The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-22

discipline, the respect for elders. parents
and teachers, enforced upon the youhs'
maintained a degree of good manners,
marked alike by self-respect and respect
for others, the absence of which Is noW-a-
days the most striking characteristic OF
colonial society. The Revolution had
deteriorating influence. or the naturai
aristocracy of Massachusetts. her elder
political and commercial families. great
proportion were driven into exile. Inc
breach with tradition, the revolt against
authority, which is the very essence OF
rebellion, almost invariably lowers the
tone of society and the standard OF man
ners. The growth of cities, the develop
ment Of manufactures, the progress OF
democracy, the immigration from Europe,
the emigration to the West. the rapid ac-
tumulation OF wealth. for the most part
In the hands OF self-made and SEIZED l.
Gated or uneducated men, greatly chanS"d
between 1920 and 1870 the industrial, moral
and social character of the people or New
England. The old hereditary homes
wherein families of very modest means
maintained. with the simple life and
tastes of farmers the bearing and repu,e
of gentlemen, have almost disappeared.
"Of pure English blood. consisting IN
large measure Of younger sons and Eng
fish gentlemen of broken fortunes, rein
forced under the Commonwealth by an
influx Of men OF birth and station who
had lost everything in the royal cause,
the planters Of Virginia-living, as the
minor English gentry generally lived TN
I'll the beginning OF the pi resent century,
on their estates, with an Irish lavish
ness of hospitality and certain tinge OF
Irish heedlessness in pecuniary mat%efs-
formed perhaps the finest and most char-
enthusiastically English type of the Anglo
Saxon race. The chivalric spirit and
punctilious courtesy of former day havs-
been preserved by the appeal TO the duel
still sanctioned by Southern opinion. Their
society Is that in which an Englishman
finds himself, most speedily and perfectly
at home. Educated from boyhood In the
exercise of authority on the one hand, and
on the other accustomed to equal discus
sion of local, State and practical poll
tics, in whose issue the safety OF the
country, the enterests. and perhaps the
fortunes OF every citizen were at stake
used even more than the aristocracy
of England TO the use Of the saddle, 10
field sports and TO an outdoor life-the
| Virginans enjoyed for generations an
| unequalled mental and physical training,
| and proved themselves, socially and In
| dividually, In the highest qualities or
| citizens and soldiers, equal to any Eng
lish community in the world" H., u.s.
have made the above quotation, In
spite of its length, to do free justice to
the writer, whose powers of perception
and expression II has been necessary TO
criticise in other parts OF this paper.
| 1t is difficult to imagine the same pen
writing the striking paragraph just quoted
and the following, which appears near the
end of the first volume:
| 1.-The Pharisaic self-esteem, the fntol-
| Grant virtue, the moral austerity, fnteili-
| gence and commercial shrewdness OF Purf-
tan Massachusetts,. the statesman
like moderation. soldierly pride and aris-
tocratic dignity of Virginia. stand out in
the national annals In colors as clear and
| unalterable as distinguish the fmpulsive
liberalism of Athens from the stern. self
ish oligarchic reserve Of Sparta and the
unprincipled brutality Of Thebes." Page
439.
This may be the picture. but how un-
| like the other!
No Southern man can read Mr.. Greg's
book without perceiving that In him the
South has friend.
No South Carolinian ever had greater
admiration for Mr.. Calhoun than had Mr.
Greg OF him he says:
"John c. Calhoun. of South Carolina
after Alexander Hamilton the most con
sistent. LOGICAL clear-sighted and FAR
sighted statesman, the profoundest pc
utical thinker that the Union has evel
produced; the greatest, ablest. most reso
lutte of that third political generation
whose destined task 1t was TO grappl'
with the problems which had eluded TIL
forethought OF the first" Page 4l5.
His sketch Of Mr.. Calhoun's last ap
pearance in the Senate is most pic
turesoue: calhoun sat pale. feeble ant
suffering, the fire in those dark eyes con
tras,ine the wasted form and worn face
While his last speech was read. amid IN
Seen silence OF intense attention and uni
versal emotion. by Mason OF virginia.
Mt. Davis book is the basis OF man.
=, his views. II not Of most OF those con
nected with the South's position In Tn
late war.
II had been we'll II he had conhne
himself TO the history Of that war AM
the subsequent events. for then his righte
n,,o indignation over General BENJAMIN
Rmt,er's "order" in New Orleans woul
not have to be discounted In the eye 0
The world by his apology for Mormonlsn
rnr the abatement that every virginia
~ character was opposed to the repuus
sson Of the virginia debt" (vol. H., pas
~ have 70 Be INST BY the stascmSn
rs9scting UPON ~ Virginia. sse1vs ~