f justice
soon restored order and good feeling in the colony. He was succeeded by
John Archdale, a Quaker, who, in 1695, came as governor of the two
colonies. His administration was a blessing. The people over whom he
ruled were as free in their opinions and actions as the air they
breathed. Legal or moral restraints were few; yet the gentle-minded
people were enemies to violence or crime. They were widely scattered,
with not a city or town and scarce a hamlet within their sylvan domain.
The only roads were bridle paths from house to house, and these were
indicated by notches cut in trees--"blazed roads." There was not a
settled minister in the colony until 1703.

The southern, or Carteret County Colony was, meanwhile, steadily moving
along in population and wealth. The settlers, perceiving the fatal
objections to the "Fundamental Constitutions" as a plan of government
for their colony, did not attempt conforming thereto, but established a
more simple government adapted to their conditions. Under it, the first
legislative assembly of South Carolinia convened, in the spring of 1672,
at the place on the Ashley River where the colony was first seated. In
that body, jarring political, social and theological interests and
opinions produced passionate debates and violent discord. South
Carolinia has ever been a seething political caldron, and, even in that
early date, there was a proprietary party and a people's party, a high
church party and a dissenters' party, each bigoted and resolute. At
times, the debates were so heated and earnest, that they seemed on the
eve of plunging the colony into civil war.

The savages had commenced plundering the frontier, and all factions of
the whites were forced to unite against this common enemy. The bold
frontiersman, with his trusty rifle, was often unable to defend his
home. His cattle were run away or slaughtered before his very eyes. Old
Town was the first point selected for the capital; but Charleston was
finally laid out on Oyster Point, and the seat of government was removed
to this city, where the second assembly met, in 1682. Immigrants flowed
in with a full and continuous stream. Families came from Ireland,
Scotland and Holland, and when the edict at Nantes, which secured
toleration to Protestants in France, was revoked, a large number of
Huguenots fled from their country, and many sought an asylum in the
Carolinias. The traditionary hatred of the English for the French was
sh