Newspaper Page Text
REVOLUTION DINE.
Thp Georgia Society's Annual Banquet
at the De Soto.
jjiant Gathering of Descendants
1 f American Patriots-The Toasts and
1 spouses -Judge Speer's Eloquent
fneech-His Tribute to Oglethorpe.
; Appeal for a Monument to His
Charles H. Strong's
Response to the United States of
irca-Judge Falligant’s Tribute
7,“ he Daughters of the Revolution.
The annual dinner of the Georgia So
of the Sons of the Revolution at the
£! ' goto last night, was a
il. pleasant affair. Shortly after
® . cloc tlie guests, headed by the
. president of the society, Hon. Win.
n. Harden and Judge Emory Speer, Al
fred the banquet room.
The jrjests were seated around a dia
mond shaped table, the center of which
" tilled with palms and ferns.
Th following gentlemen were present:
1,, william Harden, Hon. Emory Speer,
h S Robert Falligant, M. D. Coburn. Ur.
Pa Falligant, Albert Wylly, J. L. Wal-
TANARUS, . W U Simkins, William Harden,
r°H Aleuaws, K. F. Burdell, W. S.
kith,.lni Newell West, Arthur Haines,
"i wvst T D. Rockwell, Wm. Clifton,
Appleton, W. C. Workman,
nf George H. Stone, Dr. T. B. Ctis
ctiffi Waring Russell, Grantham I. Tag-
Sart L \V. Neeson, J. M. Lang, F. F.
jane's George A. Cosens, Robert Van
Wagenea. W. L. Clay, Rev. C. H. Strong,
Dr L. C. Vass, Dr. George Troup Max
the menu.
The dinner occupied the attention of
•he guests for some time. It was elegant
and well served. The menu was as foi
|os
Huitres de Blue Point au Natural
Chablis
Consomme de Tortue verte au quenelles
Xeras see
P,, er j Olives. Cornichoi.s
Pompano Grille ala Maitre d’Hotel
‘ Pomrnes de terra ala Partsienne
Sells deChevreui! pique. Sauce Grand Veneur
petit pels
Pointes and Asperagus au t eurre
Chateau La Rose
Filet dc Bceuf mignon. saute, aux
Champignons et truftes
Sorbet au Kirsch
Terrapin ala Maryland
liuinart Bruit
Becassines Roties sur Canape
Salad de laitue
Glace Tutti Frutti Charlotte Russe
Petits Fours Glace
Bonbons Fruit Glace
Fruit Cigars Cafe
Chasse Cafe
Judge Harden was chairman and toast
master of the occasion, the president of
the society. Col. John Screven, being un
able to attend.
The first toast, announced by Judge
Harden, was to the absent president,
which was drunk standing and in silence.
JUDGE SPEER’S SPEECH.
The chairman then aptly introduced
the first speaker of the evening, Hon.
Emory Speer, who responded to the toast
"The Sons of ,he Revolution.”
Judge Speer’s address was as follows:
Mr. President: 'I he Sons of the Revolution
have proud memories, lhey have a pro.,tier
mission. It will 1 o difficult to conceive of a
mission more unselfish or ennobling, than
that comp•etiended in the common purpose of
a patriotic society to create a lively sense of
their tountry’s past glory, a just pride in the
achievements of its great men. a common re
solve in the minds of youth to advance the
onebyem luting the other. Such I under
s rid to :>e a cardinal principle of the society
ol the Sons of the Revolution composed of
men of homogeneous blood, animated by a
I genuine pride of ancestry, flowing from the
gi r - valor, the sa riticial patriotism, the
| meritorious services of the Intrepid devotees
to It erty f on, whom vve spring, we are nat-'
uralh committed to the prooagation of genu
ir,, Americanism. That the time is opportune
for the best and the constant efforts of every
member of this and all kindred societies, in
deed, for the co-operation of every ap,ue.i
a:, e American citizen to this end may not
hp . At’ • tori Iti. __ . .'_l - .
• .ountei! It is not possicle, or perhaps
projH.. th:it on this occasion I
sh i'ii.l evon the dangers that en
v *n that i .miuo'is pathway the great lle-
P ••■■is traversing, bearing in her strong
u!; Wauteous arms the hopes of a nation and
perhaps tin de-tinies of man. should this
it done, it \\o Id ie difficult to avoid in those
personal opinions which, whether he may be
JP a *P ! or a pri re. constitute the inaliena
d* apronertv of every sentieht man. Be
-61 ’inishion of this society is not to be
restricted to the exigencies of the hour. It is
ecu ati\e We point to the heroic men of
T ?f> aSst as exe naplars commanding the udmi
by of the rivalry of our
v*►.th. Why t Became,
in the sweet and simple verses of the poet
pdiiosopner of America:
' Ihe lives of great men all remind us,
Ue make our lives sublime,
Anu departing, leave behind us
root-prints on the sands of time.’ 1
7;c monuments which adorn the streets
■i-u glares or this renowned city are silent,
testimonials to that enduaring
who h the memories of the great
Sorts of the people. They are
j,.' '• 1 'i* iit of the elevated and eanob
! ;,,t!SIn °f a generous and disinter*
hi.' u ..i 0:11 ail 'i l tty* But. sir. there is in this
V 1 a va( ' ant s iuare. and to-night, in
presence at the suggestion of the
f . I ;'resident of our society. I come be
urge with all the sincerity and
’ otmv nature, that it is lilting, nay.
