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JUDGE EMIT SPEER'S MM 4TH GE JULY
ADDRESS, DELEVERED 51 MILE
IMMENSE AUDIENCE GREETED JUDGE SPEER, WHOSE LECTURE WAS
DELIVERED UNDER AUSPICES OF BRENAU CKATAUQUA.
j i Former Days Judge Sj> eer Represented the Aihen s-Gainn.qville District in
Congress and His Campaigns Were Among the Most Spectacular Ever Made.
Fellow Citizens: -
More than a quar’er of x century
has eiapgcd inee the speaker has
enjoyed the prlvllo;;, of mo'-ting hi,a
fellow citizens In the famous c anity
of Hall, Indc, d, on this day HO yearn
Ago, In th»' old court house In the
i enter of the publblo square. an utter
fledgling In poliii, -, In had the ef
frontery to wing an ambition flight
and urge upon , i pie "ho are present
and also meny who are cone, such
arguments as he could muster to per
suade them that )c -a as a sill table re.
preaentatlvi for the patriots of that
day, In the (’enure! of the United
States, Nor dlild he lhen come for
the lli'ki time. Then Hi!- was t.h old
Western Judiciul Circuit over re
nowried tor In rial lie Intelligence if
Its people; ever famed for the power
and mastery nf Hr liar. At the*
Spring Term, 1873, when 24 years of
age, the speaker came hearing his
commission as SollriWii-Gpii'i aI, the
first issued h) a Georgia Governor
after ihe hablefnl elouds 4>f Recen
strurtion had been dispelled bj the
radiance of liberty regained.
Wo have hoop lately apprized that
the highest station, at least In the
gift of the State, Is occasionally the
result of a nomination of designation
made on High. There are some
pious people, who, however, are not
satisfied with this Gubernatorial the
ology. They believe that the niety
ones net so much dictate, as watch,
the rise and fall of his creatures, lie
watches the sparrows as they fall. He
may only watch the rise or the fall
of birds of soaring wing and more
gorgeeiis plumage. Memory recalls hi
merely temporal Incident In point, i
w hich I trust may not be regarded as j
Irreverent. A former citizen or I
Athens, an old, stuttering ex-Confed
srate soldier ,llm Save by name with!
his now parole In his poekkot, was
standing mournfully on the sidewalk 1
It was during the occusatlon of the I
Classic City hv the- Federal troops'
Just after the surrender A fine look i
Ing Union officer, perched In an ele
gam Imggy, driving a llery look-1
dashed up In front of Bishop's store,
and threw the lines on the dashboard
' Watch my horse." he cried to old |
Jim, and stalked Into the store. A j
handful of wet sharp sand, gathered
from the street and ludlclously ills ,
oh urged wllh groat violence against
tho flniiks of tho steed, started that
noble animal with whirlwind ,velo
city up the street, nnd around White s
oi rner, where the remain* pf the bug
gy stopped with the lump post The
horse rapidly disappeared towards tho
boundless West Presently the of
fleer sallied forth, nnd discovering
that his horse was none, and Hint his
buggy was almost Rone, fiercely de
manded of old Jim. "Didn't I tell you
to watch my horse’" The old veteran
replied "I (1 d-d did w w-w-watch him
till he r-r-run around the c-c-c-cor
nsr.”
Now. I may have been only watch
ed, and not directed, but I have some
times been happy to believe that the
life and activities of my young man
liood among this clear sighted, cour
ageous anil Independent Ittople were
ordered to (It me, so far ns might be
possible, for the graver, more difficult
and more ruo|ffinslblc service, to
which for nearly a quarter of a c«n
tury I have been called upon to do
vote my life. My defeats were not
less salutary than my vletorles.
"Hweet are the uses of adversity,
which, like tho toad, ugh and venom,
ous, wears yet a precious Jewel In
bis erown."
