An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, vol 2 | Page 2

and plants._ _Its minerals undiscovered._ _The British forces augmented._ _Their first success in America._ _The cause of the Cherokee war._ _Governor Lyttleton prepares to march against them._ _The Cherokees sue for peace._ _Governor Lyttleton marches against the Cherokees._ _Holds a congress at Fort Prince George._ _His speech to Attakullakulla._ _Attakullakulla's answer._ _A treaty concluded with six chiefs._ _The Governor returns to Charlestown._ _The treaty of peace broken._ _Occonostota's stratagem for killing the officer of the fort._ _The war becomes general._ _Colonel Montgomery arrives._ _And marches against the Cherokees._ _Chastises them near Etchoe._ _And returns to Fort Prince George._ _The consternation of the inhabitants from Indians._ _Great distress of the garrison at Fort Loudon._ _The terms obtained for the garrison._ _Treacherously broken by the savages._ _A proposal for attacking Fort Prince George._ _Captain Stuart escapes to Virginia._ _The war continues._ _The Highlanders return to Carolina._ _Colonel Grant marches against the Cherokees._ _Engages and defeats them._ _Destroys their towns._ _Peace with the Cherokees._ _A quarrel between the commanding officers._ _A whirlwind at Charlestown._ _Of the heat at Savanna._
CHAP. XI.
_A peace, and its happy effects respecting America._ _Boundaries of East and West Florida._ _The southern provinces left secure._ _Encouragement given to reduced officers and soldiers._ _Georgia begins to flourish._ _A plan adopted for encouraging emigrations to Carolina._ _A number of Palatines seduced into England._ _Sent into Carolina._ _And settled at Londonderry._ _Some emigrate from Britain, and multitudes from Ireland._ _And from the northern colonies, resort to Carolina._ _Regulations for securing the provinces against Indians._ _John Stuart made superintendant for Indian affairs._ _Decrease of Indians, and the causes of it._ _Present state of Indian nations in the southern district._ _Mr. Stuart's first speech to the Indians, at Mobile._ _A description of Charlestown._ _The number of its inhabitants._ _A general view of the manners, &c. of the people._ _And of their way of living._ _The arts and sciences only of late encouraged._ _The militia and internal strength of the province._ _Of its societies formed for mutual support and relief._ _Of its merchants and trade._ _Of its planters and agriculture._ _An interruption of the harmony between Britain and her colonies, and the causes of it._ _The new regulations made in the trade of the colonies give great offence._ _A vote passed for charging stamp-duties on the Americans._ _Upon which the people of New England discover their disaffection to government._ _An opportunity given the colonies to offer a compensation for the stamp-duty._ _The stamp-act passes in parliament._ _Violent measures taken to prevent its execution._ _The assembly of Carolina study ways and means of eluding the act._ _Their resolutions respecting the obedience due to the British parliament._ _The people become more violent in opposition to government._ _The merchants and manufacturers in England join in petitioning for relief._ _The stamp-act repealed._ _Which proves fatal to the jurisdiction of the British parliament in America._ _And gives occasion of triumph to the colonies._

THE HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

CHAP. VII.
[Sidenote] The form of legal governments.
From that period in which the right and title to the lands of Carolina were sold, and surrendered to the King, and he assumed the immediate care and government of the province, a new aera commences in the annals of that country, which may be called the aera of its freedom, security, and happiness. The Carolineans who had long laboured under innumerable hardships and troubles, from a weak proprietary establishment, at last obtained the great object of their desires, a royal government, the constitution of which depended on commissions issued by the crown to the Governor, and the instructions which attended those commissions. The form of all provincial governments was borrowed from that of their mother country, which was not a plan of systematic rules drawn before-hand by speculative men, but a constitution which was the result of many ages of wisdom and experience. Its great object is the public good, in promoting of which all are equally concerned. It is a constitution which has a remedy within itself for every political disorder, which, when properly applied, must ever contribute to its stability and duration. After the model of this British constitution the government of Carolina now assumed a form like the other regal ones on the continent, which were composed of three branches, of a Governor, a Council, and an Assembly. The crown having the appointment of the Governor, delegates to him; its constitutional powers, civil and military, the power of legislation as far as the King possesses it; its judicial and executive powers, together with those of chancery and admiralty jurisdiction, and also those of supreme ordinary: all these powers, as they exist in the crown, are known by the laws of the realm; as they are entrusted to Governors, they are declared and defined by their commissions patent.