of men, whatever high pretensions they may affect to superior sanctity of
manners, have not always been found the most peaceable members of
society. A number of cavaliers having received grants from the
proprietors, had now brought over their families and effects, and joined
the Puritans in Carolina. The latter were looked upon by the proprietors
with a partial eye, as men of honour, loyalty and fidelity, and met with
great indulgence and encouragement; by which means they thrust themselves
into offices of trust and authority. The Puritans, on the other hand,
viewed them with the eye of envy and jealousy, and having suffered from
them in England, could not bear to see the smallest share of power
committed to them in Carolina. Hence the seeds of strife and division,
which had been imported into the colony, began to spring forth, and, as
if brought to a warmer and more fertile soil, to grow so rank as to
promise little peace and happiness to the young settlement. No common
dangers or difficulties could blot out of their memories the prejudices
and animosities contracted in England: the odious terms of distinction
were revived and propagated among the people, and while one party were
attached to the church of England, the other, who had fled from the
rigour of ecclesiastical power, were jealous above all things of
religious liberties, and could bear no encroachment on them. The governor
found that matters of religion were tender points, and therefore wisely
avoided all deliberations about them, chusing rather to leave every man
to his free choice, than propose an establishment of any kind, which he
saw would occasion trouble and division among the people.

Another source of difficulty arose to government from the different
manners of these colonists. These emigrants were not a people accustomed
to rural labours and frugal simplicity, but many of them pampered
citizens, whose wants luxury had increased, and rendered them impatient
of fatigue and the restraints of legal authority. The sober and morose