I have been able to dlsi\ver little
difference between the men of the
mountains, the Inhabitants of "the old
and red hills" of middle Georgia, or
those who dwell bard by the rich
bottoms of Thronateeska, or along
the Hmbor tide of Wlthlaeoochee. Wo
are a homogeneous people We are
all turreil with the same stick It Is,
I am sure, because i here learned to
know and lov* this people, and espe
cially the plain, unpretentious people
of my state, that no fudge in those
United States from Maine to Call
fornla, or from Alaska to Florida—
and I declare It with exultation and
pride has more uniformly and stead
ily received their support In the du
ties of that station which you sup
port In my yuqpg manhood enabled
me to attain Mow deep Is ray grail
tnd.e hoj£ Affectionate my remem
brance, I may not describe. Hot In
all th e swiftly passing years since 1
left you, In days of vacation and leis
ure, I have gone, not to the historic
•cenes of that grand old world be
yond the deep, not to the wonderland
of the continent far to the westward,
not to the great centers of the fash
ionable and pleasure loving to the
northward, hut 1 have always cotue
to a simple home In an adjoining
county, where I can grasp the toll
hardened bands, and look Into the
honest nnd welcoming eyes of the
friends of my youth, where my soul
Is delighted when (he wooded sum
mits of Currabee nre tinted bv "the
roHy bltish of Incense breathing
morn." or when the darkling purple
of evening gather- on the ramparts
of the Blue Ridge, and the God of
Day glorifies their summits with the
radiance of hh- parting smlh
"Bttll o’er these scenes will memory
wake
And lore to brood w-lih miser care,
And Tlmo the Impression stronger
makes
As streams their ehsuels deeper
wear."'
Independence Day and Its Memories
! return to you on Independence
day. This day, one hundred and
thirty -two > oars ago, a nation was
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JUDGE EMO RY SPEER.
born. It Is Indeed, in the words at
tributed by Webster to John Adams,
'ti glqfious, an Immortal day." In
view >1 our rank and power, wo are
u very young nation. I.lttle loss than
"HI years before the Declaration was
signed, the vast Hemtephere of
North and South America was not
known to exist by civilized men. On
the night of October 11, 1492, Ohrls
topher Columbus, the discoverer,
came. The slumbrous waves of a
tropical sea lapped softly the prow
of his frail caravel, as she forg d
slowly into the westward night.
Years of preparation, months of
doubt, of foreboding and mental an
guish, w• A past More than 3,0(10
miles of the pathless ocean were be
hind him. A mutinous and truculent
crew were muttering around him,
but thi hour of bis Immortal triumph
was at hnnd. The tall form of the
llseoverer leans torward. The soft
zephyrs wllh aromatic aud unwont
ed fragrance play with his auburn
locks. Ills keen eyes sweep eagerly
over the somber waters, as If they
would body forth a new world from
darkness and front space, when loT
n tremulous light breaks o’er the
tophi waves, ami the New World lx
found. His philosophy had ‘rlumph
ed. The scotftrgs of the sages, who
had predicted his failure, were sil
< need. Whatever the future might
have In store for tho man during the
Interval of life remaining, Ills fame
from henceforth will lie as durable
ur that world, whose half ho had dis
covered .
**lt may be Interesting for Ameri
cans to reflect that since that famous
May day In the P.sy of Manila, when
the broadsides of Dewey's squadron
proclaimed that ihe genius of Am
erican civilization had arrived to
stay, and that other day, of which
yesterday was the Tenth Anniver
sary, when the guns of Sampson and
Schley sent the scorched and shut
tered fragments of Ihe Spanish fli-el
on ihe rooks of Santiago and beneath
ihe booming waves of tho Caribbean,
not one inch of that Hemisphere,
thus coded by His Holiness, Alex
ander tho Sixth, remains In tho pos
session ot tip- Spanish King.
Early Voyages sod Settlements.