Y ' manded that the Society of the
_ • i urinnny with the purposes of our so
* undertake the contsrudion
•V'. 'mJi, an en( *uring monument worthy of
, • i* mon ami commemorative of the pub*
Hrva/'L 0 T ? at ran king general of the
the *' ‘ m - v " r ©j®vted the command of
omoV for the subjugation of the col
pa’ r nt SwJ? ri arras of Marlborough, com-
J r, li’ s. n the intimate of Samuel
or vritii • i. arK dnven bv strong benevolence
ttd-dfn-t 1 ? 68 h ; (iwar<l Oglethorpe, the tm-
o f the r n v, U er of tlie c * ty °* savannah and
y- uie prntince of Georgia.
onhr, :^? rka l e r ? an was l **e youngest son
1 !<■. , l 1 glethorpe, and was born June
l;.-, 'j!. a Ul0(1 the age of ye. on July 1.
it i *" Parents were both Jacot ite in pol
*n , 1 " w dt speaks of his mother as a
this gonri ! ’ and Mrs. Shaftoe writes of
sh. ” ' i-et times go how it would,
Erribfs h, , tt . wavH ma He friends.” and de
c-: s’-. as whining upon the country*
the "’!£? whi ning ways to get
\ •,.* ", 1 their husbands to give their
n>mYprnf lr Oglethorpe to Le a
N ,; ;of grimmer, t.whl.h they did." On
b.. ,'’.u Kroot Duke of Marlborough,
thro ,i, *" e Frenchmen through and
offer th v tt !£ te t 0 ° lethorpe's mother to
Nn ( j 0 .". ~ il commission in the Guards.
tcar.fi ~f - I( ‘thorpe as under the com-
Uhir ■ , ~h kreat soldier when itwaspop
-1 hng in ail England:
I ,r ’'‘h the prince of commanders,
Bur in Flanders;
~'® c ' s 'ike Alexander's; *
' "hen will he come home?”
K * 1 an Ibindr- and years afterward,when
*i> ■•rnssm.f v, ea ' l of tiio imperial guard.
H ssian •. i I ® men to enter on, the fa al
" i , ' b'aign. he washumm ngthesaniC
file famr, ,V J) 11 tnat Ogleihorpe was at
l'riu e ,u eKeot , Belgrade m 1717, with
,h Cne # tlle compatriot of
u right itt?f whom • arlyle writes.‘-he
o: "p\( -n . ,;i Ule , Bc : ul - . w itk a flash in him as
' • * n ' n itghtning.” Dr. VVurton in
' ,• /.Ji 8 ( n the writings of Pope,
' -•"thon, . r ,^ Q Eugene always spoke of
l "N ;o ~ V , ~e highest terms. Boswell
'* r ' *cc a in, . tr ! ot “ or l ,e sa,( l that during his
k corn’,..',' . 1 v! lce Eugene he was sitting in
o! Mir* mif taule with a prince
a glass " : lf erg - ibe prince took up
1 a■; wipe and by u tillip.
ikus'u ' ■ J]y in Oglethorpe’s face.
I n.' Y; 1 o dilemma. To have cbal*
/nth' might have tixedaquar*
nav. !. K..V, ,) the young soldier, to
“ h no noil, c„f jt might have been
1 "" h■ • I „’ < }* a Oglethorpe, there
1 “** ®.ve on the prince, and
“ .'i. , ' ", l,, iie as If he took what his
: ' r,r -' : i' ‘” u ‘! n iesl - said. "Mon prince"
!*> ; h< 11 1 words he used; Ihe pur
*' ' i; 1 ' Ihit s a good joke: but
? thru. better In l.nsland.”
nr '* whole glass of wine In
• (yi, ~, * fa e-' lor thirty two
■hurpe. who. by the death of
succeeded to the possession
of nis family estates, was a mem er of parlia
inent for Hazjemere lhat benevolence of
eoul men.ioned in Pope's immortal couplet,
soon prompt and Oglethorpe to give his atten
tnn to the hideous condition of the debtors in
the sponging houses and prisons of England.
His friend. Robert Castell. s hoiar and
notwithstanding be had never had
that distemper, was forced by an infamous
tipstaff into a cell where the small pox was
raging. He died leaving a large family of
small children in great distress. Stung and
smitten with the outrage. "Oglethorpe re
solved." says one of hist iographers, to leave
the world at his own death a little
punned or ancient crime and folly.”
♦ e brought the subject
to the attention of the House of
Commons, and he was made chairman of the
committee to Investigate the debtors' prisons.
scvera * reports show how thoroughly
and fearlessly his work was performed, and
they show too the atrocities practiced in that
day and time on the unfortuiiate. r lhe human
ly of Oglethorpe merited the line passage in
lhompson's reasons:
fan I forget the generous band
'V ho touched with human woe, redressive
searched
Into the horrors of the gloomy jail?
Unpitied.and unheard, where misery moans;
Where sickness pines; where thirst'and hun
ger burns.
And poor misfortune feels the last of vice.”
T w * 41
Nor was the benevolence of the soul of
Oglethorpe exhausted with this inquiry. He
began to discuss measures for the ameliora
tion of the debtor class. By repeated essa/s
he Drought the advantages of the colonies be
fore the public. He also it to be for
the honor and advancement of religion to
give a home to the >alzburge.s. a simple,
protestant people who were drivfeo from their
native mountains. Of these. Carlyle writes:
‘More harmless sons of Adam, pro ablv, did
not breathe the vital air than those dis
sentient Salzburgers. Generation after gen
eration. of them giving offense to no creature."
Their archbishop was one "right reverend
Count Firmian, by secular quality,” according
to the same writer ; *‘of a strict lean charac
ter: zealous, rather than wise; who had
brought his orthodoxies with him in a rigid
and very lean form.” In 1717 the proprietors
of Carolina had made a grant of all the lands
lv:n?bet,ween the Savannah and Altamaha.
This grant was made to a Scottish baronet,
one .-ir Ro ert Montgomery who proposed to
form with it what he called the * Margravate
of Aztlia.” and he was to be the first marquis.
