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W. Eric Wong
Tingshao Zhu Editors
Computer
Engineering
and Networking
Proceedings of the 2013 International
Conference on Computer Engineering
and Network (CENet2013)
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 277
Computer Engineering
and Networking
Proceedings of the 2013 International
Conference on Computer Engineering
and Network (CENet2013)
Editors
W. Eric Wong Tingshao Zhu
University of Texas at Dallas Chinese Academy of Sciences
Richardson, Texas Beijing, China, People’s Republic
USA
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Contents
Volume 1
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viii Contents
Volume 2
Advisory Chairs
Aniruddha Bhattacharjya Amrita University, India
Program Chairs
C. E. Tapie Rohm California State University San Bernardino, USA
W. Eric Wong University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Hong Jiang Hohai University, China
Jin Wang Nanjing University of Information Science & Tech-
nology, China
Tingshao Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Program Committee
Abdalhossein Rezai ACECR (Academic Center for Education, Culture and
Research) and Semnan University, Iran
Akram Rashid Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Amit Joshi Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology,
India
Chen Hong Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
China
Fatimah De’nan Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Feilong Liu Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, China
Feng Xu Hohai University, China
Fengjun Shang Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunica-
tions, China
Gyanendra Prasad Joshi Yeungnam University, Korea
Hsieh Tzung-Yu MingDao Univesity, Taiwan, China
Jesús C. Hernandez University of Jaen, Spain
Jiandong Sun Zhejiang University, China
Qian Yu University of Regina, Canada
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Abstract In contrast to conventional radars, phased array radars have the capability
to switch the direction of the radar beam very quickly without inertia. The measure-
ments from phased array radar can contribute to many application fields such as data
and intelligence process and radar performance evaluation. However, it often costs
more than we can bear to obtain phased array radar measurements. It is necessary
to model and simulate the phased array radar, especially for missile-borne phased
array radar. This chapter lays a strong emphasis on the search and simulation
technology of missile-borne phased array radar. According to operational theory
of phased array radar, this chapter focuses on the functional modeling and simulation
techniques. It contains three parts: beam arrangement of phased array radar in sin
coordinate, parameter optimization of missile-borne phased array radar, and a
function simulation model of missile-borne phased array radar.
1.1 Introduction
In ballistic missile defense system, the beam width of tracking radar is usually very
narrow, and the dwell time is longer, so the implementation of routine large
airspace search is not realistic. Only under the guide information of early warning
system, the radar can intercept the target in small space [1]. The flight time of
ballistic missile is usually short, and the lethality is enormous, which requires that
the tracking radar can intercept the target as early as possible. Therefore, the
missile-borne radar search strategy, especially on the wave search order, is very
important.
Based on the previous research, considering the constraints of radar, we com-
plete the simulation of adaptive scheduling method and make the constraints
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in Electrical Engineering 277, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01766-2_1,
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modeling for recursive form, through adjusting the scheduling of periodic inspec-
tion the constraint conditions [2]. This chapter presents the realization method and
process of the algorithm in detail, through the scenario simulation, and verifies the
effectiveness and practicability of the method.
In the distance occlusion problem under a single frequency, pulse Doppler wave-
form exists, which is mainly due to pulse Doppler radar seeker using the same
antenna for transmitting and receiving. Transmitting and receiving is timeshare;
when the transmitter sends electromagnetic wave, the receiver is in a closed state,
which can avoid the leakage of the transmitter signal to the receiving system and
burn the frequency receiver [3]. The high-frequency receiver uses gating switch
to guarantee isolation in certain, if the target echo arrival seeker at the time of
the transmitter sends pulse. Because the receiving system is in the closed state, the
return signal cannot be received by target seeker in the “shelter area.” And while the
missile is close to the target, the delay time of the target echo pulse with respect to
the transmission pulse is fluxing. Thus, the blocking periodic phenomenon appears,
which has entered the “transparent area,” “translucent area,” “shelter area,” “trans-
lucent area,” and then the “transparent area.” In the “translucent area,” the return
signal is not affected; in the “shelter area,” it cannot receive the return signal
completely; and in the “translucent area,” the width of echo pulse which is received
by seeker gradually increases to the width of transmission pulse or from the width
of transmitted pulse which decreases to zero [4].
We assume that the occlusion period is Tzr, width of “shelter area” is τz , width of
“transparent area” is τm , and width of “translucent area” is τbm; they were calculated
by the following equation:
c
T zr ¼ Tr ð1:1Þ
2vr
c
τz ¼ ðT r τ r τ l Þ ð1:2Þ
2vr
c
τm ¼ ðτ r τ l Þ ð1:3Þ
2vr
c
τbm ¼ τl ð1:4Þ
2vr
Target
First
cycle Sending the i’th pulse Ti moment
Zero
moment
Sending Receiving The i’th cycle The j’th cycle
area area
According to the basic principle of the radar “eclipse” phenomenon, we can start
from a simple mathematical model as shown in Fig. 1.1 and establish the idealized
mathematical model of “eclipse” phenomenon step by step.
