{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3641", "width": "2309", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0003.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0004.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0005.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0006.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Tl\\nHE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY;\\nT S FOUNDERS, PATRONS, AND FRIENDS.\\nANNIVERSARY ADDRESS\\nDELIVERED IN\\nHODGSON HALL,\\n0?i tlui IdtJh of FehriiCLi-y, 1881\\nCHARLES C. JONES, Jr., L. L. D.\\nSAVANNAH. GEORGIA.\\n1881.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0007.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0008.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Augusta, Georgia.\\nANNIVERSARY ADDRESS\\nDELIVERED BEFORE THE\\nGEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,\\nHODGSON HALL,\\nON THE 14th OF FEBRUARY, 1881.\\nBY\\nCHARLES C. JONES, Jr., L. L. D.\\nDeposited upon the siteiit shore\\nOf Memory, images and precious thoughts\\nThat shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.\\nPRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY.\\n1881.\\n7^", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0009.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "J. H. ESTILL, PEINTER,\\nSAVANNAH, GA.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0010.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Georgia. Historical Society,\\nSavannah, March 9th, 1881.\\nCol. Charles C. Jones, Jr.,\\nAugusta, Georgia.\\nDear Sir I take great pleasure in informing you that\\nat the Regular Monthly Meeting of the Georgia Historical\\nSociety, held last Monday eveniag, the following Resolutions\\nwere unanimously adojited\\nResolved that our thanks are due and are hereby cor-\\ndially tendered to Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., for his very\\nable and eloquent address, eminently discriminating and\\ntruly historioalj^delivered before the Georgia Historical\\nSociety at its Anniversary on February 14th, 1881.\\nResolved that Col Jones be requested to furnish a copy\\nof this address for publication by the Society, and that\\nwe will preserve with pride and satisfaction this well\\nmarited tribute to the valuable labors and exalted character\\nof our founders and predecessors.\\nI remain very respectfally yours,\\nW. Grayson Mann,\\nCor. Sec. Geo. Hist. Society.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS.\\n3Ir. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen\\nAs children of the past and parents of the future, it\\nappears eminently proper that we should, at stated inter-\\nvals, pause for a brief hour in the hurrying march of\\ntime which will soon bear us hence, that we may call\\nto remembrance our peculiar inheritance, carefully esti-\\nmate our present belongings, and form at least a proxi-\\nmate conception of what our legacies will be.\\nIn responding to the invitation which brings me into\\nyour gracious presence this evening, it has occurred to\\nme that I cannot better fulfill the expectations of this\\nAnniversary occasion than by reminding you of those\\nwho were the founders, patrons, and special friends of\\nthis Society, and by reviewing what has already been\\naccomplished by our Institution in the exercise of its\\nlegitimate functions. Thus will we the more surely\\ncomprehend the position we now occup}-, understand the\\nmeed to which we are entitled, and gather fresh courage\\nfor the discharge of the duties which lie before us.\\nForty-two years have elapsed since the organization, in\\nour midst, of the Georgia Historical Society. Have you\\nforgotten the officers selected to give nascent tone, char-\\nacter, and impulse to the Institution? Let me name\\nthem.\\nJoHN McPherson Berrien, President, born before the\\nindependence of these United States had been acknow-\\nledged, a graduate of Princeton College when only a lad\\nof fifteen, then a pupil of the honorable Joseph Clay,", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "called to the Bar while still a minor, at an early age\\nSolicitor of the Eastern Circuit, when not thirty years\\nold Judge of the Superior Courts of the Eastern Dis-\\ntrict, a Major of Cavalry in the war of 1812-15,\\nState Senator in 1822, occupying a seat in the Senate\\nof the United States in 1825, four years afterwards\\nAttorney General of the United States, again a Senator\\nfrom Georgia in 1811 and 1847, filling other prominent\\npositions within the gift of his fellow-citizens proud of\\nhis culture, probity, attainments, and ability, the most\\naccomplished lawyer Georgia ever gave to a court-room\\nState or Federal, thoroughly versed in the nice, sharp\\n(juillets of the law, yet demonstrating at all times, by\\nact and argument, that law was indeed, as my Lord\\nCoke would have it, the perfection of reason, acquainted\\nwith the traditions of his people local and national, a\\ntype of the exact scholar and thorough gentleman\\nJames Moore Wayne, Yice President, another son of\\nNassau Hall,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a favorite pupil of John Y. Noel, Judge\\nChauncey, and of Richard M. Stites, in turn Judge of\\nthe Superior Courts of the Eastern District, member\\nof Congress, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme\\nCourt of the United States, a model of manly beauty,\\nand a Chesterfield in deportment\\nMatthew Hatj:. McAllister, Vice President, a genial\\ncompanion, a famous advocate, and, toAvard the evening\\nof his life, elevated to the Bench as Federal Judge for\\nthe District of California\\nIsrael K. Tefft, Corresponding Secretary, an ardent\\ndevotee of the past, a famous collector of autograph-\\nletters and historical documents, especially of such as\\nillustrated our Revolutionary period, looking upon the\\ntime-stained paper whereon some famous hand had writ", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "With greater love than the self-lov d Narcissus\\nDid on his beauty,\\ntlie fons et origo of the Society\\nGeorge W. Hustter, Treasurer, managing with care\\nthe slender finances of the Institution\\nHenry K. Preston, Librarian, acquainted with books\\nand of scholarly tastes\\nWilliam Thorne Williams, always active in measures\\nwhich had for their object the promotion of education\\nand the amelioration of the intellectual status of the\\ncommunity, a Captain of the Chatham Artillery in the\\nwar of 1812, and, during a long life, a lover and pub-\\nlisher of books\\nCharles S. Henry, lawyer, Judge, and urbane gen-\\ntleman\\nJohn C. Nicoll, of Roman virtue, exact habit, and most\\nretentive memory, careful in noting the passing event,\\na walking encyclopyedia, full of calm thought, much\\ngiven to patient investigation, and executing his office of\\nDistrict Judge with a firmness, ability, and erudition\\nworthy of all commendation\\nWilliam Law, than whom no more courteous gentle-\\nman, eloquent advocate, profound jurist, and fair-minded\\nJudge ever adorned Society and maintained the standard\\nof true excellenc}^ in this beautiful City of Oglethorpe\\nRobert M. Charlton, counsellor, advocate, Judge, poet,\\nessayist, friend, the mention of whose name revivifies\\nthe electric chain which binds us to all that is pure in\\nlife, sweet in companionship, and undefiled in thought and\\nact\\nAlexander A. Smets, successful merchant, citizen of\\npublic spirit, and bibliophile of unusual knowledge,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in\\nconstant communion with books, and surrounding him", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "self with much that was choice and rare iu the world\\nof letters\\nWilliam Bacon Stevens, energetic and earnest, eager\\nto familiarize himself with the men and events reflecting\\ndistinction upon his adopted State, a professor of belles\\nlettres and history in the University of Georgia, and,\\nat a later period, Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania\\nand last, but not least, Richard D. Arnold, whose\\nname and fame and loves are intimatel} associated with\\nthe annals of this City and Society, the skillful physi-\\ncian, the generous friend, given to profuse and refined\\nhospitality, the honored Mayor and trusted legislator,\\nforemost in everj^ good w ork which could enure to the\\nmaterial benefit and civilization of Savannah, the life\\nand soul of every public convocation, a Luttrell among\\nwits, a ministering angel when the shadows of want\\nand pestilence darkened tiiese streets, of excellent liter-\\nary taste, and possessing a memory as tenacious of\\nincidents, characters, and letters, as though they had\\nbeen graven with a diamond s point upon a tablet of\\nagate these were they who, in 1839, were selected as\\nthe first officers of the Georgia Historical Society.