Of course, tlmo will forbid that I
should attempt lo narrate the voy
ugo* of John and Sebastian Cabot,
who In 14*7, under the auspices of
the English King, were authorized
"to sail to the East, West or North,
to seek and discover all of the lands,
countries, regions, or province of
DagHns. in whatever part of the
world;" nor In detail, tho romantic
story of Sir Walter Raleigh and hit
half brother. Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
Twenty roars later, the fatuous
voyagers, whose exploits have been
of late eommeuioruted by the James
town Exposition, arrived off the Vlr-1
glnn Capes. April 26th. 1607. The Is-!
laud on which they lauded haa been j
termed "the cradle of the United I
State- •♦ • We have heard much, j
nnd deservedly so, of the heroism of!
the Pilgrim Esther* but these Eng
llsh settlers, many of whose panics
may now he heard, and many of |
whose descendants Invigorate all tho
states of the Union, wore not less
heroic. From Colonel Randolph, tlrst
of the name, who settled on James 1
river, descended John Marshall,!
Thomas Jefferson and Robert 14 l,ee
Of the Dutch ssttlers of New York
Judge Speer said
"This detachment of our colonial
sires entne from those famous ioir
countries, whose love of liberty is not
more ardent than thetr honesty and
truth, whose constant struggle to
keep their reclaimed lands from de
vastation by the wnters of the North
Sea has Imparted to them an hered'
tary devotion to work* of vast nub
ile utility: a people, with whom clean
liness Is next to godliness; who love
’heir church; who love their wives;
and whose love of tolerance was
strengthened by th ( . memory of thair
ancestors, who for freedom of con
science had given up thetr lives In
tho torture chambers of the inquisi
tion. or before the t -rrlblq Infantry
of the Duke of Alva. They loved
books nnd reading. They delighted
in their learned scholars and great
i preachers. They were proud of the
great universities of the Motherland.
They loved find and county.
President Theodore Roosevelt.
A lineal descendant on the paternal
j line from this type of our early set
tlers. whose gentle mother was a
i daughter of our state, is that man,
! best libeled by the lawless, best be
j loved by the law-abiding, who in
obedience to American precedent and
his own convictions of right, has just
put aside the tempting glories and
powers of th ( . presidential office, and
will soon retire to private life with
all Ills country's wishes blest—Theo
dore Roosevelt, President of these
i United States.
Georgia Youngest of the 13 States
Ours is the youngest of the original
Thirteen States, indeed. George Wash
ington. the Father of our Country is
a yoar, lacking 10 days, older than
; Georgia. Our State was born in an
! Age of Incomparable mental activity
Pqjer the Great, barbarian and galnt.
Hud scarcely the foundation of that
Semi-Asiatic power, of whose people
Napoleon in after years declared.
Scratch a Russian, and you find a
! Tartar.” The gigantic wars succeed
i ing the English Reformation made
; scarcely ended. The glories of Blon
heln and Remelies, Oudenarde and
■ Nalplaquet, were yet thrilling the
hearts of Englishmen. The meterrle
j military rnreer of Charles the Twelfth
i of Sweden had just been ended by a
! grape shot through the brain at the
j seige of Fredrickshall. It Is an age,
of which the story is told by the,
| witching pen of Thackeray in 'Heurv
! Esmond" and "The Virginians." It
i was the age, when from the shores of
jl-nke Iranian, Voltaire was sending
.forth those excruciating messages.
