{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3982", "width": "2481", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2y*-\\n^^^-^Z* V* V ^s**^\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^S^ v*^\\nv.\\n-i^. -4", "height": "3829", "width": "2407", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2407", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "^t^\\nA. I) i:) n E s s\\nDELIVKHKU BKFORE THK\\nmi\\nI ieorgia Jistorical ^ffnetj.f\\nON ITS\\n^J\\nNINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY,\\nFEBRUABY 12, 1858,\\nB V J o lin E W a r d\\ntj*^%- ^p i**^^f**^\\nSAVANNA H\\nGEORGE N. NICHOLS, PRINTER.", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A^ r D R E 8 S\\nDEI IVERED BEFORE THE\\nGeorgia Historical Society,\\nON ITS\\nNINETEENTH A.NNIVERSARY,\\nFEBRUARY 12, 1858,\\nBy J oil 11 1^. Ward.\\ny OFCO.^\\n^M^\\nS A V A N N A II\\nGEORGE N. NICHOLS, PRINTER.\\n1857.", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CORRESPONDENCE.\\nSavannah, 13th February, 1858.\\nDear Sir: The undersigned, Committee of the Georgia His-\\ntorical Society, take pleasure in commmiicating to you the following\\nresolution, unanimously adopted last evening\\nJiesolved, That the thanks of this Society be tendered to the\\nHon. John E. Ward, for his chaste and eloquent address delivered\\nbefore the Society on its Nineteenth Anniversary, and that he be\\nrequested to furnish a copy for publication.\\nWith sentiments of great respect and esteem,\\nWe are, yours very truly.\\nI. K. TEFFT,\\nGEO. A. GORDON,\\nWM. NEYLE HABERSHAM,\\nEDWARD PADELFORD, Jr.,\\nWM. S. BASINGER.\\nHon. John E. Ward.\\nSavannah, 13th February. 1858.\\nQentlemen In compliance with the request of the Georgia\\nHistorical Society, I herewith furnish you witli a cop\\\\ of my address\\nfor publication.\\nVery respectfully, your obedient servant,\\nJOHN E. WARD.\\nTo Messers. I. K. Tefft, Geo. A. Gordon, Wm. Neyle Habersham,\\nEdward Padelford, Jr;, Wm. S. Basinger, Committee.", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "^ites.\\n\u00c2\u00a9^^^t\\nIn 1839, our fellow-citizen I. K. Tefft, the distinguished\\ncollector of Autographs, having in his possession many\\nvaluable documents relating to the ColoFiial and Revolutionary\\nhistory of Georgia, realizing the necesity of some institution\\nin which the records of the State might be preserved, sum-\\nmoned to his aid a few kindred spirits, and with them formed\\nthe Georgia Historical Society.\\nTo say many words upon the importance to our country\\nand to the world at large of such an Association, would be\\nunnecessary its very name contains its panegyric. History\\nnot only commemorates great actions, it incites to them.\\nHad Homer never chronicled in his immortal poem the\\nwisdom of Ulysses, the strength of Ajax and the irresisti-\\nble valor of the son of Thetis, Greece would have had\\nfewer heroes. A nation without history, is a nation with-\\nout life. Long before Guttenburg had moulded types, before\\nCostar had cut the blocks of wood in which lay yet in\\nembryo, the world s master, printing, before language had\\nbecome the easily wielded instrument of thought that now it\\nis man, thirsting for the immortality for which he was\\ncreated, sought some means of perpetuating his name, of\\ngiving to that^ vitality and power, when he himself should\\nlie beneath the clods of the valley, as powerless as they.\\nThis desire speaks on the walls of buried Ninevah and ruined\\nEgypt. This endowed with creative power the painter s\\nbrush and the sculptor s chisel. This reared the triumphal\\narch, decked the temple and woke the echoes with song\\nwhose tones call forth yet a responsive thrill in the world s\\nloftiest spirits. The old Scandinavian Sea Kings, though", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6\\nthey won kingdom and treasure, felt themseves but half re-\\nwarded for their strife, till the Scald had struck his sounding\\nharp and given their names a place beside the heroes of the\\npast. In a double sense the Poet was the maker for he\\nmade not the poem only he breathed life into the hero\\nwhose deeds that poem commemorated. At length the\\nMuse of History was born of soberer brow and more quiet\\nmien. She does not fire the blood with momentary frenzy,\\nbut her steadier impulse gives courage to ihe heart, vigor\\nto the nerves, and qnick sagacity to the mind. She records\\nthe triujnphs of successful soldiers who have exchanged\\nthe sword for a sceptre, the military garb for the Im-\\nperial purple. The young Corsican, gifted hy nature with\\nan indomitable will and a niaster genius, reads and becomes\\na Buonaparte. She tells of the nobler power by which men\\nhave acquired that last great victory the victory over them-\\nselves by which all selfish impulses have sunk beneath the\\nloftier aspiration to become a nation^s benefactor. A boy,\\nnurtured in free America, learns the lesson, and comes forth\\nwith the calm, serene wisdom, the lofty sense of duty, the\\nsteady, unwavering courage of a Washington.