{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3599", "width": "2148", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Glass. ^r/\\nBook", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A HIGH CIVILIZATION\\nTHE MORAL DUTY OF GEORGIANS\\nA DISCOURSE\\nDELIVERED BEFORE THE\\nGEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.\\nON THE OCCASION OP ITS\\nFIFTH ANNIVERSARY,\\nON MOIVDAY^ 12th. FEBRUABT, 1844.\\nBY THE RT. REV. STEPHEN ELLIOTT, JR.\\nSAVANNAH:\\nPUBLISHED Br A RESOLUTION OP THE SOCIETy.\\n1844.", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "n", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CORRESPOiNDENCE.\\nSAVANNAH, FEB 12Tn, 1844.\\nDear Sir, The Georgia Historical Society, at their annual meeting\\nhcid this evening-, unanimously adopted the following Resolution\\nResolved, That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Rt. Rev.\\nStephen Elliott, Jr I). I), for the highly interesting and impressive\\ndiscourse delivered this day before them on their Fifth Anniversary,\\nvvliich was alike worthy of himself and of the occasion, and that a copy\\nbe requested for publication.\\nI take great pleasure in being the organ of communicating- the above\\nto you, and trust that I may have the same pleasure in conveying your\\nncceptance to the Society.\\n1 have the honor to be, witli great respect and esteem,\\nYour s, very truly,\\nI. K. TEFFT,\\nCorresponding Secretarrj.\\nRt. Rev. Stepheit Elliott, Ju. D. D.\\nSAVANNAH, FKH. IGrir, 1844.\\nDear Sir, I received this morning- your .s fef last night, covering a\\nResolution of the Georgia Historical Society, requesting a copy of my\\naddress of yesterday for publication.\\nBut one answer can be given to sucli a Resolution, that the address is\\nat the service of the Society If it can be made useful either to the Socie-\\nty or the State it wdl afford me the highest gratification\\nVery lespectfu l} your obedient servant and friend,\\nS lElMIEN KLUOTT, JR.\\nT. K. Tefft, Esa.,\\nCorresponding Secrelary.", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE\\nISKFORE THE\\nGEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.\\nGentlemen OP the Historical Society\\nWhen Oglethorpe, a century since, fired with benevolence,\\ndetermined to devote the best years of his manhood to the foun-\\ndation of a new colony upon these western shores, he little dream-\\ned, how all things had been working together, under the over-\\nruling Providence of God, to render that colony one of the favour-\\ned spots of the earth. His views were bounded by existing\\ncircumstances the relief of the unfortunate debtor the in-\\ncrease of the trade and commerce of his native land the im-\\nprovement of the Indian tribes the strengthening of the Biitisli\\ncolonies upon their Southern frontier. If his hopes or even his\\naspirations stretched beyond these results, they took no definite\\nshape they embodied, at least, no such idea as has been devel-\\noped in the independence and progression of our present State.\\nNor was he singular in this want of discernment, for although\\ncoming events had cast their shadows before, and the world for\\nmany ages, in song and story, had fixed its dreams upon a VV est-\\nern continent, no one had realised the distinctive glory of its set-\\ntlement. Some had come to these shores in a spirit of the wild-\\nest adventure, gratifying at once an ambitious temper and a thirst\\nfor gold others, that they might plant the cross upon this land of\\npromise and make its future kingdoms, the kingdoms of God and\\nof his Christ others again that they might carry out schemes of\\ncivil and ecclesiastical polity, which they deemed essential to truth\\nand to happiness, and which were denied to them at home. It\\nwas a mingled feeling that peopled the land, a feeling com-\\npounded of some of the worst and some of the choicest ele-\\nments that made up the life of the Old World. None saw\\nclearly the result of the movement injne embraced at once the", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\npast and the future and linked tliem together for the solution of\\nthe problem. Each colony had its peculiar spirit weaved its\\nown web of life felt an indistinct consciousness that it was mov-\\ning forward to some vast purpose, but as with prophecy, the event\\nalone could give this consciousness form and feature. And for\\nthe consummation of that event, preparing as it had been for ages,\\nmen had to wait, until God s ways with whom a thousand years\\nare as one day had worked to their result. No wonder that\\nthey did not see it for it is ever God s plan to use nations, as\\nwell as individuals, for the perfecting of his purposes, and while\\npuisuing their schemes of ambition and their di eams of gain and\\ntheir notions of policy pursuing them, too, with a consciousness\\nof the most unrestrained liberty to mould their feelings, their\\nthoughts, their movements, in such wise, as to guide them inevi-\\ntably to the final cause of their creation.