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

ed Oglethorpe and his secretary of Indian
affairs, Charles Wesley, John Wesley, and
a number of gentlemen, friends of Ogle-
thorpe, with their servants. For Charles
Wesley, fresh from the academic shades
of Oxford, the rough life of Georgia was
scarcely fitted. OF a sweet and gentle ma
ture, trusting and unsuspicious, it was
almost inevitable that he should come TO
be misunderstood. Serious differences
arose between him and his chief at Fred
erica, SO thoroughly healed at length, it
is pleasant to note, that they parted at
last with affection. His brother was made
of sterner stuff. He was one of the great
men of his day, strong of will and tena-
cious of purpose. A century after his
death the historian Green said of him,
that he had IAN indefatigable industry; a
cool judgment a command over others: a
faculty of organization a singular union
of patience and moderation, with an i'm
perious ambition which marked him as a
ruler of men
The struggle between him and the peo-
pie of Savannah was of long duration.
Upon his part it was not unmarked by
indiscretion-never by lack of courage or
principle; upon their part, 1t at last took
the form of persecution-and judging that
his usefulness was gone, he shook the
dust of Georgia from his feet and went
upon his way. to become in time the head
of one of the greatest religious move
ments of the ages.
The trip OF the Symond and London Mer-
chant was uneventful. They had prayers
twice a day, land the Dissenters par
ticularly the Germans, sung psalms, and
served God in their own way" The ships
were kept wondrously clean, and consta-
bles We're appointed to prevent disorder
Then men were exercised with small arms
and the women were furnished with knit
ting needles, thread and worsted. and en-
ployed their leisure time in making stock
ings and caps for their families or in
nending their clothes and linen. These. I
believe. are lost arts. On Feb. 16 1886. they
made Tybee. The design had been to
transport the colonsts to Frederick by the
ships, but the captains not having that
sublime confidence in the Jekyl bar now
enjoyed, and sometimes expressed by our
neighbOrs In Brunswick declined to make
the venture. They were thereupon car
ried TO st. SimOns in perlaUgers, the pre-
caution being taken to put the LIQUOR in
the fastest boat that the others might
have an incentive to keep in company with
1t. Passing through the beautiful inland
route with its dreamy Isles and overhang-
ing oaks and infinite stretch OF golden
marsh they reached ST. Simon's and at
once began to construct and fortify Fred
erica. The failure Of the ships to cross
the Jekyl bar confronted the colonists
with a grave peril. They were on the
picket line. Only short distance to the
south flowed the ST. Johns, the boundary
of the Spanish dominion, and near to that
was the fortified town of ST. Augustine
Oglethorpe frankly explained to them the
peril of their situaton-one hundred and
thirty miles from Savannah, which was
accessible only by open boats. With great
determination they elected to stay and
build their town. Whilst the work of con-
struction progressed, Oglethorpe, with
Tomochichi and other Indians, made fire.
quent reconnoisances to the south, extend
ing IS far as the st. Johns In the
midst of preparations for defense came the
information that Spain had renewed her
claim to all territory south Of the Savan-
nah river. Uncertain of the friendship of
Carolina and persuaded of the inadeduacv
of his own forces to meet and overcome
the resources of Spain, Oglethorpe. toward
the close of 1876. sailed for England TO
lay before the King the gravity of the
situation and the necessity for Disciplined
soldiers If the colony was TO be held
In the meanwhile, Savannah was I'm
trouble, and the situation may be describ-
ed without reference TO chronology There
had been much Of sacrifice ana nobility
in the history of the colony If the first
settlers came from the debtors prisons
the Purisburg, the Prince of Wales. the
Symond and the London merchant had
brought as strong and independent con-
tingents as ever landed in any colony, and
the emergencies which had arisen had
been met under the wise direction Of
Oglethorpe, with firmness and success.
But to many hearts had come disap-
pontment and the discomfort which