The emigrants who came, at different periods to occupy the territory now covered by the American Union, differed from each other in many respects; their aim was not the same, and they governed themselves on different principles...
...The men sent to Virginia were seekers of gold, adventurers without resources and without character, whose turbulent and restless spirit endangered the infant colony, and rendered its progress uncertain. The artisans and agriculturalists arrived afterwards; and, although they were a more moral and orderly race of men, they were in nowise above the inferior classes of England. No lofty conceptions, no intellectual system, directed the foundation of these new settlements....
...the emigrants of New England brought with them the best elements of order and morality-they landed in the desert accompanied by their wives and children. But what most especially distinguished them was the aim of their undertaking. They had not been obliged by necessity to leave their country; the social position they abandoned was one to be regretted, and their means of subsistence were certain. NOr did they cross the Atlantic to increase their wealth; the call which summoned them from the comforts of their homes was purely intellectual; and in facing the inevitable sufferings of exile their object was the triumph of an idea.
The emigrants, or, as they deservedly styled themselves, the Pilgrims, belonged to that English sect the austerity of whose principles had acquired for them the name of Puritans. Puritanism was not merely a religious doctrine, but it corresponded in many points with the most absolute democratic and republican theories. It was this tendency which had aroused its most dangerous adversaries. Persecuted by the Government of the mother country, and disgusted by the habits of a society opposed to the rigor of their own principles, the Puritans went forth to seek some rude and unfrequented part of the world, whre they could live according to their own opinions, and worship God in freedom....
...A democracy, more perfect than any which antiquity had dreamed of, started in full size and panapoly from the midst of an ancient feudal society.
Perhaps we'll find out.
I guess I should be surpised that you haven't resorted to your typical smarmy insults. Yet.