George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.

[187] When Colleton endeavored to collect quit-rents, not

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only on cultivated fields, but on wild lands also, direct insubordination ensued; and the assembly, imprisoning the secretary of the province, and seizing the records, defied the governor and his patrons, and entered on a career of absolute opposition.

Colleton resolved on one last desperate effort, and,

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pretending danger from Indians or Spaniards, called out the militia, and declared martial law. But who were to execute martial law? The militia were the people, and there were no other troops. Colleton was in a more hopeless condition than ever; for the assembly believed itself more than ever bound to protect the country against a military despotism. It was evident, the people were resolved on establishing a government agreeable to themselves. The English revolution of 1688 was therefore imitated on the banks of the Ashley and Cooper. Soon after William

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and Mary were proclaimed, a meeting of the representatives of South Carolina disfranchised Colleton, and banished him from the province.