The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-21

tions 90 discredltable to human lnt1k&2os
these The Pusitans mtY have beo k3onE
icel, but they did not welter in godlessness.
What they encountered was met without
inevitable want was tempered by q conn
munity of patience and fortitude.
Daniel De Foe, when he wrote his re-
markablA novel of "Moll Flanders" paint
ed, almost from person1 observation, the
characteristics Of aVirginian colonization
His book il one of those rare works in
which facts are honestly Get forth through
the medium Of fiction. Here 10 his record
q the proud ss|. hesinninss Of this arrosan'
"The greatest part Of the inhabitants o.
that celony came thither in very indiffer.
emit circumstances from England. Gener.
ally speaking, they were OF two sorts: eli
Their, LIST, such ~ were brought over by
masters Of ships 10 be sold a. servants; Of
I'd, such - are transported after having
been found guilty Of crimes punishable
"When they come here" continues the
narrator, we make no differences; the
planters buy them, and they work together
in the field till their time Is out. When tits
expired, they have encouragement given
them to plant for themselves; for they
have q certain number of acres Of land al
lotted them. Hence, many a Nesggate bird
justices OF the peace, officers Of tho: tvais-
bands, and magistrates Of the tOscns they
live i4, that haze been burnt in the hand.'' :.
). Newgate birds great men! justices Of the
peace burned in the hand! the ancestors OF
these first families of whom we have
heard SO much, the mere Overlooking scum
Of Newgato replete with rascaiitv! WHY.
these peacoc1s Of mettle might as we'll have
come from Praise God areb0nes or some
other scripturally nomened ornament of
the Rump Parliament sar Is.
We protest against being considered at
all partial to this method Of retort, except
SO far as it may be necessary to fight fools
with their own weapons; and when peo-
pie give unmistakable evidence, while pre-
tending to purity Of blood, that they are no
purer thon their neighbors, we do not see
why it is not fair to show that their preten-
sions are as unfounded as their practice is
discreditable. The truth is, people, both
at the North and the South, have permit
ted themselves to talk not little licen-
tiously of the character of the Puritans, and
with great deal of folly of that Of the Vir-
gilman Cavaliers. There has been the same
mistake, too, about the existing genera
tons. You can no more find the melted,
spirited, honorable, generous, in a word,
Csivalrous Virginian, than you can find
the mean, mousing, hypocriticai, sanctified
and avaricious Yankee. You may read of
the one in novels, and you may see the
other upon the stage, but they exist no.
where in forms any moro palpable. These
gentle blooded Southrons who are too
proud to work, and too poor to live with
out working, have exhibited in the present
war a sort Of savagery to parallel which
you must go quite as far as the Feejee Is
lands. The same beastly ferocity which
led their forefathers to slit noses, has i'm
PEELED them to kill prisoners Of war, to
make drinking-cups Of their skulls, aud to
carve buttons from their bones. Is any,
body astonished at this7 Why, these Re
bells can commit no excess which shall
equal in atrocity the simple fact that for
ages they have made their body politic an
organized and constitutional knavery.-
Future ages will so consider it. No people
that We can conceive Of will care to claim
them for ancestors.-N. Y. Tribune,