Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-16

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held by a fork over flames till
death came to his rescue, AS the
tongues of fire licked the garments
from his limbs one might hear the
groans of agony, aud see his life
blood flowing from his wounds.
Oh! horrible sight. | cannot
describe il to such a humane au-
dience. In the other case six men
we're placed near the banks of q
stream, and an Indian woman
walked around them singing a
death song, and striking them on
the head as she passed. She kept
this up till the life was beaten out
of thoir tortured bodies. Such
things were of every day occurrence
during the whole colonial period
of this country. will now con-
fine myself exclusively to the col
onization of South Carolina. Sir,
I will venture to say that our own
South Carolinian fore fathers dur
ing their colonial history endured
more hardships than all the United
States combined during the revo-
luton. AS I have already said,
the first attempt to settle South
Carolina by Europeans was made
by Ribault at Port Royal. He left
the colony to return to France for
provisions. After his departure
the men he had left became dis,
heartened, built a small ship and
determined to return home. After
enduring many hardships at sea
they were picked up by an English
ship. While at sea they were about
to starve, and after eating all their
sole leather they cast lots to see
which one should be killed and
eaten by the others. The one on
whom the lot fell submitted to his
fate like the hero that he was. In
the year 1870 few settlers under
Gov. Sayle landed in the vicinity
of Port Royal. They found them
selves beset on every side by fierce
savages, ravenors mosquitoes, ard
terrible alligators. This state of
affairs not suiting them, they de-
termined to move to the present
site of Charleston. The nextyear
the Indians gave them much
Itreuble
winter sf the same years. he
|colonists suffered much from the
want Of food, the Indians being
hostile, food was not to be had.
l"Starvat;on stared them in the
face" Three years later the In
dians again became troublesome.
The Spaniards of St. Augustine,
thinking settlement made by
Lord Cardcross at Port Royal an
intrusion into their territory, in
stigated the Indians to attack and
harry them by land, while they
should make an attack by sea.
About this time the Spaniards to-
gether with Indians and runaway
negroes, landed at Edisto, and
pillaged the houses of Governor
Morton and Secretary Grimball.
They carried off slaves and money,
besides brutally numbering the
Governors brother-in-law. On
their return they swept down OH
Port Royal and utterly destroyed,
it. Some years later smallpox
broke out in the colony, causing
the death of over 800 persons. The
same year fire broke out in Char,
lesion, and destroyed many sores,
and dwellings. The next year,
1899, yellow fever the most detes-.
table of all epidemics, broke out
and caused the death of many
A few years later the Indians
treacherously murdered 130 men,
women, and children.
Col. Barnwell was sent to avenge
this. After killing and capturing
many of them, being out of pro-
visions he returned to Charleston.
Scarcely had they returned when
they renewed their depredations.
Col. Moore marched against them,
routing them with great slaughter.
In the year 1715 the Indians en-
couraged by the Spaniards of st.
Augustine formed q federation of
all the tribes from st. Augustine
to Cape Fear. The object in view
was 10 exterminate the colony.
Their bloody work hegan on the
18th day of April. 1715. with the