232 HEREDITY IN RELATION TO EUGENICS 



army and navy by the hundred. They furnished three of 

 the recent Democratic candidates for Vice-president of the 

 United States. They furnished the Union Army General 



B. Gratz Brown, General Francis P. Blair, General Andrew 

 J. Alexander, General Edwin C. Carrington, General Thomas 



C. Crittenden, Colonel Peter A. Porter, Colonel John M. 

 Brown, and other gallant officers. To the southern army 

 they gave Major-General John C. Breckinridge, Major- 

 General William Preston, General Randall Lee Gibson, 

 General John B. Floyd, General John B. Grayson, Colonel 

 Robert J. Breckinridge, Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge, 

 Colonel William Watts, Colonel Cary Breckinridge, Colonel 

 William Preston Johnson, aide to Jefferson Davis, with 

 other colonels, majors, chaplains, surgeons, fifty of them at 

 least the bravest of the brave, sixteen of them dying on the 

 field of battle, and all of them, and more than I can enumer- 

 ate, children of this one Irish emigrant from the county of 

 Derry, whose relatives are still prominent in that part of 

 Ireland, one of whom was recently mayor of Belfast." 



Overlooking the pardonable rhetoric and family pride in 

 the last sentence, that neglects the hundreds of other an- 

 cestors of these famous men, the quotation has a scientific 

 value in comparison with the product of Elizabeth Tuttle. 

 The New England family glows with scholars and inventors, 

 the Virginia and Kentucky families with statesmen and 

 military men. The result is not due to the differences in 

 the characteristics of Elizabeth Tuttle and Richard Edwards, 

 Richard and Laetitia Lee, John and Elizabeth Preston, 

 respectively, but to the different traits of the New England 

 settlers as a whole and Virginia cavalier-colonists as a body. 

 The initial person becomes a great progenitor largely because 

 of some fortunate circumstance of personal gift or excellent 

 reputation that enables his offspring to marry into the ''best 

 blood," 