\\nSurely, from out the entire circuit of this community\\nnone more competent or trustworthy could have been\\nchosen.\\nFifty years have not yet elapsed and, with a single\\nexception, all are numbcrtHl with the dead. So like to\\na short summer is hunum life.\\nOf the original Resident Members of the Society one\\nmay not enumerate more than fourteen now in being,\\nand most of them are rapidly hastening onward to that\\nextreme verge beyond which it is not permitted the\\nchildren of men to linger.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "9\\nSuch is the sad side of the retrospect which the\\nrecurrence of this Anniversary suggests. And yet, apart\\nfrom the sorrow which the demise of the good, the use-\\nful, and the loved always causes, there is nothing unusual\\nin the fact that upon the flight of these two score\\nyears and more we should be forcibly reminded of the\\noperation of that inexorable law\\nAll that lives must die,\\nPassing through nature to eternitj\\nAlthough these founders of our Society have been gath-\\nered to their fathers, the temple which they planned sur-\\nvives, and subsequent years have strengthened its walls\\nand enriched its porches. The purpose they conceived\\nfound encouragement at the hands of those who came\\nafter them. The charities of the benevolent and the\\nintellectual gravitated hitherward, and thus has it come\\nto pass that within the fair borders of this charming\\nCity there exists no more attractive edifice, no retreat\\nmore seductive, no more cultured resort than Hodgson\\nHall. Long may this institution remain the pride of\\nSavannah and the honor of Georgia.\\nAt the date of the inception of the Georgia Historical\\nSociety, aside from tracts encouraging the foundation of\\nthe Colony and furnishing accounts of its development\\nunder the guidance of the Trustees and during the early\\nyears of its existence, but two histories of Georgia had\\nbeen published.\\nThere appeared in London, in 1779, anonymously, but,\\nas we now know, from the pen of the Reverend Alexan-\\nder Hewatt, a Presbyterian Clergyman and a former resi-\\ndent of Charleston, who had departed thence when he\\nperceived that an open rupture between the Crown and", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nthe Tliirleen Colonies in North America was imminent,\\ntwo octavo vohimes entitled An Historical Account of\\nthe Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and\\nGeorgia. While in this work the Colonial history of\\nGeorgia is narrated at some length, the attention of the\\nauthor was chiefly occupied with a recital of events con-\\nnected with the establishment and growth of the Colony\\nof South Carolina. His labors ended with the dawn of\\nthe Eevolution and this histor3\\\\ then long out of\\nprint, was inaccessible to the general reader.\\nSoon after the formation of the General Government\\nMr. Edward Langworthy, at first a pupil and then a\\nteaclier at Whitefield s Orphan House, afterwards an\\nenthusiastic Liberty Boy, Secretary of the Provincial\\nCongress of Georgia, and one of the early representa-\\ntives from Georgia in the Congress of the Confederated\\nStates, formed the design of writing a history of this\\nState. Of fair attainments, and personally acquainted\\nwith the leading men and transactions of the period, he\\nwas well qualified for the task, and addressed himself\\nwith energy to the collection of materials requisite for\\nthe undertaking. It would appear, from a published\\nprospectus of the work printed in the Georgia Gazette,\\nthat this history was actually written. Suitable encour-\\nagement however, not having been encountered, the con-\\ntemplated publication was never made. Mr. Langworthv\\ndied at Elkton, in Maryland, early in the present cen-\\ntury, and all efforts to recover both his manuscript and\\nthe supporting documents which he had amassed have\\nthus far proved utterly abortive.\\nFrom the press of Seymour and Williams of Savannah\\nwas issued, in 1811, the first volume of Major Hugh\\nMcCall s History of Georgia/ and this was followed,", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\nin 1816, by the second volume, published by William\\nThome Williams. Oppressed by phj-sioal infirmities, and\\na martyr to the effects of the exposures and dangers\\nexperienced as an officer in the army of the Revolu-\\ntion, now confined to his couch, again, a helpless crip-\\nple, locomoting in an easy chair upon wheels, dependent\\nfor a livelihood upon the salary paid him as City Jailor,\\noften wholly interrupted in his labors, and then, during\\nintervals of pain, writing with his portfolio resting upon his\\nknees,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 without the preliminary education requisite for\\nthe scholarly accomplishment of such a serious under-\\ntaking, and yet fired with patriotic zeal and anxious to\\nwrest from impending ol livion the fading traditions of\\nthe State he loved so well and whose independence he\\nhad imperiled everything to secure, Major McCall, in\\nthe end, compassed a narrative which we all prize and\\nwhich, in its recital of events connected with our Eevo-\\nlutionary period and the part borne by Georgians in\\nthat memorable struggle, is invaluable. There hangs his\\nportrait. This hall is dignified by its presence. We\\nsalute it with honor and gratitude and, speaking for\\nthe living in the face of the dead, we applaud alike\\nhis services in the cause of freedom and his labors\\nwith his pen when his sword had been sheathed in\\nAdctory. Whatever may hereafter be achieved by the his-\\ntorians of Georgia during the long and, we trust, pros-\\nperous years which are in store for our grand old Com-\\nmonwealth, to him mvist they till come at last for the\\nfullest accounts of the perils and the rivatious, the\\naffairs and the incidents of our primal Revolution.\\nAppreciating the propriety, nay, the necessity of col-\\nlecting, arranging and pubUshing all papers relating to\\nthe settlement and political history of this State, the", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nLegislature, in 1824, designated Mr. Joseph V. Bevau as\\na suitable person to perform this important task, and\\nmade an appropriation in partial defrayal of the expenses\\nincident to the undertaking. It was understood, at the\\ntime, that Mr. Bevan was in possession of some interest-\\ning reports, documents, communications, and other manu-\\nscripts which were to be utilized in that behalf. His\\nearly death terminated the enterprise, and no one is\\nadvised of the fate which overtook his collections. They\\nhave seemingly been lost beyond recovery.\\nIn December, 1837, the General Assembly of Georgia\\nempowered the Governor to select a competent party\\nwhose duty it should be, in behalf of the State, to repair\\nto London and there procure, from the Government offices,\\ncopies of all records appertaining to the settlement and\\nColonial life of Georgia. The Eeverend Charles Wallace\\nHoward was entrusted with the execution of this mis-\\nsion. He returned with copies of letters and documents\\nfilling twenty-two folio volumes. Fifteen were taken from\\nthe originals on file in the Office of the Board of\\nTrade six from those in the custody of the State-Paper\\nOffice, and the remaining one from documents forming a\\npart of the King s Library. The material thus secured\\nhas been but jjarfcially utilized, and will prove of value\\nto the future historian.\\nSuch Avas the progress made in the preparation of a\\ngeneral history of Georgia, such the effort to collect\\noriginal matter, and such were the failures which had\\noccurred at the time when it entered into the minds of\\nleading citizens in Savannah to organize this Society.\\nIts avowed object was the collection, preservation, and\\ndiffusion of information relating to the history of Georgia\\nin all its various dej)artments. To that end its officers", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nand members, with a zeal worthy of all commendation, by\\ncorrespondence, circular, contribution, purchase and petition\\nconcentrated as rapidly as they could in the library of the\\nInstitution all printed and manuscript matter within the\\nrange of present possibility.