as their organ the sole newspaper of the State, the _Kentucky Gazette_.

It was filled with fierce attacks, not only upon the General Government, but upon Washington himself.