The age-herald., 1897-09-12

guenot A I of these sdtled communities hundreds of miles separated by track less wildernesses, along the Atlantic coast.
 We know of the settlers of New Eng land; how, when they came to that sterile Gand 'they fell first upon their kn-es and then upon the Indians" They were disciples of the righteous Cromwell who sitting along with his council convered to sign Inc death warrant of Charles l., krigh.ly gentleman, permitted enc of the councillors as he passed to the table, goose quill pen in hand loaded with ink, to draw it in jest across the Proteo;or's face; them seizing the; pen to affix his own signature, the mighty man of God returned the pen-wtpfng compliment with a guffaw!
 Parscn Gotten Mather, an able divine of Massachusetts, heard of some chil- dnen of another parsor who were mys- heriousIy annoyed all times of day with a sensation of pins prfcking the cuti- ole. It was probably the seven-years itch, caused from low living, bul. Par son Mather decided upon wtchery as the explanation. He therefore had four teen witches hung at one performances before Ithe people, most of the number of the higher responsibility.
 A fairly correct idea of general New England social conditions may be forn- ed in view of these facts as they trans pired in the time of which I write.
 Coming down to Pennsylvania we find in Pepy's Diary mention of a vap-d youth William Penn by name. son of an admiral of ',he British navy, to whom Charles II was indebted in sum Of money. Pepys says when he went home one day he found William showing off to Mrs. Pepys, a very handsome woman, childless some of the airs he had leain- en in the salons of France, and records his disgust with the fellow.
 There are beauties of chronicles all along the settlements of ehe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but here l shall write brief tale, narrowed to a neglected locality and depend fer fac.s upon traditions familiar to me from in- fancy and upon public records avoided by school and university histories, by Bancroft and the others, because in consistent with a purpose not quite hon. orable to history.
 Charles IL gave South Carolina to eight landgraves, Lord Proprte,ors. They made the government to suit themselves.
  settlement, the high church party re- sisted the landgrave government and drove it out They detna ndad a govern ment direct from the crown and parlia- ment and obtained it. This was the inl- t,al political revolutions in the British American colonies. It started the Hot spur" career of South Carolina.
 Before this .inle, thirty or forty years before, the landgraves had sold large bodies of land to the Huguenoos, some 300 strong, of all ages and sexes. GoV- ernor LudweH was instructed to appor- tion six members of the Colonial Assem- Ibly to the French and to endow them with equal rights of franchise. Thus welcomed the French settlers traded profhtalb1y with the Indians for Skics and pelts, and with the Yankee sh1' masters for Africans. They opened me plantations, laid off a town or two, built churches ard took the oaj.h ito the land graves, also to the British sovereign. They made four settlements, :he 1SO families, perhaps, that had come. One of these was in the city of Charleston; another was WassamaSsiaw, the head waters of the Ashly river to the nor h. west of Ct.arleston the third was to the east of Charleston on French Quarter creek, a, large feeder eff the Cooper river; the foudh and last and CaoGt important wss French S'antee, settlement of some fifty and odd families on the south bank of the Sanitee river, thirty-siX miles northeast of Charleston by land, and 100 miles by the caros nlard wacer route
 The high church English settlers, who were later the revolutionists, took issue even now with the lord pioprietors and denied thear right to admit the French inlso the colonial government. The coll ony had naturalization laws of its own. In the midst of this angry dispute the DissenIers eff England sent MT. John Ashe over to see how politics of the colony really stood Ashe reported i.halt he had witns ssed an election for atsem- bly. There was but one voting place in the colony and that was at Charles ton. Alt the polls he found Jews. stran- gers, sailors, servants, negroes and al- most every Frerlchman in Craven and Berkely cour ies came down to elect, and their votes were taken and the per sons voted for by them were returned by the sheriff" This was election, held under the auspices of the high church party, and the assembly, body of thirty-six members, Turned out every disSsnter chosen, gave hds seat to the churchmam that had the next highest ydre and established the Church of Eng land as the government. religion.
 The Huguenots were not aggressive in the political field. They had not come. like the Cavaliers, or the Puritans, north and south to erect a government. They came to build up their wrecked and confiscated personal fortunes and to ilNc, III puiS Ol tillS SlISle purpose, under the government they found in the colony. They took out naturaliza- ton papers and the storm blew over. They became full-hedged citizens more than half century before the American revolution.
 Below are the official documents that attest the procedures that were neces- sary to confer the right of suffrage upon a French refugee to the colony of South Carolina. They evidence the progress nf 1hprtU Tho tor the Certificate of Denization," and pro- nounced it sufficient; the colonial gov- ernment required the refugee to take out the certificate of naturalization signed by Governor Blake before his bal lot could be counted.
 "CERTFICATE OF DEFAMATION OF I
 ELIAS PRIOLEAU, HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
 T. Nicholas Hayward, Notary and Tabellion Public, dwelling in London, admitted and sworn, hereby certify and attest unto all whom it may concern that I have seen and peruSed oerta h,