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county seat where he finds a Democratic convention in session, hitching his steed, entering the court house without taking off his spurs, and announcing himself as a candidate for the office of county attorney. Shades of Jefferson and Patrick Henry, of Fitz Lee and Magruder     was ever such sacrilege!

And has not such unjust measure been meted out to all other denizens of the sacred soil? I enter no plea for the Kentuckian; they seem to think he deserves, and he certainly receives, no more quarter than an Irishman.

But then the Texan! What they do to him might make a mustang shed tears. Ninety-nine men out of every hundred, who know him only in literature, imagine that his vast and soon to become imperial state is peopled only by rangers and cowboys, wearing the beaded effigy of a snake around their hats, and notching the stocks of their revolvers in memoriam.

I believed at one time that I could distinguish     if only by some slight evidence which I couldn't have explained     the native inhabitants of most of the Southern states. But I was never able to tell a Kentuckian from a Tennesseean     although they were the people whom I knew most intimately. The resemblance, for me at least, exists between the people of the corresponding portions of each state. A Kentucky mountaineer is the exact counterpart of a Tennessee mountaineer; the man of central Kentucky is as much like the man of middle Tennessee as one chip cut out of a white oak or a hickory is like another; and if the entire population of any one of the counties of Western Tennessee should move bodily into any one of the counties of Western Kentucky     like some ancient barbarian immigration into the territory of a kindred tribe     I am sure that the sheriff would never ascertain what had occurred because of any perceptible difference in appearance, speech, and demeanour between the old residents and the new comers.

The conditions of the pioneer period induced a connection and understanding between the people who occupied the territory out of which the two states were subsequently created, which has been maintained ever since. Separated by the almost pathless Appalachian range from the colonies on the seaboard, having no neighbours of their own race save each other, the settlers of Kentucky and Tennessee     and both were settled