The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-17
The COLONIAL DANES
ANNUAL MEETING OF GEORGIA So
CIETY BEGINS TOMORROW.
IN SESSION TWO DAYS.
TERMS OF SOME OFFICERS EXPIRE
AND SUCCESSORS To BE NAMED.

vannah and by the Hour of the
First Session, 1t Is Expected, the
Number Already Here VIII he Con-
siderabIy mented-SessiOns of
the Meeting to Be Held Mt the Resi-
dcnce of Gen. w. w. GordOn-OgIe-
thorpe Monument Association to
be Organized.
The Georgia Society of Colonial Danes
will meet in annual session in Savannah
tomorrow morning. The sessions of the
convention will be held at the residence
of Gen. w. W. Gordon, at the corner
of Oglethorpe avenue and Bull street.
where also the Savannah members of the
society will entertain the visiting Danes
Already the delegates from other cities
of the state are arriving to attend the
meeting and others will be here during
the day and on the trains arriving early
tomorrow morning. Mrs. F. H. Orme
of Atlanta and Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar
Of Augusta are visiting Mrs. w. w. Cor
don. Mrs. Edward Karow has as her
guest Mrs. Robert Emory Park of Ma
con, state regent of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Mrs. Park is in
Savannah not as a delegate to the meet
ing of the Colonial Danes, but to par
ticipate, on behalf of the Daughters, in
the organization of the Oglethorpe Monu-
ment Association.
At the De Soto are Mesdames Hugh
Hasan, I. Y. Sage, William Dixon, Well
borne Hill, George Winship and George
| Brown, all of Atlanta. Mrs. Camack of
Athens is the guest of Mrs. p W. Mel
drim.
The sessions of the society will be held
on tomorrow and Friday, the adjourn
ment being taken at the conclusion OF
| Friday afternoons session. On that day
some of the officers of the society will be
elected. Ali of the officers are elected
for terms of three years, but the terms
| of all of them do not expire at the same
| time. At each meeting third of the
| officers are chosen and this year, doubt
| less, there will be some changes in the
| board.
On Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock the
committees from the several colonial and
| revolutionary organizations, appoin ted by
| Chairman Walter G.. Charlton, will meet
| at the rooms of the Colonial Danes, at
the corner of Taylor and Abercorn streets,
| to effect the permanent organization of
/
1t is probable, indeed, that the matter
! of erecting the monument to Oglethorpe
| will be the principal theme of discussion
at the meeting of the Danes. 1t is
matter in which they have taken a deep
interest and they are thoroughly impress
| ed with the belief that the founder of
| Savannah and the colony of Georgia has
| been suffered to sleep too long without
monument, on the soil that he
consecrated to liberty and benevolence, to
| mark his achievements and commemorate
his life deeds.
The first session of the meeting will be
called to order by the president, Mrs. j.
! j. Wider at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. 1t is expected that by that hour the
| number of Danes from other cities now
in Savannah to attend the meeting via
! be considerably augmented, and that the
| attendance will be the largest in the his
| tory of the society,"
In view of the near approach of the
meeting of the Georgia Society of Colo
! NAL DANES, at which the special
| order of business will be the dis
| cussion of ways and means 10 augment
the fund for the erection of the monument
to Oglethorpe, the subjoined extracts from
| an address on Oglethorpe's life and char
| acter and the founding of this colony
will be of interest.
The address was delivered in Savannah
in 1860, by Rev. Charles Wallace Howard.
| and the extracts are sent to the Morning
| News by his daughter, Mrs. Henry Bry-
| an, of Dillon, Dade county, Georgia. Mrs.
| Bryan is connected with many well known
| Savannah families. Her brother was the
| father of the late Mrs. I. p. Ravenel.
| Her husband was for many years one Of
Savannah's most prominent citizens and
was long engaged in business here as
banker and broker. His family was de-
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| lutionary patriot.
Rev Mr.. Howard was sent to England
by the state for the purpose of collecting.
copying and digesting the mass of doc
uments kept there that relate to the
founding and early history of Georgia. He
was, therefore, in a position to speak as
| one having authority on this subject and
his address, delivered just before the out
| break of the Civil War, was read widely
and most favorably received. The ex-
| tracts follow:
II wish the remarkable features of the
settlement of Georgia to be impressed
upon the Georgia mind l do not think
that it is rightly appreciated. Does his
tory afford a parallel to it? If so, when
and where? in what age and in what
| country? Christian missions, those heroic
| manifestations of the spirit of the gos-
pei, are conducted upon principles, and
| designed for ends purely religious. Colon
| ization mas been common in all ages, but
always for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the col
onizing state. The founding of Georgia is
an exception, even in the history of
| American colonization When the May
flower reached the shore of Plymouth, it
bore men who sought for themselves a
shelter in the wilderness from persecution
at home. When Hudson landed at New
York. he was prosecuting a venture of
trade. When Penn, good and pure as he
was, bought land from the Indians, ii
was for himself, the Quaker King"
| When Lord Baltimore founded Maryland
the country wes assigned to him as abso-
Lutte lord and proprietor, and to his herid-
itary successors. When Virginia was col
onized it was with the expectation of
! finding gold When Sayle made the first
! effective settlement in South Carolina, the
| chief revenue of the colony was to
| accrue TO the Landgraves, created under
Locke's constitutions. When the Hugue-
nots that noble race of men among whom
| the elegant refinements of life and the
dignity of unbending principle were per-
haps more gracefully united than in any
| other race of which history speaks, and
to whom virtue seems so natural that II
| Is said that at this remote period not one
Of their numerous descendants in this
widespread country has been convicted OF
a criminal offense)-when the Huguenots