The Colonial Cavalier Or Southern Life Before the Revolution By Maud Wilder Goodwin Illustrated by Harry Edwards New York Lovell, Coryell & Company 1894 COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY. _All Rights Reserved._ Contents PAGE Preface, 7 His Home, 13 Sweethearts and Wives, 43 His Dress, 73 News, Trade and Travel, 97 His Friends and Foes, 125 His Amusements, 141 His Man-Servants and His Maid-Servants, 165 His Church, 189 His Education, 221 Laws, Punishments and Politics, 243 Sickness and Death, 273 The Colonial Cavalier Preface Two great forces have contributed to the making of the Anglo-American character. The types, broadly classed in England as Puritan and Cavalier, repeated themselves in the New World. On the bleak Massachusetts coast, the Puritan emigrants founded a race as rugged as their environment. Driven by the force of compelling conscience from their homes, they came to the new land, at once pilgrims and pioneers, to rear altars and found homes in the primeval forest. It was not freedom of worship alone they sought, but their own way. They found it and kept it. Such a race produced a strong and hardy type of manhood, admirable if not always lovable. But there was another force at work, moulding the national character, a force as persistent, a type as intense as the Puritan's own, and its exact opposite. The men who settled the Southern Colonies, Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas, were Cavaliers; not necessarily in blood, or even in loyalty to the Stuart cause, but Cavalier in sympathies, in the general view of life, in virtues and vices. So far as the provinces could represent the mother country, Virginia and Maryland reflected the Cavaliers, as Massachusetts and Connecticut reflected the Puritans. Their settlers came, impelled by no religious motives, and driven by no persecution. They lacked, therefore, the bond of a common enthusiasm and the still stronger tie of a common antipathy. Above all, they lacked the town-meeting. Separated by the necessities of plantation life, they formed a series of tiny kingdoms rather than a democratic community. To the Puritan, the village life of Scrooby and its like was familiar and therefore dear; but to the Southern settlers, the ideal was the great estate of the English gentry whose descendants many of them were.