\\nEightly discerning that it was their immediate mission\\nto garner np the materials and entrust to the future his-\\ntorian their proper arrangement and utilization, the foun-\\nders of this Society, at the outset, disclaimed all design\\nof writing a history of the State. So earnest was the\\nSociety in the prosecution of its mission, and so eager to\\noffer palpable evidence of its vitality, and to assert a\\nright to honorable companionship in the sisterhood of\\nkindred institutions, that in the second year of its existence\\nit printed its first volume of Collections. A valuable and\\ninteresting publication it is, containing Judge Law s mas-\\nterly oration upon the celebration of its first anniversary,\\nreprints of Oglethorpe s New and accurate Account of t/ie\\nProvinces of South Carolina and Georgia, Francis Moore s\\nVoyage to Georgia, begun in the year 1735. Benjamin\\nMartyn s Impart led Inquiry into the State and Utility of\\nthe Province of Georgia, -and his Beasons for estahlisliing\\nthe Colony of Georgia vntli regard to the Trade of Great\\nBritain, etc., and the honorable Thomas Sjjalding s\\nSketch of the Life of General James Oglethojye.\\nIt is not an exaggeration to affirm that this first contri-\\nbution of our cherished Society will compare favorably\\nwith the transactions of any kindred society within the\\nwide borders of this land. And the second, -given to the\\npublic two years afterwards, was like unto it in historical\\nvalue and genuine interest. Listen to its contents A\\ndiscourse, by Dr. William Bacon Stevens, on early events\\nconnected with the Revolution in Georgia, and reprints of", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "u\\nA New Voyage to Georgia, c^c.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Curious Account of\\nthe Indians, by an honorable person, Poems to the\\nhonorable James Oglethorpe, A State of the Prov-\\nince of Georgia attested upon oath in the Court of\\nSavannah, November IMt, 1710, A Brief Account of the\\nCauses that have retarded the Progress of the Colony of\\nGeorgia in America, dc, A True and Historical Narra-\\ntive of the Colony of Georgia in America, etc., by Pat\\nTailfer, M. D., Hugh Anderson, 31. A., Ha Houglas, and\\nothers, and An Account showing the Progress of the\\nColony of Georgia in America from its First Establish-\\nment.\\nIn 1848 appeared Part First of tlie third volume of the\\nCollections of this Society. The resources of the Institu-\\ntion having been anticipated by the erection of a Library\\nand Historical Hall, the superintendence and charge of\\nthis publication were generously undertaken and borne by\\nan accomplished gentleman and finished scholar whose\\nfriendship for our Association was always conspicuous, and\\nwhose culture and reputation exerted a reflex influence\\nmost honorable and propitious. There is his speaking\\nimage, and we stand in the beautiful Hall consecrated b}\\nloving hearts to his memory. Five years agone, upon the\\ndedication of this tasteful edifice so commodious, and so\\nappropriate in all its appointments and upon the unveil-\\ning of this admirable portrait, there fell from the lips of\\nour distinguished President a eulogium most fit upon the\\nlife and literary labors of the honorable I^^illiam B.\\nHodgson. It was a tribute which only genius and poetry\\nand eloquence could render to the erudite scholar and the\\nman of letters who revelled in the picturesque learning of\\nthe Orient.\\n*Hon. Henry 11. Jackson.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nThe Tolume to which we alhide is a publication of the\\noi iginal manuscript of Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, entitled\\nA Sketch of the Greek Country in 1798 and 1799. Con-\\nveying a correct impression of the manners, characteris-\\ntics, customs, and settlements of the famous Muscogulgee\\nConfederacy, and portraying with remarkable fidelity the\\nphysical peculiarities of the territory then occupied by the\\nCreek Indians, its value cannot well be overestimated.\\nThe observations of this Beloved Man of the Four Nations,\\nas Colonel Hawkins is appropriately styled by Mr. Galla-\\ntin are reckoned of the highest authority. They are so\\nregarded by all who have of late investigated the subjects\\nof which he treats.\\nAs early as March, 1841, the Society invited Dr. Wil-\\nliam Bacon Stevens to undertake, under its auspices, the\\npreparation of a new and complete history of Georgia.\\nLiberal aid was extended to him in the prosecution of\\nthis important labor which eventuated in the publication\\nof two octavo volumes, one in 1847 and the other in\\n1859. The author concludes his history with the adop-\\ntion of the Constitution of 1798. It is perhaps not\\nungracious to add that this work, partial in its scope, did\\nnot gratify public expectation. It has encountered severe\\ncriticism, and does not appear to have commended itself\\nto general favor.\\nFor nearly eight years after its organization our Associ-\\nation possessed no building of its own but, through the\\ncourtesy of the Savannah Library Society, was permitted\\nto occupy its rooms as a place of convocation. In 1847\\nthere occurred a practical consolidation of these institu-\\ntions, and two years subsequently the Georgia Historical\\nSociety found a convenient abiding place in the edifice\\nwhich had been erected for its accommodation on Bryan", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nStreet, opposite the Bank of the State of Georgia. The\\nHbrarv of the Savannah Library Society was merged into\\nthat of the Georgia Historical Society, and thus were the\\nhterary attractions of onr Association enhanced by the\\naddition of some twenty-five hundred vokimes.\\nThrough the generosity of one of Savannah s distiguished\\nsons, Dk. James P. Sceeven, a habiUty incurred in the\\nerection of our hall was, in 1852, discharged, and the\\nSociety liberated from debt. Pleasant, but without special\\nmark, were the regular meetings and social gatherings of\\nthe Societ} in this edifice. Our library slowly increased\\nand our Association maintained its integrity but, for\\nnearly ten years, it gave no valuable token of vitalit3^\\nThen came the exciting days of the Confederate Revo-\\nlution when the entire manhood of our beleaguered land\\nwas in arms in defense of home and country and right,\\nwhen the thoughts and capabilities of our people were\\nenlisted in a gigantic struggle for independence, when\\nan enveloping blockade shut out from us the current\\nliterature of the world and suspended communication\\nwith sister institutions, when our local presses were\\nmainly employed in multiplying military orders, in print-\\ning works upon the art of war, and in responding to\\nthe needs of our isolated Confederacy bravely asserting\\nher claim to a recognition in the sisterhood of nations.\\nIt was emphatically a period of the sternest trial, of\\naction the most heroic, of incidents all absorbing, and\\nof perils beyond enumeration. No wonder then, when\\nthe thunders of aggressive and relentless war were heard\\nevervwhere within our borders and our whole people were\\nwrestling so bravely for the retention of the land they\\nloved, that our Society did little more than preserve its\\norganization, abiding the return of that day when, the", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\ngraver and holier duties of the patriot discharged, the\\nsurvivors of the Revokitiou might return to the peaceful\\npaths of literature and unite in the conservation of the\\nmemories of the past.\\nThe war did end, but it left us a region filled with\\nmourning. Sorrow, penury, disappointment and ashes\\nwere the common heritage, and in the general gloom\\nwhich encompassed all there shone scarce a single star of\\nsubstantial promise.