The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . ^ The lords proprietors of Caro-lina got up what they thought a beautiful system of gov-ernment. They proposed to have Carolina chiefly ruledby noblemen, who were to be divided into three orders,one above another. These noblemen were to be calledpalatines, landgraves, and caciques. They attached tothis constitution a plan for laying off their territory intolarge square tracts of several thousand acres each. Thesewere to be the property of their nobility and the pro-prietors ; the people were to be tenants paying r
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . ^ The lords proprietors of Caro-lina got up what they thought a beautiful system of gov-ernment. They proposed to have Carolina chiefly ruledby noblemen, who were to be divided into three orders,one above another. These noblemen were to be calledpalatines, landgraves, and caciques. They attached tothis constitution a plan for laying off their territory intolarge square tracts of several thousand acres each. Thesewere to be the property of their nobility and the pro-prietors ; the people were to be tenants paying men who adopted this plan had never seen Amer-ica. They knew nothing of the habits and necessitiesof settlers in a new country. Constitutions can notbe made to order in this fashion ; they must grow outof the circumstances and character of the people. Theclumsy arrangements of the proprietors all failed whenthey tried to apply them. Their degrees of nobility andthe ofificers with titles were of no use in the woods of MARYLAND AXD THE CAROLIXAS. 57. l^^^^/Charleston. 1680.^^^ort Royal, 1670. North Carolina Progress of the America ; their people did not care to rentland when so much lay vacant, and themachinery of their constitution was ridicu-lous when their agents tried to put it inmotion. The Carolina colonies grew slowlyat first. The introduction of rice-culture in 1696 proved of great ad-vantage to South Carolina, which im-mediately became prosperous. Thepeople took to raising large herds of cattle which change ofgovroamed in the woods. This colony was involved in ^? ?many local dissensions and petty civil wars. The Caro-lina proprietors, who had the appointment of govern-ors to both colonies, conducted their affairs in a selfishspirit. In 1719 the South Carolina people rose in re-bellion, marched into Charleston, and threw off the yokeof the lords proprietors. In 1729 the king bought outthe interest of all the proprietors except one, and afterthat period both North
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