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Romans (search for this): chapter 3
ef resort of the Huguenots. What though the attempt to emigrate was by the law of France a felony? In spite of every precaution of the police, five hundred thousand souls escaped from their country. The unfortunate were more wakeful to fly than the ministers of tyranny to restrain. We quitted home by night, leaving the soldiers in 1685 their beds, and abandoning the house with its furniture, said Judith, the young wife of Pierre Manigault We contrived to hide ourselves for ten days at Romans, in Dauphiny, while a search was made for us; but our faithful hostess would not betray us.—Nor could they escape to the seaboard, except by a circuitous journey through Germany and Holland, and thence to England, in the depths of winter. Having embarked at London, we were sadly off. The spotted fever appeared on board the vessel, and many died of the disease; among these, our aged mother. We touched at Bermuda, where the vessel was seized. Our money was all spent; with great difficulty w
John Berry (search for this): chapter 3
n of a fierce insurrection of the people of Virginia, had been followed by the vindictive fury of ruthless punishments; and runaways, rogues, and rebels, that is to say, fugitives from arbitrary tribunals, nonconformists, and friends to popular liberty, fled daily to Carolina, as their common subterfuge and lurkingplace. Did letters from the government of Virginia demand the surrender of leaders in the rebellion, Carolina refused to betray the fugitives who sought shelter in her forests. Berry and Morrison, in Burk's Virginia, II. 259. Martin, i. 166, interprets runaways to mean negroes. The whole tenor of the document and the context hardly favors his interpretation; runaways seem to have been fugitives from what the royalists called justice. The presence of such emigrants made oppression more difficult than ever; but here, as throughout the colonies, the navigation acts were the cause for greater restlessness and more permanent discontent. And never did national avarice e
John Calvin (search for this): chapter 3
apsed since Coligny, with the sanction of the French monarch, had selected the southern regions of the United States as the residence of Huguenots. The realization of that design, in defiance of the Bourbons, is the most remarkable incident in the early history of South Carolina, and was the result of a persecution, which not only gave a great addition to the intelligence and moral worth of the American colonies, but, for Europe, hastened the revolution in the institutions of the age. John Calvin, by birth a Frenchman, was to France the apostle of the reformation; but his faith had ever been feared as the creed of republicanism; his party had been pursued as the sect of rebellion; and it was only by force of arms, that the Huguenots had obtained a conditional toleration. Even the edict of Nantz placed their security, not on the acknowledgment of the permanent principle of legislative justice, but on a compromise between contending parties. It Chap XIII} was but a confirmation
Durand (search for this): chapter 3
n, no memorials of the earliest settlers remain. I have no document older than 1663, and no exact account, which I dare trust, older than 1662. before the restoration. At that period, men who were impatient of interference, who dreaded the enforcement of religious conformity, who distrusted the spirit of the new government in Virginia, plunged more deeply into the forests. It is known that, in 1662, the chief of the Yeopim Indians granted to George Durant Winthrop, II. 334, speaks of Mr. Durand, of Nansemund, elder of a Puritan very orthodox church, in that county, and banished from Virginia in 1648, by Sir William Berkeley. Were the exile and the colonist in any way connected? the neck of land which still bears his name; Mss. communicated by D. L. Swain, governor of North Carolina, in 1835. and, in the Chap XIII.} 1663 April 1. following year, George Cathmaid could claim from Sir William Berkeley a large grant of land upon the Sound, as a reward for having established sixt
Drayton (search for this): chapter 3
iver first settled in 1670. sailed into Ashley River, and on the first high land, in a spot that seemed convenient for tillage and pasturing, the three Wilson's Carolina, 7. shiploads of emigrants, who as yet formed the whole people of South Carolina, selected their resting-place, and began their first town. Of this town not a vestige remains, except the line of a moat, which served as a defence against Indians. Every log-house has vanished, and the site is absorbed in a plantation. Drayton's S. Carolina, 200. Yet, few as were the settlers, who had come to take possession of the vast hunting-grounds of the natives, no immediate danger was apprehended; epidemic sickness and sanguinary Wars had swept away the ancient tribes, and left the neighboring coasts almost a desert. Archdale's Carolina, 2. I am indebted to P. Ravenel, of Charleston, a descendant of the Huguenots, for this work, and other valuable materials. An historian of South Carolina Ramsay, i. 34, 35. The
