Address Delivered at the University Chapel, Georgia Day, February 12, 1914
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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the University Chapel, Georgia Day, February 12, 1914: Georgia: The Empire State of the South I am never so happy as when talking to Georgia boys and girls about Georgia, for I am a Georgian from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet - Georgia-born and Georgia-bred - of parents Georgia-born and bred - and I love "The Old Red Hills of Georgia" as dearly as Henry R. Jackson who wrote so beautifully of them. We truly have a state of which we may rightly boast, and boasting is commendable, provided we do not claim what justly belongs to another. Georgia and her Founder Oglethorpe. It is strange, but I think it is true, that we are indirectly indebted to an old Roman architect, Pollio, who lived in the time of Julius Caesar, for the founding of Georgia. His book on architecture was read by Robert Castell, an English architect of the 18th century, and he was so charmed with it that he determined to translate it into English and illustrate it with drawings that Pollio had described. Castell really became so infatuated with this work of translation that he neglected his business and even his family for it. The book proving a financial failure, involved him in debt and under England´s law at that time, placed him for life in the Debtors´ Prison. He was so financially reduced that he was not able to pay the fee demanded by the jailer and was sent to the smallpox ward where he contracted the disease and died. This man was the personal friend of Sir James Edward Oglethorpe, a member of the English Parliament. When he heard of his friends death and realized how he was sacrificed, he determined to investigate these prisons and asked Parliament to place him upon a committee for that purpose. This really led him to establish a colony of these debtors in the New World. On June 9, 1732, a patent was asked for and granted to settle a colony, and twenty-one Trustees were appointed to serve twenty-one years. Georgia´s charter differed from that of any of the other colonies. The Trustees were not allowed to hold any interest in any land or to derive any benefit from the settlement of the colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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