\\nAnd now, to-day, withdrawing for awhile from the crowded\\nmarts of business, forgetting for a brief hour the cares of the\\npresent, let us stand before this Muse of History and from\\nthose tablets on which she has engraved as with a pen of dia-\\nmond the memories of the past, let us seek to read the page\\nthat records the life and character of this, our native State\\nthe youngest of that fair band of sisters that in 1776 shook\\noff their allegiance to the British crown. She was not the\\nlast to enter on her new career nor has she been the\\nslowest in her progress. Beautiful was her domain even\\nin the wildness of uncultivated nature, when no foot\\nbut die red man s trod her green Savannas or penetrated\\nher leafy forests, and no keel, save that of his light canoe,\\nhad divided her sparkling waters when beneath the\\nsame sun that now rolls over our heads, the Indian hunter\\npursued the panting deer when gazing on the same mooa", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "fhat now smiles tor us, the Indian lover wooed his dusky\\nmate. On the North and West she lifted herself hito lofty\\nhills, rich with the precious metals, and on the East and South\\nlay a chain of green islands emeralds in her queenly coro-\\nnal. Broad rivers swept through her plains their fertilizing\\ncurrents, and over her rocky steeps cataracts toamed and\\nbrawled, or, dividing in their course, fell softly in fairy foun-\\ntains. Nature is unchanged. The beauty of the river and\\nthe hill remain, and the soft titUs ot an almost tropical sky\\nwere then, as now, mirrored in the stream. And so they\\nwaited for the hour and tlie man and they came.\\nFor ages how many, who may say a tribe of the great\\nfamily of the Muscogees dwelt in. or more properly roamed\\nover, this beautiful land. The hills never revealed to them\\nthe secret of I heir treasures, nor did they suspect the abun-\\ndance that lay within the bosom ol* the earth, ready to start\\ninto life to reward the cultivator. More tluui two centuries\\nhad passed since Columbus had dared the spirits ot the deep,\\nand forced them to surrender to him the mystery they had\\nguarded so long and so well the secret ol ii new world.\\nMore than a century had rolled around since Knglishmen\\nhad landed on these VV estern shoi es. The settlers of James-\\ntown had grown into a flourishing State. The handful of\\nfugitives from religious persecution which had landed at Ply-\\nmouth rock, had become a nation and had sent out South and\\nWest the genius of two new States, Rhode Island and Con-\\nnecticut. The New Amsterdam of the Dutch on the Hudson,\\nhad changed its name and its governmerit, and become the\\nNew York of the English. Penn had established his peace-\\nt ul settlement on the banks oi the Delaware. IS ew Jersey\\nhad become consolidated by the surrender ot its rights of\\ngovernment to the English Crown. Lord Baltimore had\\nopened an asyknn for Roman Catholics on the Chesapeake,\\nDescendants of the pious Huguenots of France and of the\\nloyal cavaliers of England, associated under the cumbrous\\nconstitution prepared for them by Locke a great metaphy-\\nsician but a poor statesman had extended their settlements", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "as far South as Port Royal, now Beaufort. In some of these\\nsettlements the spirit of enterprise or the love of gain had\\nprompted their founders. In others, loftier motives the de-\\nsire of civil liberty, or the Heaven sustained determination\\nto secure Freedom to worship God had been the promp-\\nters. But now a higher lesson than even that of christian\\nliberty was to be given the lesson of Christian charity. The\\nPilgrim Fathers of New England came thither from the state-\\nly homes of England, not as the flourishes of the rhetorician\\nand the dream of the poet have represented, to assert the rights\\nof conscience and the claims of man, as man, to freedom of\\nfaith, they came to assert the right nay the determina-\\ntion of their individual selves to found a church without a\\nBishop, to preach in a black coat and to pray without a book-\\nThey sought not toleration at all, but freedom, nay dominion,\\nfor themselves. If this be doubted, let the fanatical Quakers,\\nand the one catholic spirit among them, Roger Williams,\\ndecide the doubt. Even so all honor to the brave earnest\\nmen and the meeker but not less heroic women, who pre-\\nferred a winter voyage in a frail bark, a home on a bleak\\nshore with an icy earth beneath their feet, a stormy sky\\nabove them and a savage foe howling all around them, to\\none instant s sacrifice of what seemed to them the claims of\\nGod and of conscience. They had attained the beginning\\nof Wisdom which the Song of Sirach asserts to be the\\nFear oi the Lord but the end of the law is Charity,\\nand it was in the benign spirit of self-denying, charity, tliat\\ncivilized man first found a home under these softer skies\\nWe have said that, the hour came and the man. He was\\na man of rare endowment, combining the chivalric quali-\\nties of the knight and the gentleman, with the accomplish-\\nments of the scholar, and the benevolence of the christian.\\nIn the exercise of this last trait, he had preceded Howard in\\nthe examination of the jails of England. To judge by the\\njurisprudence of England at this period, it would seem that\\nhuman life was considered as far less valuable than property.