\\nWhile all tliis movement of the Old World upon the New was\\nin progress atid an unwonted excitement had taken hold of peo-\\nples and nations, no one, J say, grasped the important truth\\nthat the New World was the theatre which God had kept hidden\\nfrom mankind, while the elements of a more perfect civilization\\nthan any the world had seen were gathering for its blessing,\\nWhile they supposed that they were merely transferring to a\\nnew soil ancient modes of thought and feeling, they were really,\\nas Arnold expresses it in another connexion, taking not only a\\nstep in advance, but //if last step it bore mai ks of the fulness\\nof times, as if there would be no future history beyond it. For\\nthe last eighteen hundred years, Greece had fed the human in-\\ntellect Rome, taught by Greece and improving upon her teach-\\ner, had been the source of law and government, and social civi-\\nlization and what neither Greece nor Rome could furnish, the\\nperfection of moral and spiritual truth, had been given by Christ-\\nianity. The changes which had been wrought had arisen out of\\nthe reception of these elements by new races, the English, the\\nGerman, the Saxon races endowed with such force of character,\\nthat what was old in itself, when exhibited in them seemed to\\nbecome something new. Now looking anxiously around the\\nworld for any new races which may receive the seed (so to speak)\\nof our present history into a kindly yet a vigorous soil, and may", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "reproduce it, the same and yet new, for a future period, Ave know\\nnot where such are to be found. W e may not find new races,\\nbut we inhabit that New World, where God desit^ned to work out,\\nthrough the combination of tiiese elements of civilization, the\\nhighest purposes of human nature. These colonies sprang into\\nexistence in possession of every thing which would inevitably\\ngive them, so soon as natural difficulties were overcome, immense\\nmoral weight in the scale of nations. What Europe had been\\ngradually moulding herself into for centuries a series of con-\\nstitutional governments formed the basis of their civil state.\\nWhat Rome had expended all her power and wisdom to attain\\na higher social life, a life of law and equity at once came over\\nto them with the legal institutions of their father-land. What\\nGreece had worked out as the result of a most happy intellec-\\ntual freedom and activity the co xaXov in letters, in arts, in\\ntaste flowed in as their heritage from the schools and universi-\\nties in which they had been bred, and to crown the whole, what\\nGod had been consummating for the nations the revelation of his\\nwill the manifestation of himself in the face of Christ Jesus\\nbecame the moving cause of much of the emigration which\\nmade the wilderness a peopled city, and the desert a place of\\nhabitations. As these colonies grew into life, thev were nuitur-\\ned in religion, literature, laws, lite, which the world had been\\nperfecting in its long and varied course nurtured, too, under\\ncircumstances in which many of the evils which had growi, up\\nalong with them could be shaken oflj and their inherent blessings\\nfind room to develope themselves, in any direction and toward any\\nperfection the will of man might suggest\\nWhile such views as these were overlooked by the colonists of\\nthe New World, matters of minor importance were proposed as\\ninducements to colonial settlement. Georgia, especially, was\\nproclaimed as the garden spot of the earth. Two centuries of\\ndisappointment were not enough to prevent the enthusiasm of the\\nOld World from being anew enkindled by the descriptions which\\nwere circulated respecting this land of perpetual spring and ever\\nblooming flowers and exhaustless life. Prose and poetry vied\\nArnold s Lectures on Modern aistory. pp. 28, 29. London, 1843,", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "B\\nwith eacli other to give celebrity to this choicest spot of nature,\\nand Europeans were again led to cast themselves upon America,\\nlured by the promise of advantages which they never reaped.\\nWine and silk, and, above all, hmg life, were the great incentives\\nheld out to the settlement of Georgia, and these expectations\\ndelusive as they have proved themselves to be outweighed the\\nwretched fate of the Spaniards, and the miserable experience of\\nthe other colonists, and even the very recent story of Indian mas-\\nsacres at the gales of Charleston. It is vv^onderful that men\\nshould have risked any thing in the face of such an experience,\\nbut all things were in the hands of Him, who was overruling the\\nwills of men to his own high purposes.\\nBut although these things were overlooked by those who first\\nplanned their footsteps upon this soil, it is nevertheless our duty\\nto take them up and carry them out to their fullest extent. So\\nsoon as the concurrence of circumstances, and the sequence of\\nevents, determine the destiny of a people, that moment is that\\npeople morally bound to perfect that destiny. However blindly\\nits founders may have advanced to their work however ignor-\\nant they may have been of the ultimate purpose for which they\\nwere spending their labour and shedding their blood still were\\nthey laying the foundation as they were directed, and we must\\nraise the superstructure as we are directed. In either case is the\\nfinger of God pointing to the duty and to the responsibility We\\ncan see what they were not permitted to see their labour hath\\nraised us to an height whence we can distinctly discern the whole\\npurpose of God, and how we may give it its utmost fulfilment.