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

nounced ali the charges groundless,
false AMI malicious. and at their
request the king expelled Cook from the ser
vice The father of DR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. declares that the character of Gen.
Oglethorpe now appeared In respondent
light land contemporaries acknowledged what
impartial history must record, that TO him
Carolina was indebted for her safety and re-
pose, as well as Georgia for existence and
protection"
In i744. in September OF that year. Gen
Oglethorpe who was only year younger than
POPE now dead, married for the first time.
He was now 56 years OF age. His bride wa
Elizabeth Wright, the daughter and heireSs
of Sir Nathan Wright. OF Cranham hall We
may now conclude that the damsels whose
rivalry had so disturbed good Charles IVES
lev might say with the Moor 'Othello's occuoa-
early as 172S Samuel Wesley had exhorted
OglethOrpe to get married;
Its single, it's imperfect light,
The world from worth unwedded shares,
He only shines completely bright,
Who leaves his virtues to his heirs.
Oh. thus too may his offspring haste
His glory to improve.
And. feed by love to Britain taste
The bliss of private love.
With JOY his summons 1 attend
And fly with speed away;
Let but the patriot condesCend,
10 Fix his marriage day.
His marriage was happy one, and friend
of the family, writing TO the Gentleman
Magazine, after Mrs Oglethorpe's death,
says that Ito her mag nanimity and prudence,
on an occasion of much difficulty, 1t was
owing that the evening of their lives was
tranquil and pleasant after a stormy room"
He commanded a division OF the British
army in the invasion Of Prince Charlie in 49,
His military career ended with that campaign
and with quarrel with the Duke of Cum err
land, the butcher of Culloden, who treated
him most unjustly. Oglethorpe was again
exonerated by his brother officers with the
approval of the king, but he never held mill
tary command again. 1t is most interest
ing fact that Gen. Leehlan Macintosh, who
was the foremost man in the siege
of savannah in l77s, was prevented by
Oglethorpe s kindly admonition from leaving
Georgia to join the pretender. Oglethorpe
was now an old man, and Mr. Bancroft has
admirably described his situation. In
commercial period, a mOnarchist in the state
and friendly to the church. he seemed even in
youth like the relic OF more chivalrous CEN
tury. His life was prolonged to near five
score; and even in the last year Of IL he was
extolled as the finest figure ever SEEN the
impersonatiOn OF venerable age his faculties
were bright, his eye undtmmed; heroic,
romantic, and full of the old gallantry,
he was like the sound of the Tyre. as 1t still
vlgorates after the spirit that sweeps its
strings has passed away The war of the
American revolution ended. John Adams
soon to be President of the United States
was the first minister to England. He was so.
twelve years yet from the presidency With
in a day or two after his arrival in London as
ambassador of the United States OglethoTpe
had been announced in the newspapers called
upon him and according to Adams was very DO
lite and com plimentary. He had come, he
said, co pay his respects to the first American
minister, and MS family, whom he was very
glad to see in England, and expressed a
great esteem and regard to America,
and much regret that the misunderstanding
between the two nations ana was very happy
to have lived to see the termination OF IL.
There is a deep pathos in the life OF Ogle.
thorpe at this period. The Duke OF MARI
borough, from whom he had obtained his first
commission, was dead for sixty years, Prince
Eugene, with whom he fought at Belgrade
and in the famous campaigns against the
Turks dead for fifty. The grandchildren of
his contemporaries were now Old men. His
own grand nephew was a general officer in
France. He had been in continual asso-
citation with such men as johnson
Goldsmith, Boswell and Edmund Burke.
Most of these were now dead. Cglethorpe
was then 20 and was to live II years longer
Samuel johnson died himself In l7s5 at the
age OF a.; Oglethorpe, who was then 20 years
older, relished life STILL and had more than
two years OF it left. He was seen at the sale
of DR.. Johnsons books. and Samuel Rogers.
who was then boy OF p, used to tell how he
loOked-"Very,'very cd and his skin alto
gether Axe parchment; the youngsters whisp-
cred win awe that in hisyoutA4 he had ashot
sDipe in Conduit street, near the corner Of
Bond Well, might it be said Of him In the
beautiful language of DR.. Holmes Last
THE messy marbles rest
On the lips he has pressed
In their bloom
And the names he loved to hear
Have Ueen carried for many year
On the tomb"
or this great man, to whom Professionalism
and the English race are indebted, perhaps,
for their existence as dominant religious and
political forces Of the American co1itiaent
no adequate memorial is preserved 10 me
he is one of the most interesting characters
OF whom the annals Of time give an account.
he connected the century of Cromwell with
the century Of Washington. He might have
cOnYersed with James the Second, with VIII
lam of Orange, with ouis XIV, with Lou
vols, with Charles XII Of Sweden with Stan
islaus, his ally, with Peter the Great of Rus
STA, with Voltaire, with frederick the Great,
with Napoleon Bonaparte, anda multitude of
the most illustriols names that the Eigh-
teenth and the Seventeenth Centuries pro
duced. He doubtless did converse with the
Duke of Marlborough, with Prince Eugene
with Woln. who took quebec, with William
with Charles James Fox, with the first Lord
Holland, with Robert Walpole, with Alexan-
der Pope, with Dean Swift. While all this is
ali and the fathers OF some who are within
the sound OF my voice, mig ht have eonVersed
with Gen. Ogleihorpe. OF this man it may
be said that he did not live for himself, but
for others. How few there will he, who,
without the promptings of a selfish am bition,
without the impulses Of personal necessity,
without the commands OF sovereignty. who
Driven by the strong benevolence OF soul -
Shall fly like Qglethorpe. fromopole to pole.
1t has been me unVarying custom for all
nallODa4lJleS. VINO possessed q worthy past or
hopeful future to illumine the mind and
evolve the patriotism of their young men by
the STORED marble and the enduring bronze,
which commemorated the virtues of their
heroes, their beneiactors, their statesmen.
and their philosophers. The wooded nights
of Mount Hymettus cast their shadows on
countless statues. chiseled by the skilful
sculptors of Greece perpetuating TO the
youth OF Athens, the great who had lived and
died for the City Of the Violet Crown. on the
rugged rock hallowed by the feot OF the pa
triot, when be sprung from the bark of Cess
Ter, stands the statue Of William Tell. In the
dim religious light of the cathedral in In
spruCk. the peasant of the 1yrol may drop
the tear of piety and patriotism at the
monumental shrine consecrated to the
memory of Andrew hoIer; and when
the first effulgence of the god OF
day glorihes the white dome and the mar.
Bile porticos of the capitol at Washington,
with every ray IL casts on the placid bosom
OF the Potomac, the shadow OF that towering
monument-erected by Anne ricans. to com
memorate the love and venerltion which
will forever animate them for the deathless
glory OF the Father of his Country.
We talk of patriots and their deeds
AS they deserve, receive proud recompense,
We give in charge their names
To the sweet Tyre the historic muse,
Proud OF the sacred trust, marches with it
Down to latest times and sculpture in her turn
Gives bond in stone and ever-durin brass
To guard and to immortalize the trust"
In the annals Of the English speaking races
N V no. II Z. a..