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SOUTH CAROLINA. |
ABOUT 3,000 Indians
lived in South Carolina when the
first settlers arrived. The first
European adventurers who reached
the South Carolina shore were a
group of Spanish slave-hunters,
who (in 1520) landed on St.
Helena and claimed the country
for Spain. |
In 1562
Ribault's vessels arrived on the
coast bearing a gallant band of
Huguenots. On the site of
Beaufort they built the defenses
of Charles Fort. King Charles II.
granted Carolina to the
lords-proprietors in 1663, and
seven years later their little
fleet reached Beaufort. Finding
this site perilously near the
truculent Spaniards of Florida,
the colonists moved to the Ashley
River and founded Charleston. The
little colony had to fight the
Indians on one side, and on the
other the Spaniards from Florida,
whose galleys plundered the Sea
Islands and destroyed Port Royal. |
For
some years the Carolinas were
governed under John Locke's
fantastical Fundamental
Constitutions. The formal
division of Carolina into North
and South occurred in 1729. The
immigrants of the next few
decades included Dutch, Swiss,
Scotch, German, Welsh, Irish,
French, hundreds of
Pennsylvanians and Virginians
seeking safety after Braddock's
defeat, and also many cargoes of
African slaves which were brought
into Charleston. The Revolution
became a bitter civil war in
South Carolina, but Marion and
Sumter kept up an unceasing
warfare against the king's
forces. |
As
soon as Lincoln was elected
President, South Carolina called
a convention, which (Dec. 20th,
1860) declared that the Union
between her and the other States
was dissolved. |
ILLUSTRATIONS. |
The
Bloody Stick; The Charleston
Earthquake; The Spanish
Invasion, 1520. |
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