We have seen the Grand Model constitution of Carolina fall before the wishes of the people, and a more practical and popular form of government take its place. In 1694, considerable dissatisfaction existed in the colony owing to contentions between Dissenters and Churchmen, who, though forming but a small minority, yet demanded exclusive privileges. It was therefore advised by Thomas Smith, who had succeeded Philip Ludwell as governor, that in order to give respectability to the office, and to restore harmony between the contending parties, one of the proprietaries himself should be sent out as governor. The young Earl of Shaftesbury was elected to this office, but he declining it, John Archdale, an honest Quaker proprietary, was chosen. Archdale, as might be expected, gave the Dissenters a majority in the council, as they formed a majority in the colony; he also appeased the discontent which the system of quit-rents had caused, by remitting them for three or four years, and forgiving the arrears due—a very politic act, as it would have been next to impossible to collect them. He was a wise and humane man, and not only succeeded in quieting the discontents and disputes of the colonists, but established an amicable relationship with the Indians by an act of humanity. He protected the natives round Cape Fear from kidnappers, and they in return engaged to befriend shipwrecked mariners on their coast. Spite of his peace principles, he yet raised a militia-force for the defence of the colony, excusing however all from being enrolled who could plead scruples of conscience against it. With the Spaniards of St. Augustine he also established friendly relations, by ransoming four Indian Catholic priests, prisoners among the Yamasees, and sending them back to St. Augustine. “I shall return your kindness,” was the reply of the Spaniard; and when an English vessel soon afterwards was wrecked on the coast of Florida, and the crew taken captive by Indians, they were ransomed by him. Archdale soon brought the affairs of Carolina into a flourishing condition; the fame of her prosperity attracted to her soil industrious Scotch emigrants, as well as settlers from Massachusetts; she was in fact looked upon as a sort of “American Canaan flowing with milk and honey.”