! which at times. In the language of
Mac auley. "were used to vindicate
i justice, humanity and toleration, the
principles of sound philosophy, and
the principles of free
j but at others, “to crush and torture
enemies, worthy only of silent dis-
dain. and to destroy the last solace
of earthly mlserv. and the last re
straint on earthly power." By the
same writer it has been said: "Of
all the intellectual weapons, which
have- ever been wielded by men, the
most terrible was the mockery of
Voltaire. Bigots and tyrants, who
had never been moved by the wall
ing and cruslng of millions, turned
pale at his name.” It was the age of
the last of the Great Kings. Fredrick
of Prussia. When this lllastrlous
monarch was borne on the 4th of
January, 1712. Jnmps Edward Ogle
thorpe. the noble, htgh-aouled founder
of Georgia, was 16 years old and
when Fredrick died in 1786, not only
had Georgia grown to be a Statfe, but
the Independence of all America had
been three years established by the
Treaty of Peace between Great Brl
tgln and the United States. To me
Oglethorpe Is the most romantic and
charming figures In English nnd Am
erican history Of him Dr. Samuel
Johnson declared that he- know of no
man whose hlgograpby would be more
Interesting. At the age of 16, he en
tered Oxford University, and six
yea*s later was commissioned as
Eloign in the English Army, it Isi
Interesting to relate that eariy lu life
he met that famous Bishop Berkeley,;
a man of whom it has been said that j
tk” William Penn and A’ocke. the an-1
thor of the great work on "The lfu-!
man Understanding." "he garnered up
his hopes for humanity In America " !
It was Berkley who wrote the pro-1
phetic lines:
There shall be another golden age, I
The rise ot empire and of arts;
Westward the course of empire takes j
Its way.
The four first act* already past; |
The fifth shall close the drama with
the day—
Time's nohl.-st offspring Is Ihe last."
James Edward Oglethorpe, Founder
of Qeor gla.
How much these ennobling and
prescient aentlmet* may have In
spir’d the lofty son! of Oclothorpe
we uw) not know; but certain it Is j
TF3 AUGUSTA HERALD
that after the most distinguished
ear -r as a sold'er. returning to Eng
land. after 82 ears elected succes-j
rivet.' to the House of Commons, we
find bts greatest energies devoted to j
the, amelioration of his suffering fel
low-men, and finally consummated i
in his leadership of the poor and the i
: ‘Tv-cuted, to sc!Me the Colony of :
Georgia. V contemporary writer de
clared: "To see a gentleman of his j
rank and fortune, visiting a distant;
and uncultivated land, with no other,
ociety but the miserable, whom he
goes to as:exposing himself free
ly to the same hardships to which
they are subjected, instead of' pur
filing pleasures or ambition, entitles |
hint to the truest honor he can gain; j
the perpetual lov& and applause of,
mankind. ”
On the 17th of November, 1732, a
vittle vessel, laden with the fore-:
bears "f many Georgians, sailed from j
Graves' ltd, and soon spread It white;
sails *o ibf- breezes of the broad A s -j
lantle. It did not. reach America tin I
til Ihe 13th of January, 1733, and fur-!
led its sail.-: in th ■ harbor of Charles-1
ton. Soon lea vim his people to the I
hospltrhle entertainment of the older:
Colony <>sl •’b'r.'pe, accompanied by
Colonel WlPiani Bull of South Car
olina, departed for Ihe Savannah
river to select the location of whnt
is now the famous city of that name.
ITis canoe, gliding through the
smooth inlets, at length reached the
great river. Rending its course up
ward, he landed beneath a bold pine
covored Muff, Reaching its top, we i
are told b> the graceful pen of one j
of Georgia's historians, a beautiful
prospect met bis eyes.
The Georgia Salzburger9.
Another most valuable aooreation
to the Colony were the Salzburgers.
These interesting people at - thls time I
belonged to the Archbishopric ot!
Salzburg, then the most eastern dis-!
triet of Fiavarla. For many years, t
they had been the object of most j
cruel persecution for conscience sake. |
They had been subjected to tortures i
of the most revolting kind. In 1620,
the head of one of their pastors was
nailed to his pulpit, In 11732, they
were living on the northern slope of
the Tyrol. "Their country,” said Car
lyle, "is celebrated for its airy beauty,
rocky mountains, smooth green val
leys and swift rushing streams,”
Salzburg is the Archbishop city, and
the Archbishop was one Firmian, "by
secular qualities," said the same
writer, "of the strict lean character,
scullen rather than wise, who had
brought the orthodoxies with him in j
a rigid and very lean form.” This [
Firmian demanded that the Salzburg- j
ers should give up their Bibles, but i
“doffing their slouch hats,” writes !
