Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century - With a Brief Historical Introduction on South Carolina by General Edward McCrady, Jr., And on North Carolina by Hon. Samuel An; Ashe #272539

We would call attention, before we proceed further, to the common error into which Mr. Greg falls in the passage we have quoted in at tributing the characteristics he mentions, of the people of South Carolina, to their English and French sources to the exclusion of that element — the scotch-irish, which, though eighty years later in coming into South Carolina has been for the last century almost predominant in the state, and to which is principally owing the very characteristics which he attributes to the interfusion of the blood of the English Cavalier and the French Huguenot.