Smyrna times., 1908-03-04

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boats and how far they sailed we
have little record. But the Virginia
movement by the east of the Chesa-
peake merits investigation. In the
time of Adams and Jackson a regular
steamboat came to Seaford from Nor
folk. Kidnapped Delaware slaves
were ferried to the old Virginia coun-
ties. Again, in this twentieth CEN
tury, the Delaware peninsula is the
continental base of steamboats, up the
Potomac, Rappahannock and Pianka-
tank. The foundation of cities, of
which Philadelphia was the first, op-
Grated in the far past, as now, to at
tract old rural merchants and the bet
ter mechanics. Quakerism was older
than Philadelphia, and it drew the So
ber classes from the less orderly South.
The emigrant shipper rode horseback
from Boston to Philadelphia, and his
chief justice descendent married a
scion of Chestertown in Maryland.
Franklin was the worst boy in Boston,
and the best man in Philadelphia.
Governor Howell, of New Jersey, in
the Whiskey War, was a native of
Newark, Delaware. Judge George
Gray's mother was from Connecticut.
Delaware's present Senators came
from Massachusetts and a French
line, and Theirs says that Dupont de
Nemour, whose dust is in Delaware,
was the ablest member of the French
national assembly in 1889. The Bay
ards were New Workers, later Phila-
deplhians, and returned to Delaware
after the Revolution.
Prolific New England and Virginia.
Prolific New England, founded in
the method of English tradesmen,
supplied nearly every later colony
with trained subjects, but Virginia,
with more family ambition, and set
tied but little earlier, has a looser
genealogy. Mr.. Jones, who repre-
sents nearly the whole of tide-water
Virginia, some thirteen counties, in
Congress, told me to consult the diary
published in our own time by Prince
ton College, if l would acquire the
only exact picture of Virginia colonial
life, and found it the work of New
Jersey family tutora to the landed
family of Carriers, and the author,
intending to be a Presbyterian preach
er, died in the camps of the Revolu-
tion. So the previous literature of
Virginia families is hearsay. Wash
ington knew no more of his family de-
cent than of mine, but had it con-
structed for him on probably spurious
heraldy. The old hero said it was a
subject of very little curiosity to him.
BrOadhead says that not a single
Dutch emigrant to New Netherlands
was above the burger or plain class.
Is it not as creditable to have come
out of the indistinguishable human
seed which had the common initiative
to plant great republic, as to be 8
pop corn above them, in the far past,
yet not distinguished in anything ever
since? Most of US came out of the
flood, and long lived upon its subsideC
estuaries in the unimperial peninsulas,
Our records, if kept, were. burned il
the very many courthouse fires. L
will not do to point to some ole
smokehouse or hoVel as built of "im
ported English bricks" to confirm ;
chimney corner pretension. Ignor
ance has confounded English bond, thu
method of bricklaying, with alternate
glazed bricks with English made bricl
and Philadelphia burnt the dressed
bricks and shipped them in coaster
to the planters South, if any ther,
were beneath the art of burning
kiln. This myth has been exploded
in the late economical histories o
Brcue and Browne, but it will hanl
on. like murderers' blood, which tn,
old negroes said would never wasl
out. The story of Delaware in tn
transit of its people to other parts ha
been neglected from want of data
Very recently the colonial record
have got into print and into index
and lift away the fairy tales of hear
say.
Again, Delaware was settled b
Swedes and Firms. These Firms trou
bled me. suppose they were an un
accountable dull race, till l went t
Finland The first thing l saw ashor
at Nelsing fors was beautiful monu
ment to a poet. The city was boule
varded like little Paris, and every
thing looked like fine civilization,
university, legislative palace, tn
I feeling of freedom under Russia
, envy. Till 1909. when Napoleon's er
e emies took Finland from Sweden an
e made it Russian, the Finnish race wa