Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ndRochelle. Theywere kindred, too, in morethan pride and sentiment,for the same English strainflowed in the veins of both,separating them from thePuritan English of theNorth, and warmed withthe Huguenot flush and thedash of the Washingtons, Lees,Taylors and Prestons, theElands, Lewises, Byrds,Fairfaxes, Balls, Carters and Carys (No mongrels, boy! saidRichelieu), had wedded across the border, and both Stateshad equal pride in their progress. Changed little by travel an inew surroundings the Maryes, Maurys, Flournoys and Bondu-rants, the Micou
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ndRochelle. Theywere kindred, too, in morethan pride and sentiment,for the same English strainflowed in the veins of both,separating them from thePuritan English of theNorth, and warmed withthe Huguenot flush and thedash of the Washingtons, Lees,Taylors and Prestons, theElands, Lewises, Byrds,Fairfaxes, Balls, Carters and Carys (No mongrels, boy! saidRichelieu), had wedded across the border, and both Stateshad equal pride in their progress. Changed little by travel an inew surroundings the Maryes, Maurys, Flournoys and Bondu-rants, the Micous, Latanes, Moncures and Maupins, were stillFrench. They were as earnest in endeavor for the new landas later were the dIberville, de Bienville and Boisbriantplanters of the Lilies in La Louisiane. The Egglestons,McGuires, Archers and Mayos proved fealty to new adherenceon young soil, as had the knight of the Shamrock in theCrusades in France and in the Papal Guard. One and all,with the Cabells, Burwells, Amblers, and others living in. LIEUT. COL. R. E. LEE, , 1852. BELLES, BEAUX AND BEAINS OF THE SIXTIES 11 history and song, later proved their loyalty to Virginia, as tothe king they served so well across the seas. All Virginians are cousins, say outsiders. Marriages,cross marriages, intermarriages, mesh State pride in a tangleof consanguinity that no Heraldry Harvey might every drop of that blood, English, Irish or French, throbsbut for one spot of earth—Virginia. From the days ofSmith and Jamestown, through those of Williamsburg ascolony capital and seat of the oldest university, throughthe war that made the Colony a State and flooded her bestnames with a noonshine of glory, through the war that madeher Richmond capital the goal of ambitious hate—througheach and all the Old Dominion has been true to duty and tocountry. But blood is thicker than water, and she has beentrue to herself. The ante-bellum Virginianwas a great horseman. He i rode to hounds as a ma
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