Archdale having thus, by his wisdom, patience and labour, laid a firm foundation for a most glorious superstructure, he appointed Joseph Blake, son of that Joseph Blake, brother of the admiral, who twenty years before led a colony of Dissenters into Carolina, as his successor, and returned to England. Scarcely, however, was Archdale gone, than Blake, to satisfy the importunate church party, endowed the episcopal church at Charleston with a parsonage and annual stipend; and though the Huguenots, who had suffered so long disabilities on account of religion and country, were very properly enfranchised, yet were Catholics excluded from liberty of conscience, which was granted to all other Christians. Again religious, or rather _irreligious_, contentions raged violently. Nathaniel Moore, the successor of Blake, not only established the episcopal form of worship, but excluded all Dissenters from any share in the government. The Dissenters, indignant at this arbitrary and unjust exclusion, appealed to the British parliament in 1706, and these acts were declared contrary to the laws of the charter. They were repealed therefore by the colonial assembly; but though the disabilities of the Dissenters were removed, the Church of England remained the established religion of the province until the American Revolution. Party spirit and strife had entered the colony, not only as regarded religion, but on the questions of finance and quit-rents; nevertheless the colony continued to flourish. Rice, of which a bag had accidentally been brought to Charleston in a vessel from Madagascar at the time of Archdale’s government, and distributed among various planters, had been cultivated at first as a matter of curiosity, but was now becoming a staple product of the colony, and a great source of wealth. So important had it become indeed, in 1704, that an act of parliament placed it amongst the “enumerated articles.” The cultivation of this grain led to the large importations of negroes which yearly took place into Carolina.