\\nIn this dark hour when the sufferings of the present\\nwere sadly commingled with the uncertainties of the\\nfuture, when amid the wreck of fortunes, established\\ninstitutions, and government itself, there appeared little\\nroom for aught else save a struggle for daily bread, when\\nthe will of the conqueror was the supreme law, and on\\nevery hand the lamentation of Rachel, weeping for her\\nchildren and refusing to be comforted because they were\\nnot, w,as blended with the voices of despair and the\\nsounds of apprehension, when amid the disquietudes of\\nthe moment the obligations of former times were disre-\\ngarded, when light and hope and literature were still\\ndiscolored by the overmastering glare of disastrous war,\\nwhen the hearts of men, turned aside from intellectual\\neffort and the pursuits of literature, were busied with\\nthe exactions of practical lil e, when our Society of\\nnecessity languished, were heard in our midst the in-\\nspiring tones of one, our newly elected President, the\\nEight Reverend Stephen Elliott, D, D., of blessed\\nmemory, pleading for a revival of the literary sjjirit in\\nour community, extolling the advantages of a public\\nlibrary of choice selection and liberal proportions, encour-\\naging our members to renewed efforts in behalf of the\\nSociety, and bespeaking for it the countenance and\\n2", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\ncooperation of tlie wise, the intelligent, and the good.\\nThe address which he deUvered, in February 1866, hope-\\nful in spirit, wise in counsel, and far-reaching in design,\\nwas most potent and beneficial in its efifect. Under his\\nguidance, and inspired by his example, our Society\\nawoke from the depression engendered by universal dis-\\naster. A fresh impetus was given to its deliberations,\\nits membership, its exertions, which the succeeding years\\nhave not failed to appreciate. Precious indeed is the\\nmemory which abides with us of this Godly man and of\\nthe influence he exerted in our behalf and in favor of\\nall that was true, beautiful, and ennobling.\\nHe was a scholar and a ripe and a good one;\\nExceedinsi; wise, fair-spoken, and persuading:\\n-x-\\nto those men that sought him, sweet as summer.\\nReverently do we turn to that speaking canvas which\\nreflects the commanding image of him who was to us an\\nexponent of the highest type of Southern civilization,\\nthe paragon of all that was courtly in mien, cultured\\nin thought and act, attractive in intellect, generous in\\nimpulse, eloquent in utterance, sympathetic in emotion,\\nexalted in example, pure in conduct, elevating in com-\\npanionship, and holy in office. Gratefully do we recall\\nhis manly virtues and recollect his saintly ministrations.\\nTo him are we indebted for labors abundant and influ-\\nential in the cause of truth, education, and intellectual\\nprogress at an epoch of unusual stagnation in social and\\nliterary life.\\nDuring the ensuing six years our Society evinced marked\\nsigns of substantial advancement in usefulness and influ-\\nence. Its library was steadily and judiciously augmented,\\nand a change of location for the convenience of readers", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nand the more suitable accommodation of its volumes was,\\nin the Spring of 1871, made to Armory Hall.\\nThe same year, during the presidency of the Honorable\\nEdward J. Harden, whose love for his native Georgia,\\nfamiliarity with her annals, and affection for this Institu-\\ntion, are so well remembered by us all, the Society gave\\nto the public another proof of its vitality in. an interest-\\ning and handsomely printed brochure entitled Jn Authen-\\ntic Account of the Origin, Mystery and, Explanation of Hon.\\nRichard Henry Wilde s alleged placjiarism of The Lament\\nof the Captive. The preparation of this attractive little\\nvolume chiefly devolved upon the late Anthony Barclay,\\nEsqr., whose scholarly attainments amply fitted him for\\nthe perpetration of the literary pleasantry which, for a\\nseason, caused no little mystification and even induced\\nthe gifted author of M}^ life is like the Summer Rose\\nto publicly deny the suggested pillage from Alcseus. By\\nthis contribution the Society has linked its name with\\none of the sweetest poems ever uttered by mortal lijDS,\\nIn this hurried review we would prove recreant to\\nthe memories of the past did we omit a becoming al-\\nlusion to the amiable character, the literarj- attainments,\\nand the valuable influence of the Honorable Edward\\nJenkins Harden, one of our most devoted and accom-\\nplished Presidents. To him are we beholden for serv-\\nices the most intelligent and efforts the most untiring.\\nIt was ever his pleasure to foster all schemes which\\nameliorated the condition and promoted the honor and\\nthe usefulness of our Institution. Of scholarly tastes\\nand liberal education,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 always intent upon the cultiva-\\ntion of letters and the encouragement of intellectual\\neffort, a careful student of Georgia history, and noted\\nfor his accurate acquaintance with the lives of persons", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nand tlie philosophy of events remarkable in the chron-\\nicles of this Commonwealth,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of genial temper, social\\nhabit, and uncompromising integrity, an upright and\\njust Judge, a counselor wise, prudent, and reliable,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nan earnest and capable advocate,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 as a companion,\\nabounding in friendship, fidelity, and urbanity,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and, as\\nan office-bearer in the Church of Christ, faithful and\\nconsistent, the savor of his good name abides as a\\npleasant heritage with us. In the language of another:\\nHis private life Avas universally acknowledged to have\\nbeen pure and virtuous. Few men die who can carry,\\nas Ave believe he did, to the tribunal of the Almighty\\nthe record of a heart so free from guile, and of a con-\\nscience so void of offense toward God and toward man.\\nOf his literary footprints the most abiding is his Life\\nof Governor George 31. Trowp. Already has this So-\\nciety, by an In 3femoriam Tract printed shortly after\\nhis death, given public expression to the general appre-\\nciation of the great loss sustained in the demise of\\nthis our friend and President.\\nHaving, in 1871, through the generous and personal\\nintervention of Mr. George Wymberley-Jones DeRenne, of\\nSavannah, become possessed of accurate copies, from the\\nBritish Colonial Office, of the letters of General Oglethorpe\\nto the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia, commencing on\\ntlie 29th of October, 1735, and ending with the 24tli of\\nAugust, 1744:, and also of the letters of Sir James Wright,\\nthe third and last Roj^al Governor of the Province,\\naddressed to the Earl of Dartmouth and Lord George\\nGermain, Secretaries of State, and to other prominent\\nparties in England, in which he narrates with great\\nminuteness and fidelity from the stand-point of a loyal\\nservant of his Majesty King George III. the local events", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nwhich transpired during our Revohitionar\\\\^ period, the\\nGeorgia Historical Society gave pubHcity to them in the\\nthird vohira-e of its Collections. That volume also con-\\ntains a Report on the condition of the Province of\\nGeorgia made by Governor Wright, in 1772, in reply to\\nspecific inquiries propounded by the Earl of Dartmouth,\\nkindly furnished by Mr. DeRenne, an Anniversary Ad-\\ndress, by the Speaker, upon the life and services of\\nCount Pulaski, and a historical address by Dr. Richard D.\\nArnold. Of the value of this contribution I need only\\nsay that it would be impossible to specify documents of\\nhigher import, illustrative of the early life and conduct\\nof the Colony, than those spread upon its pages.\\nAnd here, my friends, permit me to pause in this nar-\\nrative to place a memorial wreath upon the new-n ade\\ngrave of one who, since our last annual meeting, has loft\\nour companionship and fallen on sleep. He was at one\\ntime our President, and always the firm friend and gener-\\nous patron of this Societv. His interest in the genuine\\nwelfare of this Institution will probably never be com-\\nprehended in all its scope and various manifestations, an\\ninterest which induced him to institute exhaustive research\\namong, and acquire privileged access to, the Public Records\\nin London that they might give up their hidden treasures\\nin illustration of the history of Georgia and in furtherance\\nof the reputation of our Association, an interest which\\nled to munificent gifts in multiplying the collections and\\npublications of this Society, an intelligent interest which\\nassisted in shaping its conduct and administration, an\\ninterest most prevailing, which, if I mistake not, had\\nmuch to do with rounding into absolute symmetry and\\ngiving happy expression to the magnificent charities of\\nthose noble Sisters to whose liberality we are indebted", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nfor this spacious bnildinp^ and for that other foundation\\nwhich, in due season, will develop into an Academy op\\nArts and Sciences the like of which has never existed\\nwithin the limits of this State. Grievous indeed has\\nbeen our loss, and sincerely do we lament the demise of\\nsuch a friend, counselor, and patron.