* The narrative of Mrs. Judith Manigault, wife of Peter Manigault,
as quoted by Ramsay. -- Hist. S. C. Vol. I., p. 4.
For a graphic detail of the usual difficulties and dangers
attending the escape of the Huguenots from France,
at the period of migration, see the first portion of this letter.
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We may safely conclude that there was no exaggeration in this picture.
The lot of all the refugees seems to have been very equally severe.
Men and women, old and young, strove together in the most menial
and laborious occupations. But, as courage and virtue usually go
hand in hand with industry, the three are apt to triumph together.
Such was the history in the case of the Carolina Huguenots.
If the labor and the suffering were great, the fruits were prosperity.
They were more. Honors, distinction, a goodly name, and the love
of those around them, have blessed their posterity, many of whom rank
with the noblest citizens that were ever reared in America.
In a few years after their first settlement, their forest homes
were crowned with a degree of comfort, which is described
as very far superior to that in the usual enjoyment of the British colonists.
They were a more docile and tractable race; not so restless,
nor -- though this may seem difficult to understand to those
who consider their past history -- so impatient of foreign control.
Of their condition in Carolina, we have a brief but pleasing picture
from the hands of John Lawson, then surveyor-general
of the province of North Carolina.* This gentleman, in 1701,
just fifteen years after its settlement, made a progress through
that portion of the Huguenot colony which lay immediately along the Santee.
The passages which describe his approach to the country which they occupied,
the hospitable reception which they gave him, the comforts they enjoyed,