A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . 17th U. S. A Battalion of 2d Infantry. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. 37 He had striven with success for the betterment of theweak and helpless in an age of abject selfishness. He hadmade an empire with a handful of the oppressed of earth,and the work had survived. He had overcome the Indianby persuasion and kindness and won the abiding friendshipof the savages he had been sent to slay. He had encounter-ed the most powerful foe of England and
A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . 17th U. S. A Battalion of 2d Infantry. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. 37 He had striven with success for the betterment of theweak and helpless in an age of abject selfishness. He hadmade an empire with a handful of the oppressed of earth,and the work had survived. He had overcome the Indianby persuasion and kindness and won the abiding friendshipof the savages he had been sent to slay. He had encounter-ed the most powerful foe of England and driven him in dis-astrous defeat before his scant battle-line. Reversing allthe traditions of colonial administration, he had been toler-ant and just. He was a builder and not an iconoclast; astatesman and not a schemer; a soldier and not a plunderer. Brave and wise and merciful, the ends he accomplishedplaced him in historic perspective a century ahead of theday in which he worked. Honest in an era of guile, withoutfear and without reproach, he comes to us with his unstainedrecord, to live so long as Georgians shall stand upon theancient ways and see
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