\\nAlthough born in the City of Philadelphia on the 19th\\nof July, 1827, Mr. George Wymberley- Jones DeRenne\\nwas, in every thought and emotion, a Georgian most\\nloyal. In the paternal line he was the direct descendant.\\nof Captain Noble Jones, the trusted lieutenant of Ogle-\\nthorpe, whose watchful eye and brave sword were ever\\ninstant for the protection of the infant colony against the\\nencroachments of the jealous Spaniards and the incur-\\nsions of the restless Indians. Oar early records are\\nrendered illustrious by the valor, circumspection, and cool\\ndaring which he exhibited on various occasions of doubt\\nand danger.\\nAmong the patiiot names shedding lustre upon the\\nperiod when our people were engaged in the effort to rid\\nthemselves of Kingly rule, none in Georgia was more con-\\nspicuous for purity of purpose, wisdom of counsel, and\\nfearlessness in action than that of the honorable Nolle\\nWymberley Jones, the grand-father of Mr. DeRenne.\\nSpeaker of the Provincial Legislature at a time when it\\nwas no light matter to incur the displeasure of a Royal\\nGovenior, arrested and confined because of his sympathy\\nwith the Revolutionists, and, upon the termination of the\\nwar, selected a Representative from Georgia in the Con-\\ntinental Congress, as physician, legislator, patriot, citizen,\\nhe Avon the confidence and esteem of all. Early in tlie\\npresent century he found rest in the bosom of the beautiful\\nome where he had been so honored, admired and trusted.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "23\\nOf Dr. George Jones, the father of our friend, I may\\nnot speak, for there are those within the compass of my\\nvoice who knew him in life and cherish his A irtues now\\nthat he is gone.\\nThus does it appear that Mr. DeHenne was the legit-\\nimate inheritor, in the fourth generation, of illustrious\\ntraditions and of memories personal and })recious con-\\nnected with the history and honor of Georgia. With\\nhim they were family legacies. He accepted them as\\nsuch, and the allegiance which bound him to home and\\nState was inseparable from the ties which united liiui\\nto kindred and lineage. They were indissolubly inter-\\nwoven, and whenever the name of Georgia was uttered,\\nthere came heart throbs of loyalty and pride most pecu-\\nliar and pleasurable.\\nThe first eleven years of his life, that tender period\\nwhen impressions the most abiding are formed,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Avhen\\nloves are cemented which the vicissitudes of sub-\\nsequent age cannot impair, that morning of existence\\nwhose sunlight fades not from memory, were passed at\\nWormsloe on the Isle of Hope, the abode of his ances-\\ntors. There in infancy were his loves of Georgia begot-\\nten. There was his knowledge of home and country\\nlocalized. There were attachments born which remained\\never part and parcel of his inner being.\\nWhen not yet twelve years old, upon the death of his\\nfather, he accompanied his mother to Philadelphia.\\nThere he pursued his academic studies and was, in due\\ncourse, admitted as a member of the Collegiate Depart-\\nment of the University of Pennsylvania. His proficiency\\nin the acquisition of knowledge, and his intellectual\\ncapabilities attracted the notice and evoked the commen-\\ndation of his teachers. It was natural that he should", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nseek an education in that city and from that institution,\\nfor both were allied to him by ties of no ordinary\\nsignificance. His maternal grand-father, Justice Thomas\\nSmith, had been for many years a prominent hiAvyer\\nand a distinguished Judge in Philadelphia, and his mater-\\nnal great uncle, the Reverend William Smith, D. D.,\\nwas the first provost of the institution now known as\\nthe University of Pennsylvania. He was a noted teacher,\\nan accomplished writer, and an eloqiient divine. A\\nnative of Scotland and a graduate of the University of\\nAberdeen, shortly after his removal to America he\\nidentified himself with all that was progressive and of\\nhigh repute in the City of Brotherly Love. After a\\nlong life spent in rendering important service to the liter-\\nary, educational, and religious interests of this country,\\nhe died in the city of his adoption on the 14th of May,\\n1803. His scholarly works and the institution he founded\\nare living monuments to his memory.\\nIn his maternal home, and upon the benches whence\\nhad gone forth many who had been instrncted by his\\ndistinguished relative, Mr. DeRenne found op]iortunity for\\nearnest study. Graduating with honor, and selecting medi-\\ncine as the profession best suited to his tastes, he be-\\ncame a private pupil of the famous Dr. -Samuel Jackson\\nand entered the Medical School of the University of\\nPennsylvania. This College was, at that time, probably\\nthe most noted in the United States, and the facilities\\nthere afforded lor mastering the mysteries of the Healing\\nArt were unsurpassed this side the Atlantic. Mr. De\\nRenne s graduating thesis was entitled a Theory c07i-\\ncerning the Nature of Insanity. It was, in 1847, privately\\nprinted, to the number of forty-eight copies, for special\\ndistribution. Striking in thought and composition is this", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nproduction, indicating an amount of careful research, deli-\\ncate analysis, and philosophical deduction quite uncommon\\nin one who had barely attained unto his majority. It\\nelicited the praise of his preceptors who earnestly hoped\\nthat his talents and acquirements would be consecrated to\\nthe practice of a calling which sweeps in its high scope\\nthe whole range of physical and moral science. But\\nwith Mr. DeRenne there was no intention of applying\\nhimself to the active pursuit of the profession to the\\nprivileges of which he had just been admitted as a\\nDoctor of Medicine. His affections turned to his island\\nhome beneath the Georgia magnolias, and his thoughts\\nware of a quiet, independent life devoted to the exhi-\\nbition of hospitality, the pursuit of literature, and the\\nenjoyment of dignified repose.\\nShortly after graduation he repaired to AVorinsloe and\\nthere fixed his residence. With all its wealth of mag-\\nnificent live-oaks, palmettoes, pines, cedars, and magno-\\nlias, with its quiet, gentle views, balmy airs, soft sunlight,\\nswelling tides, inviting prospects, and cherished traditions,\\nthis attractive spot had uninterruptedly continued to be\\nthe home of his ancestors from the date of its original\\ncession from the Crown to his great-grand-father Captain\\nNoble Jones. Here were the remains of the tabby for-\\ntificition which he had constructed for the protection of\\nhis plantation, then an outpost to the town of Savan-\\nnah, and there, vine-covered and overshadowed by oaks\\nand cedars, they will endure for unnumbered years, con-\\nstituting one of the most unique and interesting histor-\\nical ruins on the Georgia coast. During his residence\\nat this charming abode, which continued, with occasional\\nabsences, until the late war between the States, Mr. De\\nRenne guarded this ancestral domain with the tender", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\ncare and devotion of a loyal son, adding to the recol-\\nlections of the past literary and cultivated associations\\nin the present which imparted new delights to the name\\nof Worm sloe.\\nIn this youthful country so careless of and indifferent\\nto the memories of former days, so ignorant of the value\\nof monuments and tlie impressive lessons of antiquity,\\nwhere no law of primogeniture encourages in the son\\nthe conservation of the abode and the heirlooms of his\\nfather, where new fields, cheap lands, and novel enter-\\nprises at remote points are luring the loves of succeed-\\ning generations from the gardens which delighted, the\\nhoary oaks which sheltered, and the fertile fields which\\nnourished their ancestors, where paternal estates, ex-\\nposed at public and private sale, are placed at the\\nmercy of speculative strangers,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 where ancestral graves\\ntoo often lie neglected, and residences, once noted for\\nrafinement, intelligence, virtue, and hospitality, lose their\\nidentity in the ownership of aliens, it was a beautiful\\nsight this preservation of the old home-stead, this filial\\ndevotion to tree and ruin and tradition, this main-\\ntenance around the ancient hearth-stone of cultured mem-\\nories and inherited civilization. Love of home and kin-\\ndred and State lay at the root of it all, and this senti-\\nment, than which none more potent resides in the human\\nbreast, none more efficient for the honorable perpetua-\\ntion of family and nation, found fullest lodgment in the\\nheart of our friend.