He called it the -most amiable country of the
universe.” ‘ Nature.' he says, "has not
blessed the world with any tract which can
be preferable to it; paradise, with all her
virgin beauties, may be modestly supposed at
most, but equal to its native excellencies It
lies in the same latitude with Palestine h
self, that promised Canaan which was pointed
out by God s own choice to bless the labors
of a favorite people." But Sir Robert's
grant expired by its own conditions. In 1720
King George had caused a fort to be con
structed at the mouth of the Altamaha. It
was burned in 1729. lie ordered it to be re
built, but it was of no use. About that time
a Swiss, one < 01. Purry. settled with a colony
of six hundred of his coin try men on the left
bank of the Savannah, at a place called
Purrisburg. St. Augustine had teen now in
existence for 164 years, and it is now evident
that for at least 100 years the Spaniards had
worked the gold mines in what is now North
Georgia In the epigrammatic language of
Macaulay "The American dependencies of the
Castilian crown still extended far to the north
of Cancer, and lar to the south of Capricorn.”
Goldsmith had described the dangers with
which nature had surrounded the colonists;
"Those matted woods where birds forget to
sing.
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling.
Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance
crowned.
Where the dark scorpion gathers death
around;
Where at each step the stranger fears to
wake
The rattling terrors of the vergeful 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.”
But neither the bats, nor the scorpions, nor
th snakes, nor the tigers, nor the tornadoes
offered to the colonists the terror and a arm
occasioned by the unspeakable Spaniard.
Menendez had cruelly put to death the French
settlers on the St. John’s, and affixed to their
dead bodies the placard. "I do this not as to
Frenchmen, but as to Luth mans.” The im
petuous Jean Riueauit, in revenge, in turn
hung the Spaniards. "I do this." states his
placard. * not as to Spaniards but os to mur
derers and assassins.” The presence of the
Spaniard in Florida, said a biographer, "was
an intolerable thorn in the side of the South
Carolina planter. There seemed to be no
bound to his insolence. He was always stir
ring up slaves to rebel: he enticed them over
to Florida by the thousand, and there formed
them into negro regiments, treating them
well. He tampered with the Indian trices. He
claimed all the country as far north
as the Savannah and beyond. The English,
on the other hand, claimed all the country at
least as far as the St. John s. Thus it was a
little more than the whole of the present
state of Georgia that was in dispute." To
this environment, tinder the proud motto,
non sibi sed aliis.” "not for themselves but
for others,"did Oglethorpe come, with the
an estors of men who are now in the sound of
my vioce. It was to be a military colony.
As soon as the colonists were a -cepted, they
were formed into little brigades, and were
drilled daily by sergeants from the Royal
Guard—an easy explanation for the present
military spirit which continues to pervade
this charming but warlike community. How
the settlers came over on the Ann galley,
hovr it was loaded with arms and
munitons of war, with carpenters, bricklay
ers. fatmers, etc., and seels ot all descrip
tion. not for ett ug ten tons of Alderman Par
so ;s’ be c t beer h>w the course was steered
. by way o'M.de ato Jtake in five tons, of
i trine, how ed.aiaiiy the colonists were wel-
I corned bv the South Carolinians, how Tomo
chichi has ened from Yamacraw to welcome
thegrea’ i an who became for all of his life
his best friend, how in short the province of
Georgia gtew to oe a buffer state ! e.'.veen the
Carolinians and the Spaniards, is familiar to
us all. A Condon poet of that day thus ex
pressed the pleasant view of the situation:
"To Carolina be a Georgia joined:
Then shall both colonies sure progress make,
Endeared to either for the other s sake;
Georgia shall Carolina's favor move.
And Carolina bloom bv Georgia's love."
Through all the early development of the
colony glethorpe was the guide, philosopher
and friend to every colonist. Well did a con
temporary poet exclaim through the columns
of the Gentleman's Magazine:
• Tby great example shall through ages shine.
A favorite theme with poet and divine:
People unl orn th.v memories shall proclaim.
And add new honors to thy deathless name."
But. alas, how true is the beautiful senti
ment of Burns:
i -Pleasures are like poppies spread.
Y'ou seize the flower its bloom is shed."
Oglethorpe returned to England. With him
he carried, orao hichi, Senauki, his wife.
Toonikowskl. their son. Hillispilli, the war
captain, and other noted Cherokee chiefs with
jaw-breaking appellations. It soon became
his dutv to return 10 Savannah, and with him
came a large addition to the colonists, and
two young men whose names and whose work
in another vocation will be perhaps as em
durin" as his Thev were John Wesley and
Cannes vVealey, who were coming out as
missionaries. -These are no tithe pig par
sons " said Oglethorre to some of the gentle
men on .card win attempted to take liber
ties with the missionaries. Oglethorpe was
no more to sleep under the sighing pines at
Savannah To St. Simon s island, in
hts s, out boat. he went through
the sinuous passages which now con
stitute the irland route to i lorida. There
he found r reder.ca He charmed the High
landers who had settled at Darien by wear
ing their costume and sleeping in his plaid
with them. Tomo. hiehl, who w'as always
pia 1 of an oppoi tunity to hunt bulTalo or rtgnt
the -laniard, soon joined him. Toonakowskl
was allowed to name Cumberland Island
aft'w (he prince who had given to that
chief a watch "In order that he might know
how the times went. " < buries Wesley was
| Oglethorpe's secretary and chaplain, and the
pious young man soon had harsh words with
Ogleihorpe. "On Sunday morning he
preached with boldness. ;‘ n<l . v <) ‘i'', tho , r ' )< .
went oft with the Indians to hunt buffalo, and
one M. W. then discovered to the
chaplain the whole mystery of lnequitt.
