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Judith Manigault (search for this): chapter 3
them, making their way in light skiffs, through scenes so tranquil, that silence was broken only by the rippling of oars, and the hum of the flourishing village at the confluence of the rivers. Other Huguenot emigrants established themselves on the south bank of the Santee, in a region which has since been celebrated for affluence and refined hospitality. The United States are full of monuments of the emigrations from France. When the struggle for independence arrived, the son of Judith Manigault intrusted the vast fortune he had acquired to the service of the country that had adopted his mother; the hall in Boston, where the eloquence of New England rocked the infant spirit of independence, was the gift of the son of a Huguenot; when the treaty of Paris for the independence of our country was framing, the grandson of a Huguenot, acquainted from childhood with the wrongs of his ancestors, would not allow his jealousies of France to be lulled, and exerted a powerful influence in
John Jenkins (search for this): chapter 3
; and Seth Sothel, 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 ret 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 credulous and careless. I was saved from trusting Martin by Williamson, i. 137, who speaks of John Jenkins as governor; and still more by Mss. liberally furnished me by the late governor of North Carolina. Harvey had ceased to be governor in June, 1680. Would the disciples of Fox subscribe to the authority of the proprietaries? Yes, they replied,
Prideaux (search for this): chapter 3
the colony and the vastness of the country; Clarendon was no longer in England; and Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury, the most active and the most able of the corporators, was deputed to frame for the dawning states a perfect constitution, worthy to endure throughout all ages. Shaftesbury was at this time in the full maturity of his genius; celebrated for eloquence, philosophic genius, and sagacity; high in power, and of aspiring ambition. Born to great hereditary wealth, the pupil of Prideaux had given his early years to the assiduous pursuit of knowledge; the intellectual part of his nature had from boyhood obtained the mastery over the love of indulgence and luxury. Connected with the great landed aristocracy of England, cradled in politics, and chosen a member of parliament at the age of nineteen, his long public career was checkered by the greatest varieties of success. It is a very common error of the incurious observer, to attribute frequent change to statesmen who have
Morrison (search for this): chapter 3
ce 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 exhibit itsel
Ferguson (search for this): chapter 3
country. Blake was already advanced in life; Chap XIII.} but he could not endure the present miseries of oppression, and feared still greater evils from a popish successor; Oldmixon, i. 337, 338, and 341. Oldmixon is here good authority. Comp. Hewat, i. 89. and he devoted to the advancement of emigration all the fortune which he had inherited as the fruits of his brother's victories. Thus the plunder of the wealth of New Spain assisted to people Carolina. A colony of Irish, under Ferguson, were lured by the fame of the fertility of the south, and were received with so hearty a welcome, that they were soon merged among the other colonists. Chalmers, 543. The condition of Scotland, also, compelled its inhabitants to seek peace by abandoning their native country. Just after the death of Shaftesbury, a 1683 scheme, which had been concerted during the tyranny of Lauderdale, was revived. Thirty-six noblemen and gentlemen had entered into an association for planting a col
Ashley Cooper (search for this): chapter 3
ife 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 Burblish a form of government commensurate in its dignity with the auspices of the colony and the vastness of the country; Clarendon was no longer in England; and Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury, the most active and the most able of the corporators, was deputed to frame for the dawning states a perfect constitution, worthy to endure people were resolved on establishing a government agreeable to themselves. The English revolution of 1688 was therefore imitated on the banks of the Ashley and Cooper. Soon after William 1690 and Mary were proclaimed, a meeting of the representatives of South Carolina disfranchised Colleton, and banished him from the province
Francis Morryson (search for this): chapter 3
r, 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 the proprietaries were past middle life. They begged the country under pretence of a pious zeal for th
Shaftesbury (search for this): chapter 3
mia; Lord Ashley Cooper, afterwards earl of Shaftesbury; Sir John Colleton, a royalist of no histor purposes rarely. The party connections of Shaftesbury were affected by the revolutions of the tim to the gentry as well as to the democracy, Shaftesbury immediately joined the party opposed to the Evelyn, II. 361, asserts positively that Shaftesbury did not advise the king to invade the excheThis contempt for humanity punishes itself; Shaftesbury was destitute of the healthy judgment which reject astrology. Excellent in counsel, Shaftesbury was poor as an executive agent. His restlelome, in 1672. Empires, added an admirer of Shaftesbury, will be ambitious of subjection to the nob Chap. XIII.} 1669. scheme which Locke and Shaftesbury were maturing, framed a few laws, which, hoons. But when he was brought up for trial, Shaftesbury, who at 1680 June that time was in the zenuge where they were assured of favor. Even Shaftesbury, when he was committed to 1681. July. the [24 more...]
Richard Cromwell (search for this): chapter 3
, where they constituted towns and sections of cities, introducing manufactures before unknown. A suburb of London was filled with Chap. XIII.} French mechanics; the prince of Orange gained entire regiments of soldiers, as brave as those whom Cromwell led to victory; a colony of them reached even the Cape of Good Hope. In our American colonies they were welcome every where. The religious sympathies of New England were awakened; did any arrive in poverty, having barely escaped with life?—theies were in no respect changed. When Colleton met the colonial 1686. Nov. parliament which had been elected before his arrival, a majority refused to acknowledge the binding force of the constitutions; by a violent act of power, Colleton, like Cromwell in a similar instance in English history, excluded the refractory members from the parliament. What could follow but a protest from the disfranchised members against any measures which might be adopted by the remaining minority? A new parlia
Cartwright (search for this): chapter 3
was thus practically uncertain what was the government of North Carolina, the country was 1674. left without a governor by the death of Stevens. The assembly, conforming to a prudent instruction of the proprietaries, elected a successor; and Cartwright, their speaker, acted for two years at the head of the administration. But the difficulty of introducing the 1674 to 1676. model did not diminish; and, having failed to preserve order, Cartwright resolved to lay the state of the country beforCartwright resolved to lay the state of the country before the proprietaries, and embarked for England. At the same time, the representatives of Albemarle sent Eastchurch, the new speaker of their 1676. assembly, to explain their grievances. It marks, in some measure, a good disposition in the proprietaries, that they selected Eastchurch, the messenger from the colony, to he its governor; but Miller, Nov. whom the colonists had formerly driven into Virginia, was at the same time appointed secretary of the province and collector of the customs; a
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