\\nTheir part in this great drama, wherein we are now the busy ac-\\ntors, was that of toil, and suffering, and peril, and sword ours to\\ngive that life of deprivation its full effect by schooling ourselves\\nthrough a severe intellectual and moral discipline for the attain-\\nment of the high point of civilization marked out for us. Should\\nwe not march up to that great and noble end in the proper tone\\nof mind and spirit, we should be derelict to the trust which has\\nbeen committed to us we should be taithless to the memories\\nof our fathers, who suffered that we might be the heirs not only c\u00c2\u00bbf\\ninestimable privileges, but likewise of incalculable responsibili-\\nties. They haye acted their part well before their energy and", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "perseverance the forests have given place to the habitations of hixu-\\nry; under their wise policy and determined courage a weak colony\\nhas grown into a powerful State. Every thing which obstruct-\\ned their progress has been put out of the way and we are left in\\nfull and free possession of a mighty domain, richly covered with\\nthe blessings of nature and inheriting every element of civilization\\nwhich the experience of the world has accumulated. They\\nbrought in the inaterials of power and of glory, and removed the\\nphysical obstacles which hindered their developement to us it\\nremains to work up those materials into their highest perfection,\\nand reach the point of culmination. As one has well expressed\\nit, We must be shamefully and monstrously inferior to our\\nfathers, if we do not advance beyond them.\\nThe highest civilization of a land is wrought out when the so-\\ncial, intellectual, moral and religious elements become universal\\nand harmonize the will of a free people. The oneness of a\\ntyranny is nothing but coercion it is force pressing every\\nthought and feeling into a like mould it has form and system,\\nbut lacks the vigour and elasticity of life. The oneness of which\\nwe speak is that produced by a consent of the universal and un-\\nfettered will of the people to a line of conduct the noblest and\\nthe best the best, not only as a question of interest or policy,\\nbut the best because the loftiest in tone and the sublimest in truth.\\nSuch oneness as this gives a mighty impulse to a people and car-\\nries them to true greatness with a certainty which nothing can re-\\nsist. In such action as this, the whole power of a commonwealth\\nis concentrated, and from the highest to the lowest nay, there\\nis no highest and no lowest when men move in such an harmony,\\nfor it is all the truest nobleness there is one motive, one\\nfeeling, one burning desire to press forward and upward nearer\\nthe ideal, satisfied with no resting place, till it hath planted its\\nfoot upon the point nearest perfection. It is this infusion into\\nthe mass of high principles, social, intellectual, moral, religious\\nit is this unity of purpose and of will for lofty ends that is civi-\\nlization the civilization which God designed to be worked out\\nthrough the combination of these elements in this land, where\\nthey all meet upon a wide and glorious arena, with nothing to\\n2", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nfetter their fullest developement. May we train ourselves for\\nthe struggle with moral evil, which alone can hinder us from\\ntreading the path of truth and therefore of glory\\nThere has been much hitherto to prevent Georgia from pos-\\nsessing this unity of purpose and of will. Settled at a period\\njust preceding the Revolution, its close found her with but a very\\nscanty portion of her domain either peopled or possessed. A\\nline drawn from a point a very little above Augusta until it struck\\nthe waters of the Ogeechee, following the course of that river un-\\ntil it reached Fort Argyle, and diverging thence to the southern-\\nmost point of St. Simons, would have embraced every thing of\\nterritory with which Georgia entered upon her career of indepen-\\ndence. The residue of her vast domain was peopled by Indian\\ntribes, chiefly of the great Mobilian family. To the north among\\nthe mountain fastnesses were the Cherokees, much of whose rich\\nand beautiful country has been just added to the active territory\\nof the State. Along the Savannah between the Currahee and\\nAuo-usta and extending westwardly over the Oconee were the\\nXJchees. Spreading westwardly from the Oconee and covering\\nall that beautiful rolling country between the branches of the\\nAlatamaha once the favourite hunting ground of the Indians,\\nnow the ravaged and desolated clay hills of Morgan, Newton, Put-\\nnam, Jones and Jasper and sweeping away to the Gulf of\\nMexico and the Alabama river, were the numerous tribes of the\\nMuscogees or Creeks. With a domain extending from the At-\\nlantic Ocean to the Mississippi and from the Savannah to the Flor-\\nida line, Georgia could call up to her Legislative councils so late\\nas 1784, delegates from only a few Parishes skirting the lower Sa-\\nvannah and the Atlantic coast. From that time until the present\\nhas she been incessantly engaged in reclaiming her territory and\\nassimilating to herself the emigrants that have flowed in, as she\\nopened hei fresh and lovely lands to the stranger and the wander-\\ner. And too often did they flow in merely to despoil her beauty\\nand leave her to years of widowhood and desolation. It is mourn-\\nful, as one