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1686 AD (search for this): chapter 3
eturned to Europe, to render service in the approaching revolution; and the Spaniards, taking umbrage at a plantation established on ground which they claimed as a dependency of St. Augustine, invaded the frontier settlement, and laid it entirely 1686. waste. Of the unhappy emigrants, some returned to Scotland; some mingled with the earlier planters of Carolina. Archdale, 14. Hewat, i. 89. Chalmers, 547, 548. Ramsay l. 127. Laing, IV. 187 More than a hundred years had elapsed since Cut neither his relationship, nor his rank, nor his reputation, nor his office, nor his acres, could procure for him obedience; because the actual relations between the contending parties 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 refract
1683 AD (search for this): chapter 3
to have been a cheating rogue. Many colonial governors displayed rapacity and extortion towards the people; Sothel cheated his proprietary associates, as well as 1683 to 1688 plundered the colonists. To the colonists he could not be acceptable, for it was his duty to establish the constitutions, and enforce the navigation acts.ed to the glowing clime of Carolina, carrying with them intelligence, industry, and sobriety. A contemporary historian commemorates with singular praise the com- 1683. pany of dissenters from Somersetshire, who were conducted to Charlestown by Joseph Blake, brother to the gallant admiral, so celebrated for naval genius and lovetablished; they refused supplies of cattle, and desired returns in compensation for their expenditures. The moderation and good sense of West were able 1674 to 1683. to preserve tranquillity for about nine years; but the lords, who had first purchased his services by the grant of all their merchandise and debts in Carolina, in
1684 AD (search for this): chapter 3
conspiracy for the elevation of Monmouth. The conspiracy was matured in London, under pretence of favoring emigration to America; and its ill success involved its authors in danger, and brought Russell and Sydney to the scaffold. It was, therefore, with but a small colony, that the Presbyterian Lord Cardross, many of whose friends had suffered impris- 1684 onment, the rack, and death itself, and who had himself been persecuted under Lauderdale, Laing IV. 72. set sail for Chap. XIII.} 1684. Carolina. But even there the ten families of outcasts found no peace. They planted themselves at Port Royal; Ramsay says, in 1682. the colony of Ashley River claimed over them a jurisdiction which was reluctantly conceded. Cardross returned to Europe, to render service in the approaching revolution; and the Spaniards, taking umbrage at a plantation established on ground which they claimed as a dependency of St. Augustine, invaded the frontier settlement, and laid it entirely 1686. was
1687 AD (search for this): chapter 3
lleton 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 parliament was still more intractable; and 1687. the standing laws which they adopted were negatived by the palatine court. From questions of political liberty, the strife between the parties extended to all their relations. When Colleton endeavored to collect quit-rents, not Chap XIII.} 1687 only on cultivated fields, but on wild lands also, direct insubordination ensued; and the assembly, imprisoning the secretary of the province, and seizing the records, defied the governor and his patrons, and entered on a career of absolute oppo
1688 AD (search for this): chapter 3
lation of clients and patrons. Such were the constitutions devised for Carolina by Shaftesbury and Locke, by the statesman who was the type of the revolution of 1688, and the philosopher who was the antagonist of Descartes and William Penn. Several American writers have attempted to exonerate Locke from a share in the work whi productions of the south of Europe. Chalmers, 541. Ramsay, II. 5. Carolina, by T. A. p. 8, 9. From England, also, emigrations were considerable. 1670 to 1688. The character of the proprietaries was a sufficient invitation to the impoverished Cavalier; and the unfortunate of the church of England could look to the shoreshe country against a military despotism. It was evident, the 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 Carolin
April 1st (search for this): chapter 3
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 sixty-seven persons in Carolina. Mss. from D. L. Swain. This may have been the oldest considerable settlement; there is reason to believe that volunteer emigrants had preceded them. Chalmers, 519, For some years. In September, the colony had attracted the attention of the proprietaries, and Berkeley was commissioned to institute a government o
July 21st, 1669 AD (search for this): chapter 3
Locke from a share in the work which they condemn; but the constitutions, with the exception I have named, are in harmony with the principles of his philosophy, and with his theories on government. To his late old age he preserved with care the evidence of his legislative labors; and his admirers esteemed him the superior of the contemporary Quaker king, the rival of the ancient philosophers, to whom the world had erected statues. The 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 while every religion should be tolerated, the Church of England, as the only true and orthodox church, was to be the national religion of Carolina, and was alone to receive public maintenance by grants from the colonial parliament. This revised copy was not signed till March, 1670. To a colony of which the maj
July 31st (search for this): chapter 3
ted 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, with heart and hand, 1680. July 31. to the best of our capacities and understandings, so far as is consonant with God's glory and the advancement of his blessed truth; Mss. from D. L. Swain, copied from the records of Berkley Precinct. and the restricted promise was accepted. An act of amnesty, on easy condi- 1681 tions, was adopted; but the feeling of personal independence, and the very nature of life in the New World, were firmer guaranties of security than all promises of pardon. It is said that the popular admini
1698 AD (search for this): chapter 3
d person. Habits of thought and action fix their stamp on the public code; the faith, the prejudices, the hopes of a people, may be read there; and, as knowledge advances, one prejudice after another, each erroneous judgment, each perverse enactment, yields to the imbodied force of the common will. The method to success in legislating for Carolina, could only have been the counsels of the emigrants themselves. The constitutions for Carolina merit attention as the only continued So, in 1698, April 11, a new form of the fundamental constitutions was agreed on; and article 7 asserts,All power and dominion is most naturally founded in property The two Charters, &c. p. 54,—a small 4to., printed without date. attempt within the United States to connect political power with hereditary wealth. America was singularly rich in every form of representative government; its political experience was so varied, that, in modern European constitutions, hardly a method of constituting an upper o
1705 AD (search for this): chapter 3
a double grief to the proprietaries; the rapacity of Sothel was a breach of trust; the judgment of the assembly an ominous usurpation. The planters of North Carolina recovered tranquillity so soon as they escaped the misrule from abroad; and, sure of amnesty, esteemed themselves the happiest people on earth. They loved the pure air and clear skies of their summer land. Lawson, 63, 80. True, there was no fixed minister in the land till 1703; Martin, i. 218, 219. no church erected till 1705; no separate building for a court-house till 1722; no printing-press till 1754. Thomas's History of Printing II. 150 Careless of religious sects, or colleges, or lawyers, or absolute laws, the early settlers enjoyed liberty of conscience and personal independence; freedom of the forest and of the river. The children of nature listened to the inspirations of nature. From almost every plantation they enjoyed a noble prospect of spacious rivers, of pleasant mead- Chap XIII.} ows, enamelle
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