northerners, southerners, and westerners of easterners, and new englanders of just about everyone, and there are very well-founded fears -- speaking of the west here, of course come we are not talking about montana and idaho and south dakota. we are about west of the appellations. we are talking about what soon becomes kentucky and tennessee and ohio and indiana and illinois. that is about as far west as anyone can imagine at this point. the west fears that will break off into another country or maybe several countries. , slavery,d others while southerners threaten secession, and they did so in the course of the first congress, threatened secession withngress bears to tamper slavery, and as i said, and i will repeat it probably a few more times, even members of did not know if the survive itsould birth. as james madison said several times, we are in a wilderness without a single footstep for guidance. congressthe first achieved prodigious output. federal,ished the court system, the first revenue streams for the national government, the first and amendments approved to the constitution, adopted a program for paying the countries debts, and they embraced the kids both of capitalism as the underpinning of fi