They longed, too, for the slower ways, the old courtesies and the religiosity of the South.
So, although the courtesies were observed this week, fresh tensions between the two office-holders are on the cards.
Newton escaped the world through nuttiness, Darwin through elaborate evasive courtesies and by farming out the politics to Huxley.
Very few of these observe the courtesies enshrined in traditional letter-writing.
The conservative or Coalition opposition is determined to hold her feet to the fire by not granting proxy-vote courtesies in the new session that begins Tuesday in Canberra.
Every shadow chancellor who's faced Mr Brown has told us that he's cast aside the normal courtesies between government and opposition which are there to facilitate informed and useful debate.
The Christmas 1914 fraternisation, in which the Battalion was among the first to participate, had had the same professional simplicity: no emotional hiatus, this, but a commonplace of military tradition an exchange of courtesies between officers of opposing armies.
The resulting debate encompassed different interpretations of Islam, issues of portrayal, language, religious tolerance, the right to freedom of speech, the character of the Arab media and more in a heightened atmosphere which cut through the normal professional courtesies.
Then Ed Miliband, as Leader of the Opposition, has a go - the normal courtesies require him to compliment the mover and seconder, and remember MPs who've departed this life, before moving on to the bills the government has announced.
It was as if I were breaking the rules we had worked for years to set up, a system of small courtesies and avoidances and slow, fluid conversations that ran for days, pieces of hearsay and local news passed back and forth over meals and cups of tea to cover the bewildered quiet that had fallen upon us.
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