Assume that the target can be detected by radar, and the distance to the target
is D, the radar frequency is f, the speed of light is C, pulse width of radar is Tr, the
return moments of the i beam radar is Ti, and V1,V2 . . .Vi is the speed of the target
in different intervals.
The antenna of phased array radar is fixed while scanning. When the scanning angle
deviates from the normal direction, the beam will change. So the beam arrangement
was usually complete in the sinusoidal spherical coordinates.
First step: determine the scanning space which was required in the radar station
coordinates and change the space into the front spherical coordinates through
coordinate transformation.
6 Q. Li et al.
BW 0.866BW 0.75BW
Table 1.1 Three waves of a style of the coverage and overlap rate
Arrangement The wave number Fraction of coverage (%) Coincidence rate (%)
Vertical and horizontal 645 86.4 0
arrangement wave
Staggered wave 783 98.7 0
Crisscross wave 920 100 3.56
Second step: change the space of the front spherical coordinates into front sine
coordinate system and complete the beam arrangement in the sine coordinate
system.
Third step: after the completion of beam arrangement in sine coordinate system, we
can get the beam distribution in radar station coordinates by coordinate
transformation.
The optimal beam position arrangement aims at making full use of the prior
information and the phased array radar system resources and makes the average
time of finding target as short as possible. So we can think it is an optimization
problem under constraints [5], as shown in Fig. 1.2 (Table 1.1).
From the table above, we know that three kinds of beam position arrangement
each have advantages. The first arrangement needs the minimum number of wave,
but the coverage rate is only 86.4 %. When the resource is limited or in the small
target distribution density area, we can use it. Although the coverage rate of the
third arrangement can reach 100 %, it is easy to cause the redundancy detection,
which limits its application. In the second arrangement, the wave number and the
coverage rate achieve a better balance, so it is a common beam position arrange-
ment style. To make a long story short, the specific choice of what kind of
arrangement style cannot lump together; we should think about the actual back-
ground and phased array radar system resources to make a reasonable choice.
According to the phased array radar beam position arrangement theory and calcu-
lation, we use the above three kinds of beam position arrangement. If the number of
beam is N in the first forms, according to the theory, we need 1.15N beam in the
second forms and 1.54N beam for the third forms.
1 Simulation Algorithm of Adaptive Scheduling in Airborne Phased Array Radar 7
N
The target
exits in the j’th
airspace?
Y
Radar start scanning
process
Y N
That finding the target, The object is not found, calculate ra-
and calculate the total target dar target detection time for scanning
time Tf= ( J-1 )× Tb+Tn the entire space time
Assuming a certain air-to-air missile radar scan area for [100,100], [100,100],
radar beam width is 20, then the first form needs 50 beams in the area, the second
form needs 58 beams, and the third form needs 77 beams.
So we can design a mode which has three different scanning forms. Assume that
the target must be in the airspace that the radar will scan; to find the target or not, we
will use the basic model of radar scanning to determine by target’s frequency,
radar’s duty ratio, radar return wave threshold, and other factors. At the same time,
we assume that the probability of the target appears in a wave of the space is
different.
To take the first mode, for example, in the 50 wave, we will begin numbering
from the largest probability of targets appearing as no. 1, 2 . . . N and the probability
as P1, P2 . . . Pn (n is the wave number). We design an algorithm of target emerging
randomly by the probability and make probability of the target emerging in the
wave I as Pi. We set radar to start scanning from the maximum probability of waves
until it finds the target. If it has scanned j wave from the start of radar scanning, the
time the target is found is Tf ¼ (J1) Tb + Tn, where Tb is the time of scanning
a wave and Tn is the time of finding the target in the jth wave, as shown in Fig. 1.3.
The simulation program uses C/C++ language to compile the simulation model
of the function such as source code, establishes user interface in the VC++6.0
environment, tests results under various conditions through the simulation calcula-
tion, and uses the program for calibration and correction of simulation model
[6]. We select Access as the background data management and ODBC for accessing
dynamic target echo simulation database.
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distinct in political complexion and economic and social interests
from the Hudson River valley and the metropolis at its mouth.
The commercial greatness of the City of New York dates from the
opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which made New York the outlet
of the lake States. Meanwhile, however, several other foreign
invasions had taken place.
The French Huguenots, racially Nordic and almost identical with the
British, began to arrive in Colonial New York after 1685, founding the
town of New Rochelle to commemorate the French city from which
so many of them had come. Here, as elsewhere, their influence was
far in excess of their proportionately small number.