passes over that glorious country between the Broad\\nand the Oakmulgee rivers, and listens to the traditions of its beau-\\nty, over which the older settlers love to linger, as it lay one vast\\nrolling woodland with the wild deer bounding through it, and the", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "11\\nbtill wiiiier Indian rejoicing in its gorgeous vistas, to look upon\\nthe change which has come over its face. The eye rests now\\nupon decaying villages and sweeps of deserted hills, protruding\\ntheir bald heads and furrowed cheeks, fit emblems of the reck-\\nless and dissipated culture which has so soon covered them with\\nthe marks of decrepitude, deep tokens of the tears which nature\\nherself has shed over the sad treatment she has received An\\nold man said to me with deep emotion, fSuch farmers as those\\nin sinning against natute, have sinned against God.\\nThe domain of Georgia originally extended as far south only\\nas the Alalamaha, and it was not until just a few years before the\\nrevolt of the colonies that her charter was extended so as to em-\\nbrace the tenitory between that river and her present southern\\nline. The convention between South Carolina and Georgia in\\n1787, at Beaufort, arranged with South Carolina her northern\\nline and confirmed her title to the southern portion of her tem-\\ntory. From the dale of this convention was Georgia engaged in\\nlaying out new counties in the Broad River country, until 1794,\\nwhen incipient steps were taken to organize what was technically\\ncalled the Tallisee, which had been ceded by treaty with the\\nCreeks at Galphintqn in 1785. This Tallisee extended from the\\nAlatamaha to the St. Mary s, and included the present counties\\nof Glynn, Wayne, Camden, Appling and Ware. Again was\\nthere a long pause, during which the State was creeping slowly\\nup to the Oconee and the Alatamaha on the West and to the\\nGurrahee on the North. The year 1S02 witnessed the ratifica-\\ntion of the acts of agreement and cession mada the previous\\nspring between the United States Commissioners on the one\\npart and those of Georgia on the other, by which Georgia ceded\\nall her territory West of her present boundary line, to the United\\nStates, upon certain conditions, one of wh.ch was the speedy ex-\\ntinguishment of Indian titles within her present limits. In pur-\\nsuance of this act of agreement and cession, the Indian title to a\\npart of the lands lying between the Oconee and Oakmulgee was\\nextinguished by treaty at Fort Wilkinson in the summer of 1802,\\nand their title to the remaining portion of the same lands by\\ntreaty at the City of Washington, in 1805.\\nHere let us pause and look at Georgia in 181-1, before the treaty", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nof Fort Jackson. It is just thirty years since and we find the\\nState in possession of not quite one half of her territory. Much\\nof the most lovely portion of her domain that mountain region\\nskirting the borders of the Carolinas and all of the richest of\\nit those exhaustless lands between the Alatamaha and the\\nChatahoochie was still the heritage of the Cherokees and the\\nCreeks. They still roamed over the picturesque vallies of the\\nNaucoochie, and the Soqui, and sported beside the deep chasm,\\nand unapproachable cataract of the Tallu]gi,h. They still coursed\\nthe deer over the rolling forests of the South West, and laved\\ntheir sinewy limbs in the rushing waters of the Flint and among\\nthe rapids of the Chatahoochie. Spots which are now covered\\nwith the habitations of luxury, were then in the garb of their\\ncreation. Forests, whose silence was then unbroken save by the\\nroar of the wild beast or the still more fearful yell of the Savage,\\nhave given place to the busy marts of commerce and of trade.\\nAll this time was Georgia shoi n of her wealth, almost ignorant\\nthat she was the mistress of mines of gold and of acres more val-\\nuable far than gold; all this time was she toiling, as it were,\\nafter her greatness, seeing it in visions, yet not realising it\\nmarching painfully towards it, yet never graspijig it, until she\\ncovered with the elements of civilization all the land which was\\nembraced within her limits.\\nIt was impossible, under circumstances like these, that the\\nStale could unfold its resources either with power or harmony.\\nHer new territory was filled with emigrants, who, for a time at\\nleast, wei e not assimilated to the State which received them.\\nThey necessal^ly brought along with them the feelings and the\\nprejudices of their own homes and looked back upon the States\\nwhich they had left, with more pride and attachment than upon\\nher who had adopted them. Besides, the fresh outlying lands\\nseemingly too abundant ever to be exhausted, created in the peo-\\nple a restlessness which was adverse to every thing like perma-\\nnent improvement. With improvement of that kind, there must\\nalways be connected a feeling of stability a hope, at least, that\\nit will descend upon and be useful to our children. But when the\\nprospect was before men, that every decade of years would open\\nto them a virgin and fertile soil fertile in reality, but still more", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "13\\nfertile because imagination lent its colouring to reality tlic\\ntemptation to a wasteful use of the land they possessed