Carlyle, “almost to mankind in gen
eral, they were entirely obstinate as
to that matter of the Bible." “Can-
not, your reverence, must not, dare
not," and went to prison and wither
j soever ordered,” and thus these poor
people, than whom more harmless
sons of Adam did not breathe the
vital air, were driven from their
home. Within the hill of Salzburg,
the German legend hath it, and the
simple German folk believe, sits the
greatest Kaiser time has ever known
Friedrich Barbarossa —sits there at
a marble table, with his elbow there
j on, not dead, but only sleeping—in
deed. site winking, the peasants be
: liovc, only half sleeping—though his
white beard streams down on the
lloor; and when his people are suf
fering wrong, and are driven devil
ward, the old Kaiser will arise, will
set his shiekt aloft and his lance at
rest, and on Boncalic fields again!
raise the shout of battle, and charge
down on the enemies of Ihe people
ho once ruled and loved. Woe to
thee! lion thy law ter
riers. mongrels, whelps and curs of
low degree, had the good King Bar
barossa had his slumbers broken by
the cries of the ousted Salzburgers,
ihe hoary old men, the women and
children, who in the rigor of winter
were driven from their homes. But
they were not unfriended. Vast num-!
hers were earired to other portions of j
North Germany, and treated by the
Prnssian King, father of the Great
Frederick, with the utmost kindness.
One man he hung for cheating them,
i "Come, ye poor Salzburgers, there
tin- homes provided for you," his proc
lamations ran. Forty-two of them
with their families embarked upon
the Maine, sailed down the beautiful
Rhino, reached Rotterdam, where
they were joined by their chosen pas
tors, and embarked on their long voy
age to that new land beyond the
broad Atlantic, where each man
could worship God according to the
dictates of hls own conscience. Ser
mons they heard on the texts. And
every one that hath forsaken houses,
or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife or children, or lands,
for my name's sake, shall receive an
hundred fold, nnd shall inherit ever
lasting life;" and “Now the Lord had
said unto Abraham, Get them out of |
thy country, and trom thy kindred. I
and from thy father's house, unto a I
land that I will show thee.” ‘Excel
lent texts; well hnndled, let us hope—
especially with brevity!” Oglethorpe
met them in Charleston, and took
them to their new home. It was Eb
onezer. How deep might have been
the response to the old hymn, the
melody of which often rolled away
from simple churches and camp meet
ings. through the aisles of Georgia
forests.
"Here I'il raise ntino Rbenezer,
Hither, by thy holp, I’m come;
And 1 hope, In thy good plensure,
Saiely to arrive at home.”
The Scott in Georgia.
These, however were not the Inst,
nor the moat important recruits of
our colonial settlers. The Trustees of
the (!i'or<i;t Colony were determined
to protec t against the Spaniards,
who then hold Florida aurt Cuba, be
establishing a post on the hanks of
the Mtumaha. Recourse was ha I to
the Highlands of Scotland. and there
rear Inverness, a Lieutenant Hugh
Mackey waa commissioned 10 agree
with, and brine together IIP free
men and servant*, to which 50 wo
men and children were nl'ovod. The
force was easily recruited. They
were fUhtiti* men, and came with
claymore und targe. Many came front
tiet Oten Straldesn. about nine miles
from Inverness, and were command
ed by officers, whose dascendents
(till hold high offices of hum r auu
TKE MOST
DELIGHTFUL PLACE
ABOUT AUGUSTA
Natatorium
V/hy spend your money going to the sea-shore when you can find all of the
pleasures of the trip at your own door. The best equipped place in the South.
Careful Attention Given to Parties
Take Summerville car and get off at Heard’s Avenue, then walk North.
