Several of those counties were drug into West Virginia without their consent. Many were sending troops to the South.
As were more than a few Southern counties, at least by ballot.
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No actually, Jackson was termed here as a dictatorialist tyrant and it was said that Virginia voluntarily let West Virginia secede.
Ironically in his day Jackson was seen very much as the President of the common man and in terms of finances anyway did more to advance the power of states relative to the Federal Government than almost anyone.
Despite being a wealthy member of the Southern Plantation class he was almost religiously pro-Union, perhaps in part because he had fought in both prior wars FOR the United States. He was also a great expansionist, had invaded Spanish Florida on our behalf and was actively involved in actively supporting (to the extent of sending troops) the independence of Texas.
Such was his prominence in his day that, twenty-five years after his death, pro-Union men from both North and South were avidly citing Jackson as their inspiration.
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"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
