this passion for homogeneousness has always been thought a sort of merit,
appealing very much to their self-esteem and pride.
In the case of the French colonists, whether the fault was theirs or not,
the evil results of being, or making themselves, a separate people,
were soon perceptible. They were subjected to various
political and social disabilities, and so odious had they become
to their British neighbors, that John Archdale, one of the proprietors,
a man like Wm. Penn (and by Grahame, the historian,
pronounced very far his superior), equally beloved by all parties,
as a man just and fearless, was, when Governor of the colony,
compelled to deny them representation in the colonial Assembly,
under penalty of making invalid all his attempts at proper government.
Under this humiliating disability the Huguenots lived and labored
for a considerable period, until the propriety of their lives,
the purity of their virtues, and their frequently-tried fidelity
in the cause of the country, forced the majority to be just.
An act, passed in 1696, making all aliens, THEN inhabitants, free --
enabling them to hold lands and to claim the same as heirs --
according liberty of conscience to all Christians (except Papists), &c. --
placed our refugees on a footing of equality with the rest
of the inhabitants, and put an end to the old hostilities between them.
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When our traveller turned his back upon this "kind, loving,
and affable people," to pursue his journey into North Carolina,
his first forward step was into a howling wilderness.
The Santee settlement, though but forty miles distant from Charleston,
was a frontier -- all beyond was waste, thicket and forest,
filled with unknown and fearful animals, and