was irre-\\nsistible, and icestward, westward was inscribed on every house-\\nhold banner. No cultivation was adopted but that which might\\nsoonest wring from the soil its treasures, careless of the waste\\nwhich was committed upon the heritage of the State, and thought-\\nless of the consequences they were entailing upon her for long\\nyears to come. No dwellings were erected which looked beyond\\nthe extinguishment of the next Indian title, and men tabernacled\\nrather than abode in the land which they had received at the\\nbountiful hands of the State. Poor requital for her liberality\\nShe has learned, almost too late, that where there is no tie be-\\ntween her and her people than the sordid one of interest, that tie\\nwill be carelessly snapped so soon as that same interest sum-\\nmons them elsewhere.\\nFrom 1814 to 1825 there were four cessions of land, that of\\nFort Jackson in 1814, of the Cherokee Agency in 1817, of the\\nCreek Agency on Flint River in 1818, and of the Indian Springs\\nin 1825, and these placed Georgia in possession of some of her\\nvery richest lands and extinguished the title of the Creek Indians\\nto all the territory within the limits of the State. These succes-\\nsive cessions gave to Georgia that fine mountain region, which\\nis fast becoming the retreat of luxury and refinement, and those\\nfertile South-western tracts which are to minister to that luxury\\nand work out that refinement. It is not twenty years less than\\nthe period of a generation and only then did the State lay her\\nhand upon territory absolutely essential to her completeness\\nand the stability of her people the one section fujnishiug them\\nwith a healthful summer retreat and thus obviating the necessity\\nof an annual emigration to the North so prolific a source of\\nexpense and idleness the other jjroviding for them within her\\nown limits lands of unbounded fertility and checking the Western\\ncurrent which was perpetually draining her of her resources and\\nher population. And what a change have these twenty years\\nwrought They have served to do the work of a century, and\\nalready are improvements of every kind gathering thickly around\\nthese favoured regions. Schools of a very high order; colleges\\nof good repute; dwellings that may compete with the luxury of", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nolder countries, have sprung up, as it were, by magic, and are but\\nheralds of the glory that is dawning upon the State, if she will\\nonly be true to herself. And it is a singular coincidence that\\nalmost at one and the same time, the Cherokees and the Creeks\\nceded those tracts of country which must eventually play into\\neach other s hands the salubrious regions of Hall and Haber-\\nsham, and the rich cotton lands of the Flint and the Chatahoochie.\\nMay a blessing follow this seeming Providence and prove that\\nthe hand of the Lord was in it.\\nAnd yet after all this was Georgia still doomed to ten years\\nmore of struggle before she could gain final possession of her\\ndomain. Her best farming lands that which was wanting to\\ngive compactness and harmony to the whole were still in the\\npossession of the Cherokees. The Chatahoochie was still hev\\nboundary upon the North-west, while she had a right at least\\nsuch a right as any State could lay to Indian lands, a right which\\neach, in its time, had exercised and seen no evil in it, until it was\\ntheir neighbour s turn to reap the benefit to stretch herself to\\nthe Lookout mountain and the Hiwassee. No wonder that she\\nstruggled hard for these lands and that the Indian struggled\\nequally hard to retain them, for they are worth any struggle.\\nCombining in a happy degree, healthfulness, fertility, and pictur-\\nesque beauty, containing mines of gold, mountains of iron, and in-\\nexhaustible quarries of marble, richly watered with bold yet\\nquiet streams, the Cherokee country must become eventually the\\ngarden of the State. It cannot vie in magnificence with the\\nNorth-eastern counties, where the ganglion of mountains pre-\\nsents every species of the sublime in nature neither can it\\ncompare in fertility with the rice lands of the Atlantic coast or\\nthe cotton lands of the South-west, but it combines the char-\\nacteristics of them all in a sufficient degree to satisfy the most\\nfastidious. The banks of its streams may almost compete\\nwith the farming lands of Kentucky and the beautiful vallies\\nwhich run down to the Coosa can bear a population as thick as\\nthat of the older countries of Europe. No wonder that the In-\\ndian struggled for it, as he never again will find so pleasant a\\nland, and wander where he may, he will sigh for the flowery\\nbanks of the Etowali and the fertile levels of the Oostanalau.", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "15\\nWell for him was it that he was conquered in the struggle, for it\\nhas placed him in juxtaposition with his own race, out of the\\nreach, we trust, of the vices of civilization, yet not beyond the in-\\nfluence of its blessings\\nIt was not until 183S that the removal of the Cherokee Indians\\nfinally took place and Georgia found herself, after a tedious\\nstruggle of sixty years, the mistress of her fine domain. What\\nthe memorial of the Senate and House of Representatives of\\nGeorgia stated in 1819 was still more forcible in 1838. It has\\nlong been the