For the planter-class we were mere traders; they for us were men too lightly presumed to live an idle life of gambling, sport and hard drinking--a life foreign to ours.

The colonies were to one another like foreign countries.

In the Revolution you may read clearly the effect of these opinions, when Washington expressed the wish that his officers would forget that they came from Connecticut or Virginia, and remember only they were Americans." Grey said, "We did our share, sir." "Yes, but all Washington's important generals were Northern men; but that is not to the point.

Washington put down the whisky-tax revolt with small regard for State rights.

The Constitution unhappily left those State rights in a condition to keep up old differences.