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

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tndI dlstemper, was forced by an infamous
tlpstah lAtO cell where the s1nall-rox was
raging. he died leaving d large family Of
shau chlldren IN great distress. Stung and
smltten with the outrage. "Oglethorpe re
solved, says one OF his tiographers, to leave
the world al his own death a little
He Immediately brought the subject
TO the attention Of the House of
( commons, and he was made chairman OF the
committee to Investigate the debtors prisons
/ Ihree several reports show how thoroughly
/ ana tearlessly his work was performed and
Iney snow too the atrocities pra .tiCed in that
gay ana time on the unfortunate. The human
ity or Oglethocpe merlted the line passage in
! thompson S seasons:
and ,1,d here, can I forget the generous band
/ VINO touched with human woe, redressive
searched
( Into the horrors OF the gloomy Jail?
Implied and unheard, where misery means;
/ where sickness pines; where thirst and hun
| ger burns
And poor misfortune feels the last Of vice"
|
! Nor was the benevolence of the soul OF
! Oglethorpe exhausted with this inquiry He
/ began TO discuss measures for the ameliora-
| ZION OF the debtor class. BY repeated ESSAYS
! ne brought the advantages Of the colonies be-
/ fore the public. He also urged it to be for
! the honor and advancement of religion to
give home TO the SalZburgeIs a simple
| protestant people who were driven from their
native mountains. OF these, Carlyle writes:
| More harmless sons Of Adam, PROBABLY did
/ not breathe the vital air than those dis
/ SenJlent SalZburgerS.. Generation after gen
! Grafton OF them giving ofense to no creature
! Their archbishop was one right reverend
/ Count Flrmlan, by secular quality according
J 10 the same writer; 'Ot strict lean charac-
! ter: jealous rather than wise; who had
, brought his orthOdOXies with him in a rigid
| and very lean form" In I7I7 the prOprletorS
/ OF Carolina had made grant OF all the lands
| lvlngbetween the savannah and Altamaha.
| This grant was made to a Scottish baronet
! enc sir 10 ert Montgomery who proposed to
/ form with it what he called the 'Margravate
! OF Azllla and he was to Re the first marquis.
! He called it the most amiabe country of the
universe Nature he says, has not
| blessed the world with any tract which can
| be preferable to it; paradise with all her
! virgin beauties, may be modestly supposed al
most, but equal to its native excelencles 1t
lies In the same latitude with Palestine her
/ self, that promised Canaan which was pointed
| OF faVorite people, But Sir Robert
! grant expired by Its own conditions. In 1920
King George had caused fort to be con
| structed at the mouth of the Altamaha. II
| was burned in 1929. He ordered it to be re-
! built, but it was of no use. About that time
a SWISS. one oil. Purry, settled with a colony
of six hundred Of his coUntrymen on the left
| bank of the Savannah, at a place called
| Purrisburg. St Augustine had teen now in
! existence for 1854 years and it is now evident
| that for at least 100 years the Spaniards had
| worked the gold mines in what is now North
| Georgia, In the epigrammatic language OF
! MaCaulay The American dependencies Of the
| GdSJllldn crown SUN extended Tar 10 the lOrJn
! OF Cancer. and iac to the south OF CapriCOrn.'
| Goldsmith had described the dangers with
which nature had surrounded the colonists:
Those matted woods where birds forget to
| sing.
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling,
Those poisonous fields with rank luxurlance
| crowned,
Where the dark scorpion gathers death
Where at each step the stranger fears to
The rafting terrors of the vengeful snake:
Where crouching tigers wait their hapless
prey
And savage men more murderous still than
While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies,
| Mingling the ravaged landscape with the
skies"
But neither the bats. nor the scorpions, nor
! tn snakes, nor the tigers. nor the tomatoes
! offered to the colOnSts the terror and arm
| occasioned by the unspeakable Spaniard
| Menendez had cruelty put to death the French
| settlers on the St. Johns and atiXed to their
dead bodies the placard. Il do this not as to
Frenchmen but as TO Lutherans." The i'm
! petuOus Jean Rioeault, in revenge, In turn
! hung the Spaniards, L do this, states his
! placard, not as to Spaniards but as to muir.
/ derers and aSsaSsins.' The presence of the
! Spaniard in Florida, said a hiOgraDher, was
an lntolerable thorn in the side of the South
| Carolina planter. There seemed to be no
| bound to his inSOlence. He was always stir
ring up slaves to rebel: he enttced them over
1N ftynNg "
~ " ~ 100, 10 ~ ~ Cito,St' ~ 80 49,
% M lI.4 III ~ IL
claimed ali me conntrv as far north
| as the Savannah and beyond The Enyl ish.
on the other hand, claimed all the country at
! least as far as the St. Johns Thus it was a
little more than the whole Of the present
state OF Georgia that was IN dispute 10
| this environment under the proud motto,
non slhl sed ans not Tor themselves put
for others, did OgIethorpe come, with the
nv vioce, # was to he military colony.
| AS soon as the CoIonists were accepted they
were formed into little trigades. and we're
drilled daily bv sergeants from the Royal
GUARDIAN easy explanation for the present
| military spirit which continues 10 perVaue
this charming out WarIlke community ROW
the settlers came over ON me Ann galIey;
! how 1t was loaded win arms ana
munitions OF war, WIN carpenters, DIleklay-
erS farmers, etc. ana SeelS OF an Cesctlp-
ton, not Tor EFT ng ten tons OF Alderman 1 ar,
so IS rest beer Nv the course was sIeereu
, ~ way o. Made to 5take IN hVe TONS OF
VINE, now @. dlaiy the coionlStS were wei
! coined by the South Carollnlans, now Iomo-
chichi has ened from 4amacraW to welcome
the great an who became for all OF MS HE
his best friend, no" IN snort the province OF
Georgia grew to De buner state tev"een me
! Carolnians and the Spanards, IS familiar 10
| us all A London poet OF that day thus eX-
pressed the pleasant view OF the SITUATION:
| ,,,,. .C,o,;,o ,o n = eoroia ioined.
M CT IT Inias sre 1rooress make
InGh sna i oottt ~, S a. otber eojre
1llIeIl GU ~ w - IS,,, "a V,Slr roorn