In 1711, Governor Hunter of New York became imbued with
grandiose ideas about developing the resources of his Province and
began to look for a source of cheap labor for its exploitation. He
found this in the German districts on the Rhine, broadly known as
the Palatinate, where various national elements, not merely German
and Alsatian, but French, Swiss, Moravian, and miscellaneous, were
gathered, and where the religious persecution to which they were
subjected as Protestants, and the excessive hardships which they
were compelled to endure from invasions of the armies of Louis XIV,
had reduced them to great misery.
The population was ripe for emigration and furnished the only
substantial element of non-Nordic origin in the Colonial history of
America. It is not necessary to trace in detail the innumerable petty
sects and national elements, often two or three times removed from
their original home, of which this "Palatine" emigration was
composed. For the present purpose it was pre-dominantly German-
speaking, and largely of the round-headed Alpine stock in racial
make-up.
About 1709, these Palatines began frantic efforts to escape from
their misfortunes, and within a few years some 30,000 had gone
over into Holland and even into England, where they were not
welcome. The British Government was only too glad to subsidize
their further emigration, and several thousand of them were
transported to the Hudson River valley. They soon became
discontented there and were finally colonized on the Schoharie River
in New York. Here, in turn, they were ousted by what they
considered political jobbery and many of them moved on to the
Mohawk River, a tributary of the Hudson, while others continued
down the Susquehanna River to Pennsylvania. On the whole,
therefore, the Palatines are to be considered merely temporary
inhabitants of New York State. Although a good many of them
remained, the reports they sent out as to their treatment were so
unsatisfactory that thenceforth the Palatine immigration mostly
avoided New York and landed in Pennsylvania, where it will be
encountered later.
The next influx, particularly after 1719, was of Ulster Scots, similar
to that already mentioned as invading New England. Much of Orange
County on the west of the Hudson River was settled by these
Ulstermen, beginning as early as 1729, and for the next half-century
the infiltration of this Nordic element was continuous, although more
of it came through New England than directly into New York harbor.
By the time of the Revolution the Ulster Scots had spread over much
of the eastern part of northern New York, having enough
representatives in Albany in 1760 to establish a Presbyterian church
there.
At about the same time Sir William Johnson, who had received a
grant of 100,000 acres of land north of the Mohawk River for his
valor in defending the colonies against the French at Crown Point
and Lake George in 1755, began to look about for suitable tenants
and hit upon the idea of importing Scotch Highlanders of Roman
Catholic faith. Some hundreds of these arrived just before the
Revolution, and like Sir John Johnson, son of Sir William, espoused
the cause of the Loyalists. After the Revolution, they moved
northward to Ontario where the town of Glengarry recalls their
earlier home in Inverness. There, such families as the MacDonnells,
McDougalls, Camerons, McIntyres, and Fergusons became an
important element of strength to Canada.
As noted, New York State at the time of the Revolution was still
distinctly an unimportant colony, and its greatness dates from the
invasion of New Englanders immediately after the war. Connecticut,
by virtue of its proximity, was the principal source of these settlers,
although almost every part of New England contributed. The
crossing over of the Ulster Scots has already been mentioned, but it
must not be inferred that that was the principal element in the
settlement of the State. The main immigration was of the old Puritan
English stock which still dominates all of upper New York, except
where subsequent colonies of recent immigrants in some of the
larger industrial cities have altered the local scene.
The western shores of Lake Champlain and some of the older towns
of the Hudson River valley could scarcely be recognized, after a few
years, by those who had known them previously. A mere Dutch farm
in 1784 had been changed in four years to the thriving city of
Hudson, a typical New England commercial town with warehouses,
wharves, Yankee shipping, and stores filled with Yankee notions.
A visitor to Whitesborough on the Mohawk River, in 1788, reported
that "settlers are continually pouring in from the Connecticut hive."
Binghamton was settled jointly by Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The same spirit caused a mixing up of the population within the
limits of New England so that, to take a single illustration, the men
of Middlefield, a small hill town in western Massachusetts, were
found on inquiry to come from nearly sixty different towns in
Massachusetts and Connecticut.
After the Revolution the more enterprising young men of
Massachusetts and Connecticut began to leave their home towns. Of
those who departed, a half went to other places in New England, a
quarter to western New York, and a quarter to Ohio and other points
in the then "Far West."
The extreme western part of New York State had not begun to
develop as early as the period of which we are speaking.
Canandaigua was the largest town in 1790, and it had but a hundred
inhabitants. Pioneers came from New Jersey and Pennsylvania by
way of the Susquehanna and Tioga Rivers, went to Seneca Lake,
and thence to Cayuga; others from Connecticut had entered the
valley of the Mohawk by way of Albany and Fort Schuyler. Small
settlements sprang up at Bath, Naples, Geneva, Aurora, Seneca
Falls, Palmyra, Richmond, Fort Stanwix, and Marcellus. The Erie
Canal was as yet undreamt of.
