Old Virginia and her neighbours

THE COMING OF THE CAVALIERS. 29who leave their country for reasons connected withconscience and principle, men who have importanceonce consecrated themselves to a cause, i°ier"eTementare picked men for ability and charac- "^^'^e'^a.ter. Such men are likely to exert upon any communitywhich they may enter an influence immeasurablygreater than an equal number of mentaken at random. It matters little what side theymay have espoused. Very few of the causes forwhich brave men have fought one another havebeen wholly right or wholly wrong. Our politicsmay be those of Samuel Adams, but we mustadmit that the Thomas Hutchinson type of mindand character is one which society could ill affordto lose. Of the gallant Cavaliers who drew thesword for King Charles, there were many who nomore approved of his crooked methods and despoticaims than Hutchinson approved of theStamp Act. No better illustration could be foundthan Lord Falkland, some of whose kinsmen emigratedto Virginia and played a conspicuous partthere. A proper combination of circumstanceswas all that was required to bring the childrenof these royalists into active political alliance withthe children of the Cromwellians.Both in Virginia and in New England, then,the principal element of the migration consistedof picked men and women of the same station inlife, and differing only in their views ofcivil1 1 • • 1T mi TFand Differencesecclesiastical polity. The dif- between^New Eng-, -,ferences that grew up between the rela- land and. . p . . Virginia.tively aristocratic type of society mVirginia and the relatively democratic type in