A history of the American nation . into which many people found their way by wanderingdown the long, wide valleys or troughs of the Appalachians,whence, before the end of the eighteenth century, men passedinto the forests of the great Mississippi valley. The difference between the men of the older sections andthe new settlers of the back-country was in all the colonies more or less evident; but in the South the contrasttii^^West ^^ ^^^^ especially plain. In Virginia and South Carolina were two strongly contrasted societies: — on thetide-water rivers a race of planters dressing richly, owning l
A history of the American nation . into which many people found their way by wanderingdown the long, wide valleys or troughs of the Appalachians,whence, before the end of the eighteenth century, men passedinto the forests of the great Mississippi valley. The difference between the men of the older sections andthe new settlers of the back-country was in all the colonies more or less evident; but in the South the contrasttii^^West ^^ ^^^^ especially plain. In Virginia and South Carolina were two strongly contrasted societies: — on thetide-water rivers a race of planters dressing richly, owning largeestates, riding in coaches, and living in a sort of baronial style; inthe farther upland, hardy settlers clearing the land, building loghouses, planting corn or little patches of tobacco in the wilder-ness; and, still farther on, the bold frontiersman, the vanguard, COLONIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 93 the leaders of the slow but steady movement toward the set-ting sun. There is little resemblance in life and habits between. PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT,GOVERNMENT BY CHARTER Governments Distinguished the wealthy planter and the man of the back country. Thei planter is waited upon by slaves; the frontiersman must defendI himself and earn his own hard livelihood. Yet both are Amer- 94 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION icans and both are devoted to liberty. The planter, accustomedto rule others as well as himself, will not brook restraint. Thepioneer breathes in freedom with every draught of mountain air. GEORGIA—1732-1765 We must give a word or two to the settlement of Georgia,though the colony, settled late, did not loom large in the colo-nial affairs of the eighteenth century. Spain held Florida buthad done little or nothing in the way of settlement, contentingherself with watching Englands growth with jealous eyes andcontinuing to claim the land as her own far north of her actualpossessions. Sixty years after the settlement of South Carolinathere was
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