Accordingly he was very popular as Governor of Indiana.

St.Clair in Ohio and Sargent in Mississippi were both extremely unpopular.

They were appointed by Federalist administrations, and were entirely out of sympathy with the Western people among whom they lived.

One was a Scotchman, and one a New Englander.

They were both high-minded men, with sound ideas on governmental policy, though Sargent was the abler of the two; but they were out of touch with the Westerners.