The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-27
The Illustrious General Ogle-
thorpe, Who Laid .Out
the City.
TRIBUTE 70 HIS WORTH.
An intrepid Soldier, After Winning Martial
Fame, He Enlisted in His Noble
Plan of Charity.


The accompanying cut, made from
one of the three eXtant portraits of the
| iIIustri0ua fuundtr OF Georgia, shows
a rat her old man, san, however, un-
bent by age, from " hose tine face, even
in the pictured representation, beams
that noble spirit of philanthropy
which m we'd him to create, IN wild,
unsettled land, a refuge for the per-
secuted, he ., pressed of more eulight-
ened but not kinder clip1es.
General James Edward Ogip'horpe,
honored by Brunswick as its first set
tier, the planner of It's municipal
metes and bounds, the earliest dicta-
tor of its policies, was an English sol
der of renOwn long before he CON
ceIved the idea Of an American colony.
A close friend, an earnest follower OF
the renowned Duke of Marlborough,
he participated in the famous victories
of that intrepid leader, won the spurs
of general at the age of a recruit,
and had his name honorab'y mention
ed at court while many much older IN
service and more experienced in war
fare, ranked in obsourty outside the
palace walls.
Won by the appeals of oppressed
humanity winch came TO him IN the
midst of his triumph, this humane
leader tuened aside from the glorIes of
the world, aud organized his Georgia
expedition. From savannah to Fred
erica, from Frederick to Brunswick
was but an easy and natural step.
1t was in 1873 that General Ogle =
thorpe first landed on the Brunswick
peninsula. "FIne site Ter city" we
may imagine him saying, "a future
port for the peaceful navies of the
world" And he then and there called
1t Brunswick, In honor of his right
royal and good friend, the Duke Of
Brunswick.
In the name of the King of England,
General Oglethorpe directed his sur
veyOrs to lay out here spacious town
site, giving to its streets and squares
the good old English names which the
years have not disl laced. Thence came
Newcastle aud Gloucester and Han
over and the chief surveyor, marking
his rude map while the generals eyes,
we may we'll imagine, we're turned
otherwise, designated then and for
ever, the ample harbor as Oglethorpe
Bay.
And the name clngs, and has sug-
| gested many other similar honors to
the founder of city, which, could he
return to it now. would plunge him
into Interminable wonderings; for he
would marvel at the growth which
marks Il he favored peninsula that, on a
certain voyage of discovery, he found
reaching out invitingly to the breezes
and the Kisses of the sea.
Brunswick, through The TIMES, has
EXPIRE ssed It's sincere desire to fittingly
CT tbrate, next year, the two hun
dredth anniversary of this good mans
birth. God willing and circumstanc es
smiling upon the cause, it will be a
| time of fete and carnival in this city
that he founded, AMI a notice to the
world that Brunswick reveres and
h0nors
| "Oglethorpe- who hast gained well-earned
praise,
Who made the heirs OF want, the lords of ease;
The gloomy wood, to plenteous harvests
changed;
And founded cities where the wild beasts ran
ged
Oh, may the great reward. assigned by Fate,
Crown his own wish to see the work complete"
EDWIN u. LAMBRIiHT.
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