\\nThe fainting mother who seized with frenzied hand the loaf", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "for which she could not pay, to save, not lierself. but her\\nchild from the clutch of death, the law condemned to a felon s\\ndoom. The simple-hearted, unsuspecting gentleman, whom\\na dishonest steward, or a speculating attorney had involved\\nin debts whicli he could neither understand nor pay, was\\nimmured from tlie cheerful light of day, compelled to forego\\nthe manly exercises which had given vigor to his frame, and\\ncourage to his heart, and to sit down within the blank\\nwalls of a jail, with no companion but the memory of joys\\ngone forever, and apprehensions not the less terrible because\\nthey were undefined. Whose heart has not been touched by\\nthe picture which the wonderful genius of Dickens has so\\nlately exhibited of the terrible iniiuences of such a doom of\\nintellect withdrawhig, of honor growing dull, and self-respect\\ndying out, till the shadow of those dark walls, the impress\\nof that meagre life stamped tlieniselves upon soul and body,\\nand the man lived a scorti to others, a sad mockery to him-\\nself From such a fate the benevolent Oglethorpe rescued\\nmany a gallant gentleman of England, some of whom, per-\\nchance, had been his own personal friends, some, perhaps,\\nhad ventured and lost all in their loyalty to a cause which\\nGen. Oglethorpe was well known to favor the cause of the\\nexiled Stuarts. It was a glorious tho];ght to bear the prisoner\\nfrom a land ii. which though liberated, the dark cold shadow\\nof the prison walls must ever have fallen upon his path, to\\nthe beauty and the freedom, the sunlight and the bloom of\\nthis fair land. Hither they came, the genUeman of England,\\nwhose worst fault was, that, honest himself, he could not sus-\\npect others of dishonesty. The gallant Highlander of Scot-\\nland, whose last hope of seeing the king have his own\\nagain, had been trodden out beneath the hoofri of Cumber-\\nland s cavalry at Culloden the gay son of Erin, ready alike\\nfor the battle-field or the convivial feast, for the enjoyment of\\nwealth while he possessed it, or the adventurous pursuit of it\\nwhen it had fled from him\u00e2\u0080\u0094 true hearts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 manly spirits\u00e2\u0080\u0094 it\\nwas a good thing to open to them these fair homes. But the\\nbenevolent design of Oglethorpe ceased not here his charity\\n2", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\nwas world-wide wherever man bowed beneath an oppres-\\nsor, wherever tyranny uttered her commands, or persecution\\nHghted her fires, it sent forth the invitation, Come with us,\\nand we will do thee good. And from the depths of the\\nGerman forests, and the vine-clad borders of the Rhine, they\\ncame, in a sublime faith, journeying through hostile knds,\\nwith fearless tranquihty, and singing amid the storm and the\\nsea ^their hymns of lofty cheer.\\nThe Indian wigwam was then the only dwelling on these\\nshores. But what need was there of dwellings in the soft,\\nbalmy air, and beneath skies which in February seem bright\\nwith a summer s sun Would that for one brief hour, we\\ncould resusitate the buried past, and bring its vanished scenes\\nand characters before you that we could command the mag-\\nic wand of genius at whose touch the present and the actual\\nShould dissolve,\\nAnd like an unsubstantial pageant faded,\\nLeave not a rack behind.\\nand in its place should rise the forest, under whose o er-\\narching boughs should pass before us, now the dusky faces of\\nthe Yamacraws now the Salzburger with his simple garb\\nand earnest countenance, and now the Highlander with his\\npicturesque tartan, and amongst them all, should move the\\ngallant, good old English gentlemen soothing the dissatisfied,\\ncheering the faint-hearted, helping the weak, and directing\\nall. He leads forth the Lutherans, assisting with his own\\nhands to clear the wood through which their course lay to\\nthe spot where they would erect their Ebenezer. He heads\\nthe brave Highlanders as they march against the invading\\nSpaniards. Touched by the submission, the helpbssness and\\nthe ignorance of his savage allies, he conducts them to the\\nfoot of the English throne, endeavoring in their behalf to\\nawaken the sympathies and secure the aid of all true chris-\\ntian hearts. And christians there are who hear his appeal\\nand answer in a spirit as generous as his own, Wesley, with\\nhis full, warm heart; Whitfield, with his fervid eloqufuce and\\nhis more fervid charity, have left memories of themselves on", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11\\nthese fair shores. To the latter especially we owe the birth of\\nan institution which neither we nor onr posterity will willingly\\nlet die\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Orphan House, within whose walls many of either\\nsex have found a refuge from ignorance and vice. Years\\nglide awy the christian soldier returns to his native land,\\nwith a heart still full of wise and kindly schemes lor the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2benefit of those whom he regarded as his children. Full of\\nyears, and full of honors, he passes from earth to Heaven.\\nThe little colony ceases to be the pet and plaything of\\nroyal caprice. It had dwindled under protection it thrives\\nthrough neglect, and grows strong amid difficulties. The\\nfounder of an empire must be thrown out to the storms, and\\nhave the wolf for his nurse. Before the time came for break-\\ning oiT the chains which had been rivited upon us during\\nour colonial dependence, the little colony had risen to the\\ndignity of a State, though more than two-thirds of its terri-\\ntory was still the hunting ground of the Indian, or the home\\nof wild beasts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a State, though its army was but a few hun-\\ndreds in number, and its marine consisted of a few peaceful\\nmerchant ships for\\nWhat constitutes a State?\\nNot high raised battlements or labored mound,\\nThick wall or moated gate\\nNot cities proud, with spires and turrets crown d,\\nNot bays and broad armed forts,\\nWhere, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride\\nNot starred and spangled courts.