desire of Georgia that her settlements should be\\nextended to her ultimate limits; that the soil within her bounda-\\nries should be subjected to her control, and that her police, or-\\nganization and government, should be fixed and permanent. For\\nthe fulfilment of these desires, we have waited the tide of events\\nand observed the march of time for seventeen years. Within\\nthis period, we have witnessed, with much gratification, the spread\\nof the Union and the accession of States and Territories, greater\\nin extent than the original confederation. Two of the members\\nof this vast family are the descendants of Georgia yet Georgia\\nloses her strength and influence as a member of the Republic,\\nretarded as she is, in her growth and population and denied the\\nfostering aid of her common patent.\\nIt would thus seem that Georgia only now finds herself in a\\nposition in which she may hope to carry out to their highest re-\\nsults, the purposes of her settlement. For the first time, I speak\\nof course inclusively of a few years last past, does her population\\nextend over every part of her vast teriitonal surface. No longer\\nis there any temptation uponher people to restlessness and change,\\nor if there is, it is only from one portion of her borders to ano-\\nther for the purpose of final and permanent abode. Whatever is\\ndone now, must be done substantially. There are no more lands\\nto be opened no more Indian titles to be extinguished the\\nterra incognita is all unveiled and stripped of the charm which\\ntraditi\u00c2\u00ab)n and imagination had weaved around it. All that\\nGeorgia is, her sons now know all that she shall be, remains\\nfor them, under God, to determine!\\nFor the first time, in her history, may Georgia now look for a\\nnative j/ojjulation a population born upon her soil and loving", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nher because they may call her mother. Not that those who have\\nemigrated into her do not love her many of her most faithful\\nand devoted public servants come within this category but\\nnothing can replace the peculiar feeling which man sucks in\\nwith his mother s milk for the spot where first he breathed the\\nair of Heaven. Those who have come into her may feel them-\\nselves identified with her, so that her interest is their interest, but\\nstrive as they may, they cannot acquire that enthusiastic love\\nmade up of moral sentiment and youthful association which\\nsprings out of an identity as well of lineage, as of pursuit. The\\nGreeks expressed this feeling when they gloried in being\\n(x-oTti jpr,vsg s(ms of the soil, and felt that a stain upon their coun-\\ntry was a stain upon a mother s I eputation, and a reproach to her an\\ninsult that went to their hearts as to the hearts of children. This\\nis what Georgia, for years to come, should especially cultivate\\nthis feeling o^ homebred affection the saying of her sons, This\\nis my own, my native land, and not only saying it, but living it\\nin thought and word and action. It has been impossible for her\\nhitherto to have possessed it in her length and breadth, but now\\nshe may, and now she will, and it must give her an impulse that\\nshall show her sister States that she is as a giant awaking out of\\nsleep. Let her sons but lock their shields together, and nothing\\ncan impede her progress tn greatness\\nNor is it wrong to cultivate this feeling. It is entirely consis-\\ntent with kindness and sympathy for those who may cast their lot\\nin the midst of her nay, it is a guarantee to them that they are\\ncasting that lot where every individual feels himself a conserva-\\ntor of the public faith and the public honour. Under our system\\nof goveri.ment every State is Sovereign, save where that sover-\\neignty has been yielded up, and the surest path to united great-\\nness is that each part should cultivate greatness within itself. There\\nare few stronger safeguards, I speak as a man, against dishonor\\nand crime there are few more stirring incentives to nobleness\\nand self-devotion, than this love of country this liome-fcel mg\\ntowards one s State, as if all her sons formed one great fire-side,\\nand the public hearth was to be kept unpolluted like a private\\none! Local attachments can never be effaced. Man may reason\\nagainst them may fly away from them may strive to create them", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "17\\nanew but ilie heart goes back to the fire-side of its childhood and\\nthe play-grounds of its y\u00c2\u00bb)Uth. Man every day goes forth to toil,\\ncheered by the single hope that he may one day return to the .scenes\\nof his ewrly recollections. History is full of the record of those who\\nhave died that glory might be wreathed around their place of\\nbirth, or that shame might be averted from it. Such a feeling can\\nbe productive of nothing but good, for it adds to all the other res-\\ntraints upon human nature this mighty one, of a high public char-\\nacter resting upon a private one\\nThis then, as I said before, is the feeling which should be es-\\npecially cultivated for years to come in what may be called\\nYoung Georgia the feeling that this is Home, and that noth-*\\ning but the direst necessity shall separate them from it nay\\nmore, when that neces^^ity comes, and they are forced to burst\\nthe bonds of nativity, to go forth, like the nobleman in Sterne,\\nhaving first laid up their swords in the public keeping, until they\\nshall be ready to reclaim them. Generated at every part of the\\nState cultivated and nurtured in the homestead it would\\ncreate a bond of sympathy among the young those who must,\\nin a few years, hold in their hands the destiny of the State\\nstronger than ambition or interest or party. What could external\\npolitics advance that could compete with a feeling like this?