The population picture of New York State in 1790 is then a double
one. The great bulk of the State, so far as area is concerned, was a
colony of Anglo-Saxon origin almost identical with the New England
States. The Hudson valley formed a less important appendage to
this, with New York City at its mouth—a miscellaneous settlement of
people of all sorts whose interests were largely commercial.
New York was one of the States that lost most heavily by the Loyalist
migration at the end of the Revolution. This superior Nordic element
left in two great streams; one by sea to Nova Scotia, and the other
overland to Canada. Long Island was a particularly heavy loser, 3000
people going in one fleet in 1783. The influx of Loyalists into Nova
Scotia, amounting to some 35,000, was a severe burden on that
little colony. Those who went into Canada overland from New York
were more easily assimilated, and many of the important
settlements along the northern shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario,
such as Kingston, date from that time. To these Ontario settlers was
given, by Order in Council in 1789, the honorary name of "United
Empire Loyalists," and they formed the backbone of Upper Canada,
as the Province of Ontario was then called, and were a main element
in defeating the plans of American strategists in 1812 to capture
Canada and annex it to the Union.
Although New York is generally credited with having more Loyalists
during the Revolution than any other colony, she also furnished more
troops for the patriot army than did any other State except
Massachusetts.
New Jersey, in contrast to its neighbors on either side, was one of
the most thoroughly English of all the colonies. The settlements of
the Dutch in the north, and the squabbles of a few hundred Dutch,
Swedes, and Finlanders in the south, left little trace on the
population when colonization once started in earnest. The real
history of the colony begins in 1664 when the English proprietors, to
whom it had been granted, began to colonize it seriously.
Northern New Jersey was a chaos of rugged hills and forests which
offered little to the settler and is still largely waste land. The
southern part of the State is also largely waste land, consisting
chiefly of pine barrens so that early settlement was virtually limited
to two areas. On the North River, as the Hudson was called, the
lands along the meadows opposite Manhattan Island were inviting,
and on the South River, as the Delaware was originally designated,
there was a broad strip of fertile farm land which attracted the early
settlers. Among other centers New Haven had established a colony
there about 1640, but had been driven off by the Dutch. There was
also some extremely fertile land around Freehold and other towns on
the line between New York and Philadelphia.
Since these two areas were so inaccessible to each other by direct
communication, the State grew up in two distinct settlements; that
along the western side of New York harbor, then known as East
Jersey, and that on the Delaware, known as West Jersey. While
these two were consolidated administratively in 1702, they have
never been wholly consolidated in actual character, and the two ends
of the State are, even today, diverse enough to show their
somewhat divergent origin.
The land along the Delaware was colonized, for the most part,
directly from England by the Quakers who had secured an interest in
it, and who established the only two towns of importance in West
Jersey during the Colonial period—Burlington in 1667 and Salem in
1675. Those who established Burlington were mostly from Yorkshire
with a large group also from London, and they took opposite sides of
the town, the Yorkshire people spreading north and the London
people spreading south. Geographical difficulties checked the
southward spread so that Cape May was settled separately by
people from Connecticut and from Long Island. Later, some of the
French Huguenots went down into West Jersey, but it always
remained essentially an English colony, largely of Quaker complexion
and influenced by the close proximity of co-religionists in
Pennsylvania.
East Jersey, like western New York, represents more directly a New
England outpost. Elizabethtown had been established in 1665 by
emigrants sent direct from Great Britain, but Newark had at almost
the same time been colonized by people from Connecticut, who at
first gave to it the name of their old home, Milford. The
Elizabethtown Association somewhat later sold part of its territory to
people from New Hampshire and Massachusetts who established the
two hamlets of Woodbridge and Piscataqua, now New Brunswick.
In 1666, Connecticut Puritans also established on the Passaic River
first Guilford, and later Branford, both of which with Milford merged
in the town of Newark. The New England overflow continued until
the shores of Newark Bay had become another New England colony.
Such communities as the Oranges were chiefly transplanted Puritan
towns.
The proprietorship of East Jersey shortly passed into the hands of
Scotsmen and a steady immigration of these began about 1684. The
capital of East Jersey, Perth Amboy, was named for one of the
proprietors, James Drummond, the Earl of Perth. The colony soon
became, and has ever since remained, one of the strongholds of
Scotch Presbyterianism in America, which found its intellectual
center in the establishment of Princeton University.
For a long time the two sections of New Jersey were of about equal
size and importance. As the country between them gradually filled
up, the State grew slowly until at the time of the Revolution its
population was estimated at about 120,000. Another fifteen years
saw a healthy growth, the first census, in 1790, showing 184,139
inhabitants. The somewhat complicated details of its development
should not obscure the fact that New Jersey was one of the most
purely white, Protestant, Nordic settlements in the colonies.
Although prior to the arrival of William Penn there were several
thousand settlers on the Delaware River, in the territory now covered
by Pennsylvania and Delaware, the real settlement of that region is
generally dated from the beginning of his operations in 1681, when
Upland, now Chester, was settled as his headquarters. A year later
Philadelphia was founded, and in spite of this late start grew so
rapidly that William Penn, the Quaker, at his death, had the
satisfaction of knowing that the City of Brotherly Love was the
largest in North America.