Two damsels who whipped their
waiting maids, talked with emphasis, and
carried themselves with great freedom,
claimed to be rivals in the affections and at
tendon of that I,'year old l’ache °E
Oglethorpe V\es)ev ra|*u3l> fell ill * vlt T tX f
cltonient and anxiety. ’ he doctor would hunt
on Sunday, and actually during Charles W es
lev s se end -uuday tired off a gun during
sermon time.’The doctor was arrested.where
upon one of the damsels aforesaid [j r,,d
a gun also and wHhed to be arrested but was
not When c >lethnrp returned he was very
f.n.rrv u th Wesley, who wu* ver> nGconso
iate. HN t'oiiKrelation bad dwindled to two
I'ieihylerittHT and one I aput and tM
inndfflea are an intlnite torment John
Wesiev comes, matters grow worse But
Oglethorpe must go to the iront. He sends
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1894.
for Charles Wesley and gives him a precious
ring He said I have expected death for
some days The Spaniards intend to cut us
off at a blow I fail by my friends. But
death is to me nothing.” T could clear up
all. he said, "but it matters not. You will
soon see the reason of my actions." He em
braced and kissed Wet toy, who attended him
to the scout-boat, where he waited for some
minutes for his sword. They brought him
first and u second time a mourning sword. At
last the gave him his own. which had been
his father s. With this sword, says he. "I
was never yet unsuccessful. I hope
sir." said Wesley, "you carry with you a bet
ter.even the sword of the Lord.and of Gideon”
*1 hope so, too,” he added. I then said : ‘God
he with you. Go forth. “Christo duce. et
auspice Christo. • His last words to the peo
ple were. ‘God bless you all.’ Ihe boat then
carried him out of sight. I interceded for
him that God would save him from death,
would wash out all his sins and prepare be
fore he took the sacrifice to himself. Ogle
thorpe did not die. They made friends and
Wesiey returned to England.
1 Oglethorpe never loved John Wesley as he
loved Charles, but there is an old story, said
one of his biographers, preserved by >arah
Weslay. to the effect that Gen. Oglethorpe on
suddenly meeting John Wesiey, after long
; years, took him , y the hand and kissed him
J and treated him with the utmost deference
I and affection.
In 1738. as Carlyle says, "the ear of Jenkins
re-emerged and set ail England bellowing.”
Seven years before it had been cut off by a
Spanish captain, who told him to show it to
the king. "All this while,” writes Carlyle,
"Jenkins had been steadfastly navigating to
and fro. steadfastly eating tough junk
with a wetting of rum; not thinking
too much of past labors, yet privately
always ken ping his lost car in cotton with a
kind of ursine piety. Or other dumb feeling),
no mortal now knows.” 'lhe British minis
ters. the public mind now being ripe, de*
ciared war with Spain. Oglethorpe having
raised and drilled a regiment of troops was
regularly commissioned a colonel in the Brit
ish army. He made straight for St. Simorfs.
“Before long,” said his biographer, "he was
to have full swing at the inquisition dofes,
and the devildoms of Spain." iomochichi
had been very ill, but he said "that the sight
of the great man made him moult like an
eagle. His journey at this time to the town
of the Cowetas. f>CO miles from Savannah,
was singularly romantic. The Indians gave
i him all he asked.
j The Hon. Thomas Spalding, who after
wards came into possession of Oglethorpe’s
house at Frederica, and who was his'first
biographer, declares. “When we call to re
membrance the then force of these tribes the
influence the French had everywhere elie ob
tained over the Indians, the distance he had
to travel through solitary pathways exposed
"to summer suns, night clews, and to the
treachery of any single Indian who knew—
and every Indian knew—the rich reward that
would have awaited him for the act from the
Spaniards in St. Augustine or the Freq: h in
Mobile: surely we mav ask, what soldier ever
gave higher proof or courage? What gentle
man ever gave greater evidence of magnani
mity? What English governor of an Ameri
can province ever gave such assurance of deep
devotion to duty -” During the autumn days
of 1739, Tomochichi, under the shade of
the live oaks, was dying on his blanket, his
wife Senaukee beside him. Whitfield came
daily to tell him he was going to hell, and
Oglethorpe came also, bringing very different
messages. Tomochichi had said ‘Devil C hris
tian Me no Christian.” He died and was buried
in the square of the city of Savannah where
stands the monument to Gordon. Oglethorpe
ordered a pyramid of stone to ) e erected over
the grave to show the gratitude of the En
glish people to their Indian friend. We walk
daily over the ashes of Tomochichi, bpt the
pyramid or obelisk is not yet erected. The
war with Spain was on. "Half the world."
says Carlyle,‘ was hidden in embryo under
it. The incalculable yankee nation itself,
biggest phenomenon (once thought beaut if ul
eso 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 there not
be? Shall the new world be of Spanish type,
shall it be English? Issues which we may
call immerse” The man who solved that
issue in favor of the "incalculable Yankee
nation” was James Edward Oglethorpe. For
four years his colony went to the do?s With
a thousand men he was fighting the Span
lards, and blood ran like water. In 1740 he
moved to St. Augustine with six hundred
j regulars and four hundred Carolina militia
He was poorly supported by Sir Yelverton
Peyton with a half dozen men ot war. Don
! Manuel de Monteano, with thirteen hundred
veteran troops invited Gen. Oglethorpe to
come and shake hands within the city, but
] Oglethorpe did r.ot see the humor of the joke,
j He could not take St. Augustine, and with
drew his forces. But. with his ‘ benevolence
i of soul,” he disdained to ravage the fields of
the Spaniards or plunder their scatter and
homes. With usual ingratitude of the
people, an outcry was raised against Ogle
thorpe; but that noble Duke of Argyle,
friend, whom, in the Heart of Midlot hean, Sir
Waiter Scott has immortalized as
his friend, Jennie Deans, declared
in the House of Lords: "One man
there is. my lords, whose generosity,
- contempt of danger and regard for the public,
prompted him to o viate the designs of the
Spaniards, and to attack them in their own
territories; a man whom by long acquaint
ance I can confidently affirm to have been
equal to his undertaking, and to have learned
the art of war by a regular education, who
yet miscarried in the design only for w r ant of
supplies necessary to a possibility of suc
■ cess." And now the Spaniards moved upon
Frederica in this day a dead town—which
the Georgians yet call the Thermopylae of
America. Thebe was the armada, consisting
of thirty or forty vessels. It was commanded
i by Don Manuel de Monteano. seconded by
Don Antonio de Kodondo. the most skillful
of engineers, and its mission was to wipe off
from the coast of JMorth America" all traces
of heretic settlements." The armada came
to the mouth of. the Mary 's. Fort William
on the southern end of Cumberland held out
well and defended the entrance to the river.
