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GEORGIA STATE CAPITOL.
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THE STORY OF GEORGIA
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THE GEORGIA PEOPLE -
1732 to 1860
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
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GEORGE GILLMAN SMITH, D.D.
Macon, Ga. GEORGE G. SMITH Publisher 1900
Printed by THE FRANKLIN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. Atlanta, Ga.
Entered according to Act of Congress by GEORGE G. SMITH
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NOTE.
I am my own publisher, not of choice, but of necessity. There are no publishing houses North or South that are willing to risk the publishing of State histories by whom- soever written. I have confidence in the Georgia people and have acted in accordance with it. The book is not as fully illustrated as I would have preferred. Some hand- some churches and court-houses would have appeared if the parties concerned had complied with my request for half-tones. Many have, and I am under obligations to them for the use of their plates.
Vineville, Macon, Ga.
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PREFACE.
I have tried to write the Story of Georgia and the Geor- gia People from 1732 to 1860. I have rather aimed to give a series of pictures than a mere detail of events. I have freely used the labors of those who have gone before me, and have endeavored to put a fair estimate on their work.
Hewitt, the dignified and careful old Loyalist, who wrote a History of South Carolina, which was afterward repub- lished by Mr. Carroll in his Historical Collections, gives an account of the Georgia Colony up to the Revolution. His story of the early Colony is very accurate. Major McCall, who wrote the first History of the State of Georgia, drew page after page from Hewitt, making no acknowledgment of his source of information, and all that is valuable in his account of the colony is found in Hewitt's History. McCall participated actively in the revolutionary struggle, and had a Scotchman's hate for all opposed to him, and his account of revolutionary matters is to be taken somewhat cautiously.
Bishop Stevens,* who wrote the second History of Geor- gia, is very painstaking and reliable. His style is classic and 'his. pages are stately, his stateliness becoming some- times almost ludicrous. Colonel Charles C. Jones, + whose two portly octavos reach to the close of the Revolution, has left no stone unturned in his effort to discover everything which could interest the student of Georgia history. Geor-
* Stevens's History of Georgia, Vol. I. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 1847. Vol. II., 1859. E. H. Butler, Philadelphia.
+ History of Georgia. By Charles C. Jones, Jr., LL.D. Boston. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 1868. 2 vols.
Really 3. Harvey
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gia was in her swaddling clothes when his story reached its conclusion. His somewhat untimely death was a great loss to Georgia, and the completion of the work he had laid out for himself was left to other hands.
Colonel Avery begins his history fifty years after Stevens ends his, and has given in a large octavo a full and graphic story of a stirring time .*
Professor Lawton B. Evans has written a school history of Georgia, which is very full and reliable. I have used the first edition of it very freely, and find it to be very trust- worthy. A second and improved edition is now used in the Georgia schools. Professor Evans has added to my obliga- tions by putting the collection of illustrations used in his first edition at my disposal,t and his obliging publishers, the University Publishing Co., have done the same.
Colonel Charles H. Smith has written an excellent sketch of Georgia, which has been published by a Northern firm. It is a mere sketch, but, like everything from the pen of the gifted writer, sprightly and valuable.
I have been much indebted to Adiel Sherwood, who pub- lished the first Gazetteer of Georgia in 1829, and who fol- lowed it by a new and improved edition in 1837. His little book published in 1829 was the first effort to show the progress of the young State along industrial lines. It is thoroughly truthful. Mr. George White,§ who has done so much for Georgia history, has drawn largely from Mr. Sherwood, not always giving him proper credit.
Mr. White's two books are invaluable, and I am very
* The History of the State of Georgia from 1859 to 1881. Brown & Derby, New York.
+ A Student's History of Georgia. By Lawton B. Evans. J. W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga.
Sherwood's Gazetteer, Washington, D. C., 1837.
§ White's Statistics. W. T. Williams, Savannah. 1849. White's His- torical Collections, New York. 1856. Pudney & Russell.
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largely indebted to him. He devoted much attention to Biography, and his personal sketches are excellent.
I am under special obligations to the Georgia Historical Society of Savannah for the use of its rare and valuable collection of books and newspapers, as well as of MSS. bear- ing on Georgia history. And I must render publicly my thanks to the courteous and well-informed Colonel Harden, the librarian, who has given me very valuable assistance.
