Journal of the Commons House of Assembly of South Carolina 1724 June
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, , T- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . > br h icholson June 15°: 1724 j M"" Speaker and Gentlemen On considering- your address about Dissenters. I think they are not soe great a body of the people as you conceive but that you are misinform'd & That the Chief Body Bod}^ of this Province are of the Established Church If it were soe how came there to be soe many Churches & Min- isters but perhaps there are some persons that have a mind to pull down the Church and send their ^Ministers a begging I should be glad to kn...ow under what Denominations they pretend to be Dissenters what Ministers they have and their Members in each of their Congregations as to their being Serviceable to this Province and contributing to the Support of Governm*: it is what the}' are obliged to b}' Law & their own Interests & I Sup- pose that verr}' few of them did noe more or soe much as the Members of the Church of England what they have done dur- ing my Administration has been only for the same reason as before & I have never found them to be more dutj^ful or loyal than the Members of the Church of England If they have I would have them prove it I'm Sure they cant justly tax me with oppressing them by debarring them of their Libertyes and Privileges or of Seizing their propertyes on Acco*: of their Religion, and as what Small Charity I have given in this Town They have been partakers therein in the Employments both Civil and Military I have commission'd some of them and they have had the Liberty's of Swearing after the form of their pro- fession and as for the Members of your house I sent you his 45 Maty'es Instructions which is now three yeares agoe and I think there was some instructions given by yo"": House to the Agent concerning that affair but as yet I have had noe commands con- cerning it I have for some time heard That a Bill was preparing this Acc^ : As for the Bill you sent up I told you in the Council Chamber That if I had had a mind to have trick't You in it I Should have pass'd it and then yo^"- Law concerning Assembly's had been in Danger, You having given me the just Occasion I can't but Lett You know that one M"".
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