Finding no heed paid to their requests for separation, some of the more extreme separatists threatened to refuse to pay taxes to Virginia; while the Franklin people proposed to unite with them into a new State, without regard to the wishes of Virginia or of North Carolina.

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By the adding of ist: as, sensual, sensualist; separate, separatist; royal, royalist; fatal, fatalist.

By the adding of ist: as, sensual, sensualist; separate, separatist; royal, royalist; fatal, fatalist.

It was the existence of these Western separatists, nominally the fiercest foes of Spain, that in reality gave Spain the one real hope of staying the western advance.