\\nHis carefully selected library contained works of high\\nrepute, and of great rarity in certain departments. His\\nreading was varied and accurate. Communing often with\\nhis favorite authors, he maintained an active acquaint-\\nance with the ever expanding domain of scientific and", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\nphilosophical inquiiy. His liberal education, enriched by\\nstudy, travel, and observation, enabled him to appreciate\\nand cultivate those standards in literature and art which\\ngive birth to the accurate scholar and the capable critic.\\nTo familiarize himself with the history of Georgia and\\nrescue her traditions from forgetfulness were ever his\\npleasure and pride. During his sojourns in London he\\nobtained favored access to the records in the various\\npublic offices and to the treasures of the British Museum.\\nTlience did he procure copies of all papers throwing ligifc\\nupon the early life of the Colony. We have no hesita-\\ntion in expressing the opinion that in a thorough acquaint-\\nance with the history of Savannah, and of Georgia,\\nboth as a Colony and a State, he was excelled by none.\\nOften have we hoped that he would have undertaken a\\ngeneral liistory of our State and more than once did we\\ncommend the suggestion to his favorable consideration.\\nSuch a work, from his capable pen, composed in that spirit\\nof truth and characterized by that patient research and\\nphilosophical analysis of men and events which distin-\\nguished all his investigations, would have proved a standard\\nauthority. Unfortunately however, he has been called\\nhence in the vigor of his matured manhood, and in this\\nanticipation we may no longer indulge.\\nDuring his residence on the Isle of Hope the literary\\ntastes of Mr. DeRsnne found expression in the following\\npublications, with one exception bearing the imprint of\\nWormsloe,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and executed in the highest style of the\\nprinter s art.\\nIn 1847 he reprinted the rare and valuable political\\ntract by George Walton, William Few, and Richard Howley,\\nentitled Observations upon the effects of certain late 2MUtical\\nsuijfjestions, by the Delegates of Georgia.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nTwo years afterward appeared his caustic Ohservaiions\\non Dr. Stevem H n^iory of Georgia.\\nIn 184i) was issued the second of the Wormsh:\u00c2\u00bbe Quartos,\\nentitled History of the Province of Georgii, toifh Mops of\\nOriginal Surveys; by John Gerar William DeBrahm, His\\n3Taj^stys Surveyor General for the Southern District of\\nNorth America. This was a most valuable publication.\\nDeBrahni s manuscript, from which the portion relating\\nto Georgia was thus printed, exists in the Library of\\nHarvard University, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr.\\nDellenne did for Georgia what Mr. Weston had accom-\\nplished for South Carolina.\\nThe following year, in the third of the Wormsloe Quartos,\\nwere presented the interesting Journal and Letters of\\nEliza Lucas, the mother of Generals Charles Cotesworth\\nand Thomas Pinckney.\\nSo charmed was Mr. DeRenne with A Bachelor s\\nReverie, in three parts: L. Smoke, dignifying Donht 11.\\nBlaze, signifying C heer III. Ashes, signifying Desolation: hy\\nIk. Marvel^ that in 1850, by permission of and as a\\ncompliment to the gentle Author, he had a beautiful\\nedition of twelve copies privately printed.\\nIn 1851 Mr. DeRenne published, as his fourth Worms-\\nloe Quarto, the Diary of Colonel Winthrop Sargent, Adjh~\\ntant General of the United States Army during the Cam\\npaign of 1791. Only such portion of the Diary wat\\nprinted as related to St. Clair s expedition.\\nOf these Quartos but a very limited edition was printed,\\nand the copies were donated to famous libraries and\\nplaced in the hands of favored frieuds. Of the first\\nquarto there are only twenty-one copies of the second,\\nforty-nine of the third, nineteen and of the fourth,\\nforty-six. They are all admirable specimens of typogra-", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "29\\npliy and literary taste and, in addition to the historical\\nvalue they possess, are highly esteemed because of their\\nrarity.\\nSoon after the inception of the late War Mr, DeKenne\\ntransferred his residence from Wormsloe to the City of\\nSavannah. The desolations consequent upon the failure\\nof the Confederate Cause pressed sorely upon the coast\\nregion of our State, sadly altering the conveniences of life,\\nchanging the whole theory of our patriarchal civilization,\\nand begetting isolation and solitude where formerly existed\\ninviting mansions, -the centres of sympathies and social\\nlife which, in their essential charactei-istics, can, I fear me,\\nnever be revived.\\nHis residence in Savannah,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the abode of the choicest\\nhospitality, within whose walls dwelt comfort, refinement,\\nand elegance most attractive,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 could never in his affections\\nsupplant the loves he cherished for the old homestead on\\nthe Isle of Hope. During the Winter and Spring, one day in\\neach week did he dedicate to the sweet influences of Worms-\\nloe where, secluded from the turmoil of busy life, he sur-\\nrendered himself to the contemplation of scenes and the\\nrevivification of memories upon which time had placed its\\nseal of consecration.\\nIn further illustration of the liberality of our deceased\\nfriend toward this Society, it should be mentioned that he\\nbore the entire charge of the publication of the fourth\\nvolume of its Collections.\\nThat volume, printed in 1878, embraces a HiMory of the\\nDead Toions of Georgia: villages and plantations once vital\\nand influential within our borders, but now covered with the\\nmantle of decay, without succession, and silent amid the\\nvoices of the present. That work I had dedicated to Mr.\\nDeRenne, I was on the eve of placing the manuscript in", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nthe printer s hands when he proposed that I should present\\nit to the Georgia Historical Society, and that he would de-\\nfray the expense of the publication. The suggestion met\\nAvith the gracious assent of the Society, and the volume was\\nenlarged by the Itinerant Observations in America,\\nreprinted from the pages of the London Magazine.\\nOf the public spirit which characterized Mr. DeRenne\\nas a citizen of Savannah, the public spirit of a high-\\ntoned, independent gentleman solicitous for the general\\nwelfare, yet courting neither personal advantage nor politi-\\ncal preferment, of the sterling qualities which he exhib-\\nited in the business affairs of life and in the adminis-\\ntration of his ample fortune, of the active and intelli-\\ngent interest he manifested in everything promotive of\\nthe material and intellectual progress, the ornamentation\\nand the civilization of this Citj of his many charities,\\nunheralded at the times of their dispensation, I may not\\nspeak. They are fresh in the recollection of us all.\\nWere he here, he would tolerate no eulogium, and now\\nthat he is dead, as his friend I will do no violence to\\nhis known wishes.\\nI cannot refrain however, from reminding you of two\\nprincely gifts whicli will identify his memory with Savan-\\nnah so long as human structures endure. I refer to his\\nmunificent donation of a commodious and substantial\\nbuilding on West Broad Street to be used as a Public\\nSchool for the education of the children of citizens of Afri-\\ncan descent, and to his presentation, to the Ladies Memo-\\nrial Association, of that admirable Bronze Statue of a\\nConfederate Soldier which surmounts the Monument erected\\nby fair hands in the Military Parade of Savannah in\\nhonor of our Confederate Dead.