Only ten minutes trip from the heart of city.
trust in the United Kingdom and
rreUnd. They brought with them
nmlr minister, the Reverend John
vlcLeod. George Dunbar was their
Captain, and on the north side of
the Akahema they built a village,
which In honor of their town in Scot-’
land they called New Inverness,
while the surrounding district was
called Darien. Much has been said
of the hardships eAdured by the Pil
grim Fathers and the Puritans, who
on the hyperborean shores of
New England, but what savs Oliver
Goldsmith of the land to which those
brave Highlanders had come,—
"Where wild Altama murmurs to
their woe—
Those matted woods where birds for
get to sing,
Rut silent bats m drowsy clusters
cling;
Those poisonous fields with ran':
luxuriance crowned,
Where the dark scorpion gathers
death around;
Where at each step the stranger
fears to wake
The rattling terrors of the vengeful
snake;
Where crouching tigers wait their
hapless prey,
And savage men more murderous still
than they;
While oft in whirls, the mad tornado
flies,
Mingling the ravaged landscape with
the skies.”
Notwithstanding these melodious
terrors of the gentle Goldsmith,
these gallant Scotchmen have so
peopled the fertile lands of South
Georgia that sometimes when the
rolls of the juries and grand Juries
of my court are called, and the Mc-
Intoahes, McNeils, Mclntyres, Mc-
Ralns, Frasers, Campbells, Gordons,
and Grahams answer, I can almost
imagine that I am with Waverly
watching Fergus Mclver and his
clansmen come down the glen, or
hear the cry, "Scotland forever"’ of
the Scotch Greys as thev charged
home at Waterloo, or “Highlanders
shoulder to shoulder!" hear for two
hundred years, whereever the world
around the meteor flag of England
has streamed above the press of bat
tle.
The Home of Oglethorpe
It does not appear that he was ever
moved by motives of self-aggrandlze
mant. He did not ever claim an acre
But just where the military road,
connecting Fort St. Simon with Fred
erica. entered the woods. General
Oglethorpe established his cottage.
He lived there on the firing line
against the Spaniards. “Magnificent
oaks, "writes Charles Colcock Jones
In his valuable History of Georgia.”
throw their protecting shadows above
and around this quiet pleasant abode,
fanned by delicious sea-breezes, fra
grant with the perfume of flowers,
and vocal with the melody and song
of birds. To the westward and In
full view the fortifications and the
white houses of Frederica. Behind
were rows of dense forest oak.” There
almost in sight of his home, he won
the title of vitor in the most vital
struggle which ever took place on the
soil of the United States, hetween the
English and the Latin-speaking races.
"Half the world" says Carlyle.” was
hidden in embryo under it. The in
calculable Yankee nation itself, the
greatest phenomenon of these ages.
This too, little as careless readers
on either side of the sea now know
it, lay involved. Shall there be a
Yankee nation? Shall the New world
be of Spanish type? Shall it be Eng
lish? "Issues,” wrote this strongest
thinker of the Nineteenth Century,
which we may call immense."
Oglethorpe Fights the Spaniards
From v.glethorp«‘s individual report
written while the smoke of battle
had scarcely drifted to seaward from
the historic sands of St. Simon's Is
land, we gather the story of that
epochal struggle. "The Spaniards
came sailing up the coast in a fleet of
more than 50 vessels. Their army
amounted to 5.000 men." Against
these Oglethorpe could oppose a few
weak merchant vessels and armed
boats—Cs2 men In all. ‘‘The Span
iards,” he said, “after an obstinate
engagement of four hours. In which
they lost many men. passed all our
batteries and shipping, and got out of
shot from them, towardca Frederica.
Our gaurd-ship was dUnbhled and
sunk, one of our batteries blown up,
also some of our men on hoard. 1
called a council of war at the head of
•he rogigment, whore It was unani
mously resolved not to give Frederica
to the enemy. On the 7th. a party of
theirs marched toward the town.
