CHAP. XXIX.] FRENCH AND ANGLO-AMERICANS. 159 



comparatively stationary, because they carried out 

 with them, from the mother country, despotic maxims 

 of government, coupled with extreme intolerance in 

 their religious opinions. The bigotry which checked 

 the growth of the infant colony was signally dis 

 played, when Louis XIV. refused to permit 400 

 Huguenot families, who .had fled to South Carolina, 

 after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, to be 

 incorporated among the new settlers on the Missis 

 sippi. * 



Notwithstanding the marked inclination of the 

 Anglo-Saxons to seek no other cause than that of 

 race to account for the alleged stationary condition 

 of the Creoles, I was glad to find that one of the 

 most intelligent citizens of New Orleans took a more 

 hopeful and less fatalist view of the matter. &quot; I ob 

 serve,&quot; he said, &quot;that those French emigrants who 

 have come out to us lately, especially the Parisians, 

 are pushing their way in the world with as much 

 energy as any of our race ; so I conclude that the 

 first settlers in Canada and Louisiana quitted Eu 

 rope too soon, before the great revolution of 1792 

 had turned the Frenchman into a progressive being.&quot; 



Among the Creoles with whom I came in contact, 

 I saw many whose manners were most polite and 

 agreeable, and I felt as I had. done towards the 

 Canadian &quot; habitants,&quot; that I should have had more 

 pleasure in associating with them than with a large 

 portion of their Anglo-American rivals, who, from 

 a greater readiness to welcome new ideas, are more 



* Gayarre, Histoire de la Louisiana, torn. i. p. 69. 