\\nListen to the offer and the acceptance of that noble\\ngift:", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "31\\nA meeting of the Ladies Memorial Association Avas\\nheld June 3rd, 1879, at 6 o clock, at the Lecture Eoora\\nof the Independent Presbyterian Church, when, after the\\ntransaction of the usual routine business, the following\\ncommunication from Mr. G. W. J. DeEenne was sub-\\nmitted by the President and ordered to be read\\nSavaknah, May 21, 1879.\\nThe President of the Ladies Memorial Associcdion, Savannah\\nMadam In pursuance of the proposition made and\\naccepted in April of last year, I now present to the Ladies\\nMemorial Association a bronze statue of a Confederate\\nSoldier.\\nIt represents him as he was, marked with the marks\\nof service in features, form, and raiment a man who\\nchose rather to be than to seem, to bear hardship than\\nto complain of it a man who met with unflinching\\nfirmness the fate decreed him, to suffer, to fight, and to\\ndie in vain.\\nI ofier the Statue as a tribute to the Men of the\\nConfederate Army. Without name or fame, or hope of\\ngain they did the duty appointed them to do. Now,\\ntheir last fight fought, their suffering over, they lie in\\nscattered graves throughout our wide Southern land, at\\nrest at last, returned to the bosom of the loved Mother\\nthey valiantly strove to defend.\\nAccording to j^our faith, believe that they may receive\\ntheir reward in the World to come they had none on\\nearth.\\nWith the expression of my profound respect for those\\nwomen of the South avIio, true to the dead, have sought\\nto save their memory from perishing, I am, Madam,\\nYery respectfully, etc.,\\nG. W. J. DeRENNE.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\nThe following resolutions were then offered and unan-\\ninion.sly adopted by a rising vote\\nWhereas our fellow-citizen, G. W. J. DeEenne, has\\npresented to this Association the bronze statue of a\\nConfederate Soldier now crowning the Monument erected\\nin the Military Parade of this City to the memory of\\nthe soldiers who perished for the Cause they held more\\nprecious than life\\nTherefore, Resolved that we, the members of this\\nAssociation, individually and as a body, do hereby unau-\\nimoush^ express our grateful appreciation of this noble\\ngift recognizing its great merit not only as a work of\\nart, but as a signal ornament to our beloved City, and\\nas a valued contribution to the public sentiment worthy\\nof the munificent and solemn purpose of the donor.\\nEesolved that we do hereby accept this tribute with\\nprofound gratitude, and, in the name of all who are\\ntrue to these heroic dead, we reverently consecrate it\\nto the memory of the Soldiers of the Confederate Army\\nwho went down in silence.\\nResolved that two copies of these proceedings be signed\\nby each of the Officers of this Association one copy\\nto be presented to G. W. J. DeRenne, Esq., the other\\nto the Georgia Historical Society, with the recpiest that\\nit may be placed for preservation in the Archives of\\nthe Society.\\nHENRIETTA COHEN, Prcsuhnt.\\nS. C. WILLIAMSON, Treasurer.\\nS. C. MANN, Secretary:\\nThus are the name, the generosity, and the patriotism\\nof our departed friend indissolubly linked with the holiest", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nmonument erected within the contiues of this Monumen-\\ntal City a monuinent redolent of the praj^ers, the loves,\\nand the tears of mother, wife, sister, daughter a monu-\\nment crystaHzing in towering and symmetrical form the\\nmemories of the Confederate struggle for independence\\na monument standing as a spotless, imperishable, just\\ntribute to our Confederate Dead. To the Cause which\\nit symbolizes and the heroes who perished in its sup-\\nport, time can bring no shadow, nor envious years oblivion.\\nThe thirty-seventh Anniversary of our Society we mark\\nwith our whitest stone for on that occasion, amid appro-\\npriate ceremonies and eloquent utterances, was formal\\npossession delivered, at the hands of General Alexander\\nR. Lawton, the donor s trustee, \u00e2\u0080\u0094of this Hall, the home\\nof our institution. Our hearts overflow with gratitude\\nto the noble Sisters whose charities have filled our City\\nwith gladness and placed this Institution upon a van-\\ntage ground the like of which exists not Avithin the\\ncompass of these Southern States. Georgia has never\\nknown such charitable bequests as those which emanated\\nfrom the clear heads and warm hearts of Miss Telfair\\nand Mrs. Hodgson. They stand alone and without par-\\nallel in the history of Georgia wills, and when the pend-\\ning litigation shall have been concluded in favor of these\\nbequests, as thus it must be in the name of all that is\\njust and equitable, no limit can be assigned to the\\nbenign and far-reaching benefits which will ensue from\\ntheir judicious and enduring administration. Behold\\nwhat they have done for us. See this well appointed\\nLibrary-Room with its twelve thousand volumes. What\\nSouthern Historical Society can claim like apartments or\\noffer such a well-spring of intellectual life? Secure in\\nits foundation, enjoying the advantages of this commo-", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "84\\ndious abiding place, enriched with such literary treas-\\nures, and with a firm hold upon the affections of this\\ncommercial metropolis and Queen City of Georgia, who\\nshall allot bounds to the enlightening influences which\\nshall radiate from this Society and from this Library V\\nGive a man a taste for reading, says Sir John Her-\\nschel, and the means of gratifying it, and you can\\nhardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed,\\nyou put into his hands a most perverse selection of\\nbooks. You place him in contact with the best society\\nin every period in historj^ with the wisest, the wittiest,\\nthe tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters\\nwho adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of\\nall nations. a contemporary of all ages. The world has\\nbeen created for him.\\nSee to it. Gentlemen of the Georgia Historical Society,\\nand Citizens of Savannah, that you generously give and\\nwisely expend in the support and augmentation of this\\nLibrary. It is an active, potent instrument of the highest\\ncivilization.\\nThink too of the future which opens before this\\nSociety in the intelligent administration of that Charity\\nwhich places under your charge the Telfair Mansion and\\nfurnishes you with competent means to there inaugurate\\nand maintain an Academy of Arts and Sciences.\\nIt is the misfortune of this new country that we are.\\nin large degree, ignorant of true art and almost totally\\nwanting in everything which savors of antiquity. Our\\nvenerable monuments are biit the works of yesterday,\\nand our thoughts are largely obedient to the exactions\\nof a utilitarian civilization. We lack repose, we lack\\nopen-air gardens, we lack music, we lack art-galleries,\\nwe lack public libraries, we lack gymnasia, we lack", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "35\\nfree temples of learning, and these are, in the main,\\nthe inheritances of age. We have no British Museum\\ninto whose lap the treasures of centuries have been\\npoured no Westminster i^bbe.y where the proudest memo-\\nries of a thousand years are perpetuated in choicest\\nstone, memories of king and knight and warrior, of\\nstatesman and jurist and philosopher, of metaphysician\\nand poet and historian, of sculptor and painter and\\nastronomer, of bishop, mathematician and inventor, of\\nessayist, novelist, and humorist, memories of all that is\\nregal, valorous and enviable in England s history sym-\\nbolized for the instruction and the emulation of the\\nages no National Gallei-y wherein are garnered up\\nsome of the loftiest achievements of the brush: no\\nSouth Kensington Museum where the eye is dazzled\\nwith art trophies gathered from the four corners of the\\nEarth. All these and more our Mother England pos-\\nsesses, and we, her best born, should emulate her exam-\\nple. Already has personal acquaintance with the galleries\\nof the Old World and the marbles of a classic civiliza-\\ntion engendered in this land a taste for and an appre-\\nciation of Art in its highest expressions. The increasing\\nwealth and education of the present American generation\\nare already vying with tlie riches and the taste of for-\\neign countries in securing objects of rare merit and\\nhistoric value. Some of our private galleries are even\\nnow famous, and public institutions, at prominent points,\\nare attracting to their ownership, in various departments\\nof science and art, collections which will ere long become\\nthe envy of the civilized nations. A new era dawns\\nupon us.