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education, and many of them were known in Europe for their talents
and their acquirements. The other colonies had been founded by
adventurers without family; the emigrants of New England brought
with them the best elements of order and morality; they landed in
the desert, accompanied by their wives and children. But what most
especially distinguished them was the aim of their undertaking.
They had not been obliged by necessity to leave their country; the
social position they abandoned was one to be regretted, and their
means of subsistence were certain. Nor did they cross the Atlantic
to improve their situation, or to increase their wealth: the call
which summoned them from the comforts of their homes was purely
intellectual; and in facing the inevitable sufferings of exile,
their object was the triumph of an idea.'

Let the world judge between the Puritan and the so-called Cavalier!

As the same author remarks--'The influence of slavery, united to the
English character, explains the manners and the social condition of the
Southern States;' so it is no less true, that the influence of an almost
unlimited democracy, the product of widespread intelligence and pure
religion, united to the English character, explains the peculiar
civilization of New England. It is nothing strange, certainly, that,
after the wide and continued divergence of two aggressive principles for
more than two hundred years, they should at last come to stand in the
position of giant antagonisms, and close in a deadly grapple for the
ascendency. It is perfectly natural that the ignorance and mental
darkness of slave Virginia or Carolina should fear and hate above all
things the light of knowledge that streams from New England; it is
natural that the unquestioned immorality and laxity of principle
engendered by slavery should shrink from the contrast with a state of
morals unsurpassed for purity in the world; and that an obsequious
church and clergy, which, in the holy name of religion, and 'using the
livery of heaven to serve the devil in,' had dared by the thinnest
sophistries and most palpable perversions to garble the true teachings
of the Bible, and been willing to brave the anathemas denounced against
those who add to or subtract from aught written therein, should accede
willingly to a separation which could relieve them somewhat from an
odious comparison, to say the least. Comp