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Gov. Colleton blamed his own Carolinians for SA’s attack
Source: The Debatable Land #557
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The destruction of Port Royal came in the midst of squabbling at Charleston. Half angry, half frightened, the colonists rose up in arms. They appealed to the Proprietors; they complained of "unpreparedness." In a Parliament it was decided to strike a counter blow. Two French buccaneering vessels were fitted out and manned with two hundred good pirates and three hundred Carolinians. But the expedition did not sail. England and Spain were nominally at peace, and the new governor, James Colleton, promised a noosed rope for anyone who might persist in the enterprise. The Proprietors in England approved Colleton's stand. The Carolinians themselves were to blame, they said. Charleston had harbored pirates; the Scots had abetted the Yamassees. The Carolinians could only smother their wrath and await a better day. For the failure of plans for a counter blow, see Governor Richard Cony to the Earl of Sunderland, December 2, 1686
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