While the foundation stock was made up of English Quakers, Penn
had ambitious ideas of establishing a headquarters for other like-
minded persons, and with this idealism was apparently mixed a solid
commercial ambition which led him and his agents to advertise the
merits of the colony widely. The land system, unlike that of Virginia
or New Netherlands, favored the settler with small means. English
and Welsh farmers rapidly appropriated to themselves the country
along the west side of the Delaware River from Trenton to
Wilmington.
Penn maintained friendly relations with the Protestant leaders in
southern Germany, and he and his agents seem to have had an
extraordinary flair for finding obscure and peculiar sects and getting
them to emigrate to the new colony. A mere list of the odd religious
denominations that soon flourished in Pennsylvania is bewildering,
and an attempt to define the characteristics, which to them seemed
more than matters of life and death, is quite beyond the capacity of
the present-day student not steeped in the knowledge of
seventeenth-century theology.
Germantown was established in October, 1673, the first outpost of
the Alpine race in the present territory of the United States. Its
founders were Mennonites; but they were later joined by Dunkards
or Tunkers, that is, Dippers, who held to the efficacy of baptism by
immersion.
Generally speaking, the Germans who came to Pennsylvania during
the first quarter-century of its settlement belong to these distinctive
sects, while after that time the immigration was made up of a
somewhat more uniform mass of adherents of either the Lutheran or
the Reformed Church. This difference soon became a recognized one
for an easy division of "the Pennsylvania Dutch," as this mixed group
of Alpines came to be called, not very correctly, from an assimilation
of Pennsylvanische Deutsche. One would ask, on hearing such a
person mentioned, "Does he belong to the sects or to the church
people?"
A few of these such as the Labadists from Friesland who settled in
New Castle County, Delaware, were either from Holland or parts of
Germany bordering Holland, but the great bulk of the "Pennsylvania
Dutch" came from the Rhine Provinces, particularly from Alsace and
the Palatinate, with a liberal sprinkling of northern French
Protestants who had been forced over the border, while others came
from Austria and Prussia and even from northern Italy. As a matter
of fact, down to the time of the World War, Americans called,
colloquially, all Germans "Dutchmen."
While the Palatinate furnished only a part of the immigration its
name was soon given to all similar newcomers, so that the term
Palatine became a general description for a German-speaking
immigrant; and one even finds in the old records such anomalies as
an allusion to "a Palatine from Hamburg." An important centre of
their dispersion was the town of Crefeld near the border of Holland.
The colonies in general, being overwhelmingly and typically British,
looked with suspicion on any alien groups, and New England, in
particular, probably would not have encouraged these Alpines to
enter at all. Virginia with its Church of England establishment and its
self-conscious English attitude was likewise not disposed to be
hospitable to such a large group of foreigners.
Governor Oglethorpe attracted some of them to Georgia, but not
very successfully, as will be mentioned later. One important group of
his settlers, in particular, the Moravians, left Georgia about 1739
because they were required to take up arms against the neighboring
Spanish in Florida. They moved to Pennsylvania where they founded,
in 1741, the town of Bethlehem, which has been their headquarters
ever since.
While New York originally welcomed the Palatines, it soon treated
them so badly that thereafter almost all the vessels bearing German
immigrants came directly from Dutch ports to the Delaware, and if
by chance an occasional ship was forced to make a landing in New
York, its passengers quickly made their way across the Jerseys into
more hospitable territory.
Even in Pennsylvania the invasion of the Germans eventually began
to cause alarm among the English-speaking and dominant part of
the population. In Virginia this attitude of exclusion of supposedly
alien races had been maintained ever since the first permanent
settlement. Inspired by visions of building up a great industry, the
proprietors of that colony had sent out with their "second supply" a
little group of eight artisans from Germany and Poland who were
skilled glassmakers. The English colonists charged them with
treasonable dealings with the Indians and the Chronicler of the
settlement refers to them disgustedly as those "damned Dutchmen."
Benjamin Franklin, who, in 1753, expressed his opinion of some of
his fellow citizens in a letter to Peter Collinson, was merely reflecting
an attitude which the English stock had more or less generally taken
when he declared:
"Those who come hither are generally the most stupid of their
own nation, and, as ignorance is often attended with credulity
when knavery would mislead it, and with suspicion when
honesty would set it right; and as few of the English understand
the German language, and so cannot address them either from
the press or the pulpit, it is almost impossible to remove any
prejudices they may entertain. Their clergy have very little
influence on the people, who seem to take a pleasure in abusing
and discharging the minister on every trivial occasion. Not being
used to liberty, they know not how to make a modest use of it.
