The share taken by the two Carolinas in American history during the next few years was far less than that of other colonies, but will be dealt with in another chapter. The great interest of the early history of the Carolinas is that the colony won for itself against very considerable odds the rights of local government and freedom from the shackles of the Proprietors. The settlers exhibited from first to last that full determination which is peculiarly associated with those of English stock to control their own destiny without the leading-strings of a few, perhaps benevolent, but generally misguided, human beings, whose powers have been conferred upon them by chance. The settlers of the Carolinas were a dogged type of men who faced external dangers with courage and good sense, distinctly contradictory of their pig-headed, factious, anarchic spirit in all internal affairs.
FOOTNOTES:
[67] Hammond, Leah and Rachel (London, 1656), p. 20.
[68] White, A Relation of the Colony of the Lord Baron Baltimore in Maryland (ed. 1847).
[69] Ibid.
[70] Hammond, ut supra.
[71] Bozman, History of Maryland, 1633-60 (1837), vol. ii. p. 661.
[72] Hammond, ut supra.
[73] Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1661-1668, p. 119.
[74] Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1697-1698, p. 246.