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the more extraordinary, from the impetuous constitution 

 of Freuclimeu aud the keeu sense of wrongs they had en- 

 dured in their own country. This spirit of forbearance, 

 integrity and perseverance, marks them wherever they 

 settled, North or South. 



"Who does not feel," says their historian Allen, " that The strength 

 there is more to be reverenced in the exiled Huguenot, ° ^'^^^ 

 who has forsaken all from the highest sense of duty, who 

 has uniformly placed his confidence in God under the 

 severest trials, than the mighty monarch who exiled him I 

 It is those in whom the power of virtue is formed aud 

 matured that are really great. The history of the Hugue- 

 nots would be an enigma without this key to human 

 power ; but he, who feels this undying principle, cannot 

 be trodden under foot, for he holds fast the inward con- 

 sciousness of his own worth, which supports him under 

 every oppression, and makes him strong to endure — a 

 strength derived from genuine piety, and the deep sense 

 of Christianity enjoined by its author." 



In France these Huguenots were a law-loving and law- ^ cultured 

 abiding people. They feared God aud honoured their pcop'^ 

 king. They were reared in habits of sobriety and virtue. 

 They may be said to have inherited cultivated manners, 

 so careful were parents to set examples to their children, 

 and form the manner of intercourse in households and in 

 society. Enduring the hardships of a new colony in a 

 foreign land, they preserved the amenities of life. In 

 their distress and in theii- prosperity, they never forgot that 

 they sprung from the most polished country in the world. 



The habits of both mutual and self-respect, of social 

 intercom-se and enjoyments, of activity and enterprise, 

 created the wealth and formed the manners of South 

 Carolina. Frank, urbane, cultivated, kind, resolute, en- 

 ergetic, the descendants of colonies composed of Hugue- 

 nots and English and Scotch-Irish intermingled and 

 amalgamated, hold an enviable place among the sister- 

 hood of states. 



