Harrison, St. Clair, and Sargent. 
  Lessons Taught by Blount’s Experience.

Harrison was thoroughly in sympathy with the Westerners.  He had thrown in his lot with theirs; he deemed himself one of them, and was accepted by them as a fit representative.  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.  They distrusted the frontier folk, and were bitterly disliked in return.  Each committed the fundamental fault of trying to govern the Territory over which he had been put in accordance with his own ideas, and heedless of the wishes and prejudices of those under him.  Doubtless each was conscientious in what he did, and each of course considered the difficulties under which he labored to be due solely to the lawlessness and the many shortcomings of the settlers.  But this was an error.  The experience of Blount when he occupied the exceedingly difficult position of Territorial Governor of Tennessee showed that it was quite possible for a man of firm belief in the Union to get into touch with the frontiersmen and to be accepted by them as a worthy representative; but the virtues of St. Clair and Sargent were so different from the backwoods virtues, and their habits of thought were so alien, that they could not possibly get on with the people among whom their lot had been cast.  Neither of them in the end took up his abode in the Territory of which he had been Governor, both returning to the East.  The code of laws which they enacted prior to the Territories possessing a sufficient number of inhabitants to become entitled to Territorial legislatures were deemed by the settlers to be arbitrary and unsuited to their needs.  There was much popular feeling against them.  On one occasion St. Clair was mobbed in Chillicothe, the then capital of Ohio, with no other effect than to procure a change of capital to Cincinnati.  Finally both Sargent and St. Clair were removed by Jefferson, early in his administration.

    The Jeffersonians the Champions of the West.

The Jeffersonian Republican party did very much that was evil, and it advocated governmental principles of such utter folly that the party itself was obliged immediately to abandon them when it undertook to carry on the government of the United States, and only clung to them long enough to cause serious and lasting damage to the country; but on the vital question of the West, and its territorial expansion, the Jeffersonian party was, on the whole, emphatically right, and its opponents, the Federalists, emphatically wrong.  The Jeffersonians