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THE CAPITOL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE VETERANS. But both shook hands in friendship as hearty as THE EMPIRE STATE OF could be, We met at i Chickamauga. I hadn’t seen him since Though he had marched with Sherman and I had THE SOUTH. We looked across the trenches and his bullet fought with Lee. made me wince; Atlanta, Ga. Frank L. Stanton. But we both shook hands in friendship, as hearty as could be, Last, but by no means least, of the Though he had marched with Sherman and I had thirteen colonies to be founded, was marched with Lee. AFTER AWHILE. Georgia, now the largest of the We walked across the battlefield where once the It’s good we can say, with a sigh and a smile : bullets flew, “Times will be better after awhile ! United States east of the Mississippi. And the green and bending grasses felt the fall of The light will stream through the clouds o’erhead, crimson dew, And flowers will bloom where the thorns were Though some hundred years later in And we talked the whole thing over where the flag red!” was waving free, What of the sigh, if we say with a smile : getting a start in the race to place a How he had marched with Sherman and I had “Times will be better after awhile?” star on “Old was served with Lee. Glory”, it still the It’s a long, long way to the light of day ; noblest in its purpose and most cu¬ The drums bad ceased their beating. We saw no But winter gives ever a promise of May, sabers shine, And ever we dream, in the darkest night: rious in its beginning. i The hair “The about his forehead fell as snowy white as joy will come with the morning light!” After the clever mine, Even in our sorrow we say with a smile: philanthropist, And voices seemed to call us o’er the far, eternal “Times will be better after awhile !” Gen. James sea, Oglethorpe, had distin¬ “Times will be better!” in Where the men who marched with Sherman are in joy and in woe Is it not sweeter to sing them so ? guished himself fighting under the camp with those of Lee. Sweeter to dream, when the dark’s o’er the blue, gallant Prince Eugene, he bethought We parted ; eyes grew misty, for we knew that nev¬ The eyes of the angels are looking at you ? ermore Away with the sigh, then, and sweet be the smile ! himself of another road to fame. This Would we meet until the roll-call on the other “Times will be better after awhile !” was no less than peaceful shore, Atlanta Constitution. the founding of a J 2 SPELMAN MESSENGER. colony in the New World farther gladly surrendered the government settlers have increased to three south than the Carolinas had pos¬ to the crown. millions, the capital city alone now sessed the land. His colony should In the meantime, a band from having over one hundred twenty- five thousand inhabitants. be a refuse for ruined debtors, per¬ Saltzburg came seeking liberty from The state now sends thirteen secuted Protestants, and people gen¬ religious persecution and formed a repre¬ erally “out of luck” in the Old W orld. settlement near. A company of j sentatives to Congress, and has They would be able to start life anew ; Highlanders was added (or defense. ■ twenty-one superior courts with three they could push forward in this sun¬ Twenty families of Jews slipped in judges. All men twenty-one years the first of ny land the silk-culture which he year. No one was excluded age who have been citizens of the loved; and the colony would form j but Roman Catholics; they might state one year and of the county six months and an admirable barrier against the have a friendly feeling for the Span¬ paid assessed taxes^ Spanish in Florida. He spoke to the ish on the one hand or the French on may vote. Women may own prop¬ king, who gave his approval. Be¬ the other. In order of numbers, the erty, and each county may have pro¬ nevolence fairly beamed on face of Fnglish settlers took the lead, but hibition, if its citizens so decide. kingand parliament, and nobility and Irish, Scotch, German and French There is a state lunatic asylum and a leaders of fashion reflected its rays. followed fast, and in 1752 they were penitentiary at Milledgeville, an asy¬ lum for mutes at Cave Money was freely given for this laud¬ all left to work out their own im¬ Spring, and an institution for the blind at Macon. able charity. provement as best they could. II on. W. A. Candler is the In 1732, a company of some one This little group of settlements of present hundred thirty persons,—“one hun¬ stranger peoples under