Congregational Work of Minnesota. 1832-1920

"Separate Interests" and the Nation-State: The Washington Administration and the Origins of Regionalism in the Trans-Appalachian West

“…"79 June 1992 borrowed heavily from the constitutions of Kentucky and Tennessee. 87 When the Federalist diplomat and New Englander William Vans Murray remarked of Virginia in 1802 that "the wilderness is hers, and those who emerge from it," he seemed only to be stating the obvious. 88 Still, embittered Federalists like Murray, stung by the political triumph of the Jeffersonian Republicans, underestimated the impact of the Washington administration on the development of the trans-Appalachian region.…”