... opinion of the middle States like clay in the hands of the potter. On the other hand, the Cavalier element in the South, although not the only one, has ever been as predominant in the South as the Puritan in the North. Generally the Roundhead fled from the Cavalier party in England, when it was in power, to the North, and the Cavalier from Roundhead ascendancy, to the South. The original causes of...