Identifier: georgiaslandmark01knig (find matches)
Title: Georgia's landmarks, memorials and legends
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Knight, Lucian Lamar, 1868-1933
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Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Byrd Printing Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ved distress; the better home Of those whom Bigots chase from foreign lands; Not built on Rapine, Servitude, and Woe, And in their turn some petty tyrants prey; But bound by social freedom firm they rise Such as of late an Oglethorpe has formed, And crowding round the charmed Savannah Seas. Thomsons Liberty. And here can I forget the generous handThat touched with human woe, redressive searchedInto the horrors of the gloomy jail?Unpitied and unheard, where misery mourns;Where sickness pines; where thirst and hunger burn.And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. Thomsons Seasons. See Mcintosh County, on the Altamaha settlement. ^Frances Shaftoe published a Narrative, in London, in 1707, declaringthat the pretended Prince of Wales was the foster-brother of Oglethorpe; andalso that the latters mother was at one time the medium through whomOxford, Bolingbroke, and even Queen Anne herself held communion with theexiled Stuarts. <ionsult Bolingbrokes Letters. See also Oglethorpe County,
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Oglethorpe 53 land failed to knight the first man of his age. But therewas little need for England to lay the accolade of herchivalry upon one of Gods noblemen.* General Ogle-thorpe died at the patriarchal age of ninety-seven. Helived to see the Colony which he founded an independentcommonwealth and to meet John Adams, the first am-bassador from the United States to the Court of St.James. He was buried at Cranham Church, in EssexCounty^ England, where his last resting place commandsan outlook upon the North Sea. Pride and gratitude have always mingled in the emo-tions with which Georgia has contemplated the career andcherished the name of Oglethorpe; but almost two centu-ries elapsed before an adequate monument to the greathumanitarian was reared in the city which he founded.At last, under bright skies, on November 23, 1910, in thecity of Savannah, a superb bronze statue surmounting apedestal of granite, was unveiled in Chippewa Square.The total cost of this handsome memorial was $38,

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