A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . tion on the part of the Englishserved to increase the difficulties of thecommunity. In 1742, General Ogle-thorpe made his unsuccessful attempt tocapture St. Augustine; and two yearsafter, the Spaniards invaded the colony,but were in their turn defeated. TheGeorgians were thus burdened by heavydebts, like the Carolinians, and by thesame causes, from which they were soonable to recover, in consequence of tliemore favorable circumstances in whichthey were placed by c
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . tion on the part of the Englishserved to increase the difficulties of thecommunity. In 1742, General Ogle-thorpe made his unsuccessful attempt tocapture St. Augustine; and two yearsafter, the Spaniards invaded the colony,but were in their turn defeated. TheGeorgians were thus burdened by heavydebts, like the Carolinians, and by thesame causes, from which they were soonable to recover, in consequence of tliemore favorable circumstances in whichthey were placed by coming under theroyal government, as a colony of theking. This occurred in 1752. A geneial repiesentative assemblywas formed in 1755; and in consequenceof the cession of Florida to Great Brit-ain, the country between the Altamahaand St. Marys rivers was ceded, muchto the advantage of Georgia. Symp-toms of increasing prosperity soon be-gan to appear; but the Cherokees, apowerful and wailike nation of Indians,occupied the western and noithern partsof the territory; and several others werenear them; and a period of danger and ==^. S WEtKES& 386 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. wars soon commenced, which causedgreat sufferings, and greatly checked theincrease and extension of the settle-ments. During the revolution, Georgia suf-fered in common with the country atlaige ; and since the close of that war,she has ceded to the general governmenta larger extent of territory than any ofher sisters, except Virginia, embracingall Alabama and Mississippi, north oflatitude 31°: about 100,000 square miles. The first constitution was adopted inthe year 1777, and the second in latter was amended in 1789 ; andthe present was adopted in 1798. Thesenators and legislators are elected an-nually. A senator must be twenty-fiveyears of age, nine years a citizen of theUnited States, one year a resident of thedistrict, and the owner of an estate offive hundred dollars, in the county, or oftax
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