\\nWhere low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride;\\nNo MEN high-minded men\\nMen who their duties know,\\nBut know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,\\nPi event the long aimed blow,\\nAnd crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain.\\nThese constitute a State.\\nAnd these Georgia could boast. They might be checked at\\nevery move for a while, for superior power was against them.\\nThey might find the faint-hearted, extinguishing with their\\ncold coward breath the crlow of patriotism which they had kin-\\ndled but no obstructions, no discouragements, could shake", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nthe constancy of their steadfast souls. Others might continue\\nslaves; but for i/iem, they would be free, though to achieve\\nfreedom they must shuffle off this mortal coil,- and escape\\nfrom thraldom through the gate of death. Noble men their\\nnames live in our hearts. We read with a throb of pride\\ntheir assertion of the rights of man to the enjoynieiUof life,\\nliberty, and property, and their temperate, yet firm appeals\\nto the British government in behalf of rlieir oppressed\\nbrethren of the Northern States. There is scarce a man\\nwearing the form of man. who, when a tyrant s hand falls\\nheavily upon himself will not rouse himself to action, and\\nshake it ofl\\\\or perish in the attempt: bur the glory of\\nthese men was, that no touch had yet des x rated\\ntheir persons, or endangered their i)roperty, when they\\navowed their intention to make common cause with the\\nstruggling friends of freedom. On the one side was peace,\\nthe quiet enjoyment of weaith. the smooth words and the\\nready rewards of the British officials, wielding the whole\\norganized power of the land and as the price of all these\\nbenefits, the simple acknowledgment that they were the gifts\\nof royal bounty. On the other, a long, deadly and doubtful\\nstruggle, in which -property, life, and sacred honor, must\\nbe pledged, and looming darkly in the dim distance, rose a\\njjrison and a gallows. But over this sombre scene, penetra-\\nting its darkness with her own pure light, and gilding with\\nglorious brightness even the instrument of a felon s death,\\nhovered the Spirit of Liberty. They knew they must win her\\nby their oavu action.\\nWho would he frci- must theuiet.^lvt. strike tlio blo T.\\nAnd their choice was made a noble choice, and nobly\\nmaintained The events of that period are familiar to you all.\\nI need not tell you how the rudderless and unrigged ships\\nrotted in our harbor, or were burned to the water s edge\\nwith the rice and indigo that freighted them nor need I re-\\nmind you that these determined men had pledged themselves\\nto fire their houses, rather than they should afford shelter to\\nan enemy. Well might the President of the Continental", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\nCongress declare that in this they had given an instance of\\nheroic principle not excelled by an}^, and equalled but by\\nfew in history. But I am not pronouncing a panagyric\\nmy part is to breathe life, if I may, into the dead past, and\\nbid you note its acts, and kindle at its glorious example. Did\\nI say the dead past? Such a past never dies! The men\\nof that year, 1775, the men who drew up the Declaration of\\nthe Rights by which, in language temperate, yet firm, they\\navouch themselves enthled to all the privileges and immuni-\\nties of Englishmen, who stood prepared to defend that dec-\\nlaration with their lives, have engraved their names on the\\ncorner-stone of our political edifice in characters that shall\\nnever be effaced. Even now these men Bulloch and Hab-\\nersham Jones and Walton Telfair and Tattnall Mcintosh\\nand Elbert Houston, and Screven, and Baker, and many more\\nequally brave and noble spirits, are present with us. Their\\ncalm, earnest eyes seem to abjure us to preserve unimpaired the\\nheritage won with such care and perils. They planted the seed\\nof that noble tree which this day lifts itself so proudly to the\\nlight and air of Heaven, and shelters us so securely beneath\\nits spreading branches. Withered be the sacrilegious hand\\nthat would mar its glorious beauty It is not without a\\ndeeper meaning than may be recognized at a glance, that we\\nhave said, they planted the seed, for in their action lay\\nthe germ of all that we have been, are, or may hope to be,\\nas a people. They stamped their impress, not on their age\\nonly, but, as we hope, on their native land, for all time. Read\\ntheir utterances in the public records of the day, and you will\\nbe surprised to perceive how simple, calm, and even concilia-\\ntory, they were in manner, how unyielding in principle\\ngentle as the whispering wave stern and unbending as the\\ngranite rock. The ^siiaviter in tnodo et fortiter in re\\nhave never been carried farther. And thus it is with all truly\\ngreat actions. It is the shallow brook that brawls and foams\\nalong its course the deep stream flows silently on yet a child\\nmay dam up the first, while the last sweeps from its way with\\nirresistible power whatever would obstruct its majestic career.", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nOnce, in the later history of Georgia, she has stood opposed\\nto the action of the Government for the time being. The cir-\\ncumstances which placed her in that position are too recent\\nto need recapitulation. Yon remember how the General\\nGovernment fulminated its edicts; how the very ministries of\\nour religious faith were made to speak the language of our\\nenemies and you remember too with what calmness, yet,\\nwith what immoveable constancy, he who then held ihe helm\\nof State, steered us through all opposition to the point to\\nwhich right and honor marshaled us.