John A.Quitman, who went from New York, and Robert J.Walker, who went from Pennsylvania to Mississippi; James H.Hammond, whose father, a teacher, went from Massachusetts to South Carolina.

John Slidell, born and bred in New York, was thirty years old when he went to Louisiana.

Albert Sidney Johnston, the rose and expectancy of the young Confederacy--the most typical of rebel soldiers--had not a drop of Southern blood in his veins, born in Kentucky a few months after his father and mother had arrived there from Connecticut.

The list might be extended indefinitely.
Climate, which has something to do with temperament, has not so much to do with character as is often imagined.

All of us are more or less the creatures of environment.