Our men had discovered them, and
brought an account of their march,
on whi 'i I advanced • \ ' a narty - f
Indians, raryerr. and the Highland
com pan', ordering the regiment ti
follow. 1. no resolved \ r engage them
■■ tv ,v-f;i cf tj.» words, before
they could ge out, and from In the
oweu grounu*. It will be recalled that
LANKEY’S
this was the strategy of General Lee j
in the Wilderness. “I charged them :
at the head of our Indians, Highland j
men, and Rangers, and God was,
pleased to give us such success, that;
we entirely routed tne first party,!
took Hie Captain prisoner, and killed
another, and pursued them two miles!
to an open medow or Savannah, up-1
on the edge of which I posted three j
platoons of the regiments, and the !
company of Highland foot, so as to j
be covered by the woods from the:
en(fny, who were obliged to pass I
through the meadow under our fire
This disposition was very fortunate. |
Captain Antonie Barba and two other!
Captains, with 100 grenadiars and
200 foot, besides Indians and negroes
advanced from the Spaniard navy j
towards the Savannah, and *ired with
great spirit, hut not seeing our men
in the woods, none of their shots took
effect, but ours did. Generally the
Spaniards fired so much at random |
that the fields were brown with the|
balls from their muskets. Their:
losses in killed, wounded and priso-|
ners was estimated at 500. The loss
in Oglethorpe's detachment was very
inconsiderable.
The Bloody Marsh.
To this day, the scene of the ac
tion thus described is denominated,
the “Bioodv Marsh.” The Spaniards.:
now completely demoralized, retired
Ito Oglethorpe’s half-destroyed fort.
| but by a strategem a few days there
after, they were expelled therefrom,
I took to their ships, and never return
ed. It seems almost Incredible that
an army of nearly 5,000 Spanish
troops, with compile control, of the
sea, should hav 0 been defeated and
overwhelmed by a force of between
six and seven hundred men. Said the
renowned Whitfield: ‘‘The deliver
ance of Georgia from the Spaniards
is such that it may not be paralleled
but by some instances out of Hie Old
Testament. Certain it is that this bat
tle, though well-nigh forgotten, is one i
of the most glorious and decisive rti
the annals of our country. It determ
ined that North America shod4d be
left for the exploitation of the Anglo-
Saxon, the Geltio, and the Teutonic
races. Had success attended the
Spaniards, they would have advanced
on the more northern settlements.
General Oglethorpe received from the
governors of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
and North Carolina, special letters. I
thanking him for the invaluable set-1
vices he had rendered to the British-
American provinces, congratulating
him on his success, and the great re
nown he had acquired, and express
ing “their gratitude to the supreme
governor of the nations for placing
the affairs of the colonies under the j
direction of a general, so well quali
fied for the important trust.” The
permanency and safety of the colony
thus secured, Oglethorpe in 1743 left
Georgia to return no more. He re
paired to his ancestral domain in Eng
land, and was there welcomed by the
plaudits of the good and great of ev
ery party. Of him Alexander Pope
exclaimed:
“Thy great example shall through
ages shine,
A favorite theme with poet and di
vine.
To all unborn thy merits shall pro
claim.
And add new honors to thy death
less name."
Georgians Are All Americans.
Oh, my countrymen. I do not know
how others may feel; but when with
patriotic memory I contemplate the
tall form of Patrick Henry, a South
ern man, as lie stands forward t, the
old House of Uurgesses in Virginia,
and exciaims, “The next, gale that
sweeps from the North shall bring to
our ears the clash of resounding arms
-—our bittthreu are already lu the
field; why stand we here idle; whit
Is it that gentlemen wish, what
would they haw; is life so dear or
peace so sweet, as to he purchased at
the price of chains and slavery;”
und when with the utmost cot ipass
of that matchless valoe, whoso mel
ody will ring down the a ms, ho oih-s
to his countr. men, ‘ Give me Liber
ty, or give me Deathl" whe: 1 hear
that immortal appeal, 1 k ,ow that to
the inmost core of my heart t am an
American, Neither accfiomtlisni, nor
party, nor prejudice, tun - the r.iotn >ry
of wrongs inflicted, nor sufferings
borne, can take no one jot or title
from love of country, from adoration
while life shn'l Irit of the heavenly
huts of that Star Spangied Banner,
which is the flag of the freeman's
home and hope.