And as Holben says of the young Hottentots, that they are not
esteemed men until they have shown their manhood by beating
their mothers, so these seem not to think themselves free, till
they can feel their liberty in abusing and insulting their teachers.
Thus they are under no restraint from ecclesiastical
government; they behave, however, submissively enough at
present to the civil government, which I wish they may continue
to do, for I remember when they modestly declined
intermeddling in our elections, but now they come in droves and
carry all before them, except in one or two counties.[7]
"Few of their children in the country know English. They import
many books from Germany; and of the six printing-houses in
the province, two are entirely German, two half German, half
English, and but two entirely English. They have one German
newspaper, and one half-German. Advertisements, intended to
be general, are now printed in Dutch and English. The signs in
our streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some
places only German. They begin of late to make all their bonds
and other legal instruments in their own language, which
(though I think it ought not to be) are allowed in our courts,
where the German business so increases that there is continued
need of interpreters; and I suppose in a few years they will also
be necessary in the Assembly, to tell one-half our legislators
what the other half say.
"In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned
from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose,
they will soon so outnumber us that we will, in my opinion, be
not able to preserve our language, and even our government
will become precarious. The French, who watch all advantages,
are now themselves making a German settlement, back of us, in
the Illinois country, and by means of these Germans they may in
time come to an understanding with ours; and, indeed, in the
last war,[8] our Germans showed a general disposition, that
seemed to bode us no good. For, when the English, who were
not Quakers, alarmed by the danger arising from the
defenseless state of our country, entered unanimously into an
association, and within this government, and the Lower
Counties raised, armed, and disciplined near ten thousand men,
the Germans, except a very few in proportion to their number,
refused to engage in it, giving out, one amongst another, and
even in print, that, if they were quiet, the French, should they
take the country, would not molest them; at the time abusing
the Philadelphians for fitting out privateers against the enemy,
and representing the trouble, hazard, and expense of defending
the province, as a greater inconvenience than any that might be
expected from a change of government. Yet I am not for
refusing to admit them entirely into our colonies. All that seems
to me necessary is, to distribute them more equally, mix them
with the English schools, where they are not too thickly settled,
and take some care to prevent the practice, lately fallen into by
some of the shipowners, of sweeping the German gaols to make
up the number of their passengers. I say I am not against the
admission of Germans in general, for they have their virtues.
Their industry and frugality are exemplary. They are excellent
husbandmen, and contribute greatly to the improvement of a
country."
FOOTNOTES:
[7] He is writing of Pennsylvania.
[8] The French and Indian War.
VII
VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBORS
The settlement of Virginia, beginning with Jamestown in 1607, was of
a different character from that of the northern and middle colonies.
It was not a colonization project undertaken by families, but an
exploitation by adventurers. In a sense it may be compared with the
Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the nineteenth century. Men went
forth seeking fortune and expecting to return in a few years with
newly acquired wealth. The motley array of colonists sent to
Jamestown by the Company during the first decade of activity seems
to have been drawn from every part of the British Isles and every
stratum of society.
After ten or a dozen years, the proprietors recognized that the
wealth of their plantations would not consist in gold and pearls but
that they were facing an actual colonization project, which could
only be built upon the foundations of family life. An early recognition
of this fact has been one of the principal sources of strength in all
British colonization, and the proprietors of the Virginia colony, while
continuing to encourage men of all sorts to go to their settlement on
the James River, undertook one of the famous eugenic enterprises of
history by sending over several shiploads of young women to make
homes for their settlers. The undertaking seems to have been
carried out in good faith and with good judgment and the result was
notably successful. A little later, however, the continuing demand for
wives led to a sort of traffic that probably produced a less carefully
selected feminine population for the plantations. On the whole, it
would probably be fair to say that the "First Families of Virginia"
represented a higher social standard in the male than in the female
lines.
The year 1619 was racially eventful. It saw the arrival at Jamestown
both of the first shipload of "uncorrupt maydes for wives," and the
landing of the first cargo of Negroes. The next half-century brought
the development of the plantation system and the spread of Negro
slavery and the problem of miscegenation between Negro women
and the lowest and most unintelligent type of white servant came
into prominence. In this way originated the mulatto group which has
ever since been a characteristic feature of the Negroes in the United
States. Those admirers of the Mulatto who boast that he carries in
his veins the blue blood of the aristocratic families of the South,
would do well to read the actual records of Virginia and other
colonies during the seventeenth century and see what sort of white
stock actually formed the foundation of that half of this hybrid
group.
The colony continued to grow for the first quarter of a century by
attracting voluntary adventurers from whom the rule of the survival
of the fittest exacted so heavy a toll that probably the survivors were
a fairly fit lot. The abandonment of the original proprietary company
in 1624 led to a marked change in the manner of populating the
colony, and for the next generation the bulk of the immigrants were
assisted in one way or another to get to Virginia and allowed to work
out the money advanced them by their labor after their arrival.
