Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-13

nary rights of q citizen. He was
made incapable of receiving any
legacy or gift; in one word, he was
made a mere cipher. The trap was
set, and the prospects, for a while,
were favorable. But the vile schemes
of few for the ruin of many, were
soon to come to an end.
Home Government Advised of Situa-
tion.
After the election frauds, Joseph
Ashe was prevailed upon by several
of the best, as well as the oldest,
inhabitants Of the country, to go to
England and make a plain state
ment Of the miserable condition Of
things in the colony. He met with
no encouragement from John So i.
Gord Granville.) Ashe came back
to Virginia and commenced the pub
lication Of the facts in the case, but
died before the work was completed.
The few sheets which were finish
ed. fell, by improper means, into the
hands of the Grand Council, and
Thomas Smith, one of the oldest men
in the colony, was prosecuted be-
cause of the connection he held with
Ashe and the other memorialists
After the passage of the JAWS es-
tablishing the Church Of England as
the church of the colony, Joseph
Boone, in behalf of himself and many
of the inhabitants, as we'll as some
London merchants. presented a pc
tition to the proprietors, in which
they set forth their grievances. John
Somers treated the petition and pc
titioners with the utmost harshness.
The Palatine refused. for some time,
to call the proprietors together; and
when he did. call them, had no in
tention of showing the petitioners
any favors or removing any Of the
grievances of which they complained.
John Archdale, one of the proprie-
tors, and at one time governor OF
Carolina, was, from principle, op-
posed to the acts which the assembly
had passed. He and Somers quar-
relied, when Somers declared, in an
angry tone: II am for this bill, and
this is the party that I will head and
countenance."
When Boone requested that he
might make his statement, Somers,
Gord Granville.) replied: II will do
as 1 see fit" The end was approach
ing. The people Of England were
incensed at the high-handed meas
ure of appointing lay commission,
which to all intents and purposes,
was a direct thrust at the Bishop Of
London. 1.-The society for the prop
agation of the gospel" which had
done much to support the gospel In
the colony of Carolina. met and pass
ed a resolution to send no more as
sistance to the colony in Carolina,
until the clause of the act establish
ing a lay commission should be re-
pealed.
Appeal to House of Lords.
Boone, thwarted In his efforts to
obtained redress for injuries receiv-
ed at the hands Of the proprietors,
placed his case In the hands Of the
House Of Lords. These saw in the
colonial laws respecting religion,
much that was not granted by the
original charter, and much that was
subversive of the English Constitu-
ton. The petition was examined as
carefully as the short time of the
session would allow, and then present
ed to the Queen for her examination.
In April. 1905, the whole matter was
referred to the Board Of Trade. The
lawyers of the crown declared that
the acts establishing Episcopacy In
South Carolina ought to be repealed,
and that the proprietors had for
feited their charter and recommend
ed that 1t be annulled. All that
saved the charter to the proprietors
was the fact that they were peers of
the realm On the 10th Of June, the
Queen of England nullified the en-
actments of Johnson, Moore, Trott
and a few others, who composed the
oligarchy in South Carolina.
TO BE CONTINUED.