\\nWhat enthusiasm could ever gather around the name of a public\\nman like that which would be kindled at the name of Georgia\\nThe question would no longer be, how will this course of policy\\naffect this or that party, or what influence will it have upon this\\nor that Presidential candidate, but how will it affect that which\\nis dearer to me than men or party, my own native land. Geor-\\ngia, as a State, would then stand above all other influences and\\nnothing would find favour among her sons that did not tend to\\nplace her higher in the scale of States, or stronger on the foun-\\ndations of truth and justice. An unity of purpose would thus be\\ncreated through the impulses of nature, and a homogeneousness\\ninsensibly grow up, which under continued cultivation would\\nproceed on to higher perfection.\\nThe next step in the increase of this home-feeling and this uni-\\nty of the people, must be to collect our young men together in\\nliterary institutions of our own creation. School and college\\n3", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nfriendships are those which last through life, and such friendships\\nmust exercise a powerful influence in assuaging the bitterness of\\nparty in after life, nay, in preventing the division of the State into\\nparties and cliques. Hence the advantage of one well endowed\\npublic University; so endowed as that the highest education may be\\nobtained at home and the leading minds of the State be cherished\\nup to greatness in contact with each other. Thrown together at\\na time of life, when the evil passions of our nature have not yet\\nfully developed themselves, personal prejudices would be worn\\naway, sectional feelings would be softened, and the mountains\\nand the seaboard would find that their very truest interest was to\\nbe faithful and just to each other. Every State that would im-\\npress itself morally and intellectually upon its age take for ex-\\namples Massachusetts and Connecticut must build up within it-\\nself and sustain, if need be, from the public coffers an University that\\nmay give at home to its sons as thorough an education, as can be\\nprocured any where else. So surely as this is not done, must her\\nyoung men be educated below the standard of the country and be\\nmade to feel through life their inferiority, or else be sent abroad\\nto form their feelings and their sympathies among strangers, per-\\nhaps to nurture prejudices against their home, that will go very\\nfar to unfit them for usefulness in future life. Now is the time\\nfor Georgia to assume this position, and lavish I purposely use\\nthe word her treasures upon the endowment of her University.\\nIf there is any thing in which economy is a fault, it is in connex-\\nion with education. Well paid Professors and a numerous corps\\nof them too an extensive library which might enable her litera-\\nry men to pursue at home any train of thought or matter of re-\\nSearch scholarships and fellowships to nurture her own sons\\nfor the high places of literature in her schools and colleges such\\nthings as these would keep at home much treasure which is now\\nspent abroad in the pursuit of learning, would elevate the intel-\\nlectual standard of the whole State, and would bring our young\\nstatesmen together in the halls of legislation not with the feel-\\nings of rival gladiators, but with the hearty welcome of school\\nand college friends, come up to bestow upon their common Pa-\\nrent the fruits of their intellectual maturity.\\nThese bonds of nature and of education having thus combined", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "19\\nto harmonize the State, the next step is to bring these elements\\nof higb civilization into still greater homogeneousness by a chain\\nof internal improvements leading to a rapid intercommunion.\\nNothing will so soon and so happily break down all sectional jea-\\nlousy, and all foolish prejudices, as bringing the people face to\\nface in a constant intercourse, Hilhcrt the various sections of\\nthe State have been almost unknown to each other, and the cities\\nnorth of us have been much more familiar to Georgians than the\\ncities of their own State. In the Legislature, this section and\\nthat section have been bandied against each other, as if the good\\nof the one part was not the good of every part as if one member\\nof the body corporate could pulsate with joy or with sorrow and\\nthe whole body not feel the influence. It is no matter through\\nwhat sections these roads may run it is no matter what they\\nmay cost, within any reasonable amount it is no matter whether\\nthey repay to the State in money any expenditure which may be\\nmade upon them the benefit which will accrue from bringing\\nthe people together and binding them in the ties of hospitality\\nand of interest, will far out-weigh ail the cost of the expenditure.