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John Colleton (search for this): chapter 3
ingly erected into one territory; and the historian Clarendon, the covetous though experienced minister, hated by the people, faithful only to the king; Pepys, i. 192, 366. Evelyn. Monk, so conspicuous in the restoration, and now ennobled as duke of Albemarle; Lord Craven, Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, 393. Pepys, i. 115. a brave Cavalier, an old soldier of the German discipline, supposed to be husband to the queen of Bohemia; Lord Ashley Cooper, afterwards earl of Shaftesbury; Sir John Colleton, a royalist of no historical notoriety; Lord John Berkeley, with his younger brother, Morryson, in Burk, III. 266. Sir William Berkeley, the governor of Virginia; and the passionate, and ignorant, and not too honest Sir George Carteret, Pepys, i. 356, 140, 235, 236, 228, 176. —were instituted its proprietors and immediate sovereigns. Their authority was nearly absolute; nothing Chap. XIII.} was reserved but a barren allegiance. Avarice is the vice of declining years; most of
Louvois (search for this): chapter 3
desiring to convert, not to expel, his subjects, forbade emigration, under penalty of the galleys. The ministers of the Calvinists were now tormented; their chapels were arbitrarily razed; their funds for charitable purposes confiscated; their schools shut up; their civil officers disfranchised. Did cruel oppression produce disobedience? The rack and the wheel gave to Huguenots their martyrs. At court, the triumph of the widow of Scarron, aided by the confessors, seemed complete; but Louvois, the ambitious minister of war, could not brook this superior influence; and, since the conversion of Huguenots was the path to the monarch's favor, he resolved to enlist the military resources of France in the service, and to dragoon the Calvinists into a reverence for the church. Instead of missionaries, soldiers were 1684 now sent into Calvinistic districts, to be quartered in Protestant families, and to torment them into conversion. Meantime, emigration was a felony, and the frontier
Wilkinson (search for this): chapter 3
hel, who had purchased the rights of Lord Clarendon, was selected for the purpose. But Sothel, on his voyage, was taken captive 1680 by the Algerines. Meantime, the temporary government of Carolina, 1679 to 1682 under Harvey, Jenkins, and Wilkinson, had been abandoned, or intrusted by the proprietaries to the Chap. XIII.} 1680. friends of the insurgents. I find the name of Robert Holden, Mss. communicated to me by D. L. Swain. Culpepper's associate and colleague, as receiver-generalamongst yourselves, Chalmers, 539. wrote the proprietaries; and order had already been settled by the 1681. wise moderation of the government. I narrowly escaped being deceived by the passage in Martin, i. 173. President Harvey, whom he (Wilkinson) relieved, &c. How could a man write so carelessly and so positively? Harvey was president but a few months; and those implicated in the late revolt were the dominant party. It is not history which is treacherous, but hasty writers, who are c
Grotius (search for this): chapter 3
d to accumulate. The instinct of aristocracy dreads the moral power of a proprietary yeomanry; the perpetual degradation of the cultivators of the soil was enacted. The leet-men, or tenants, holding ten acres of land at a fixed rent, were not only destitute of political franchises, but were adscripts to the soil; under the jurisdiction of their lord, without appeal; and it was added, all the children of leet-men shall be leetmen, and so to all generations. Constitutions, sect. 22. Grotius, in a former generation, had defended slavery as a rightful condition; a few years later, and William Penn is said to have employed the labor of African bondmen; it is not surprising that John Locke could propose, without compunction, that every freeman of Carolina shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves. By the side of the seigniories, baronies, and manors, it was supposed that some freeholders would also be found; no elective franchise could be conferred on a free
Rochelle (search for this): chapter 3
This family was but one of many that found a shelter in Carolina, the general asylum of the Calvinist refugees. Escaping from a land where the profession of their religion was a felony, where their estates were liable to be confiscated in favor of the apostate, where the preaching of their faith was a crime to be expiated on the wheel, where their children might be torn from them, to be subjected to the nearest Catholic relation, —the fugitives from Languedoc on the Mediterranean, from Rochelle, and Saintange, and Bordeaux, the provinces on the Bay of Biscay, from St. Quentin, Poictiers, and the beautiful valley of Tours, from St. Lo and Dieppe, men who had the virtues of the English Puritans, without their bigotry, came to the land to which the tolerant benevolence of Shaftesbury had invited the believer of every creed. From a land that had suffered its king, in wanton bigotry, to drive half a million of its best citizens into exile, they came to the land which was the hospitabl