My friends of the Macon bar have given me free access to their collections of Georgia law books, and Colonel J. R. Saussy and Colonel S. B. Adams of Savannah have given me access to some very rare and important works not to be found elsewhere.
I have tried to be strictly non-partisan in my statements, for I can but think the bitter animosities of the Revolution and the fiery heat of early politics have in some degree prevented a fair treatment of those who were under the public ban.
I have aimed to make a book of moderate size and to give prominence to facts to a large degree overlooked by other histories of Georgia, and I have been much less mi- nute in my account of the first years of the Georgia Colony than I would have been had not those who preceded me given it such attention.
The aim I set forth at the beginning of this preface I have kept constantly before me, and have used a homeliness of treatment and a particularity of statement that would not have been warranted if I had designed to write a com- plete history for general circulation and reference.
The interesting story of De Soto in Georgia, which has so fascinated the early historians, has been so well told by Pickett, Jones and Stevens, that it was not necessary that I should tell it again, even if I regarded it, as I do not, as a part of the story of the Georgia people. It is an incident in the history of the Spaniards which is of very great in-
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terest, and the account given by the Spanish chronicler is an amusing illustration of the temptation, never resisted in: those days, to draw largely on the fancy for facts. To find bushels of precious pearls, wonderful princesses and great cities in the Georgia forests was possible only to those. Spanish romancers.
A glance over the Bibliography appended will show my sources of information. I have in almost every instance. referred to the original copies of the books referred to, and have been compelled in only one instance, that of DeBrahm's. account of the province of Georgia, to take my facts at second-hand. I am indebted to Colonel C. C. Jones for the facts recited by this German engineer.
I have found the work of preparing this volume a diffi- cult one, not because I had no sufficient supply of material, but because of the difficulty of bringing into a moderate compass so much of interest to the Georgia people.
The good ladies of the Atlanta Chapters had prepared and put at my disposal, at their expense, as full a roster of the Georgia troops as could be secured .. The well-informed and untiring Captain B. F. Johnson did the work, with the cooperation of the Secretary of State, Colonel Cook. In. the Appendix is found the result of this labor.
GEORGE G. SMITH ..
Vineville, Macon, Ga.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
I. JOURNAL OF WM. STEPHENS, EsQ., 3 vols., London, 1744.
This very rare and very valuable book is to be found in the library of the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. It has been freely drawn upon by Hewitt, McCall, Bishop Stevens and Colonel Jones. It is very full and very reli able. It covers the period between 1738 and 1741.
2. BARTRAM'S JOURNAL OF A BOTANIST.
3. JOURNAL OF JOHN WESLEY, Wesley's works, vol. I., Eaton & Maines, New York. Journal of Charles Wesley, in Jackson's Life. Whitefield's Letters and Journal as found in his life by Gillies, and in his works. London, I770.
These books are of great service, especially the Journal of John Wesley, in which he gives much valuable informa- tion about the first days of Georgia and the Letters of White- field, which extend over thirty years.
.4. HEWITT'S HISTORY, as found in Carroll's Collections.
Dr. Hewitt was a Presbyterian minister of Charleston, and an intense Loyalist.
5. BANCROFT'S HISTORY, 2 vols.
6. MEMORIALS OF OGLETHORPE, by Dr. Harris of Boston.
This biography, the only one we have of Oglethorpe, is, as far as the facts go, a valuable work. As is not unusual with biographers, he aims to magnify the subject of his story unduly.
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7. OGLETHORPE'S LETTERS. Georgia Historical Society, vol. 3.
These are very valuable and cast much light on the early days of the colony.
A New and Accurate Account of the Province of South Carolina and Georgia. London, 1733.
A Voyage to Georgia, by Francis Moore, 1744.
An Impartial Inquiry, 1741.
Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, 1733. The State of the Province of Georgia, 1740.
A Brief Account, a Tract against the Trustees, 1741.
Tailfer's Narrative, antagonistic to Oglethorpe. Pub- lished in Charleston, S. C., 1741.
The Trustee's Statement. London, 1742.
Governor Wright's Letter.
8. MCCALL'S HISTORY OF GEORGIA, 18II.
9. STEVENS'S HISTORY OF GEORGIA, vol. I. D. Appleton & Co., 1847. Stevens's History of Georgia, vol. 2. E. H. Butler & Co., 1858.
