New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-19
SOUTHERN CHIvALRY.

fnuch III lnvdlOuB comparison vi the Hneaso vi Tue
loyal and disloyal States respectively, and to
boast of themselves as descended from the
cavaliers of Old England, while We, Northern
"mudsills," are of baser blood, and OF the
most diverse and disreputable parentagc. II
has been stouty insisted by them that our sol
diers could not match theirs in battle, by rea-
son Of this disparity of origin and breeding.
This taunt impels us to look into tho matter
thus propounded. and quote some testimony
thereon from authorities TINT even treason can
not well gainsay.
And, as the British Press has chosen to in
teImeddle with our domestic controversy in al
unirendly spirit, insisting that tho Southern
White population is more "pnrciy English IN
blood than any other out of Great Britain it.
self, and entitled 70 the ,ympathes OF Brtons
on that account, ~ shall endeavor to show
just how pure that blood is, and what sort Of
Britons can best lay claim to the kiuship so
stouty asserted. That changes have been eff
onized from Great Britain is true, but these
have occurred mainly at the South, and
through the influence of her peculiar nstitu.
ton" Have these been calculated to make
the British more proud Of their Southern
kinsmen
As to the moral effect Of Slavery upon a
community, we need not here enlarge. II
has been the same in all countries and
in oil climcs 1t subyeIts all moral
purity, and seldom fails TO blunt in time
the integrity even of those who, born else
where, come to sojourn where 1t exists. The
STAKEHOLDER often points with triumph TO the
Northern man who, living for a time where
Slavery is, becomes convert 10 ts doctrines.
lie claims as an evidence OF moral health what
we would call proof Of the contagousness of
disease. But the social phenomena connected
with Slavery are uniform; they converge in an
entirely perverted appreciation Of right and
wrong. Proof is abundant, and nowhere more
50 than in tho Parliamentary Records for years
prior to the final success Of Mr.. Wilbcrforce.
Those records are ample, substantial, ard
minute; they were collected with extreme cir
cumspecton by the most ylrtuous and sagncious
men of their times they arc accessible 10 all,
and particularly 50 TO Eogli,hmen, to whom
they are therefore earnestly recommended.
But it is not the influence Of Slavery alone
which has made Southern character 70 widely
different from that Of the industrious, loyal.
and God.icaring population Of the Northern
States. 1t is remarkable fact, tina, q
large proportion of the traitors now in
arms against their country are actually
the descendants of ooHricted Cions. From
an early period, Great Britain, in ac-
c0rdaDce with her traditional colonial policy,
transported vast numbers Of her criminals TO
the territory which now constitutes Virginia,
the Caroluas, Georgia, and Maryland; but,
from the rigor Of the climate, the numbers Of
the Indians, and other POLITICAL considerations,
none were sent to the now Middle and
Northern States. The evil had assumed such
proportions in 1870, that the General Court Of
Virginia essayed to modify it by the passage OF
an order in which occurs the following:
1t shall not be permitted any person trading hi,b,r to
brf ia aud land julie Jtrds such Others who for
ous ocnses have deserved to dye In England from aud after
the twentyeh day Of January neat upon paine Of being
county where they may be secured And hsy.
been the induced TO make this order by tho horror yet
,using anong US OF the bAbaIous designe OF those vii
iaiues In September 1868 who attempted the sub
version Of religion, swe. lberye. rEh. and propre
tyo, the sad effect Il which Desperate had
doubtedly had God OF his INFINITE mercy prevented T.
by timely and wonderful discovery Of the sls.' Her
rinss Iuginio Stafufes at Large Vol H., p. 2o9
Either this prohibition was Intellectual. or il
was overruled as opposed to the royal preroga-
tive, for We find repeated attempts of the same
nature were made, the most remarkable being
recorded in the same authority az occurring in
1873, I74s, and l766. Further evidences of
the extent of the nuisance are also given in
Bereriey's History Of Tirginio, Pr. 50, 50, 2iS,
249, 235, 236.
The atute-bOOks of the other colonies TEEN
with similar indications Of these very trouble
some visitors, and the efforts of the more re.
spectacle to be rid of them. In Maryland,
some time before tho Revolution, the Provin-
cial Legislature forwarded to the Home Go
vernment bitter remonstrancc against I" the
deluge of criminal and vicious population with
which they had been inundated" That very
small colony "baying received 40 600 thieves,
barlots, and Migrants within period of twenty
one years." We find additional confederation
Of the suilerings of Maryland from this influx
of reprobates in Thomas Baoon's Lars IF
Maryland at Large, Annapolis, 1865. See also
Grimke's Public Lars Of South Carolina.
During the Ministry of Sir Robert Walpole,
me complaints of the Colonies touching this
grievance became most numerous and pressing.
It was at this time that DIR. Franklin wrote
to the Minister his ironica letter profering to
Great Britain the thanks of the Colonies for