Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-02
SOUTHERN CHIVALRY.

acter which exists between the people of
the northern and southern sections OF the
United States, is chiefly owing to the DIFF
ferent Iefiects Of their institutions aud eli
mates. The direct influence OF slavery upon
the character is well known, and is illustrated
BY its general effects upon northern men who
become Shareholders at the south. As rule
it is said that none are more insane devotees
to the peculiar institution none are more
arbitrary, tyrannical and blunted in their
moral perceptions than these become in
short time under the degrading influences of
slavery.
1t is the influence of freedom, general ed
ucation, democratic institutions, and the
general necessity for labor, combined with
the invigorating and liberty inspiring climate,
on the one hand, and slavery, with aristocra-
ey, extravaganza and contempt of labor
ignorance and degradation among the masses,
all flowing therefrom, which have chiefly
worked out the different results now visible
in northern and southern character. 1t is
this effect of the institution upon the whites,
different upon the wealthy and poer classes
but deplorable upon both, which is one of its
chief evils, and renders it so antagonistic to
a genuine democracy.
The Southerners however, in their con-
tempt for the mudsills of the north, claim
more elevated origin, and trace the differ
ence in character to the sources from which
the people of the two sections have sprung.
We do not regard it as a very profitable
matter for general discussion, as it might tend
to " irritate The south >; but they have been
so persistent in founding claims of superiority
over the north, as soldiers and men, upon
their boasted descent from the cavaliers of
old England" while we must look to the
''roundheads" and other base sources for our
ancestry, that certain facts, for which we are
indebted to recent article in the Tribune
are amusing at least. From an early period,
Great Britain, in accordance with her tradi-
tional colonial policy, transported vast num-
bers of her criminals to the territory which
now constitutes Virginia, the Carolinas
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 bad assumed such proportions IN
1870, that the n.-.-~i cs.ao vi virginia |
essayed TO modify it by the passage of an
order in which occurs the following:
" 1t shall not be permitted to any person
tradeing hither to bring in and land any
.jasle-blrds, or such others who for notorious |
offences have deserved to dye in England, |
from and after the twentyeth day OF January
next, upon paine of being forced to keepe
them on board and carry them to some other
country, where they may be better secured. |
And We have been the more induced to make |
this order by the horror yet remaining amongst
US of the barbarous designe of those vilaines
in September, 1868, who attempted at once
the subversion of our religion, lawes, liber-
tyes, rights, and propryetyes, the sad effect of
which desperate conspiracy we had undoubt-
prevented it by a timely and wonderful dis
covery OF the same. Harring's Virginia
Statutes al Large, Vol. II, page 200.
Repeated attempts were afterwards made
OF similar nature to prevent the influx of
these convicts, both in Virginia, and in the
Caronas. In the small colony of Maryland,
some time before the revolution, 10000
thieves, Migrants, &c., had been received
when its Legislature forwarded to the Home
Government bitter remonstrance against
" the deluge OF criminal and vicious popula-
ton with which they had been inundated"
During the Ministry of Sir Robert Wal.
pole, the complaints Of the Colonies touching
this grievance became most numerous and
pressing. 1t was at this time that DIR. Frank
LIN wrote to the Minister his ironcal letter
proiiering to Great Britain the thanks of the
Colonies for her maternal care, accompan,ed
by collection Of rattlesnakes, which. he
suggested, should be introduced into his
daJesty's garden, in order that they might
propagate; assuring HIM that the reptiles i,
would be at least as beneficial to his Males !.
US English domlnions as British conyicts
we're in America"
These and numerous other complaints
made BY the different colonies, suffering from
his cause, were of little weight, and the
transportation of criminals continued to a
recent date. at is obyiouse
sys the Tribune, 9" that these hundreds of :
thousands of felons and outcasts who were r
bus poured into the Atlantic slaveholdinp :
states must have had offspring, as minated :
y Franklin, and that as at one time more
VERSIONS came into the colonies who we re- Q
onvlcts than we're not, we are justified in G
be assertion that large proportion of the U
,resent population are the descendants of II
eions. It Is furthermore worthy Of remark :