Note 622 — Chapter IV

Byrd, of Westover, in comparing the New Englanders with the Southrons of Virginia, says that the latter “thought their being members of the established church sufficient to sanctifie very loose and profligate morals.” Wynne’s ed. Westover MSS., i. p. 7. Cf. the collation of the laws and traits of Virginia and New England in “Old Times in Virginia,” in Putnam’s Mag., Aug., 1869. A paper by W. H. Whitmore on “The Cavalier Theory refuted,” in the Continental Monthly (1863), vol. iv. p. 60, was written in the height of feeling engendered by the civil war.