IO. HISTORY OF GEORGIA, by Colonel Chas. C. Jones, 2 vols., 1883.
As far as Colonel Jones goes he has left nothing behind him. Fair, non-partisan, graceful in style, his two large volumes are invaluable.
II. LIFE OF JAMES JACKSON, by Judge T. U. P. Charlton, 1809. Reprint of Thomas Meghan, 1896. A full account of General Jackson's army life.
12. PAMPHLETS OF GEORGIA HISTORY, by A. H. Chappell, Esq. ,
This series of pamphlets, which were published in Co- lumbus in 1873, and republished by Thos. Meghan in
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Atlanta in 1896, are very valuable and I have drawn freely on them.
1 3. HISTORY OF SAVANNAH, by Lee & Agnew.
14. HISTORY OF SAVANNAH, by C. C. Jones.
15. HISTORY OF AUGUSTA, by C. C. Jones.
16. HISTORY OF ATLANTA, by E. Y. Clarke.
17. HISTORY OF MACON, by J. C. Butler, have all aided me in making up my history of the cities. Mr. Butler's book is especially valuable in recovering everything which concerns Macon's infant history.
18. MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA, published by the Georgia His- torical Association.
Two large volumes, to which contributions were made by Colonel Avery, Mr. J. Chandler Harris, Mr. W. P. Reed, Chas. N. West, Esq., General C. A. Evans, Dr. Foster and others, and in which there are a great many biographical sketches. There is much in this book which is very valuable.
19. KING ALCOHOL IN THE LAND OF KING COTTON, by Professor Scomp.
It is a very voluminous, accurate and carefully written story of the temperance reform. It is a work of great re- search, but is unreadably minute in its statements.
20. HISTORY OF GEORGIA, 1850 to 1881. Avery. This is a full and sprightly account of a stormy time.
COLONIAL LAWS OF GEORGIA. Lewis Johnson, 1771.
There are only three volumes of this collection of which I have knowledge, one in the Historical Society in Savan- nah, and two owned by J. R. Saussy, Esq., that city.
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The Egmont Papers, published by Mr. DeRenne, which shed much light on colonial history.
Watkins's Digest of Georgia Laws to 1800. R. Aiken, Ist Ed., Philadelphia.
Marbury's Georgia Laws. R. Aiken, Philadelphia.
Compilation of Georgia Laws, by Augustine S. Clayton, to 1810.
Compilation of Georgia Laws, by L. Q. C. Lamar, Sr., to 1820.
Compilation of Georgia Laws, by W. C. Dawson, to 1825. Digest of Georgia Laws, by O. H. Prince, 1837.
Sherwood's Gazetteer of Georgia, Ist Ed., 1829. Second edition, Washington, D. C., 1837.
It is difficult to speak too highly of this unpretending work. It casts a flood of light over the second period of Georgia history.
White's Statistics. Mr. White was largely indebted to Sherwood, but was a laborious and patient investigator himself, and his Book of Statistics, somewhat inaccurately called such, is invaluable. His larger work, Historical Collections, gives a very great amount of valuable matter out of which a history can be made, and has been of great service to me.
Georgians, by Governor Gilmer, is a rare book, full of reminiscences, very interesting and generally reliable.
Bench and Bar of Georgia, a series of biographical sketches of distinguished lawyers, by Stephen F. Miller, is a very carefully prepared, trustworthy and somewhat diffuse account of some of the leading lawyers of the State. It was published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia.
Reminiscences of a Georgia Lawyer, by Judge Garnett Andrews, is a pamphlet which aims at showing some of the ludicrous things in early Georgia, but casts some light on the early history of the period.
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Georgia Scenes, Wm. Mitten; by Judge A. B. Long- street. These books are invaluable for the information they give of the social life of the second generation of Georgians. Asbury's Journal, giving an account of early Methodism.
Bishop Stevens's Centennial Address, presenting a sketch of the Episcopal Church in Georgia.
Campbell's History of the Baptists. J. W. Burke & Co.,
Macon. History of Baptists, Christian Index Pub. Co.
Wilson's Necrology of the Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, 1887.
Smith's History of Methodism in Georgia. J. W. Burke & Co., Macon.
Life of Edmond Bottsford. Mallary.
