The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-06

some days The Spaniards intend to cut US
Of. at blow l fan by my friends But
all he said, but it matters not. You will
soon see the reason OF my actions" He EN-
braced and kissed Wesley, who attended him
TO the scout boat, where he waited for some
minutes for his sword They brought him
nrst and second time mourning sword AT
last they gave him his own, which had been
his father 5. With this sword says he. I
was never yet unsuccessful hope
sir said Wesley, you carry with you bet
ter,even the sword OF the Lord and Of Gideon"
Il hope so, too he added. then said: God
be with you. Go forth. Christie duce, ct
auspice Christie his last words to the peo
pie were, God bless you all The boat then
, carried him out Of sight. I interceded for
him, that God would save him from death,
would wash out all his sins and prepare be-
lore he took the sacrifice to himself Ogle-
thorpe did not die. They made friends and
/ Wesley returned to England.
/ Oglethorpe never loved John Wesley as he
/ loved Charles, but there is an old story. said
one OF his biographers. preserved by sarah
! Wesley. to the effect that Gen. Oglethorpe on
( suddenly meeting John Wesley, after long
/ years, took him Y the hand and kissed him
/ and treated him with the utmost Difference
! ana Affection.
] In 1873. as Carlyle says, the ear Of jenkins
re-emerged and set all England believing"
Seven years before it had been cut off by
Spanish captain, who told him to show it to
the king. All this while" writes Carlyle,
jenkins had been steadfastly navigating to
ana fro, steadfastly eating tough junk
too much of past labors, yet prlvatel4
always keeping his lost ear in cotton with
KIND OF urslne piety. or other dumb feeling,
no mortal now knows" The British minis
ters the public mind now being ripe del
clared war with Spain. Oglethorpe having
raised and drilled regiment of troops was
. regularly commissioned a colonel in the Brit
lsh army. He made straight for st. Simons.
I Before long, said his biographer, The was
to have full swing at the inquistion dogs,
and the devildOms Of Spain" IOmo chi chi
had been i'll. DOt he said that the Sigbt
OF the great man made him moult like an
eagle. His journey at this time to the town
, of the Cowetas, SEQ miles from Savannah,
was singularly romantic. The Indians gave
him all he asked.
The Hon. Thomas Spalding, who after
wards came into possession of OglethorpeS
house at Frederick, and who was his first
b1ographer declares, When we call to re-
membrance the then force of these tribes the
influence the French had everywhere else OBJ
talned over the Indians. the distance he had
to travel through solitary pathways exposed
to summer suns, night dews, and to the
treachery Of any single Indian who knew
and every Indian knew-the rich reward that
would have awaited him for the act from the
Spaniards IN st. Augustine or the French in
Z Mobile; surely we may ask, what soldier ever
gave higher proof OF courage? What gentle
man ever gave greater evidence of m agnani
nifty? What English governor of an Ameri-
can province evergave such assurance OF deep
devotion to duty:' During the autumn days
OF l139, TOmochichi, under the shade of
the live oaks, was dying on his blanket, his
wife Senaukee beside him Whitfield came
daily to tell him he was going TO hell. and
Oglethorpe came also, bringing very different
messages. Tomochichi had said" Devil Chris
uln. Me no Christian lie died and was buried
In the square of the city Of Savannah where
stands the monument to Gordon. Oglethorpe
ordered pyramid Of stone to ? e erected over
| the grave to show the gratitude Of the En-
glish people to their Indian friend. We walk
daily over the ashes of Tomochchi but the
pyramid or obelsk is not yet erected. The
war with spain was on. Half the world
says Carlyle was hidden In embryo Under
1t. The lncalculable yankee nation itself,
biggest phenomenon (once thought beautiful
est of these ages, this too little as careless
readers on either side of the sea
now know 1t, lay involved, Shall there
be yankee nation. shall there not
be: Shall the new world be of Spanish type,
shall it be English; Issues which we may
call immense The man who solved that
issue in favor of the "incalculable Yankee
| nation was James Edward Oglethorpe For
four years his colony went to the DOGS With
| thousand men he was fighting the Span
fards, and blood ran like water In 1910 he
| moved to st. Augustine with six hundred
regulars and four hundred Carolina militia
| He was poorly supported by Sir Yelverton
Peyton with halfdozen men -ol-war Don
Manuel de Monteano, with thirteen hundred
veteran troops invited Gen. O:lethorpe to
come and shake hands within the city. but
Oglethorpe did not see the humor of the joke.
He could not take st. Augustine and with
drew his forces. But with his "benevolence
of soul" he disdained to raVage the fields of
the Spaniards or plumber their scatter
homes. With ths usual ingratitude of the
people, an cutlery was raised against Ogle-
thorpe; but that noble Duke of Argyle,
friend. whom, in the Heart of Midlothian, Sir
Walter Scott has immortallzed as
his friend, Jennie Deans, declared
in the House of Lords: "One man
there is, my lords. whose generosity,
. contempt OF danger and regard for the public,
prompted him to opVlate the designs OF the
Spanards, and to attack them in their own
territories man whom by long acquaint-
ance l can confidently affirm TO have been
equal to his undertaking, and to have learned
the art of war by regular education who
yet miscarried in the design only for want of
supplies necessary to a possibility of sue
cess" And now the Spaniards moved upon
I Frederlca-in this day a dead town-which
the Georgl3ns yet call the IhermOpyl8 Of
America. There was the armada, consisting
OF thirty or forty vessels. 1t was commanded
by Don Manuel de Monteano. seconded by
! Don Antonio de Rodondo. the most skillfnl
of engineers, and its mission was to wipe of
from the coast Of sNorth America" all traces
of hereto settlements The armada came
to the mouth of the st. Mary S. Fort William
on the southern end Of Cumberland held out
well and defended the entrance to the river
Oglethorpe with GOO OF 700 soldiers and 100
Indians. threw himself into St. Sirnons On
July 3, with favoring breeze and Hood tide.
the Spanish armada entered St. Simon 8 har-
ror and succeeded in pass z. the English
batteries on the southern point OF the island.
OGlethorpe spiked his guns and Withdrew to
Frederlca, Next week was a week OF battles
Two hundred Spaniards were slain at one
pass at place still called the Bloody
Marsh" On the niSht of the
! I4th they retreated. with Oglethorpe
after them. They attacked Fort Williams
on e more, but Capt Stuart and his garrison
I OF fifty men held it. Georgia was saved
! North America was saved, and the
''incalcula lie Yankee nation made posi-.
BILE" The delivery Of Georgia from the
Spaniards," writes Whitfield at the time. is
such as cannot he paraleled but by some
instances out of the Old testament l find
that the Spaniards had cast lots and deter
mined to give no quarter, They intended to
have attacked Carolina; but wanting water.
they put into Georgia, and so would take that
colony on their way. They were wonderfully
repealed and sent away lefore our ships were
seen" A writer. not friendly to Oglethorpe
( declared. That 600 men, with as good an Of
I tcer as the governor Of st Augustine, should
fly before 800 or 700 men. and about one hun
dred indians, was a matter of establishment
to all.
Oglethorpe left the colony in I743 never to re-
turn. Whitfield remained. OF this great
preacher, Chesterfield had declared He is
the greatest orator ever heard and cannot
conceive OF a greater" He built the orphan
age at Bethesda, He preached a sermon
AGAINST the bey Alexander Garden OF
Charleston on the text, Alexander, the cop
persmith has done me much evil; the Lord
reward him according to his works" He
Guarreled with John Wesley about the dogma
OF election. cCordlng 10 Wesley. he insisted
that the elect are saved, do what they will
md the rest 81 rp damned IN what fhav car