Hume says, "near fifty thousand passed over into England;"
and Voltaire writes that "one of the suburbs of London
was entirely peopled with French workers of silk."
[W. S. Browning was uncle to the poet, Robert Browning. -- A. L., 1996.]
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America, the new world, was naturally a land of refuge, and soon received
her share of these unhappy fugitives. The transition was easy
from England to her colonies. Every facility was afforded them
for transportation, and the wise policy which encouraged
their settlement in the new countries was amply rewarded by the results.
Altogether, the Huguenots were a much better sort of people
than those who usually constituted the mass of European emigrants.
The very desperation of their circumstances was a proof of their virtues.
They were a people of principle, for they had suffered everything
for conscience sake. They were a people of pure habits,
for it was because of their religion that they suffered banishment.
In little patriarchal groups of sixty, seventy, or eighty families,
they made their way to different parts of America; and with the conscious
poverty of their own members, were generally received with open arms
by those whom they found in possession of the soil. The English,
as they beheld the dependent and destitute condition of the fugitives,
forgot, for a season, their usual national animosities; and assigning
ample tracts of land for their occupation, beheld them, without displeasure,
settling down in exclusive colonies, in which they sought to maintain,
as far as possible, the pious habits and customs of the mother country.
One of these communities, comprising from seventy to eighty families,
found their way to the banks of the Santee in South Carolina.*
From this point they gradually spread themselves out so as to embrace,
in partial settlements, the spacious tract of country