But the West had grown loyal as the Nineteenth Century came in.

The Westerners were hearty supporters of the Jeffersonian democratic-republican party; Jefferson was their idol; they were strongly attached to the Washington administration, and strongly opposed to the chief opponents of that administration, the Northeastern Federalists.

With the purchase of Louisiana all deep-lying causes of Western discontent had vanished.

The West was prosperous, and was attached to the National Government.

Its leaders might still enjoy a discussion with Burr or among themselves concerning separatist principles in the abstract, but such a discussion was at this time purely academic.