The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09

sprang from the ruins of false and I'M
reasoning hopes began to find voice. One
of those very sanguine spirits, who, with
the best intentions, go through life making
trouble for other people, had written of
Georgia: Il think it is the pleasantest
climate in the world; for it is neither too
warm in the summer, nor too cold in the
winter They. have certainly the finest
water in the world, and the land is extra
ordinarily good; this may certainly be
called the land of Canaan" l have no
particular knowledge of the land of Ca
naan, and l am not disposed to take issue
with the statement if applied to Savannah
at the present time. but I am not with
out sympathy with the colonists who, set
ting out to find this paradise found heat
and cold and storms and malaria, and mos
quitoes and prohibition. Doubtless they
considered that the world owed them
some reparation for the injustices it had
heaped upon them, but they never seemed
to have realized that then as now the
kindly soil of Georgia gives of its treas
ures to the industrious and takes but
scant account of the philosopher who sits
in the sun with his back against rugged
pine, specializing on the curse of labor.
Oglethorpe had inhibited negro slavery as
repugnant to all economic theories con-
nected with a pioneer colony, and being
bold man he had likewise prohibited rum.
ored for rum. They seemed somehow TO
have evolved the conclusion thar it was the
duty of the government to furnish them
with both. These discontents among the
colonists were the most grasping pension
ers Georgia has ever known. All around
them were men in reasonable prosperity
the result of devoted toil-but these exam
pies had no effect upon their leisurely
methods. Think of a man complaining of
the want of Injuries with Thunderbolt and
the Wilmington river within four miles of
him, and the Savannah, Astounding in sue
culent cat, flowing at his very feet. Added
TO his own innate cussedneSs, the diScon-
tented colonists had some real grievances.
The chief bailiff and store keeper was a
man of arbitrary methods and gave of
justice and provisions by rules which
gratifed his whims rather than met the
moral requirements of the situation. The
trouble al last, however came from those
whose absence as the Journal suggested
the colony would be the better for. But if
they would not work, they talked with
breadth and picturesqueness which excite
the admiration. They discoursed of their
neighbors and of their town. They laugh
ed at the Brunswick bar and cast asper-
Sons upon the Notifications at Frederick
Dear Old DR.. Bolzius had somewhere writ
ten that the Salzburgers
were content and the country
4SIule, III Illustration OF which he grew
eloquent over a plateful of fox-grapes and
bullaces which was before him at the mo-
ment This drew down the wrath of The
pine-stump politician on Ebenezer. and he
bitterly denied that anybody was or could
be contented, and he gloated with mex
presslDle slee over the Swamps which sur
rounded that devoted spot The Salzburner
contented himself with observing that
Savannah was suffering with a compu
Gated complaint, into which largely on
tered the disturbing element of rum. Au-
gusta, having, with the boastfulness of
extreme youth, remarked that it was des-
tined to become a great trade center
since given number Of horses passed that
post each year-the citizen on the coast
FASTENED to suggest that the total was
reached by counting the same animals 20
ing and returning, and that if she would
make her garrison of twelve men revolve
in circle all day and count each man
every time he passed a given point she
would likewise nave large population.
Strange that to this day they are still
accusing Augusta of counting going md
coming and standing still-only now II is
said to be not horses but votes. They
embraced in the scope of their vituper-
alton the river, the filature the court
house and Hutchinson Island. They char
acterized Tomochichi as a vagrant. and
because John Wesley asked them concern
ing their sins, they maintained that a sen
arate nightly session was found at his
house, which made a communion of
saints, and were distinguished by the
name of the Faithful; but which were in
deed such members as neither contribute
ed TO the credit of religion nor society,""