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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ared amongthe colonists in the vicinity of the Cooperand Ashley rivers. Stubborn Resistance. In 1685, the proprietaries ordered the colonial authorities to enforce the navigation actsin the ports of the province. A rigid execu-tion of this order would have been as fatal tothe feeble commerce of South Carolina as tothat of the settlements in the northern partof the province, and it was resisted by thecolonists as a violation of their natural rightsand of the promises made to them at the timeof their emigration. In order to establishtheir authority more firmly the proprietaries ;appointed James Colleton governor, with therank of landgrave. He was brother of one of the proprietaries,and it was supposed that this fact and hisaristocratic rank would give him a moralppower which his predecessors had not pos-sessed. The new governor attempted toenforce the constitutions, but was met with adetermined resistance, and when he under-took to collect the rents claimed by the 2 ad H > •<O H
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235 2^6 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. proprietaries, &nd the taxes he had beenordered to levy, the assembly seized therecords of the province, imprisoned thecolonial secretary, and defied the governorto execute his orders. In 1690, they wentstill further, and having proclaimed Wil-liam and Mary, disfranchised Colleton andbanished him from South Carolina, Disputes now ran high in the colony,chiefly in regard to rents and land tenures.The .cavaliers and ill-livers, as theparty devoted to the interests of the pro-prietaries was termed, endeavored tocompel the remainder of the settlers—^thePresbyterians, Quakers and Huguenots,the last of whom had recently been ad-mitted to all the privileges of citizenship—to submit to their high-handed measures.They hoped among other things to securethe supremacy of the Church of England inthv* colony, notwithstanding the fact that amajonty of the people were dissenters. Thetroubles went on increasing, and at lengththe proprietors, in the hope of puttin

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