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man into' the house and gave him good liquor to 

 wash it down. 



But the colonel discovered, like too many others 

 who had borne the burden and heat of the day, that 

 the civil power was in the ascendant, and that writs 

 are not to be served up as a morning's meal. He 

 fled the country, and remained an exile until the 

 difficulty was removed by the intervention of his 

 friends. He died as he had lived, on his plantation 

 on Santee Swamp, and was buried there. His 

 house was destroyed by fire many years since ; but 

 we remember to have seen its chimneys standing. 

 Within a few years a massive marble monument, 

 visible from the road, has been erected over his 

 grave by his descendant, Lieut. Gov. Ward. 



Until the year 1794, the citizens of this parish, 

 like those of every other part of the State, lived 

 always on their plantations throughout the year. 

 Some of the more wealthy had town residences to 

 which they resorted, partly for health, but chiefly 

 for the convenience of educating their children. 



The period between the close of the war and 

 1 794 was full of disaster to the agriculturist. The 

 bounty on indigo, which, under the fostering care 

 of Great Britain, had rendered that plant the staple 

 of South Carolina, having been of course with- 

 drawn, indigo became thenceforth an unprofitable 

 culture. The Santee Swamp, which appeared at 

 one time to be an inexhaustible source of wealth, 