Oglethorpe, with GOO or 700 soldiers and UK)
Indians.,threw himself into St. Simon s. On
July 5. with favoring breeze and a flood tide,
the Spanish armada entered St. Simons har
bor, and succeeded in pass n: ihe Fnglifch
batteries on the southern point of the island.
Ojfciethorpc fpiked his guns and withdrew to
Frederica. Next week was a week of battles.
Two hundred Spaniards were slain at one
j pass at a p ace still called the "Bloody
! Marsh." On the nivbt of the
•14 th they retreated, with Oglethorpe
after them. They attacked Fort Williams
I on e more, but Oapt. Stuart and his garrison
! of fifty men held it. Georgia was saved.
1 North America was saved, and the
"inculcula le Yankee nat on ma le possi
ble." Th" delivery of Georgia from the
Spaniards,” writes Whitfield at the time, "is
such as cHnnot be paralleled but by some
instances out of the Old testament. I find
that the Spaniards had cast lots and deter
mined to give no quarter. They intended to
have attacked Carolina: but wanting water,
they put into Georgia, and so would take that
colony on their way. They were wonderfully
repelled and sent away • efore our ships were
seon." A writer, not friendly to Oglethorpe,
declared. "Thats.ooo men, with as good an of
ticer as the governor of >t Augustine, should
liy before GOtor 700 men. ana about one hun
dred Indians, was a matter of astonishment?
to all.”
Oglethorpe left the colony in 1743. never to re
turn. Whitfield remained. Of this great
preacher, ( hesterfieid had declared: "He is
the greatest orator I ever hoard, and I cannot
conceive of a greater." He built the orphan
age at Bethesda. He preached a sermon
a ainst the hev. Alexander Garden, of
Charleston on the text. "Alexander, the cop
persmith has done me much evil; the Lord
reward him according to his works.” He
quarreled with John Wesley at out the dogma
of election. According to Wesley, he insisted
that "the elect are saveJ, do what they will,
and the rest are damned, do what they can.”
He is said to have charmed franklin on one
occasion, first out of all his coppers, then out
of all his silver change, and at length out of
all his gold. tie had always said
he would rather wear out than
rust out. and he died at Newbur.vport
in 1770. at the age of 56. a "it mav be hQipful.”
said one of Ogie horpe s biographers, "to re
member that George Washington was born in
1732, the year n which Oglethorpe sailed for
I Georgia, and Th< mas Jenerson was torn in
1743. the year in wnich (Oglethorpe finally re
1 turned to England." Of Frederica, the Ther
mopylae of America. I may only add, in the
language of Col. Charles Coioott Jones, who
according to Mr Ban roft anu others is the
best historian that any American state has
yet produced: "Its doom was pronounced in
the hour of its triumph. Upon the with
drawal of Oglethorpe s regiment its decadence
began, and ceased not until its fort became a
white ruin, its public parade a pasture gtound,
and its streets ami garden a cotton field.
Omnia deuentur morn." Of this charming
place. Mis i annie Kimble wrote in a letter:
How can 1 ciescriLe to you the exquisite
soring beauty that is now adorning these
woods, the variety of the fresh-bom foliage
the fragrance of the sweet wild perfumes
that fill the air ' Honeysuckle* twine aroun 1
< very tree: the ground is covered with a low
white blossomed shrub, more fragrant than
the lillicb of the valley. The acacia* are
swinging in their silver censers under the
green roof of these wood temples; every
stump is like a classical altar to the sylvan
gods, garlanded with flowers; every post or
stick, or slight stem, like a Bacchante thyr
sus, twined with wreaths of ivy and wild vine.
waving in the tepid wind. Feautifui butter
flies flicker like flying flowers among the
bushes, and gorgeous birds, like winged
jewels, dart from the boughs.”
On his return to England, with the usual
fate of men who served their country well.
Oglethorpe had to encouale detraction, one
Col. Cook being the detractor, but a court
martial of general ofllcers pro
nounced all the charges groundless,
false anj malicious. and at their
request the king expelled Cook from the ser
vice. The father of Dr. < 'liver Wendell
Kolines declares lhat the character of < ten.
Oglethorpe now "appeared in respondent
light; and contemporaries acknowledged what
impartial history must record mat to him
Carolina was indebted for her safety and re
pose, as well as Georgia for existence and
protection.”
In 1744. in September of that year. Gen
Oglethorpe who was only a year younger than
Pope, now-dead, married for the ttrstthne.
He was now ofi years of aje His bride was
Elizabeth Wright, the da ighter and heiress
of Sir Nathan Wright, of Cranham hall. We
may now conclude that the damsels whose
rivalry had so disturbed good Charles Wes
ley might say with the Moor'Othello’s occupa
tion’s gone." Indeed ft is significant lhat as
early as 1728 Samuel Wesley hud exhorted
Oglethorpe to get married.