\\nIt is in this view that the present acquires its chief impor-\\ntance it is the Uttle seed within which lies folded the great\\ninterests of the future. Self-styled philosophers may mock\\nat the history which makes the whole destinies of the\\nrace of man depend on the single act of a single pair but\\nobservation and experience confirm its truth. In every age\\nand in every land there are those who may in this sense be\\ncalled representative men men whose characters shall be\\nreflected in their race and mould their fortunes to the latest\\ntime, or till some other of equal power shall give a counter\\ndirection to the forces of society. Vve live not then for our-\\nselves alone, a conviction that may well stimulate us to high\\nthought and noble action. Nor are those men who shine as\\nstars in the firmament of history, by whose light we may\\nsteer our barks over the wide ocean of time, always those\\nwhom nature or fortune has placed in the most prominent\\npositions, or gifted with the greatest powers. A recent histo-\\nrian says: The treaties of Aix la Chapelle had been nego-\\ntiated by the ablest statesmen of Europe in the splendid\\nforms of Monarchical Diplomacy. They believed themselves\\nthe arbiters of mankind, the pacificators ot the world.\\nAt the very time of the Congress of Aix la Chapelle, the\\nwoods of Virginia sheltered the youthful George Washing-\\nton. A stripling surveyor in the woods, with no companion\\nbut his unlettered associates, and no implements of science\\nbut his compass and chain, he contrasted strangely with the\\nimperial magnificence of the Congress of Aix la Chapelle.", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nAnd yet God had selected not Kaunidz. (the Ambassador of\\nAustria,) nor Newcastle, (the Minister of England,) not a\\nMonarch of the House of Hapsburg, nor of Hanover, but\\nthe Virginia stri|)pling, to give an impulse to human affairs,\\nand, as far as events can depend on an individual, had placed\\nthe rights and the destinies of countless millions in his keep-\\ning.\\nLet us glance our eyes along the ma|) of the world in the\\nearly part of the sixteenth century. Great names meet us there.\\nIn England, Ho^riry VUL haughty and arrogant in France.\\nFrancis I, one of the most chivairic of monarchs in Spain,\\nCharles the V, who added to his Imperial dignities the title\\nby election of Emperor of Germany. These men seemed no\\nless inquahty than in rank. They attracted the eyes and\\nthoughts of all the living men of their time. They met in\\npeaceful pageants, and the gorgeous display of the Field of\\nthe Cloth of Gold remains to this day without a rival in our\\nimagination. They met in war, and played at the game\\nright royally, staking and losing Kingdoms at a blow.\\nAmoijg these more prominent figures, there rises upon us\\none which seems strangely our ot place tlie son of a poor\\nman in an insignificant town in the heart of Germany. The\\nKings and the Emperors may he forgotten but tor the re-\\ncords oT history they would already have perished\\nfrom the world, on v\\\\^hich they left little trace; but while\\nthe world endures, v\u00c2\u00bb hile men are thronging towards the\\nopen portals of eternity, and inquiring with the intensest in-\\nterest for the way of life, that German boy will be remem-\\nbered. He broke the fetters from the mind of universal man.\\nThe world can never be again what it would have been\\nwithout Martin Luther.\\nAnd wiiat in both tijc^-e cases gave infiuence to the man\\nand lifted him not above liis contemporaries only, but above\\ntlie men of all time? There were men as brave as Wash-\\nington in the Revolutionary War, priests as learned as Luther\\nin the sixteenth century, soldiers and priests more ambi-\\ntious of station and influence, more determined to be great", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16\\nthan they. To truth, they sought not greatness they coveted\\nneither power, nor renown they simply Ibllowed the com-\\nmands of\\nDuty, 8tern laught n of the voice of God.\\nThey followed her often reluctantly, feeling the Cross and\\njjot always seeing the Crown. They thought Uttle of them-\\nselves and much of their work. Let those who would he\\nremembered as they are, do like them.\\nPerhaps it may be said that only at great eras of history is\\nit vouchsafed to a single man to rise thus above his fellows.\\nTo this I answer, it is the man who makes the era, not the\\nera, the man. Our ideal ever lies in the present and tlie\\nactual a possibility to be achieved even as the statue lies\\nin the yel unchiselled marble, waiting hut the touch of genius\\nto wake it into life. There are always duties to be performed,\\nsacrifices for others to be patiently endured, wrongs to be\\ncombatted, rights to be enforced and so true greatness may\\nbe won, and our names, receiving the emblazonment of histo-\\nly, may become a world s treasured possession.\\nWhat ideal is there that may not be wrought out in our\\nown time We talk of chivalry as of the things of the\\npast. The glory of chivalry was that it submitted to self-\\ndenial, endiu ed hardship and put life in ])eril for a noble cause.