It is very different with the early settlers of Virginia, recruited from the castaways and shirks of Old England, and mostly needy men, of desperate fortunes and dissolute lives, who cared nothing for churches or schools.
This quote critiques the character of early Virginia settlers, suggesting they were less virtuous than their New England counterparts.
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