their ideas as is a legislature, a body of men elected by the people.  They provided a government which accentuated, instead of softening, the defects in their own social system.  They were in no danger of suffering from tyranny; they were in no danger of losing the liberty which they so jealously guarded.  The perils that threatened them were lawlessness, lack of order, and lack of capacity to concentrate their efforts in time of danger from within or from an external enemy; and against these perils they made no provision whatever.

    Western Feeling against the East. 
    The West in Close Touch with the South.

The inhabitants of Ohio Territory were just as bitter against St. Clair as the inhabitants of Mississippi Territory were against Sargent.  The Mississippians did not object to Sargent as a Northern man, but, in common with the men of Ohio, they objected to governors who were Eastern men and out of touch with the West.  At the end of the eighteenth century, and during the early years of the nineteenth, the important fact to be remembered in treating of the Westerners was their fundamental unity, in blood, in ways of life, and in habits of thought. [Footnote:  Prof.  Frederick A. Turner, of the University of Michigan, deserves especial credit for the stress he has laid upon this point.] They were predominantly of Southern, not of Northern blood; though it was the blood of the Southerners of the uplands, not of the low coast regions, so that they were far more closely kin to the Northerners than were the seaboard planters.  In Kentucky and Tennessee, in Indiana and Mississippi, the settlers were of the same quality.  They possessed the same virtues and the same shortcomings, the same ideals and the same practices.  There was already a considerable Eastern emigration to the West, but it went as much to Kentucky as to Ohio, and almost as much to Tennessee and Mississippi as to Indiana.  As yet the Northeasterners were chiefly engaged in filling the vacant spaces in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania.  The great flood of Eastern emigration to the West, the flood which followed the parallels of latitude, and made the Northwest like the Northeast, did not begin until after the War of 1812.  It was no accident that made Harrison, the first governor of Indiana and long the typical representative of the Northwest, by birth a Virginian, and the son of one of the Virginian signers of the Declaration of Independence.  The Northwest was at this time in closer touch with Virginia than with New England.

    Homogeneity of the West. 
    Slavery in the West.