A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . Battalion Benedictine 1st Regiment Band. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. 2^ moved him to action was a divine wrath against injustice—the scorn of an exalted mind for the besotted barbarities ofa practice which found no warrant in the laws of God orthe promptings of common humanity. It was characteris-tic of the situation that when the charter of Georgia cameto be signed the names written into it were few—few andknown and honored. Written at a ti
A history of the erection and dedication of the monument to Gen'l James Edward Oglethorpe, unveiled in Savannah, Ga., November 23, 1910 . Battalion Benedictine 1st Regiment Band. To General James Edward Oglethorpe. 2^ moved him to action was a divine wrath against injustice—the scorn of an exalted mind for the besotted barbarities ofa practice which found no warrant in the laws of God orthe promptings of common humanity. It was characteris-tic of the situation that when the charter of Georgia cameto be signed the names written into it were few—few andknown and honored. Written at a time when the great civ-ic and private virtues which illustrate every condition ofour day were in a state of dormancy, its language placesit among the priceless documents of the ages. Withoutprofit or reward or hope of material benefit to any incorpo-rator, it was recited that his majesty, havingtaken into con-sideration the miserable circumstances of many of his ownpoor subjects, ready to perish for want, as likewise the dis-tress of many poor foreigners who would take refuge herefrom persecution, hath, out of his fatherly compassion to-ward his subjects, bee
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