\\nIt is a narrow view to consider the mere money return of such\\nchains of intercommunion; there is a moral return which they are\\never making of infinitely higher and moie enduring value; are-\\nturn visible in softened prejudices, in enlarged views, in loftier\\naspirations, in the advancement of the social affections a return\\nnecessary and beneficial to all, but especially necessary to a State\\nof such vast territory as that of Georgia, and just assimilating to\\nherself a population galhei ed from almost every State of the Uni-\\non.\\nUnless this be done speedily, and I rejoice as a citizen of\\nGeorgia, that it is rapidly progressing, the exchange trade of the\\nState will find other out-lets than the proper ones of her own\\nAtlantic towns, and seriously disturb that homogeneousness after\\nwhich we have shown that we ought m st especially to strive.\\nThe natural out-let of the country iN ortli-wjst of the Chatahoo-\\nchie IS the Coosa River, and with a very little labour unless an\\nartificial channel be at once created, linking that fertile farming\\ncountry with the rest of the State will all that trade be diverted\\nto Mobile. Without a rail road at very low rates, it could fiud a", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "y\\n20\\nprofitable market at no other point. The natural out-let of the\\nrich cotton lands of the South-west are the Flint and the Chata-\\nhoochie, and unless an artificial channel be created, binding in like\\nmanner those inexhaustible cotton regions to the rest of the State,\\nmust all that trade pass to the Gulf of Mexico. And thus would the\\ncommercial connexion of two most important sections of our State\\nbe disjoined from her and with that disjunction would ensue\\nthe disjunction of interest, of sympathy, of feeling, and finally of\\nlegislation. But binding all the parts to each other, the line of in-\\ntercourse would follow the course of trade, and one purpose\\nwould move the whole population from the mountains to the At-\\nlantic.\\nWe too. Gentlemen of the Historical Society, may exercise a\\npoweiful influence in the production of this State-feeling and\\nState-unity of which I have spoken so much, by collecting to-\\ngether the materials which make up her annals and preserv-\\ning the traditions and associatictns which constitute so laige a\\npart of the pride of a country. The abstract will not do for hu-\\nman nature. It must have the concrete it must fix its affections\\nupon spots, upon scenes, upon individuals it must twine its feel-\\nings around events and circumstances, and oft-times a name, a word\\nwill enkindle an enthusiasm, which not all the elaboration of elo-\\nquence could elicit. And these materials of enthusiasm it is our\\nprovince to collect. We have associated together that we may\\ngather up the ashes of the depaited great and inurn them for pos-\\nterity; that we may embody the floating traditions of the State and\\ngive them a local habitation and a name; that we may call back the\\naffections of the people to spots consecrated by the labour and the\\nblood of their fathers; that we may fill the young with enthusiasm\\nfor the past and with an honourable ambition to emulate its vir-\\ntues and its fame. We can do much to improve the future in the\\nperpetuation of the past, to turn the feeling inward upon the State,\\nwhich has too long been wasted elsewhere. Who can calculate\\nthe concentrating and harmonizing effect which such a wi iter as\\nScott has produced upon his country 1 He has invested eveiy\\nglen, and crag, and loch, and mountain, and ruin with bl world-\\ninterest, and in doing this has made every Scotchman proudei that\\nhe is one, and linked his heart to his home by ties stronger tlian", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "21\\nany distance or time can obliterate. He did what we are strivino-\\nto do caught every tradition as it floated by and gave it perma-\\nnence seized every event which told for his country s glory and\\nriveted it upon the imaginations of his countrymen evolved her\\nstory from the dust of antiquity and made it the possession of eve-\\nry cottage fire-side. We may not compete with his imagination,\\nnor need we, for our work is history his was fiction illustraring\\nhistory but we can imitate his research and industry, and rescue\\nfrom the ravages of time, all that is great and noble, and worth pre-\\nserving in the slory of the past. We are but a youthlul race if we\\nreckon back only to the beginning of our colonial existence; if we\\ncross that line, European history is our history; but the aborigines\\nhave a history, one of deep interest and moving pathos a history,\\ntoo, connected with a still anterior civilization, and this will yet\\ngive an interest to scenes now unnoticed, because nothin T aflect-\\ning our race has been transacted there. Lotus perpe uate the\\nstory of the Indian, if we cannot his race, and prove the superiori-\\nty of letters by conferring immortali y. where none of the other\\nelements of civilization seem able even to preserve existence", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "LE N 10", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3376", "width": "1852", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3381", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 415 905 6 Q", "height": "3636", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "highcivilization00elli_0034.jp2"}}