Life of Jesse Mercer. Mallary.
Life of James O. Andrew. Smith.
Life of Geo. F. Pierce. Smith.
Life of Robert Toombs. Stovall.
Life of B. H. Hill. Hill.
Life of Alex. H. Stephens. Brown & Johnson.
Life of Linton Stephens. Waddell.
Memorial of Howell Cobb. Boykin.
Georgia Gazette, from 1765 till its suspension.
The Augusta Chronicle, from 1796.
The Georgia Messenger and Telegraph, in Macon
The Milledgeville Federal Union, from 1825.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
GEORGIA UNDER THE TRUSTEES-1732 TO 1754 .- Preliminary -- Carolina Settled-Mr. Oglethorpe Plans a Benevolent Colony-A Board of Trustees Organized-The King Makes a Grant of Territory West of the Savannah River-Proposal Made to Immigrants-Immigration of Thirty-five Families-Dr. Herbert First Clergyman-Immigrants Ar- rive at Charleston and Beaufort-Colonel Bull and Mr. Oglethorpe Select a Place for the Settlement of the Colony-Tomichichi and his People-Savannah Laid Out-Coming of the Salzburghers-Coming of the Highlanders-Second Immigration of English People, Salz- burghers and Moravians-Troubles with the Spaniards-Mr. Ogle- thorpe Commissioned a Colonel, Raises a Regiment and Commands the British Forces-The Spanish War-The War Over-Mr. Oglethorpe at Frederica-Trouble with Malcontents-Mr. Oglethorpe's Return to England-Number of Immigrants up to his Date of Departure-The English Settlement-Allowance to Immigrants-Beneficiaries of the Trustees-Rum Forbidden -Slavery Prohibited-Reason for the Pro- hibition of Slavery-Difficulties Encountered by First Settlers-Failure of the Attempt to Make Wine and Silk-Discontent of the Colonists -Controversy-The Side of the Trustees-The Side of the Malcon- tents-List of the Malcontents-The First Office-holders and their Occupation-Mr. Oglethorpe's Treaty with the Creeks-The Scotch Settlement-Origin of the Immigration-John More McIntosh-Pastor McLeod, the First Presbyterian Minister in Georgia-New Inverness Founded-Partial List of the Colonists in New Inverness in 1740- Change of Name to Darien-Breaking up of the Scotch Settlement- The German Settlement-The Coming of the Salzburghers and their First Settlement at Ebenezer-Failure of the Settlement-Second Settlement-Partial List of the First Immigrants-Coming of a Second Colony of Germans-Frederica-Description of St. Simons Island- Settlement of Frederica-Rapid Growth of the City-Its Rapid Decline -Mr. James Spalding-Augusta Settled in 1735-A Sketch of its First Years-George Galphin-Indian Slave Trade-Results of the Efforts of the Trustees-Change of Laws-Slavery Permitted-Practical Fail- ure of the Colony-The First Assembly Called-Surrender of the Charter-Amount of Land Granted-Religious History of the Colony for the First Twenty Years.
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CHAPTER II.
"UNDER THE ROYAL GOVERNORS .- Governor Reynolds-Some of his Dif- ficulties with the Colonists .- Dr. Little-Clement Martin Removed from the Council-Governor Reynolds Asks to be Recalled-Georgia as it Appeared in his Time-The Dorchester Settlement-The English Emigration to Dorchester, Mass .- The Settlement of Dorchester, S. C. -Removal to Georgia-List of the First Patentees-Midway Church Built-Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett-The Land Grants Made by Governor Reynolds-Slavery in the Colony-Native Africans-The Condition of the New Negroes-Laws for Regulation of the Slaves- Governor Ellis-His Administration-Church of England Established -Episcopal Churches in Georgia-The First Presbyterian Church- The Congregational-The Lutheran -The List of Parishes-Governor James Wright-The Capital Settled in Savannah-Governor Wright's First Assembly-Condition of Affairs in the Colony-Troubles Im- pending in Consequence of the Stamp Act-Collision between Gov- ernor Wright and the Assembly-The Newly Ceded Lands and the Middle Georgia People-General View of the Colony to 1774-Mr. Whitefield's College Plan-The Moral Tone of the Colony-Sabbath Laws-Governor James Wright's Administration-Education in the Colony-Advance of the Colony among the English, the Scotch, the Germans, in St. George's Parish, Augusta, and St. Paul's Parish- Social Changes-Religious Movements-Baptists Enter the State. . 38- 72
CHAPTER III.