"It s single. Mis imperfect light.
. The world.from worth unwedded shares,
He only shines completely bright.
Who leaves his virtues to his heirs.
Oh, thus too may his offspring haste
His glory to improve.
And. freed by love to Britain taste
The bliss of private love.
With joy his summons I attend.
And fly with speed away:
Let but the patriot condescend,
'to tix his marriage day
His marriage was a happy one. and a friend
of the family, writing to the Gentleman s
Magazine, after Mrs. Oglethorpe's death,
says that "toher magnanimity and prudence,
on an oceassjon of much difficulty, it was
owing that the evening of their lives was
tranquil and pleasant after a stormy t oon.”
He commanded a division of rhe British
army In the invasion of Prince Charlie in '45.
His military career ended with that campaign
and with a quarrel with the Duke of Cum er
land, the butcher of Culloden, who treated
him most unjustly. Oglethorpe was again
exonerated by his brother officers, w ith the
approval of the king, but he nevar held iniji
tary command again. It is a most interest
ing fact that Gen. Leehlan Macintosh, who
was the foremost man in the siege
of Savannah in 177 ft, was prevented by
Oglethorpe s kindly admonition from leaving
Georgia to join the preieuder. Oglethorpe
was now an old man. and Mr. Bancroft has
admirably described his situation. "In a
commercial period, a monarchist tn the state
and friendly to lhe church, he seemed even in
youth like the relic of a more chivalrous cem
tury. His life was prolonged to near live
score; and even in the last year of it he was
extolled as the finest figure overseen.” tlie
impersonation ot venerable age; his faculties
were bright, his eye undimmed; heroic,
romantic, and- full of the old gallantry,
he was like the,pound of the lyre, as It still
vtgorates after the spirit that sweeps Its
strings has passed away." The war of the
American revolution ended. John Adams
soon to be President of the United States
was the first minister to England. He was 50,
twelve years yet from the presidency. With
in a day or two after his arrival in London as
ambassador of the United States Oglethorpe
had been announced in the newspapers called
upon him .and according to Adams w as very oo
lite and complimentary. "He had come, ’lie
said, to pay his respects to the lirst American
minister, and his family, whom he was very
glad to see in England, and expressed a
great esteem and regard to America
and much regret that the misunderstanding
betweeh the two nations and was very happy
to have lived to see the termination of it.
There is a deep pathos in tho life of Ogle
thorpe at this period. The Duke of Marl
borough. from whom he had obtained his lirst
commission, was dead for sixty years, Prime
Eugeue with whom he fought at Belgrade
and in the famous campaigns against the
Turks, dead for fifty. The grandchildren of
his contemporaries were now old men His
own grand nephew was a general olttcer In
Frame He had been in continual asso
ciation with such men as Johnson,
GoMsm’th. Boswell and Edmund Burke.
Most of these were now dead. Oglethorpe
was then 85 and was to live 11 years longer.
Samuel Johnson died himself In 1785 at: the
age of 74. Oglethorpe, who was then 30 years
older, relished life still, and had more than
two years of it left . He was seen at the sale
of Dr. Johnson’s books, and Samuel Kogers.
who was then a boy of 23. used to tell how he
looked—'.'Very,-very ojd. and his skin alto
gether :}ke parchment: the youngsters whisp
ered wiyi.awe that in his-youth-ho had. shot,
snipe in Conduit street, near the corner of
Bond ” Well, might it be said of him in the
beautiful language of Dr. Holmes’ "Last
Leaf.”
“The mossy marbleS rest
On the lips he has pressed
In their bloom
And the names he loved to hear
Have been carried for many a year
On the tomb.”
Of this great man. to whom Protestantism
and the English race are indebted, perhaps,
for their existence as dominant religious and
political forces of the American i-oiKiaent.
no adequate memorial is preserved. To me
he is one of the most interesting characters
of whom the annals of time give an account.
He connected the century of Cromwell with
the century of Washington. He might have
conversed with James the Second, with Will
iam of Orange. with I ouis XIV. With Lou
vois. with Charles Xll of Sweden with Stan
islaus., his ally, with Ptder the Oreatof Rus
sia. with Voltaire, with Frederick tlie Great,
with Napoleon Bonaparte, and a multitude of
the most illustrious names that the iilgh
teenth and the Seventeenth Centuries pro
dueed. He doubtless did converse with the
Duke of Marlborough, with Prince Eugene,
wrtth Wolff, who took Quebec, with William
Pitt, Earl of Chatham, with the younger Pitt,
with. Charles Jatnee I-’oi, with the first Lord
Holland, with Robert Walpole, with Alexan
der Pope, with Dean Swift. While ail this Is
true, perhaps the grandfathers of
all and the fathers of some who are within
the sound of my voice, might have conversed
with Gen Ogle;horpe. Of this man it may
be said, that he did not live for himself, but
for others. How few there will to. who,
without the promptings of a selfish ambition,
without the impulses of personal necessity,
without the commands of sovereignty, who
•’Driven by the strong benevolence of soul,"
Shall fly like Oglethorpe, fromepoie to pole.”
