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UNION RECORDER, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., OCTOBER 10. 182»
; 0 unty’* Namesake To Be
lonored in Fitting Observance
knlum Baldwin Day. Desipiaicd by Legislature to Be Celebrated
Saturday October 12. Brief Sketch Cirea of Mu Who Founded
s State University and HdylbeU State Hbtay by Dr.
Edward A. Tip*
Let him oe deemed, then, its father.
Two wars had not transpired be
fore Mr. Baldwin was elected to Con-
t»r3 . In 1786, he took hi* seat. From
that year, until hi* death in 1807, he
was a member at every session, eith
er of the House or of the Senate. In
the Fedral Convntion that framd the
Constitution, he was a delegate from
Georgia, taking an active part in
the deliberation* of that illustrious
body. With his previous legislative
experience and hig knowledge of the
Constitution, from being
nufho.-s, the people of the middle dis
trict of Georgia considered his ser-
necesaary to setting the govern-
•tion. We accordingly
r ville M»ldv<in county Ifi that
[• will be recalled that the recent
■ apart, October 12th
-A imham Baldwin toy.”
hoped thnt
BY E. A. TIGNER
pie. The normal trinity—The Past
—The Present and The Future.
With all the engagements of The
present and The Future and heaver
knows, they crowd upon us and make .
up our closest—by tasks, don’t lctj'i in
fail to get the full inspiration from j * ind ^ r - Baldwind a representative
the Past, to aid us alo ; our journey, j under the new Constitution in 1789.
By all the rules of courtesy we are i wa * one °f the wisest and one of
obligated to those, who have gone I ^ ,noKt p *®P®ded debaters in the
before blazing the paths that we j new Gongres*. Upon many import-
tread. Tls our bounden duty to |* rt to P»"- the journals of debates
properly share credits. Be ware of' R how Mr. Baldwin to have taken a
the insidious sin of claiming too much 1 P rum * n ent part. The venerable
for ourselves. i Nathaniel Macon assured the late
| CoL, Tattnall, i nI82G. reviewing in
So m th, tb.orv.ncf of Abraham, conversation the member, who hod
Baldwin Day, we go hack and catch ,,erred from GnoTgia. that the eloqu-
afreth the .pirit of a great man who encc of Mr. Baldwin wa» of the high
labored hard to inaugurate move
ments that have helped wonderfully
to make Milledgeville and Georgia
and our Nation what they are today.
Abraham Baldwin was preiminately
if Georgia's great stateman.
loted
If then- i# a place in all Georgia
t jibouiJ warmly embrace with
,. r n( j rnthu-iasm the roinmemo-
^ n <-f tfci life and distinguished
Abraham Baldwin. Mil-1 Richard Malcolm Johnson i*
i
obser
the day
r «! ;
as saying of Abraham Baldwin, “He
was the greatest man who ever lived
in Georgia. In ..ome respects he was
superior to Thoma- Jefferson. Jus
tice has never been done to his great
merits.”
He cam? down Georgia-way in
fluenced by a friend by the name of
Thomas U. P. Charlton, a great citi-
zen of struggling Georgia—And a
man whore memory. Milledgeville ha?
reason to hold very dear, because he
was a member of that history-neg
lected commission, that so beautiful
ly laid out our city a* the sent of
government of this Commonwealth.
• before ocr eyes are two ' Had T. U. P. Charlton whose name
where they signally deservedly written dee
a ct and honor to him. i rrrals of Georgia, done nothing
unty, which was c!«, hut brine to Georgia a benefic-
the hub-county, and ent citizen like Abraham Baldw
most central was. and take part with other dis-
r.ur.brance of the great
; rend red hy this long-ago
- who was most devoted to
t interest of our state, when
whs in her swaddling
and «.austiou*ly feeling her
wards influential Statehood,
i Baldwin, wa- profound*
. ..ted by our fathers, hi*
est order, and his reasoning powers
equal to those of any other- states
man in Congress. In 1802, Mr. Bald
win was one of the Commissioners of
Georgia, who negotiated and signed
the treaty of cession of our western
territory to the United States. He
was president pro tempore of the Sen
ate of the United States, from April
to December, 1802. Preferring the
floor to the presiding officer’s chair,
he declined a re-election in the win-.
ter of 1803.
He was most faithful in his attend- J
ance on hi* dutfes, having for twenty-
two year* of puhli* service, up to the
first moment of hi* last :llne«s bee .
absent from bis *cat but one day.
In hi* private life, we are told that
he was distinguished for beneficent
and charitable deed*. “Raving never
been married, he had no family of his
own. Hi* constant habits of »conomy
and temperance left him the mean* of
assisting many young men in their
education and their establishment in
f it* busies*; besides which, hi* father’s
family preented an ample field for
hi benevolence. Six orphans, his half-
brother* and sister*, were left to hi*
care by his father’* death, in the
year 1787. The e-tate that was to
support them proved insolvent. He
paid the debt* of the estate, quit
claimed hi* proportion to these chil
dren, and educated them all, in a
great measure, at his own expense.”
He died very suddenly at Washing- I
ton City, in March, 1807. in the ter- |
vice of his adopted State. And it j
may be trilly declared, that Georgia
lost in him one of her greatest state-
men, and the Federal Union public
manNshose capacity and past service
indicated great future prominem
the annals of the republic.’*
of last week suspended
The paved road on the Mo on high-
ay was filled with automobiles Sun
day .afternoon.