REVOLUTION .- The Call for a Meeting of the Disaffected-Appointments of the Revolutionary Committee-Passage of Resolutions-Governor Wright's Counter Movement-Call of a Congress-Failure-Dissatis- faction of St. John's Parish-Lyman Hall-Increase of Excitement- Stealing Gunpowder-War Begun at Lexington-Call for a Congress -Members of the Congress-Archibald Bulloch the President-Dr. Noble Wimberly Jones, John Glen, John Houston, Edward Telfair, Dr. Zubly, Wm. Gibbons, John Adam Truetlen, Geo. Walton-Organ- ization of the Council of Safety-Governor Wright Virtually Deposed -The Formation of the Battalion of Georgia Troops-Lachlan Mc- Intosh, Samuel Elbert, John Habersham, James Jackson-Mr. Bulloch Elected Temporary President-Convention Called-Expedition to St. Augustine a Failure-Peaceful Condition of Affairs in the Colony 1776-1778-Constitutional Convention-List of Members not to be Found-Constitutional Provisions-Formation of Counties-Act of Confiscation and Amercement-Truetlen Elected Governor-Gwin- nett's Duel with McIntosh-Both Wounded-The War in Earnest 1779 -Triumphant March of the British-Capture of Savannah -- Flight of Legislature-Trouble with Tories-Capture of Augusta-Colonel
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Twiggs, the Fews, Wm. Candler, Elijah Clarke-Sir James Wright at Home Again-Act of Proscription-The Battle of Kettle Creek-De- feat of General Ash-Exode to North Carolina-The Itinerating Capi- tal-The Loyalists and the Tories-Bloody Days-The War Drawing to a Close-Return of the Government to Augusta-Governor Brown- son-Assembly in Session-Act of Confiscation and Amercement- Condition of Things in 1783-Religious Affairs-The Quakers-The Baptists-Marshall, Mercer, Bottsford-Characteristics of the People -General View of the Churches-Social Conditions just after the War 73-1IC
CHAPTER IV.
1782 TO 1789 .- Georgia a Free and Independent State-Governors Hous- ton, Elbert, Handley, Telfair, and Mathews-Gloomy State of Affairs -College Projected-The Decision to Remove Capitol to Louisville- The State Government Temporarily in Augusta-Military Land Grants Issued-Rapid Settlement of the State-Indian Troubles-Oconee War -Paper Money Issued -- Call for a Convention to Form a more Perfect Union-Delegates Appointed-Ratification of the Constitution of the United States-State Conventions-History of the Counties of Chat- ham, Effingham, Burke, Richmond, Liberty, Camden, Wilkes, Franklin, Washington, and Greene III-165~
CHAPTER V.
1789 TO 1800 .- George Walton Governor-Convention 1789-Some of its Provisions-First General Thanksgiving Day Observed-Governor Telfair-General Washington's Visit to Georgia-Governor Mathews -New Counties-Educational Advancement-The Old Field School -- Shooting Matches-Gander-pulling-Dancing-Fighting in the Ring-Horse-swapping-Drinking Habits-General Character of the People-The Yazoo Troubles-General Jackson's Course-Rescinding of the Act-Convention of 1795-Convention of 1798-General Jackson Governor-Pine-barren Frauds-History of Elbert, Columbia, Screven, Oglethorpe, Hancock, Bulloch, Bryan, McIntosh, Jackson, Montgom- ery, Lincoln-Georgia in the Federal Union. 166-227 **
CHAPTER VI.
1800 TO 1812 .- The New Century and the New Era-Political Bitterness -Duel between Van Allen and Wm. H. Crawford-Duel between John Clark and Wm. H. Crawford-Jackson Elected Senator-Josiah Tattnall Governor-David Emanuel-John Milledge-Jared Irwin- David B. Mitchell-Sale of the Yazoo Lands to the United States- New Counties Opened-Baldwin, Wilkinson and Wayne Formed- New Settlements Made-The Cotton Gin-Rapid Growth of Cotton planting-Virginia Immigrants-North Carolina Immigration-Re-
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moval of the Capital-Flush Times in Georgia-The University Opened-Great Religious Revival-Christ Church, Savannah-The - Independent Church, Savannah-The Roman Catholics-The Bap- tists-Dr. Holcombe-Judge Clay-Jesse Mercer-Mt. Enon Acade- my-The Methodists-Stith Mead-Camp-meetings-Lorenzo Dow -Jesse Lee-The Embargo-The Alleviating Acts-Establishment of the First State Bank-First Cotton and Wool Factory-First Stage 228-295 Coach Line-River Communication.