It has neen fii - unvarying custom for all
nationalities, who possessed a worthy past or
hopeful future to illumine the mind and
evolve the patriotism of their young men by
the storie 1 marble and the enduring bronze,
which commemorated the virtues of their
heroes, their benefactors, their statesmen,
and their philosophers. The worsted highis
of Mount Hymettus cast their shadows on
countless statues, chiseled by the skillful
sculptors of Greece, perpetuating to the
youth of Athens, the great who had lived and
died for tho City of the Violet Crown. On tho
rugged rock, hallowed bv the feot of the pa
triot. when be sprung from the bark of Gess
lor. stands tne statue of Willi im Tell. In tlie
dim religious light of tho cathedral in in
sprut k, the peasant of the Tyrol may drop
the tear or piety and patriotism at tho
monumental shrine consecrated to the
memory of Andrew Lo.ler; and when
the first effulgence of the god of
day glorifies the white dome and the mar
ble porticos of the capitol at Washington,
with every ray it casts ou the placid bosom
of the Dotomac, the shadow of that towering
monument—erected by Americans, to com
m-morate the love and vener ttlon which
will forever animate them for the deathless
glory of the b ather of his Country. .
’ We talk of patriots and their deeds
As they deserve, receive proud recompense,
We give in charge their names
To the sweet lyre, the historic muse.
Proud of the sacred trust, marches w ith It
Dow n to latest times, and sculpture in her turn
Gives bond in stone and ever-durin; brass
To guard and to immortalize the trust."
In the annals of the English speaking races
—glorious as they are with the names of the
illustrious, the patriotic and the good -there
Is none more deserving than James Edward
Oglethorpe.
JUDUE SPEEKS COMPLIMENTED.
_jJudge Speer was most happy in his illu-
Continued on x venth Page.
SEWXiiImiaHEF
Dr. Edson fears another epidemic,
and sounds the alarm.
In lunpr and chest pains, coughs, colds,
hoarseness and pneumonia, no other
external remedy affords prompt preven
tion and quicker cure than
BENSON’S POROUS FLUSTER.
Indorsed by over 5,000 Physicians and
Chemists. Be sure to get the genuine I
Henson's, may be had from all druggists; j
IsEABURY A JOHNSON. Chemists, N. Y. City. 1
Fastidious
Guests
more frequently find fault with
the blitter than any other
article on the table. How to
satisfy everybody, and always,
in this particular, is a problem.
We have the answer to it.
USE
SILVER
CHURN
BUTTERINE,
made of the purest materials
by anew and special process.
It pleases guests on the table;
it gratifies cooks in the pastry.
Write for our free Booklet of
Information.
Wholesale hy Armour Packing Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.
ARMOUR PACKING CO.,
Kansas City, U. S. A.
Official Record for the Morning: News.
Local forecast for Savannah and vicinity
till midnight. Feb. 6. 1894: Generally fair, hut
with increasing cloudiness Tuesday afternoon;
continued cold Tuesday morning, followed hy
slowly rising temperature? variable winds,
becoming east to southeast.
Forecast for Georgia: Fair, followed by in
creasing cloudiness in western portions;
wanner; cast to south winds.
Comparison of mean temierature at Savan
nah. Ga., on Feb. 5. 1894, with the normal for
the day:
(Departure Total
Temperature. I from the departure
—— ——- normal. since
Normal. Mean. -|-or Jan 1.1894.
55 | 40 -|-78
Comparative rainfall statement:
Departure Total
Amount from the departure
Normal. | for normal kince
jFob. 5.1894. -|-or Jan. 1, 1891.
.11 I .00 —4l —2.98
Maximum temperature, 50°; minimum tem
perature, 31°.
The hlgbt of the Savannah river at Augusta
at Ba. m. (75th Meridian timei yesterday was
8.0 feet, a rise of 0.2 feet during the preceding
twenty-four hours.
Observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations for the Morning Ntws;
Rainfall
•6 I Velocity.
c
* Direction..
Temperature..
Name
or
Station.
Boston IS W 101 .00 Clear
New Yor-k city... j W fi| .00Clear
Philadelphia ! 20 W 6 (10 Clear
Washington city, j 2S| N L (Ki t Tear
Norfolk ! so N H .00 Clear
Hatteras 34' N 10 uo Clear
Wilmington SO;NW L Oo Clear
Charlotte 31V S I, iiOClear
Raleigh 32jS E L UOClear
Charleston 42 N E E Oft Clear
Atlanta 4b NW ft .00 Clear
Augusta 40|CTm (JOiClear
SAVANNAH... 44 NW H .OOiClear
Jacksonville 44 NE E Oc Clear
Titusville 54 N 24 00 Clear
Jupiter j 62 N lftj .00 Pt ly cloudy
Key West | TO E 14 fO Cloudy
Tampa j 54 N E fti .OO Clear
Pensacola I 4K N 8l OOiClear
Mobilp 4ft NW El OOiClear
MontApmcry 46 S L OOiClear
MerntTan 40 N E T. .00 Clear
Vicksburg 4< S L OOitlear
Ne># Orlpana 4C S E iJ OO C’lear
Fort Smith 52 S 6| .fx*‘Clear
Galveston 5. E 10* OJiClear
Corpus Christi... ftHi E lOj .00 Cloudy
Palestine 50|S EiE 0> Pt’ly cloudy
Memphis 46 SW 6 .0;) Clear
Nashville 88 S E 0 .OOC’lear
Knoxti/16 36|Clm 00 Clear
Indianapolis 34 S 6 .oo Clear
Cincinnati 3oi S L .OOC’lear
BufTalo 24 W T Cloody
Cleveland 24 S E 18 .00,< lear
Detroit 28ISW 10 .(X) Clear
Chicakp 32 SW 18 .00|C'loar
Mariiuetto 28 S 10 00,< le.ar
St Paul 30iS E 0 .00 C lear
Davenport 32 SW 0 . 00 !Clear
St. liouis 46|SW 12 .OOClear
Kansas City 42 S 12 .00; Pt’ly cloudy
Omaha 42; S 6 .OO Clear
North Platte 36 SW H .oo|Clear
Dodtre City 28 W 6 .00 Clear
Bismarck 26j W 8 .oQ|Cioar
P. H. Smyth,
Observer, Weather Bureau.