\\nIts mailed hand wrung from the gripe of the oppressor his\\nill-gotten gain it unclasped the fetters of the enslaved it\\nlilled up the down-trodden; in its strength the feeble found\\nrefuge, and the poor were fed by its bounty. As in his se-\\ncluded cloister the monk of the middle ages preserved amid\\nsurrounding darkness a feeble glimmering of intellectual\\nlight, and some sparks of that holier flame from which the\\nfires of our christian altars were afterwards rekindled, so the\\nknight errant of those days kept alive in men s hearts the\\nideas of truth and honor, of justice and nobleness, which\\nwere in danger of being crushed and trampled out beneath\\nthe feet of the thronging tribes of men in their onward\\nmarch.\\nAt length, the wildly confused and warring elements of", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "17\\nsociety subsided into tranquility. Nations and governments\\nsprang into being where had once been only savage hordes.\\nA new power arose in the world the power of the people\\nand their will and their force, embodied in the law, took the\\nplace of the Knight s strong arm. In her unsleeping vigilance\\nwe may rest secure. Under her protection Christianity has\\ncome forth from the cloister, teaching man to be merciful,\\nbecause,\\nAll souls that were, were forfeit once\\nAnd He that might the vantage best have took,\\nFound out the Remedy.\\nChristianity wins from free warm hearts, what Chivalry forced\\nfrom unwiUing hands. At her appeal, the miser unlocks his\\nstores, the oppressor lays aside his rod and chain, and man,\\nbent beneath the load of ceaseless labor, and brutalized by\\nvice, lifts himself upward toward God, and rejoices in the\\nlight of His countenance. Had Christianity, then, the uni-\\nversal sway which poetry has hymned and prophecy assured\\nto her, we might fold our arm.s in idle enjoyment and feel\\nthat the determined will, the daring spirit, and the heroic\\nheart of the knight, were as much things of the past as the\\niron mail in which he was accustomed to encase himself\\nBut such is not our happy experience. The glories of the\\nAge of Gold have passed away^ and that happier era when\\nthe redeemed earth shall brighten in the rays of the Heaven\\nto which it is rising, has not yet come. Poets may dream\\ntheir dreams, self-complacent philosophers may map out their\\nUtopias, but practical men men of action, as well as of\\nthought, men who live in no dream-land, but in the actual\\nworld, these men know that there is work around us that will\\ntask the most energetic, and the most daring spirit\u00e2\u0080\u0094 work, be-\\nfore which we might well stand appalled, but that there comes\\nto us, sounding through the ages, that old battle-cry, God\\nFOR THE Right! The castles in which grim prejudice\\nhas entrenched itself are to be stormed. They are strong,\\nand multitudes have mustered to their defence let no\\nman gird himself for the combat who is not prepared to peril\\n3", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\nproperty, station, friends, life, and what is dearer still, good\\nNAME. The dungeons in which ignorance has shut her cap-\\ntives, must be thrown open to the light of day but he that\\nwould perform the task must descend himself and breathe\\ntheir pestiferous air. The plague-smitten victims of vice\\nmust be ministered to but the moral surgeons who devote\\nthemselves to their treatment, ere entering the hospitals in\\nwhich they lie, must divorce tliemselves from all that men\\ncall pleasure, and learn to look, with an almost divine charity,\\non what usually inspires only disgust and loathing. Is not\\nthe very spirit of knight-errantry the spirit which shone\\ngloriously though all its fantastic forms, in those who\\ngird themselves for this contest May not the man of to-\\nday find as noble a field for his powers as did any of those\\nwhose names we have seen blazoned on the tablets of his-\\ntory Can we not find scope for a charity as self-denying,\\nas world-wide, as high-hearted, as that of Oglethorpe? If it\\nbe not ours to lay the corner-stone, as did he, to a new\\nState, we may put the key-stone to the arch, which shall give\\nstability to all that has been already done. By the silent\\ninfluence of a noble, self-devoted life, by the fearless utter-\\nance of truth, by manly action in the cause of right, we may\\nmake this, our native State, worthy of its founder, and\\nof the gifts with which Heaven has so richly endowed it.\\nOne characteristic marks the truly great man of every age:\\nhe thinks much of his work, and little of himself. Oglethorpe\\nvisits the poor gentleman, for a gentleman he still is, in his\\nprison. He sees the heavy eye, which strives in vain to\\nbrighten on his entrance, the languid movement where once\\nall was brisk cheerfulness, the frame formerly erect with\\nmanly dignity, now bowed and shrunken he sees all this\\nhe does more than see, he feels it, and he asks not how\\nJames Oglethorpe may make his name great, but how he\\nmay bring new life, and health, and hope, to these sad\\nwrecks. He has found his work and does it\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that s all.\\nWashint;(on was pre-eminent for tliis quality of greatness.\\nNature had endowed him with military instincts. He has", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "19\\na prospect of obtaining service in the navy of Great Britain.\\nHis firstcrui.se would iiave i)een with Adniinil Vrniioii mi an\\nexpedition which offered peculiar fascinations 1o the adven-\\nturous spirit of youth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but his widowed mother opposed il,\\nand his trunk, aheady borne to the vessel, is recalled let\\nthe youth who considers it a proof of manhood never to\\nsubmit his will to another s, especially if that other ho a\\nwoman, hear\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and he turns with cheerfulness to hischaui and\\ncompass. The fathers of the Revolution,did they, think you,\\nspend much time in speculating how they might best achieve\\nhonor for themselves? Did they plan the drama of the Rev-\\nolution and, like skilful actors, suit themselves with parts?