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Thales (search for this): chapter 3
e chief magistrate of North Carolina and the envoy of humanity travelled together on foot through the ancient woods, it might indeed have seemed, far more than in the companionship of Shaftesbury and Locke, that the days of the legislation of philosophy were about to be revived. For in the character of his wisdom, in the method of its acquisition by deep feeling, reflection, and travel, and in its fruits, George Fox far more nearly resembled the simplicity of the ancient sages, the peers of Thales and Solon, whom common fame has immortalized From the house of the governor the traveller continued his journey to the residence of Joseph Scot, one of the representatives of the country, where he had a sound and precious meeting with the people. His eloquence reached their hearts, for he did but assert the paramount value of the impulses and feelings which had guided them in the wilderness. George Fox had a sense of all conditions; for how else could he have spoken to all conditions? F
Seth Sothel (search for this): chapter 3
ations? Should they send an armed force to hunt the planters from their houses? The proprietaries had for the motive of their conduct the love of gain; and a violent government would have been too costly and unproductive an enterprise. Avarice, therefore, compelled moderation; and a compromise was offered. But a compromise was the confession of weakness. 1679 It was a natural expedient to send one of the proprie- 1680 taries themselves to look after the interests of the company; 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 receiver-gener
De Le Tellier (search for this): chapter 3
f, within the secret recesses of every family. At length, the edict of Nantz was formally revoked. 1685 Oct. 22. Calvinists might no longer preach in churches or in the ruins of churches; all public worship was forbidden them; and the chancellor Le Tellier could shout aloud, Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; even the eloquent Bossuet, in false rhetoric that reflects disgrace on his understanding Chap. XIII.} and heart, Leurs faux pasteurs, &c. Oralson Fun. de Le Tellde Le Tellier. The insinuation was false. could declare the total overthrow of heresy; while Louis XIV. believed his glory perfected by an absolute union of all dissenters with the Roman church. But the extremity of danger inspired even the wavering with courage. What though they were exposed, without defence, to the fury of an unbridled soldiery, whom hatred of heretics had steeled against humanity? Property was exposed to plunder; religious books were burned; children torn from their parents; fa
Tillotson (search for this): chapter 3
. His lucid mind despised the speculations of a twilight philosophy, esteeming the pursuit of truth the first object of life, and its attainment as the criterion of dignity; and therefore he never sacrificed a conviction to an interest. The ill success of the democratic revolution of England had made him an enemy to popular innovations. He had seen the commons of England incapable of retaining the precious conquest they had made; and being neither a theorist like Milton, nor a tory like Tillotson, he cherished what at that day were called English principles; looking to the aristocracy as the surest adversaries of arbitrary power. He did not, like Sidney, sigh for the good old cause of a republic; nor, like Penn, confide in the instincts of humanity; but regarded the privileges of the nobility Chap XIII.} 1669 as the guaranties of English liberties. Emphatically free from avarice, he could yet, as a political writer, deify liberty under the form of wealth; to him slavery seemed
Porey (search for this): chapter 3
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 promise of a fourteen years monopoly of the profits. Hening, i. 262. Williamson, i. 91. For more than twenty years, &c. Had Williamson for his opinion other grounds than this act, which, however, does not sustain his statement? He cites no authority. Exploring parties to the south not less tha
Saxon (search for this): chapter 3
1671. African slaves. Dalcho, 13. Hewat, i. 53 Thus the institution of negro slavery is coeval with the first plantations on Ashley River. Of the original thirteen states, South Carolina alone was from its cradle essentially a planting state with slave labor. In Maryland, in Virginia, the custom of employing indented servants long prevailed; and the class of white laborers was always numerous; for no where in the United States is the climate more favor- Chap. XIII.} able to the Anglo-Saxon laborer than in Virginia. It was from the first observed that the climate of South Carolina was more congenial to the African than that of the more northern colonies; Wilson's Carolina, 15. and at once it became the great object of the emigrant to buy negro slaves, without which, adds Wilson, a planter can never do any great matter. Ibid. 17. Every one of the colonies received slaves from Africa within its borders; the Dutch merchants, who engaged in planting New York, were largely in
Keeper Guilford (search for this): chapter 3
tatesmen who controlled the whole patronage of the British realms. The province of Carolina, extending from the thirty-sixth degree of 1663 Mar. 24. north latitude to the River San Matheo, was accordingly 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 i
Milton (search for this): chapter 3
eled, except by his patron. His lucid mind despised the speculations of a twilight philosophy, esteeming the pursuit of truth the first object of life, and its attainment as the criterion of dignity; and therefore he never sacrificed a conviction to an interest. The ill success of the democratic revolution of England had made him an enemy to popular innovations. He had seen the commons of England incapable of retaining the precious conquest they had made; and being neither a theorist like Milton, nor a tory like Tillotson, he cherished what at that day were called English principles; looking to the aristocracy as the surest adversaries of arbitrary power. He did not, like Sidney, sigh for the good old cause of a republic; nor, like Penn, confide in the instincts of humanity; but regarded the privileges of the nobility Chap XIII.} 1669 as the guaranties of English liberties. Emphatically free from avarice, he could yet, as a political writer, deify liberty under the form of wealt
1677 AD (search for this): chapter 3
little direct commerce between Albemarle and England; the new officers embarked for Carolina by way of the West Indies, where Eastchurch remained for a season; while Miller proceeded to the province, in which he was now to hold the triple office 1677. July of president or governor, secretary, and collector. The government had for about a year been left in Chap XIII.} 1677 what royalists called ill order and worse hands; Proprietaries, in Williamson, i. 262. that is, it had been a governNew England; and the mariners of Boston, guiding their vessels through the narrow entrances of the bay, brought to the doors of the scattered planters the few foreign articles which the exchange of their produce could purchase. And Chap. XIII.} 1677. yet this inconsiderable traffic, so little alluring, but so convenient to the colonists, was envied by the English merchant; the law of 1672 was now to be enforced; the traders of Boston were to be crowded from the market by an unreasonable duty;
1678 AD (search for this): chapter 3
lliamson, i. 134, classes among weak and flimsy arguments. Why should an apologist for Bacon clamor against Culpepper? The events that followed prove the sincerity of this plea; for North Carolina was much infected with that passion for representative government, which was the epidemic of America. Having deposed and imprisoned the president and the deputies of the proprietaries and set at nought the acts of parliament, the people recovered from anarchy, tranquilly organized a Chap. XIII.} 1678. government, and established courts of justice. The insurrection was a deliberate rising of the people against the pretensions of the proprietaries and the laws of navigation; the uneducated population of that day formed conclusions as just as those which a century later pervaded the country. Eastchurch arrived in Virginia; but his commission and authority were derided; and he himself was kept out by force of arms; Williamson, i. 264. while the insurgents, among whom was George Durant, t
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