The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-03
CHARLESTON.

AuJO mass VI IuI@-S Dy tue SBOCAS ~
earthquake that rolled under it on tn,
night of August the 31st, is one of tn
historic cities of the United States. 1
IS located on the Atlantic coast, at tn,
head of Charleston harbor, on wha
use to be called before the days of tn
American Revolution, Oyster Point, g
the junction of the Cooper and Ashley
Rivers; Cooper River flowing from the
north AMI Ashley from the west.
Charleston was FIRST settled by people
migrating from what is now North
Carolina. The proprietors of North
Carolina, which then included the terri
tory out of which South Carolina was
subsequently formed in 1910, sent three
ship loads of emigrants down the coast
ID settle in the southern part of their
possess ons.
They first settled on Beaufort Island,
some distance south of the site of Char
lesion, amid the ruins of Fort Carolina
built by the Huguenots, more than a
hundred years before Q560. The
settlers selected several places for the
site Of their location, all of which
proved unsatisfactory, until the present
site of Charleston, on Oyster Point, was
chosen, in the summer of 1880. The
city plot was surveyed by John Gull
pepper, the surEeyor-general of North
Carolina. Hearing of the favorable 10
cation of Charleston, Germans, dis
satisfied with the management of affairs
IN New York-to them New Amsterdam
together with immigrants from Eng
land came pouring into the new city,
and settled in the valleys of the Santee
and Edisto Rivers, and soon converted
the wilderness to a garden. The po-
htieal and religious affairs of this new
colony were far behind their material
prosperity, and their records disclose
wrangiing in their affairs OF govern
ment, and intolerance in religious mat
tiers; still no more so, perhaps, than in
other colonies at the same period. In
the city of Charleston-named so,
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England, in 17O4, were tolerated FIVE
different denominations of religion,
each Of which had its church. These
were, the English Church, French, In
dependent, Anabaptist and tkeQuakers.
Charleston as soon as it was laid out,
was surrounded by wall to protect the
people from the attacks of the Indians,
whose fr, quent incursions made the
white settlers forget for q season at
least their religious and political differ
ences, when nothing else would, as they
had to uni,e for the common defense.
During what is known to Us as Queen
Anne's war, which broke out in 1702,
Charleston was attacked by the Span
iards who sailed from Havana with a
boast that they would annex the South
ern English Territory to the Spanish
domain CT Florida. But when the
Spanish troops appeared before Charles
ton they were met by the citizens under
the command of Colonel Rhett, with
such determined bravery, that they
we're driven to their shipping and
abandoned the enterprise.
Charleston had a history. too. during
the American Revolution. During the
winter of 1850 the city was occupied by
q feeble force Of patriots under General
Lincoln, and Commodore Whipple
was in command Of fotiIla of small
armed ships in the harbor. Early in
February an English feet under the
command Of Admiral Arbuthnot, |
having on board two thousand marines
and the military forces of Sir Henry
appeared before Charleston.
Commodore Whlpple's small vessels
were driven into the harbor, where he
sank them at the mouth of Cooper
River. Clinton, instead of attacking
the town at once. laid a regular seige to
It. General Lincoln's first plan was to
syacuate the place, and fee into the
but seeing the tardy move
nsnts of the English he remained
hoping to receive achievements from
The interior, which would enable him
% drive Clinton away. For three
months the city was beseiged, and
repeated summonses were made
or the surrender of the city, but each
ime the patriots refused to accede to
ne demand. At last. on the 9th of
Nay, regular bombardment began
md during that night aud the follow.
ng day 200 guns belched out shot and
hell into the city; and the enemy were
to take it by storm, when
General Lincoln. despsiring of rein
orcements from the interior. signifed
is willingness to surrender; and i
'hsrleston was left in the hands of the ,
british from whom it was rescued by i