\\nNo they did the work of tlie day and hour, careful only,\\nwhatever it was, that it should l)e done well. They reared\\nthe fair temple of our independence, unconscious that on its\\ncolumns their own names would be inscribed. A few years\\nlater, there arose in another land revolutionists more dra-\\nmatic, who constructed after the most approved classic mod-\\nels every act and scene of their great play. What came\\nof that you know\u00e2\u0080\u0094 how they mistook Ucense for liberty, and\\nPlayod such ftvntastic tricks before higl) Heavt-n\\nAs made the angels weep.\\nThe works on which Napoleon Bonaparte rested his hopes\\nof fame those in which the sentiment of personal aggran-\\ndizement and personal glory lived as the animating spirit\\nthe empires which he overturned, the sham republics he\\nconstituted the dynasties he established over these the\\ndeep sea wave ot Time has swept and they are gone. The\\nlandmarks which he destroyed, have been restored, and had\\nthese things made the sum of his life, with all the brilliancy\\nof his genius and the dazzling splendor of his military prow-\\ness, he would have left only\\nThe name at whiclt the world grew pale.\\nTo point a moral, or adorn a tale.\\nBut his true work that which tiad been prepared for Inm\\nby the world s Great Ruler was done too and well done\\na people drunk with fury were checked and curbed in their", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\nmad course the dethroned Majesty of law was re-estab-\\nlished the financial credit of a great bnt nearly bankrupt\\nland was restored and on the territory of those vanished\\nEmpires and Republics, he has left enduring monuments of\\nhis power and his genius, in an improved police, in canals\\nwhich have opened to their produce the markets of distant\\ncountries, and roads which have made over hitherto inacces-\\nsible mountains, a highway for Europe.\\nIt is not then by direct efforts to aggrandize themselves\\nit is not by waiting for extraordinary occasions of action that\\nmen build up a great name a name which the muse of his-\\ntory shall delight to engrave upon her tablets which their\\nfellow men shall receive from her with reverence and hand\\ndown from generation to generation.\\nTime was indeed when the world s heroes were such as the\\nboy conqueror of Macedon, weeping for more worlds to con-\\nquer and quenching alike his grief and his greatness in mad\\ndebauch, or the selfish destroyer of Roman liberty but the\\nworld has grown wiser, and has learned to feel more reve-\\nrence for a benefactor than for a destroyer of mankind. The\\nverdict of history is but the expression of the public senti-\\nment of the age in which it is written, and we feel that\\nEven now the voice is heard\\nO er the waters calm and clear\\nEven now the wave is stirred,\\nWith an Angel presence near,\\nAnd a better Age of Gold\\nCometh as the Bard foretold.\\nWhen no war shall bid men bleed\\nTo o erthrow a hostile throne,\\nOr to change a people s creed\\nThat may differ from their own\\nBut neath Truth s unclouded sun\\nRight and Power shall aye be one.\\nOn the fair pages of our annals have been recorded many\\nhonorable names some that well deserve to be associated\\nwith the men of 1733 and of 1776. Statesmen they have\\nfilled with honor offices of trust in their own State, or under", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "21\\nthe Federal Government. In the Navy of the United States\\nthey have fearlessly braved on every sea the battle and the\\nbreeze, and while the stars and stripes which waved above\\nthem reminded them that it was to the whole country they\\nhad pledged service and life, they still felt that one star in\\nthat brilliant constellation beamed for them with purer and\\nbrighter hglitthan any other the Georgi/nrn Sidti.s. Soldiers,\\nthey have fought gallantly and died bravely let the battle-\\nfields of Mexico and the lionored dust wliich sleeps in yon-\\nder church yard tell that tale. But 1 would this day lay a\\nchaplet on the graves of men whose conflicts and whose tri-\\numphs were connected not with the battlefield, but with the\\nforum. Let their names be breathed in tender accents, for\\naft ection still weeps upon their tombs. We cannot speak of\\nthem as we have done of men of the past, for they were our\\ncontemporaries and our fellow-citizens treading the same\\nstreets, mingling in the same scenes with ourselves they\\nwere our friends, we have caught fervor from their kindling\\neyes inspiration from their glowing lips courage from the\\ngrasp of tlieir hands. We have missed tliem from our daily\\nwalks, and felt a painful sense of loss as we listened in vain\\nfor tlie lamiliar voice, and souglit in vain the quick and kind-\\nly glance. You, gentlemen, of the Georgia Historical Socie-\\nty, liave peculiar cause for these feelings, for both were active\\nmembers of your Association, and one of them, your first\\nPresident.\\nHow vividly rises before me the slight but well knit, active\\nform, the pale face, the thoughtful brow, the earnest eyes\\nwhich made up the impressive aspect of Robert M. Charlton,\\nthe acute lawyer, the upright Judge, the scholar, the poet, the\\nfond and tender father, the true and devoted husband, the chris-\\ntian, vixit jnoriturus^ moritxir que victurus in seternwm.