The Signing of the Declaration.
The Committee made Its report on
the Ist of .Inly. It war finish'd by
Mr. Jeftersen on the 25ih of June.
The story of the mighty debate be
hind closed doors, und especially 'he
Immortal speech ascribed to iohn
Adams, Is known of all. What John
Adrms actually* said we do tint know.
"It Is the highest miracle of genius."
said Macauivy ot the "Pilgrim's
SUNDAY, JULY 5.
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Progress, “that things which are not,
should be as though they were, that
the imaginations of one mi" I should
be the personal reco! eclions of an
other.'’ By such a mi r a<yc the genius
of Webster Ims attributed to the
sturdy patriot from Massa thuixits,
who was rocked in every storm of
the Revolution, words which will be
accredited to him as long as our his
tory shall survive. “We shall mxke
this a glorious and linnets! d.»v.
When we are read, our 'hildren will
honor it. Xhey will celebrate it with
t! ..nksgiving, with fasting, with bon
fires and illuminations. On its an
nua! return, they will shed tears, not
nf subjection and slavery, not of
agony and distress, b t of exultation,
gratitude, and of joy Sir. before
God, T believe that the hr” ig come.
My judgment approves this measure,
and my whole hwt :s in it. All that
i have, and all that I am, and all that
i hope in this life I am now ready
here to stake upon It. And 1 leave
o F : as I began, that live '-r A’*, sur
vive or perish, I am fry the Declara
tion . This is my li-ing sentiment,
and .by the Messing of God It shall
be my dying sentiment, Ti.Jcp *n 1-
ence now, and Independence for
ever!’ ”
The Declaration xv! x aimed. The
Constitution tins framed Tho Oov
j eminent began its rlv tlimic, its ir
resistible movement. I; i* the mighty
i the irrespre.sslble. conflict came.
I Against each other, the far flung bat
tle lines of a divided people were ar
rayed, from tlie green elopes of Vlr
i giria to the Sower-begemmed pralr
i ies of Texas.
“The thunder clouds close o’er them,
which when rent.
The earth is covered thick with
other clay,
Which her oxvn clay shall cover,
heaped and pent,,
I ‘‘Rider and tiors -, friend and foe,
In one red h-itlal blent."
We fought out the fight, like men;
we settled It like brothers And then,
tho progress of the Nation on n’i the
paths of civilization, unprecedented
as yet. will bo marveled hv Nations
yet unborn, in accents yet unknown.
And let us. my follow-citizens of
North Georgia—you who nre respon
sible for my thirty-fire years of pub-
I lie life, you to whom I am hound by
j every chord of gratitude and asst •
tlon—let us keep bright (he fires of
National patriotism, let us cherish
the love we owe to the ’and of our
fathers, and let us resolve that never
again shall we ignore the example
this people has now so worthily giv
en and never again shall we as
Americans fail to celebrate our coun
try’s Natal Day.
It Reached the Spot.
Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large
general store at Omega, 0., and is pres
ident of the Adams County Telephone
Co., as Well as of the Home Telephone
Co., of Pike County. 0., says of Dr.
King's New Discovery: "It saved my life
once. At least I tnlnlt it did. It seemed
to reach the spot—the very seat of my
cough.— I when everything else failed.
Dr. King's New Discovery not only
reaches the cough soot: ir heals toe
sore spots and the weak spots In throat,
lungs and chest. Sold under guarantee
at nil druggists. 50c and 51.00. Trial
bottle free. ,
LOTS OF CLIMATE.
"Gracious!" exclaimed the swelten
ing tourist, "is this the kind of
weather you have all summer?”
"Certainly not,” replied the native.
“Why, we have half a dozen different
kinds every day.” Philadelphia
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