Oglethorpe’s governor of the state; Hon. G. It. dred fourteen besides clergymen and leadership had withstood the advan¬ Glenn is state school commissioner ; the Italian silk-tender,”—were land¬ ces of Floiida and proved its right and Hon. Livingston Mims begins ed at Charleston. They proceeded to live. Another twenty years the twentieth century as mayor of south to where the city of Savannah brought it strength. In 1777, the Atlanta. Atlanta has not now stands, and here they rested. birth year of the writer’s grandfather, Land was bought from the Creek the first state constitution was formed. always been the Indians and parcelled out into fifty- Only three generations ago ! capital city. Lou¬ acre farms. No man could have more isville and Mil¬ unless he brought out at his own ex¬ ledgeville both claimed the honor pense white servants to till it. Rum after Savannah. and slaves were not to enter this par¬ Savannah is still adise. Negroes were free, but there the centre of was no liberty for white subjects. shipping, but the “Gate It was necessary to teach the indi¬ City,” with its eight railroads meet¬ gent colonists to work, and the mili¬ ing in one station, is the leading city tary strength of the settlement must of the state, if not of the South. Situated about 1100 feet above sea- be increased. All were equal prop¬ erty holders; there was entail in the level, the climate is all that can be de¬ sired. Malaria is male line only. In case of no heir, practically unknown; property7 went to the trustees. Wom¬ At first, Georgia, so named in and the heat is never oppressive. The en were to wind silk, and men to honor of Geo. II., felt it had no city has an imposing capitol, fine be made good by law. Twenty-one grievance to redress and sought to churches, and numerous schools and charitable institutions. A trustees or guardians of the people take no partin the War oflndepend- public libra¬ looked after affairs, and the seal of ence. Later, however, she joined her ry worthy of its surroundings is a re¬ cent the colony was a bunch of silk-worms sister colonies and fought valiantly gift from Mr. Andrew Carnegie. with the motto : JSon sibi, sed aliis. for freedom. Taking a bird’s eye view of the The charter was given for twenty-one Not long after the independence state, we note that its rivers run to the years. of the United States was assured, the south-east, the Savannah form¬ Oglethorpe and his associates seem Savannah, the first steamship to ing the boundary between it and to have been truly disinterested. cross the ocean, was built in the city South Carolina. Atlanta sits at the Their benevolence was great; their bearing the same name. This may be dividing of the waters. It is said that the rain lack of statesmanship, greater. As counted as the pioneer of the great falling on one side of the soon as the alms from the home Savannah Line. roof of a certain house finds its way country7 ceased, the colonists had mis¬ Believing in states’ rights, Georgia to the Atlantic, while that on the eries galore. Many of them were espoused the cause of confederacy opposite side flows down to the Mex¬ unused to work, and perhaps they had in the late Civil War, and suffered ican Gulf. We know that the sources no liking for it. The rule of the col¬ deeply. Atlanta was burned, and of the Chattahoochee and the Ocnntl- ony required all to raise silk¬ from this city began Sherman’s fa¬ gee may whisper to each other. The worms. This could not be done in mous march to the sea. It was at Ir¬ Blue Ridge Mountains extend well into the state at the north and a new country ; it is especially adapt¬ win vi lie in Georgia that Jefferson there ed to an old one. Then arose a com¬ Davis was taken prisoner. are lesser ranges on either side. A lit¬ plaint that they had no Negro slaves. Since that sad war ended, the city tle to the east of Atlanta Stone Moun¬ iSoon the settlers discovered that they of Atlanta, rightly adopting the phoe¬ tain lifts up its bald gray granite head, had no share in the government, and nix as its emblem, has had a won¬ while at the north the historic Kenne- no hope of redressing wrongs. All derful growl li and development, and saw and Lost Mountain are boldly went well while Oglethorpe was pres¬ what is true of the capital of the outlined on the horizon. The northern ent, but discontent grew in his ab¬ state, may be repeated of the state part of the state is very picturesque, sence; and when the experiment had itself.

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