Siecle Louis (search for this): chapter 3
ted a powerful influence in stretching the boundary of the states to the Mississippi. On our north-eastern frontier state. the name of the oldest college bears witness to the Chap XIII.} wise liberality of a descendant of the Huguenots. The children of the Calvinists of France have reason to respect the memory of their ancestors. Rulhiere, Éclaircissements surles Causes de la Revocation de laEdit de Nantes, in the 5th vol. of his works an important work on this subject Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV. c. XXXVI. Ancillon, (himself a descendant of Huguenots. Tableau, &c. tom. IV. c. XXIII. For America, Ramsay's Carolina, i. 5—8. Dan. Ravenel, in (Charleston) City Gazette, for May 12 and 15, 1826. Holmes, in Mass. Hist. Coll. XXII. 1—83 It has been usual to relate, that religious bigotry denied to the Huguenot emigrants immediate denization. If full hospitality was for a season withheld, tile delay grew out of a controversy in which all Carolinians had a common interest
John Adams (search for this): chapter 3
d the lords of the plantations. But when he was brought up for trial, Shaftesbury, who at 1680 June that time was in the zenith of popularity, courted every form of popular influence, and, with clear sagacity, penetrated the injustice of the accusation, appeared in his defence, and procured his acquittal. Chalmers, 537, and documents. Martin, i. 170, 171. Williamson, i. 133. Chalmers, with great consistency, condemned Culpepper, just as he condemned Bacon and Jefferson, Hancock and John Adams. But Williamson has allowed himself to be confused by the judgments of royalists, and, vol. i. p. 135, calls the fathers of North Carolina a set of rioters and robbers. Shaftesbury and the English jury were more just than the historian. The fact that George Durant, one of the earliest settlers, was concerned in the insurrection, identifies it with the genuine people, the old inhabitants of Carolina. Thus was the insurrection in Carolina excused by the verdict of an English jury. But
John Smith (search for this): chapter 3
nia was the mother of a Chap XIII.} cluster of states; like the towns of New England, the plantations of Virginia extended along the sea. The country on Nansemund River had been settled as early as 1609; in 1622, the adventurous Porey, then secre- 1622. Feb. tary of the Old Dominion, travelled over land to the South River, Chowan, and, on his return, celebrated the kindness of the native people, the fertility of the country, and the happy climate, that yielded two harvests in each year. Smith's Virginia, II. 64. If no immediate colonization ensued, if the plans formed in England by Sir Robert Heath, or by Lord Maltravers, Heath's assign, were never realized, the desire of extending the settlements to the south still prevailed in Virginia; and twenty years after the excursion of Porey, a company 1642 Jan. that had heard of the river that lay south-west of the Appomattox, petitioned, and soon obtained leave of the 1643 Virginia legislature to prosecute the discovery, under the pr
William Sayle (search for this): chapter 3
e corporation of eight; had the lands been divided, each would have received a vast realm for his portion. Yet, when William Sayle, of the Summer Islands, who, long before, had attempted to 1648 plant a colony of Puritans from Virginia in the Bah constitutions were 1669, July. signed on the twenty-first of July, 1669; and a commission as governor was issued to William Sayle. In a second draft of the constitutions, against the wishes of Locke, a clause was interpolated, declaring that whlbot, in dedication of Lederer. They were conducted by Joseph West, as commercial agent for the proprietaries, and by William Sayle, who was probably a Presbyterian, and having more than twenty years before made himself known as leader in an attempt Chalmers, 529, says Barbadoes; and not inadvertently. Dalcho, Hist. of Prot. Ep. Church in S. C., p. 9, shows that Sayle was at Bermuda. Dalcho is very useful for the early history of S. C., and is more scrupulous than Ramsay. the ships Cha
Burnet (search for this): chapter 3
e monarch's favor, and stood firmly by the vested rights of his order. In person, he was small, and of that peculiar organization which is alike irritable and versatile. It belongs to such a man to have cunning rather than wisdom; celerity rather than dignity; the very high powers of abstraction and generalization rather than the still higher power of successful action. He transacted business with an admirable ease and mastery, Pepys, i. 222; or Shaftesbury. Compare, also, North and Burnet. for his lucid understanding delighted in general principles; but he could not successfully control men, for he had neither conduct in the direction of a party, nor integrity in the choice of means. He would use a prejudice as soon as an argument; would stimulate a superstition as soon as wake truth to the battle; would flatter a crowd or court a king. Having debauched his mind into a contempt for the people, he attempted to guide them by inflaming their passions. This contempt for huma
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