Dryden (search for this): chapter 3
ould not tolerate an agreement with the king; such agreement, at that time, could not but have been democratic, and adverse to the privileges of the nobility; which, therefore, in the plenitude of the royal power, sought an ally against the people. When Charles II. showed a disposition to become, like Louis XIV., superior to the gentry as well as to the democracy, Shaftesbury immediately joined the party opposed to the ultra royalists, not as changing his principles, Pepys, i. 219. But Dryden writes, Restless, unfixed in principles and place. This is true of his party connections, not his principles. but from hostility to the supporters of prerogative. The party which he represented, the great aristocracy of wealth, had to sustain itself between Chap XIII} the people on one side, and the monarch on the other. The nobility was, in his view, the rock of English principles; A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the Country, in Locke, x. 226, 242. the power of the
J. Winthrop (search for this): chapter 3
How far this spirit of discovery led to immediate emigration, it is not possible to determine. The county of Nansemund had long abounded in non-conformists; Winthrop, II. 334. Johnson's Wonderw. Prov. B. III. c. XI. and it is certain the first settlements on Albemarle Sound were a result of spontaneous overflowings from Vi of the new government in Virginia, plunged more deeply into the forests. It is known that, in 1662, the chief of the Yeopim Indians granted to George Durant Winthrop, II. 334, speaks of Mr. Durand, of Nansemund, elder of a Puritan very orthodox church, in that county, and banished from Virginia in 1648, by Sir William Berkeleliam Sayle, of the Summer Islands, who, long before, had attempted to 1648 plant a colony of Puritans from Virginia in the Baha- Chap XIII.} 1667 ma Isles, Winthrop, id. 334, 335. returned from a later voyage of discovery, which had embraced the isles in the Gulf of Florida, Hewat's S. Carolina, i. 48. of these too, the E
Ancillon (search for this): chapter 3
tretching 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, and the privileges of citize
Edward Chalmers (search for this): chapter 3
from customs as the charter would warrant. Chalmers, 518 Yet the lands round Cape Fear were not ihat volunteer emigrants had preceded them. Chalmers, 519, For some years. In September, the colon Carolina, begins with the autumn of 1669, Chalmers, 525, 555, from proprietary papers, and there Quakers and renegadoes Lord Culpepper, in Chalmers, 356. from ecclesiastical oppression; and Foxardly contained four thousand inhabitants; Chalmers, 533. The account of the population are cont also fostered; they cannot, it was urged, Chalmers, 534. be friends to the prosperity of Carolinual incapacity for the government. Compare Chalmers, 539, 540. Williamson, i. 136—141; Martin, i Having touched at Ireland and Barbadoes, Chalmers, 529, says Barbadoes; and not inadvertently. clearly refuted in Dalcho, 11 and 16. Comp. Chalmers, 529. has related, that the emigrants at fireserved. Archdale, 13, 14. Hewat, i. 78. Chalmers, 542, 543. Again, the proprietaries offered s[14 more...]
John Culpepper (search for this): chapter 3
an assembly, and the unwise interruption of the natural channels of commerce, were the threefold grievances of the colony. The leader in the insurrection was John Culpepper, one of those very ill men who loved popular liberty, and whom the royalists of that day denounced as having merited hanging, for endeavoring to set the poor of arms; Williamson, i. 264. while the insurgents, among whom was George Durant, the oldest landholder in Albemarle, having completed their institutions, sent Culpepper 1679. and another to England to negotiate a compromise. It proves in Culpepper a conviction of his own rectitude, that he did not hesitate to accept the trust.e realm. A statute of Henry VIII. 35 Henry VIII. c. 2. was the authority for arraigning a colonist before an English jury—an act of tyranny against which Culpepper vainly protested, Chap XIII.} claiming to be tried in Carolina, where the offence was committed.—Let no favor be shown him, Report in Williamson, i. 266. sai
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