Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HARVEST In the preceding chapter has been told the result of the struggle between the spirit in which the Colony of Georgia was conceived, and the utilitarian beliefs and desires of a majority of her citizens. At the head of the winning party were the names of Whitfield, Habersham and Thomas Stephens. Leading the slender band who lost we find John Mohr McIntosh of New Inverness and the Reverend Mr. Bolzius of Ebenezer. I have told the story so that any descendant of this fragment of very far-seeing men might, if he so choose, point to the date 1739 and say: "In that year my grandsire wrote, signed and published, so far as I know, the first protest against the use of Africans as slaves, issued in the history of the New World, and that every count in the indictment as drawn by him has been made good by the verdict of years." To the critic of expressions and sentiments that have been expressed and uttered I answer that the year of our Lord 1909 has proved the truth of the arguments addressed to the authorities of 1739, and that now their children's children, after " times and times " of contrary belief, are forced to recognize the evils that have followed the ultimate decision. In truth, Georgia at that date was suffering from what James Habersham called a "mirasmus" or weakness, like to that of a man who sinks into lethargy from the want of food. Give to him bread or meat, and in a week his natural health and strength would return; administer a stimulant such as brandy or nitroglycerine, and a transitory quickening of heart action alone would follow and with it but a temporary strength. Man's life is measured by months; a nation's, by half centuries. To the dying colony was given, not sturdy emigrants or food, but the stimulant of...
