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

at Lake George._ _Governor Glen holds a congress with the
Cherokees._ _And purchases a large tract of land from them._ _Forts
built in defence of Carolina._ _Its excellent fruits 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