\\nIt has been the custom to speak of the legal profession as ne-\\ncessarily inimical to t lose qualities which, according to the\\ngreat English Satirist, mark the noblest work of God, an\\nhonest man but who ever knew Robert M. Charlton and\\nwould have hesitated to confide in his lightest v/ord as in a", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\ncontract signed and sealed what a fountain of lender sTm\\npatliies, of life-giving charily was jiis heart! Over quirk,\\nnatural sensihilities the imaginative teniperatnent of the poet\\nshed brighter and warmer hues and what fervor did his\\npoetry lend to his logic, what grace to his oratory We\\nmay seem to have said much and yet we have not touched\\ntliat wliich crowned and hallowed his every gift and every\\ngrace these rare endowments were perfected witli the\\nspirit and reflected visibly to every eye, the hght of Heaven.\\nSay, then, he is dead Believe it not his spirit lives not\\nin Heaven more surely, than his influence remains a living\\npower on earth. The profession he adorned is the purer in\\nhis native State the city to which he belonged is the more\\nlionored, for his life. His memory is one of our treasured\\npossessions we will guard it well\\nGreen t)c the turf above thee,\\nFriend of iny earlier days!\\nNone knew thee but to love the\\nNone named thee but to praijio.\\nBeside the warm, living portrahnre which we are conscious\\nour words have bnt faintly presented, we would place ano-\\nther, more grand, it may be, in its proportions, though less\\nwarm in its coloring, and less illuminated by that tender light\\nwith which the heart halos the pictures it enshrines.\\nTo those who met him in the daily walks of life, John\\nJVlacpherson Berrien is recalled, as one who exhibited in a\\nvery remarkable degree, the graceful courtesy of the pol-\\nished gentleman, and the elegant cultivation of the thorough-\\nly furnished scholar. In some respects, he belonged to ano-\\nther age than ours. The busy man of the present day shows\\nhimself what he is he moves with hurried step, and has\\nfew words and fewer mere courtesies to spare. No one could\\nsuspect Judge Berrien of being an idle man, yet who ever\\nknew him betrayed by hurry into the forgetfulness of the\\nsmallest courtesy, whether to his friends in the intercourse of\\nsociety, in the senate, or to his antagonists at the bar? It was\\nthere that he showed great(i5fr7t/m2,5l the bar, that his genius", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "23\\nrose triumphant. Who that ever saw him there, his face ra-\\ndiant with the glow of conscious power who that ever heard\\nthose tones which rang on the charmed ear Uke the notes of\\na silver clarion, can forget the impression he made Who\\nthat ever hstened to his plea but can remember how he\\nswayed his judgment, fired his heart, and influenced his\\nwhole being at his will With him died, as we believe, the\\ngreatest advocate not of Georgia only but of the United\\nStates. Webster s granite mind dealt with great constitution-\\nal questions with unequalled power, but as an advocate at the\\nbar, the exquisite tact, the soul-subduing eloquence of Ber-\\nrien surpassed even him. It will be long, ere in this State, or\\nin this Union, we shall find for him among living men a rival,\\nor a peer. If Charlton s grave should be decked with the\\ngreen turf and shadowed by the over-arching boughs which\\npoets love, the monument of John Macpherson Berrien\\nshould be of purest marble, polished and wrought with the\\nmost artistic skill. His State s men will never hear his name\\nwithout a glow of pride.\\nCharlton Berrien Their names have become historic\\nin their native State. You, gentlemen, will not suffer them\\nto perish especially will it be your pride and pleasiu e to\\ncherish that of John McPherson Berrien, your first President.\\nWe have read from the tablets of history the record of\\nsome of those names, preserved from oblivion by their great\\nand good qualities. We have seen that they lived not for\\nthemselves or for their age alone, but for the world and for\\nall time. We have endeavored also to show that the oppor-\\ntunity for noble action died not with them, that the world\\nhas still work to do which requires strong hands and pure\\nhearts, and though it crown not the workers with laurels\\nwhile they live, history will not fail to write their names upon\\nlier page and commit it to your faithful keeping. It is yours\\nto preserve green the memory of the honored dead. From\\nyour hands, the living wait their reward the proud reward\\nof a name that shall be to children and to children s children\\na star guiding them in safety aitd honor through midnight", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\nglooms and over trackless seas. We all expect your verdict;\\nlet it be faithful and impartial.\\nWho that surveys this span of eaith we press,\\nThis speck of life in Time s great wilderness,\\nThis narrow isthmus twixt two boimdless seas,\\nThe past, the future two eternities\\nWould sully the bright spot, or leave it bare,\\nWhen he might build him a proud temple there,\\nA name, that long shall hallow all its space,\\nAnd be each purer soul s high resting place.", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "^oy\\nO M O\\n\u00c2\u00ab0", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "=1^\\nh\\n1 x^\\nS ^Hl/MW. -J-\\n---^K*^ ^^ms J\\no o\\n1^ .^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o. o\\nSEP 7f-^^.4\\n5\\ni:-N^\\n,rw C-", "height": "3829", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 419 4664", "height": "3992", "width": "2497", "jp2-path": "addressdelivered00ward_0038.jp2"}}