An Examination of Beauchamp Plantagenet´s Description of the Province of New Albion (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Examination of Beauchamp Plantagenet´s Description of the Province of New Albion They stand out coldly and distinctly with their angles still sharp and unbroken, and with the nature of their materials and workmanship plainly discernible, the very antipodes to the historic picturesque. The Virginians boast of their descent from the cavaliers, those gallant gentlemen who so freely expended their blood and treasure in support of the royal authority, and who when resistance was vain, sought a refuge among the wilds of America. Some take what is regarded as still higher ground, and pique themselves upon a certain dash of Indian blood derived from Pochahontas. Whatever may have been the virtues and merits of the individual, those of her race are by no means so strikingly developed as to reflect any additional honour upon these claimants of affinity with it. The difference between an Indian princess, and a Negro princess, is about that between tweedledum, and twcedlc dee; but the parties who boast of their descent from the royal slock of Powhattan, look down with great contempt upon the corn hoeing, and tobacco picking members of the blood royal of Guinea. From which, it appears, that in Virginian heraldry gules is a more honourable tincture than sable. The most vociferous for the honour of their forefathers are our brethren of New England. The claims the first settlers of that section of our confederacy have upon the veneration of their descendants, do not strike us in this locality as being quite so clearly made out as they are strongly asserted. I cannot, however, unite with those who urge against the emigrant puritans, the charge of inconsistency, protesting against persecution, until, in the course of events, they had it in their power to persecute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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