stranger and his circumstances. Boston required that
all coming from Ireland should be registered "lest they become
chargeable." Warnings and whippings out of town still continued. All
this was so contrary to the methods of colonies in other countries, such
as the Barbadoes, Honduras, etc., where extraordinary privileges were
offered settlers, free and large grants of land, absolvment from past
debts, etc., that it makes an early example of the curious absorbing and
assimilating power of American nationality, which ever grew and grew
even against such clogs and hampering restrictions.

In the Southern colonies the same kindliness existed as in the North,
but the conditions differed. John Hammond, of Virginia, wrote in 1656,
in his _Leah and Rachel_:--

"The Country is not only plentifull, but pleasant and profitable,
pleasant in regard of the extraordinary good neighbourhood and
loving conversation they have one with another.

"The inhabitants are generally affable, courteous, and very
assistant to Strangers (for what but plenty makes hospitality and
good neighbourhood) and no sooner are they settled, but they will
be visiting, presenting and advising the strangers how to improve
what they have, how to better their way of livelihood."

In summer when fresh meat was killed, the neighbors shared the luxury,
and in turn gave of their slaughter. Hammond adds:--

"If any fall sick and cannot compass to follow his crops which
would soon be lost, the adjoining neighbour, or upon request more
joyn together and work it by spells, until he recovers; and that
gratis, so that no man may by sickness loose any part of his year's
work.

"Let any travell, it is without charge and at every house is
entertainment as in a hostelry."

It was the same in the Carolinas. Ramsay, the early historian of South
Carolina, said that hospitality was such a virtue that innkeepers
complained that their business was not worth carrying on. The doors of
citizens were open to all decent travellers, and shut to none.

The plantations were in many counties too far apart for any cooeperative
labor, and the planters were not men of such vast strength or so great
personal industry, even in their own affairs, as were the Yankees. There
were slaves on each plantation to do all the hard work of lifting, etc.
But in out-of-the-way settlements the Virginia planters' kindliness was
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