The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-02-22

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IN. but 10 permanent -cttlrmcnt was
made until our Charles II granted it
as Il county l,@latIn T. certain Of his
courtiri>. %, whom Clarendon and
Shaitc-hur; w,.r, ia. most notable.
The l.pr.- i'r"rrirtur>. on The whole,
did ti.c;i 'lAtl a, well or as badly a,
ans o'i.cr, uhom ririi,- were
rl.rn wirsr rhry certainly -cut
opt .pne rpon~t, 81, could ncyrr
ia.' p.!,! ,hcir rwn way. and, though
ii"y ,nuiilcd many tllnr~. the mis-
takr~ were npt usually dur to a nis
rnri Searching ait"r profit 1t -
halir'na'i iha, john i.ockr. then A,h
ley secretary. wa- cu.rloyrd to draw
W a constitution. and his Iunla,ncn-
tai Constitutions haze sirni she'd some
amusement To tnosc who like to :,ir,i
AT IhIloSophic politicians. We had
half hoped that Mr.. Mccrady might
have rrhablitatcd these ''l'uulancn-
tai Constitutions But he is law.
yer. and Locke prescribed that no
man should plead in the Colonial
Courts save on bchalf Of near rrla-
tions. 50 hr. McCrady has his re-
vcngc, and makes minccmcat Of the
Landgravcs and the Caciuucs By which
the Whig philosopher tried to build
up hereditary aristocracy on Il tabula
rasa. Indeed, he dcprivcs Locke of
the only credit to which he had been
thought to be entitled that of cstab-
fishing tolcration for all Deists. 1t is
true that, until in the reign of Anne,
Tory majority in the local Lcgisla-
turc made membership Of the Angli-
can Church condition for State en-
ploymcnt, Disscntcrs Of all sorts en-
joycd in Carolina greater freedom
than in any other colony, and an Ana
baptist minister who fed from New
England lived and taught in Charles
ton in peace. But this was not
F.. due t. Locke. 1t was due to
the express provision which Charles
! had inserted in the charter cnioin-
ing the rrorrictors to exercise power
OF diSpcnsa.ion which, according to-
the strict Whig view Of the Constitu-
ton, the King himself did not pos
scsS. And. rs Il matter Of fact, these
Fundamental institutions were never
put IN Force. One of the proprictorS.
Sir William Berkeley, was the Cover
nor "f Virginia. who concluded re-
port with the famous declaration: 81
thank God that there are no free
schools, no printing, and | hope We
shall not have these hundred years:
for learning has brought disobcdicncc
into the world, and printing has li-
vulgcd them and libcls against the
best government. He was not very
likely man to yield to the whims of
philosophcdom. Nor were the colon
lists philosophers. They proceeded,
at the instigation of one William
Owen, doubtless Wclshman, to elect
Il democratic Parliament in their own
rough and ready way, among whom
were Mick Moran, laboring Irish
man, and Rich Cro>slcy, set free by
his master for idlcncss. Thus early
did the eternal struggle between the
Mugwumr and the ward politician be-
gin upon the .tmurican continent
with the us,,,l rrSult
They were 4 strangely mixed lot
these coloniSts. The strongest stream
Of immigration WAS from Barbados.
where already there were 81. UOU
whites, English, Scotch and Irish.
Mr.. McCrady thinks that the Com
monwcalth established the navigation
system mainly to punish these sugar
; planters for their loyalty. Charles II
did no better, and thence it came that
the Church of England element in
South Carolina was the most porulis-
tie in tendency, while the Dissentcrs
stood by the rrorrictors The lIuguc-
not refugees were another strong clr-
mcnt. They numbered abont tenth
of the population, and were mostly
artlccrs. The Scotch Irish did not
come until later, when they immigra
ted by way Of Virginia. but there were
plenty of both Irish and Scotch 1t
is a curious and notable fact that the
Governor at the end Of the seventeenth
century was Joseph Blake. who was
either the nephew or brother Of Crom,
well admiral. and had left England
owing to the dread which \oncomfor-
lists in the West felt of persecution
undcra 'opish King: while his sue
cc>sor James Moore, chosen by the
local council, was Il son Of Rory
/ ~ l0orc the Irish Catholic rcnc) of