Few balej
brought
During the violent ugicaiiom of!to market the pa^t week.
parties, he was always moderate but
firm-d: cided in hi- democratic princi- J Work is progressing in boring i
pier, but not denunciatory of those artesian well at Dr. H. D. Allen’s
I who differed from him. His gentle ■ Invalid Horn
manners, hi* ps
balanced mind,
powers, hi- pt-rs
classical educations. Wrought
nearer perhaps to th ■ - tandard
his compatriot, James M-idison. w
• horn he served in t,v old Congri
ral*. hi* well-
argumentative j Sunday was promotion day
eloquence, his j Methodist Sunday School and a
her of the i-h
the
tinguished arti-ls in creating the
beautiful plan of Milledgeville. these
two intimate-to-u* facts are suffici
ent to mark him well, a
•r • ' rgia’tr counties, wya*
Mud with his illustrious name.
Or f th “fine gold-diamond’’
• nf out beloved city bears the
u- nam-.-. Baldwin, and his name
it with deserved fitness a 1 A career, such as Vbraharn Bald'
he nanu s of the illustrious and ha.- to his credit, cannot be justly
Bfuih public servant* grace the I covered in a short paper; so full is
■ iiutiful streets that add such I it of high class, well sustained and
sod dignity to dear old Mil- well directed citizenship and leader-
attractive and delur-
- honor? Should one study
mis® Baldwin's career they
-rely find it spelled a good
f. • people to go.
rararter ludy of a country'
-■ a very helpful and
Fo:
:h: .i sire .and ability to
• to- Ives thoroughly with
< i and doing* of their an-
pre erve records of them
’ . i ll for safer conduct and
a -urer back ground for
r*» bark ground for
' 1 ry. Also such data i*
ii much a- it serves to
' "d straight and enable*
■ eiv, proper credits. Be-,
"f this, it is the found heri-
■ pie and act* u- the most
incentive to higher ideals
hy :ii-complif(hment*.
■■ fatness of these pursy
ship.
The records are i^curat ein that
you find him in demand and serv
ing on many occasions when prob
lem* of first rfiagnitud** faced state
and natio*.
You find Abraham Baldwin chum
ming with Janie- Jackson. John Mil-
ledge. Thus. U. P. Charlton, Na
thaniel Green and other talented men
of best repute in that day —and hi*
well furnished mind made him an
influential factor in affairs of state
and g• neral society. General James
Jnekton in a letter to ’ohn Milled*®
Nov. 7, 1792 sa»d. * ur friend Bald
win, who is certainly one of the mo t
i l.liging men on earth and clever
at everything w ill introduce you to j
all, who may be worthy of your ac-1
quaintarre.”
We submit the hMfcory of Abraham
ildwin as recorded in White’s
Stttiides of hte State of Georgia—
pt hlished 1849. Dr. George Whit
the fast moving-impnti- h a given to u* most interesting hi-
ur people think and of- tory of early Georgia and !•
t th y have not the j in his tw» book*.
•her reflection
i nti-mplation of the long
asures that hai
The churche of Milledgeville i
m the Convention, and in the new j largely attended Sunday morning,
Congre s, than was any other state-- j but th. congregation* were made up
ma of the age in which they acted. | largely of college student*.
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1 t > the building of
! founding splendid gov-
Hv uch deportment they
ugly bigotry and puff-
'i |"Tl.aitce and conceit.
' M' it U’nt ju*t fair for
1 <1*0 and time*, to enjoy
"f delightful civilization
fk '' f he efforts of those
I who had Mich an heroic
1 '• ing them.
-tnnq, that the writer is
1 ■ f the many splendid ges-
1 been made by patri-
dual- and group* here and
"'<•» Georgia, recognizing
"1 -ii tingubhed service*
5tr ' i !, “ck in loving memorial*
r '*'!• dgement, tribute and
0 theme spirit*, whose
und .action* have been
‘ haracter ,to *uch an
they blessed feneration
ar i„ r ti ,n now an< * Iterations
remember and ap-
,f ' • '»> md thi* article 1*
’uned as to encour-
people to be
'hi* line of thought
Reader* who would like to kno,
more of the life of Baldwin are r»
ferred to sketch of him, and aven
f..m|,r.henriv. »k»trh. writt.n b;
Ju.Ure Samuel Sibley.
“The Hon. Abraham Baldwin wa
born in the State of Connertient. h
1754. He praduated at Yale, in 1 . *2
with the reputation one of the heit
(laariral and mathematical aeholar-
of hia time. Puriny the Revolution
nry war, he wa. neverol year, a pro
feaaor of that inatittitlon. and. for s
part Ilf the war. a chaplain in th.
Continental army. At it. ein e. hr
atudied law. Georgia, then a front
ier State, offered inducement,
emigrant.. Mr. Baldwin arrived at
Savannah, in 1784: wns immediately
admitted a cnunaellor at the Georgia
bar. and fined hia residence in Co
lumbia enonty. In three month, he
had gained .o greatly the confidence
of thr people of that county, that
they elected him a member of the
Legislature. It t. believed, general
ly, Ota th originated the plan of the
L'niverrity of Georgia, drew up lu
chatter, and perwaded the Legisla
ture to adopt it. W» d ° " ot '' R *
that the merit of thia work haa *p«
aaaigned to any other. Mr. Bald-
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