Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-27
ANCESTRAL BLOOD.
THE DISTINCT FORCES OF clWLlZA'
TON IN THE SOUTH.
The Cavalier in the Old Cotton States
Lord BaltImOre's Catholic Colony
Prominent characteristics Of d
Southern ChiValry.
rCor. Detroit Free Press.

Setting aside the black race for the
present there are four distinct forces of
civilization in the south today which can
easily be traced to the strains of ancestral
blood, coloring each its strip of the entire
web of southern society. One is domi-
nant in one part Of the south, another in
another.
The most difficult to analyze is the mon
grel blood of Texas, which makes it like
the early northwest, only in exaggerated
form-the New England blood strained
through the adventurous west mixed with
every other blood on the face Of the earth
and the whole raised to fever heat. That
is Texas.
Louisiana is dominated by the blood Of
the Latin races conferred at New Oorleans
easy going, pleasure-seeking.
Florida. settled by Spain $50 years ago,
has lost much OF its early Spanish tinge,
and the dominant force is now the most
cultured strains of Puritan blood, cold,
polished and s%elf-contained.
BLOOD OF H CAVALIERS.
The old cotton states are denominated
by the blood of the cavaliers, injected into
this region in the following order:
l. Sir Walter Raleigh's colony, which,
in the age of Queen Elizabeth, Shakes
peare and Bacon, landed at Roanoke
island, now in North Carolina. in 1884,
the first English colony in America.
2. The Virginia company, which
landed at jamestown in 1907, thirteen
years before the Puritans landed on
Plymouth Rock, and tiourished under
John Smith, Lord De La Ware and others
of the English nobility
3. Lord Baltimores colony in Mary.
land 1852, the first colony of English
Roman Catholics and the first to pro.
claim religious freedom and to welcome
all sects.
While Baltimore, Richmond. Savannah
and other southern cities pride them.
selves upon their pure strains OF cavalier
blood, none place a higher value upon it
than Charleston, S. G., and its dominant
civilization may be taken as typical of
southern chivalry.
LEADING CHARACTERISTICS.
Some of its prominent characteristics
are:
/. An apparent contempt for money
matters. Money is regarded of less i'm
portance than breeding, manner and
many other things. The smell of the
shop, " the talk of business, and all that,
is not only regarded excessively vulgar 10
mixed society, at the table and in other
places, but even in a merchants counting
room it must be approached only after
other topics are discussed, and in q round.
about way that makes it appear as a mat
ter quite subordinate and incidental.
y IAOfnnn,nn - yovoo TNl.so t.
ent not in d~rawing.rooms only, but every.
where. | have seen gentlemen rise tc
give their seats in a street car to a poor,
old black NANNY under circumstances
where a northern gentleman would
scarcely have risen for the most captivat.
Ing woman in existence. Southern gentle
men view with establishment the absenGd
Of such amenities in northern cities. IN
northern cities it is often at the risk Of
life and limb that one attempts to cross q
street full of teams. In the south it is
quite different Drivers of all grades
stop their teams if necessary to let you
cross without risk.
3. Regard for the reputation and feel
ings of others. Back. biting is almost
entirely unknown in southern society,
You seldom hear anything derogatory to
others.
"Isn't it the fear of the pistol thai
checks detection" you ask.
Well, if it is, would not the introduc.
ton of this little implement have q
wholesome elect in goSSiping circles Of
the north, where the bones of a neighbor'I
reputation are too often picked with {
relish? This trait of southern society i
sometimes carried too far, as when
written testimonials of good character are
given unworthy persons.