\\nWe know not how great or how inviting this Telfair\\nAcademy of Arts and Sciences may become in the near", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nfuture, or what its treasures will be in the eons to come.\\nIt will prove a magnet in our midst around which will\\nconcentre all that is beautiful, instructive, and refining.\\nLet us have a care that we admit nothing within its\\nwalls which Avill not bear the criticism of true art and\\nmerit the sanction of time, nothing which does not\\npossess genuine value and serve aptl}- to illustrate some\\ndepartment of knowledge. You iiia.j gather the 3 ellow\\noxides upon a thousiind hills. You must dig deep into\\nthe bowels of the rocks ere you find the pure gold.\\nAbove all, let this Academy illustrate Georgia, her\\narch;eology, her miuero.logy, her flora, her fauna, and\\nexhibit everything which may tend in Art and Science\\nto interpret her past, glorify her present, and minister\\nto the grandeur of her future. In the development of\\nthis bequest we have a mission to execute of no little\\ndifficulty, and of surpassing importance.\\nRemember also that publications of interesting contri-\\nbutions to the history of our State are the life and\\nhonor of this Society. By them we thrive and gain\\nreputation. Thus do we augment our library and main-\\ntain an enviable position among our sister institutions.-\\nAlthough we have done much in reproducing scarce tracts\\ndescriptive of the foundation and early life of the Colony,\\nsomewhat remains to be accomplished in this regard.\\nA reprint, for example, of the publications to which the\\nexpedition of General Oglethorpe against St. Augustine\\ngave rise, would form an acceptable volume. There are\\nnarratives too, connected with our Revolutionary period,\\nwhich should be diligently sought, collated, and made\\npublic.\\nAnd then, what a wide field opens before us when\\nwe contemplate the surprizing fact that of the past", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\neighty years and more of her existence Georgia has no\\nAvritten history. Even the materials for the compilation\\nof such a work are uncollected and -wholly undigested.\\nThe conduct of our State affairs, the development of\\nour Judiciary system, our religious, social and intellec-\\ntual growth, the sale of our Western Territory, the\\npart sustained in the war of 1812-15, our Indian\\nAffairs, our complications with the General Government,\\nour participation in the Florida wars, the rise of politi-\\ncal parties and the heated contests which convulsed our\\nCommonwealth, our share in the honors won by the\\nsword upon the fields of Mexico, the glorious memories\\nwhich Georgia bequeathed during the Confederate strug-\\ngle for independence, the dark days of reconstruction,\\nthe adaptation of sj^stem and pursuits to the new order\\nof things, the expansion of our inhabited territory from\\na narrow domain clinging for protection to the Atlantic\\non the one hand, and the rivers Savannah and Alatamaha\\non the other, into its present august proportions, the\\nwonderful development of our agricultural, manufacturing?\\nand industrial pursuits, all these and more remain to\\nbe grouped, analyzed, and narrated. Then too, the lives\\nand the acts of the good and the great who have made\\nour State prosperous and happy at home and famous\\nabroad, statesmen, warriors, lawyers, physicians, divines,\\nscholars, teachers, planters, manufacturers, where are they?\\nThe sad and extraordinary fact stares us in the face that\\nof Georgia, as a State, now more than a century old and\\noccupying the front rank in the Southern sisterhood,\\nwe, her children, have literally no written history.\\nWould 3 ou seek it? Get you then to the moth-eaten\\nfiles of almost forgotten newspapers, those invaluable\\nchroniclers of passing events address yourself to docu-", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nments cribbed in the departments, four times silbjected\\nto removal upon the changes of the seat of government,\\nand once despoiled by Federal soldiery, documents from\\nmany of which time hatli eaten out the letters and\\nthe dust made a parenthesis betwixt every syllable\\nsearch for ephemeral tracts, gazetteers, and partial collec-\\ntions which, having responded to the requirement of the\\nmoment, have fallen into disuse and oblivion sit you\\ndown at the feet of the aged and the honored whose\\nrecollection, at farthest, extends scarce fifty years into\\nthe gathering gloom of the past glean thence the his-\\ntory of Georgia as a State, if you can, for you will\\nfind it treasured no where else.\\nIn the language of one of Georgia s noblest sons,*\\nAll sovereign peoples, who can review their past with\\nhonest pride, owe it to themselves, their ancestors, and\\ntheir posterity to have made, from time to time, true\\nand permanent historical records of their political exis-\\ntence. Most, if not all of the original thirteen States\\nof our Union, and many of their younger sisters, have\\nrecognized the importance of so doing, and have adopted\\nmeasures to that end. Georgia, one of the original sis-\\nterhood, now ranking for enterprise and progress among\\nthe foremost, may be said to have no condensed writ-\\nten history. Even the fragmentary efforts in that way\\nare very far from reaching our own times, and, for\\ngeneral edification, are out of print.\\nIt is time, high time that our beloved State had awa-\\nkened to this imperative duty. Time, the relentless de-\\nstroyer of man s works and the records of them, is fast\\nobliterating the materials of which such a work must\\nneeds be constructed. It has been too long delayed.\\nEx-Governor Charles J. 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You will search in vain for the Thermopylae\\nof the bygone century, but the story of the brave Leon-\\nidas and his associates abides unchanged. With Livy in\\nyour hand you may not now locate the field of Canna?,\\nand yet in the pages of that historian you will still\\nmark the conquering Carthagenians overthrowing the\\nRoman Consuls and slaying their bejeweled followers\\nuntil the Aufidus ran blood. Yes, to true History\\nbelongs a duration which outlives empires and outwears\\nthe hardest marble.\\nIt has been well said that the most substantial glory\\nof a country concentres about her great and virtuous\\nsons. Her prosf)erity and dignity will largely depend\\nupon the loyalty with which succeeding generations per-\\npetuate the remembrance of their acts and examples,\\nand the docility with which they obey their exalted pre-\\ncepts. Power and wealth are mutable. They pass away\\n*See Everett s oration on The Bunlcer-HUl Monument.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nleaving only ruins which are a mockery. But the phi-\\nlosophy of great events and the influence of splendid\\nexamples, once properly interpreted and recorded, are as\\neternal as truth.\\nGentlemen of the Georgia Historical Society, in the\\nhurried retrospect we have taken of the life of this\\nInstitution we find cause for sincere congratulation and\\nhope the most Hattering. The future expands before us\\nthe materials of history multiply with each decade and\\nour succession is perpetual. We have fairly recovered\\nfrom the desolations wrought by war. Prosperity is\\nmeasurably ours. You have been the recipients of gra-\\ncious charities which lift you above every anxiety, and\\nenable you to compass with greater ease than ever the\\nobjects for which you are associated.\\nIn the name of all who love the prosperity of Geor-\\ngia and earnestly desire her moral and intellectual\\nadvancement, I salute you upon this your forty-second\\nanniversary and bid you good speed in your useful and\\nrefining labors.\\nIn the whole range of pleasurable occupations few, if\\nany, can be more engaging than the collection, arrange-\\nment, and conservation of the historical memories of the\\nCommonwealth whose sons we are, and whose good name\\nand fair fame are as dear to us as the ruddy drops\\nwhich vitalize our loval hearts.", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "anniversaryaddre00jone_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3390", "width": "2107", 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