At its best, there was little difference in the colonization plans that
British colonies have always used to get desirable settlers from
"home." In the case of Virginia it brought a vigorous population of all
sorts, and the name of "indentured servant" covers not merely the
domestic in the kitchen and the laborer in the tobacco field but
artisans' apprentices and medical students. Under the extremely
trying conditions many of these immigrants were unable to survive.
Governor Berkeley asserted that four out of five died during the first
year of residence, while Evelyn, the diarist, declared that five out of
six succumbed. Such statements at least point to an excessively high
mortality which must have spared most frequently those who were
physically and mentally superior and well adapted to be among the
founders of a new colony. Hence it seems clear that the importance
of these indentured servants in the later development of Virginia, as
of other colonies, is not to be reckoned in proportion to the number
who arrived, but to be estimated upon the much smaller number
who survived and founded families.
Another type of assisted immigrant of which a great deal has been
heard was the deported convict. Some of these were evidently men
who had cheated the gallows, for the Virginians continually
protested against their arrival. Apparently much the larger number,
however, were men of superior quality in many respects. When
nearly three hundred offenses were punishable by the death penalty
in England, many of those convicted were not persons marked by
great moral turpitude, and the so-called "transported convict" might
have been equally well a pirate, or a preacher who persisted in
expounding the gospel without proper license from the ecclesiastical
authorities so to do.
Large numbers were political prisoners who found themselves
temporarily on the losing side; still more were mere prisoners of war.
During the Protectorate, victories like Dunbar and Worcester and the
suppression of the Irish Rebellion by Cromwell in 1652 were followed
by deportations of prisoners of war to the colonies, and the
government felt fully justified in recovering part of the expense of
transportation by selling the services of these able-bodied and
intelligent men for seven years to the highest bidder. Unquestionably
most of the foundation stock of this kind that survived to perpetuate
itself would be entirely fit for colonization. During the same period
many cavaliers took refuge in Virginia.
When the royalists were again in power after 1660, a similar stream
of Commonwealth soldiers and non-conformists began to come into
the colonies. The Scotch Rebellion of 1670 brought another
accession to Virginia, and in 1685 many of the captives at the Battle
of Sedgmoor were exiled here. Such labor was welcomed by the
Virginians in marked distinction to the real criminals, of whom there
were apparently only a few thousand in all. After about 1700 the
spread of Negro slavery reduced the demand for white indentured
labor and less of it arrived.
In the great diversity of men and women brought over in these and
other ways, there are some who figure in the ancestry of the best
families of Virginia at the present time, and others who, from the
beginning, were misfits in the colony. Such of the latter as survived
the trying ordeal of the tobacco fields either ran away, or, when their
term of service expired, drifted out to the borders of the settlement.
The Virginia holdings were large and far beyond the reach of an
ordinary man without capital, in marked contrast to conditions in
New England, where the great majority of the settlers were small
landowners. The freed bondsmen therefore had to go to the frontier
or drift down into North Carolina or some other region where they
were not handicapped by their lack of funds. The most shiftless and
least intelligent of them tended to collect in the less valuable lands
at the fringe of civilization, or to drift along to other similar
settlements farther west and south. In this way originated one of the
peculiar elements of the Southern population, the "poor white
trash." Their numbers were recruited generation after generation by
others of the same sort while the able, enterprising, and imaginative
members were continually drained off to the cities or sought better
land elsewhere. These "poor whites" in the Alleghanies and through
the swamp lands of North and South Carolina have been an
interesting feature of the population for three centuries. Largely of
pure Nordic stock, they are a striking example to the eugenist of the
results of isolation and undesirable selection.
During the Stuart period Virginia was the refuge of many Puritans.
They were, however, looked upon with disfavor by the prevailing
royalist sentiment and the activities of Sir William Berkeley as
Governor were such that not less than a thousand left the colony.
Their place was taken by Royalists, invited by the Governor to find a
refuge in Virginia as soon as news arrived of the execution of
Charles I. Within the next twelve months probably a thousand
Royalists appeared bringing many of the family names which have
been conspicuous in the Old Dominion ever since. Richard Lee came
a little earlier, in 1642, but it is after the death of Charles I that one
begins to meet in Virginia such names as Randolph, Cary, Parke,
Robinson, Marshall, Washington, and Ludwell.
The place of origin in Great Britain of most of the Royalists is not so
easily traced as is that of the Massachusetts Puritans who came to
America in groups, sometimes as entire congregations, but random
samples of families which afterwards furnished distinguished
leadership show that they came from practically all over England and
Scotland: Washingtons from Northamptonshire, Marshalls and
Jeffersons from Wales, Lees from the part of Shropshire adjoining
Wales, and Randolphs from Warwickshire. James Monroe's ancestors
were Scotch and Patrick Henry's father was born in Aberdeen. They
had at least one thing in common, that they were of English and
Nordic stock. Examination of lists in the land office at Richmond
indicates that fully 95 per cent of the names of landowners during
the seventeenth century were unmistakably Anglo-Saxon.
