The Cumberland people seemed to travellers the wildest and rudest of all, as was but natural, for these fierce and stalwart settlers were still in the midst of a warfare as savage as any ever waged among the cave-dwellers of the Stone Age.
The opinion of any mere passer-through a country is always less valuable than that of an intelligent man who dwells and works among the people, and who possesses both insight and sympathy.

At this time one of the recently created Kentucky judges, an educated Virginian, in writing to his friend Madison, said: "We are as harmonious amongst ourselves as can be expected of a mixture of people from various States and of various Sentiments and Manners not yet assimilated.

In point of Morals the bulk of the inhabitants are far superior to what I expected to find in any new settled country.

We have not had a single instance of Murder, and but one Criminal for Felony of any kind has yet been before the Supreme Court.

I wish I could say as much to vindicate the character of our Land-jobbers.