`CHAPTER VII.
1813 TO 1820 .- Peter Early-William Rabun-Matthew Talbot-Great Increase in Production-Advance in Population-First Steamboat Line -Improvement of Rivers-First Transatlantic Steamship-Roads- Character of the Productions of the State-Inflation-Change Bills- New Banks-Bank of Darien-Academies-Religious Progress-So- cial Conditions-The Low-Country People-The Low-Country Slaves -Life among the Cotton-Planters-Drinking Habits-The Cross- Roads Whisky Shop-The Georgia Yeomanry-The Georgia Cracker and his Origin-Trouble with the Creeks-Massacre of Friendly Indians-Political Antagonisms-Newspapers in Georgia-New Coun- ties-General Description of the Mountaineers-The Hill Country and its People-The Piny Woods Counties and the People-Emanuel- Irwin-Appling-Early-Walton-Habersham-Rabun .296-337
CHAPTER VIII.
1820 TO 1829 .- John Clarke-George M. Troup-The Treaty-John For- syth-Purchase of the Lands between the Ocmulgee and Flint-Great Purchase between Flint and Chattahoochee-The Opening of the New Country-Banks-Education- Lotteries - Macon -Columbus -The Newspapers-Dueling-Religious History of the Period-Great Revi- val-Jos. C. Stiles-John E. Dawson-C. D. Mallary-Stephen Olin -John Howard-Lovick Pierce-Settlement of the New Country- Flush Times-Education-Factories-Anti-Tariff Feeling-Counties Formed-Newton-Houston- Dooly- Monroe - Henry - Fayette- Dekalb-Bibb-Crawford-Pike- Upson - Decatur -Ware - Talia- ferro-Butts-Baker-Lee-Troup- Meriwether - Harris - Coweta -Campbell-Carroll-Talbot-Marion-Thomas - Lowndes - Mus- cogee-Randolph. . 338-412
CHAPTER IX.
1829 TO 1837 .- Governor Gilmer-Gold Discovered in Habersham-The Rush of Intruders-Troubles of the Governor with them and with the Indians-Extension of Georgia Laws over the Cherokee Nation- Recusant Missionaries Arrested and Convicted-Their Imprisonment in the State Prison-Governor Lumpkin-Governor Schley-Flush
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Times-Banking Mania-Wild Speculation-List of Enterprises- Manual Labor Schools-Mercer University-Emory College-Ogle- thorpe University-Wesleyan Female College-Mission Work among the Cherokees-Final Removal of the Cherokees-New Counties Laid Out-The Mountains and the Mountaineers-The Settlers in the Hill Country-State Benevolences-Asylum for Deaf and Dumb -- Asylum for Lunatics-First Public Move towards Securing a History of Geor- gia-The First Geological Survey-Dr. Cotting-The Gold-seekers- Salting Mines-The Blue Limestone Country-Political Strife-News- papers-Education-Religion-The Great Railroad Movement . . . 413-465
CHAPTER X.
1837 TO 1847 .- Governor Gilmer-Governor McDonald-Governor Craw- ford-The Beginning of the Great Financial Crash-List of Banks- Low-price Cotton-Condition of State Treasury-Contraction' of the Circulation-Troubles in the State Finances-Governor McDonald's Nerve-The Central Bank of Georgia-Cherokee County Populated- The Monroe Railroad Failure-Completion of the Central Railroad; of the Georgia Railroad ; of the Western and Atlantic Railroad-The Effect of the Depression-Political Excitement-"Tippecanoe and Tyler too "-The Opening of Mercer and Emory-Settlement of the Western Counties-Features of Middle Georgia Life in 1840-The Mountaineers-The Wire-grass Country-The Religious Condition of Georgia-The Camp-meeting-Georgia Talent in the Pulpit and on the Platform .466-478
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