The tidewater population was fecund and spread steadily up to the
fall-line of the rivers, by its own multiplication. Men and women
married early. Colonel Byrd described his daughter, Evelyn, as an
"antique virgin" when she was twenty. "Either our young fellows are
not smart enough for her or she seems too smart for them," he
moaned. With a high death rate second marriages were common. It
has been the custom of late for sentimental feminists to refer to the
large families of the Colonial period as having been produced by
husbands who thus killed off one wife after another. Such nonsense
is easily refuted by an examination of genealogies and of
tombstones. Many a husband had to marry several wives because of
the high death rate, but equally many wives had to marry several
husbands apiece for the same reason.
The toll taken by hard work, unhygienic conditions, and childbirth
without proper care among pioneer women, was no greater than the
toll taken by hard work, unhygienic conditions, and Indian warfare
among the men. If Colonel John Carter married five wives
successively, in an age when divorce was unknown, Elizabeth Mann
married six husbands.
While a purely Nordic population was thus occupying tidewater
Virginia east of the Blue Ridge, another Nordic invasion from a
wholly different source was entering upland Virginia on the other
side of the mountains. The Shenandoah Valley is virtually an
extension of the interior valleys of Pennsylvania; and while an
occasional pioneer pushed his way to it through the mountains from
the eastern front, the real settlement came through the side door
beginning about 1725 and reaching the proportions of an invasion
about 1732.
Ulster Scots coming down through Pennsylvania began that
penetration of the Piedmont from north to south which is such a
striking feature of the history of the South Atlantic coast during the
next century. With them were some Alpines, mostly Germans from
the Palatine, representative of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch
stock.
When General Braddock, whose army was nearly wiped out by the
French and Indians in 1755, sighed, "Who would have thought it?"
and expired, he nevertheless had cleared a road for the rapid spread
of this immigration along the mountain valleys, not merely into
Virginia but on through the Carolinas and to Georgia. His road was
followed a few years later by General Forbes' road through the same
country, and the way was open.
The upland and mountain sections of Virginia therefore came to be
represented by a group with a very different outlook from those of
the tidewater, dominated as it was by large landholders. This
diversity of original settlement, which was of sufficient importance to
effect in the Civil War a cleavage of the State and establish West
Virginia as free soil, is still apparent and makes itself felt in the
twentieth century.
South Carolina was settled only a little later than North Carolina by
the establishment of Old Charles Town in 1665. This settlement,
shortly moved across and up the river to a better location, prospered
and expanded until it became South Carolina.
Originally a sort of offshoot from the West Indies, this region caught
the attention of the Huguenot refugees a few years later, perhaps
because Coligny had marked it out a century before as a desirable
home for them. It attracted a larger proportion of the French
refugees than any other colony; and although they were unwelcome
at first to the English who were in possession, they soon assimilated
themselves to the Anglo-Saxon population with which they were
racially identical and became an important element in the upbuilding
of the State. In Colonial and Revolutionary times, Gendron, Huger,
LeSerrurier, deSaussure, Laurens, Lanier, Sevier, and Ravenel were
all Huguenots who distinguished themselves in the service of the
State.
The establishment of large-scale agriculture with plantations devoted
to rice or indigo sharply limited the possibilities of settlement in the
tidewater region of South Carolina, and it became a country of large
holdings worked by Negro slaves in charge of overseers. Meanwhile
the owners largely made their homes in or near Charleston, and
brought it to the position of the fourth city of the colonies in
importance.
The growth of the colony would have been slow had it not been for
the influx of the Ulster Scots coming along the foot of the mountains
from the north after the middle of the eighteenth century. The
upcountry thus became quite different from the tidewater, so
different, that in South Carolina as in North Carolina and Virginia it
was a question whether the State might not split on slavery a few
years before the Civil War, and the Upland population was only
whipped into line for secession by sharp practice on the part of the
political leaders in the slave-holding regions.
Other small elements were incorporated easily in the Nordic
population of the State, but the loss to the colony was heavy when
the Loyalists left after the Revolution. On the 13th and 14th of
December, 1782, 300 ships set sail from Charleston carrying not
merely the soldiery but more than 9000 civilians and slaves. Half of
these went to the West Indies, and most of the others to Florida
where such of them as had not subsequently removed were
presumably reincorporated into the United States a generation later.
On the other hand, hundreds of Hessian deserters stayed in the
community, as also occurred in others of the colonies, thus
introducing the first noticeable immigration of Nordic Germans into
the State. As previously noted, most of the so-called Palatine
immigration of Germans in the eighteenth century was Alpine, in
sharp contrast to the North German Nordics, who came to this
country in large numbers in the middle of the nineteenth century
after the futile revolutions of 1848.
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