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 |
| Home, | 13 |
| 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-Americancharacter. 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 cameto the new land, at once pilgrims and pioneers, to rear altars and foundhomes in the primeval forest. It was not freedom of worship alone theysought, but their own way. They found it and kept it. Such a race produceda strong and hardy type of manhood, admirable if not always lovable.
But there was another force at work, moulding the national character, aforce as persistent, a type as intense as the Puritan’s own, and its exactopposite. The men who settled the Southern Colonies, Virginia, Maryland,and the Carolinas, were Cavaliers; not necessarily in blood, or even inloyalty to the Stuart cause, but Cavalier in sympathies, in the generalview of life, in virtues and vices. So[Pg 8] far as the provinces couldrepresent the mother country, Virginia and Maryland reflected th