A CONTRAST OF ETHNOGENESIS (2/2)

"The Puritan side of the picture was a revolting contrast. The English Puritans [ancestors of Northerners] proper were among the very worst developments of human nature...the Puritan revolution was a politico-religious fanaticism.

Misanthropy, hypocrisy, diseased philanthropy, envy, hatred, fanaticism, and all the worst passions of the human heart, were the ruling characteristics of the English Puritans; and they continue to be the ruling characteristics of New-England Yankees, with the difference, that these have passed from the religious to the anti-religious extreme, and are now as much a people of infidels, as the French of 1793."

— A. Clarkson, "The Basis of Northern Hostility to the South" (1860) in De Bow's Review

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