U. S. Department of Aoriculture, |
Weather Bureau, >
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 5, 10 p. m. (
WEATHER SYNOPSIS.
The cold wave central Sunday night in
Texas moved eastward over the Gulf
states and now centers in Eastern Geor
gia.
The temperature has fallen 10° along
the New F.ngland toast, 2” to 8° along the
Immediate Middle Atlantic roast, 8' to
14“ in Middle and Eastern North Carolina,
8° along the South Carolina coast, 2°
along the Georgia toast and 8°
to 14° in Middle and Eastern
B’iorida. Elsewhere the tempera
ture has generally risen, except in North
Dakota, where it has remained about
stationary. The rase in temperature has
been most decided in Eastern Missouri
and Illinois.
The maximum temperature at Savan
nah to-day was 50° and the minimum 81°
(1° below freezing point), the mean tem
perature being 40°, or 15° below the nor
mal. The crest of the cold wave will
gradually pass off the South Atlantic
t oast during to-night (Monday) and Tues
day.
The barometer is lowest to night in t he
extreme northwest.
Generally fair weather prevails in
nearly all sections, with cloudiness in
Southern I lorida, Southeastern Texas,
and extreme Southwestern New York.
The velocity of the wind this morning
from 10 o’clock until noon was from ten
to twelve miles per hour. After 12
o'clock noon it gradually diminished in
force. P. H. Smyth,
Observer. Weather Bureau.
FOR SALE"
Colon seed Hulls lor sole
SOUTHERN COTTON OIL GO.
PRICE AT MILL.
Yor Loom Hulls I ftc per 100
For Baled Hulls 80c per 100
For Mixed Feed 4Ac per- 100
Drayago for 1,000 pounds or less, 50c to any
purt of the city.
1 elepltone 237. Terms cash.
- '
HOTELS.
THOMASVILLE, GA.
.MITCHELL HOUSE.
Now open under an entirely NEW manage
j ment offering to the public a house thorough
ly nrftt cl**** to all ita Ueiuiln
LOUIS P. KOBEKTS. Proprietor.
OLD NEWSPAPERS, 200 for 25 cents, at
BiiAUicas Office Mcrntmr News.
DRY GOODS.
ECKSTEIN’S
Embroideries Went With a Rush Last Week.
Positively the Largest Stock in Savannah.
All of Fine Material and Such Lovely Patterns.
The Ladies Go Wild Over Them. Our Prices Are
the Lowest. You Cannot Match Them in the City.
The Best at sc, at IGc, at 15c.
A Grand New Lot at 25 cts.
Gustave Eckstein & Cos. Continue the Reduction Sale
of Dress Goods. Special This Week, Yard-wide Fine
Wool Henriettas at 19c. Our 40-inch All Wool Dress
Flannels at 35c. Ladies’ All Wool Cloth Suitings, 60
Inches Wide, All Colors, This Week, 75c.
The Few Cloaks Still Left
Will Be Almost Given Away.
Gustave Eckstein & Cos. Are Selling Great Bargains
in Domestics. Full Width Smooth Brown Sheetings,
15c. Extra Quality of Bleached Ten-quarter Sheeting,
22 Vi c. Yard-wide, Soft Finish, Bleachings, sc. Fast
Color Nice Ginghams, sc. Yard-wide Strong Sea
Island, sc.
Some Genuine Bargains In
Black and Colored Silks.
A Great Line of Linen Handkerchiefs, This Week, 15c.
Ladies’ Fast Black Hose, Regular 60c Goods, Now 35c.
Positively the Best Misses’ Fast Black Hose, at 25c.
A Grand Lot Fancy and Linen Laces, This Week, 10c.
Marseilles Spreads That Were $5, This Week, at $3.
All Winter Goods Will Be
Sold Regardless of Cost.
GUSTAV E ECKSTEIN & CO
— S
HOUSE FUHNiSHiNGS.
Columbia Catalogues.
Are you interested in BICYCLES? If so,
come and get one of those interesting catalogues sent
out by the Columbia people.
They are marvels of beauty, and so are their
wheels.
We have still a few more of those cheap Boys’
Wheels. Pneumatic Tires, $35; former price SSO. Cush
ion Tires, $18; regular price $25.
LINDSAY ft MORGAN.
HOTELS.
HOTEL PONCE DELEON^
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA.,
Casiuo, Russian and Turkish Baths now op.
O. D. SEAVEY, Manager.
NOVELTY IHON WORKS.
ZTX i JOHnToURKE &dSggfc
Novelty Iron Works,
V7®™®*™ |ronndßra Founders and
machinists, Blacksmiths dk Bollsrmskers.
THE SAMSON SUCAR MILLS AND PANS.
DEALERS IN
STEAM ENGINES, INJECTORS, STEAM AND WATER FITTING*
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED—ESTIMATES GIVEN.
Mo*. 3, 4 and 6 Bay and I, 2,3, 4, 5 and 6 Rivar Bt*uofe
savannah, ga.
IRON FOUNDERS.
McDonough & ballantyne,
IROIN FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Blacksmiths & Boiler Makers.
Also manufacturers of Stationary and Portable Englneut, Vertical and Top-running Core
Mills. Sugar Mill, and Pan, Have also on hand and for sale cheap one 10 boroePower
Porta! le ..ntfine; a’.so, one SJ, one 40 and one 100 horse Power Strtiouary Engine. AU ordora
promptly attended to.
MACHINERY. CASTINGS. ETC.
KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS. MACHINISTS. BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAK
ERS, ENGINES. BOILERS AND MACHINERY, SHAFTING. PULLEYS. ETC.
Special attention to Repair Work. Estimates promptly lurniahed. Broujhton Dm
from Reynolds to Randolph streets. Telephone 268,
Statu
or
Weather.
5