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Page 29
... interest and curious investigation . At the settlement of Georgia , the territory embraced within the charter , was inhabited by hordes of savages , known as the Muscogee or Creeks , the Cherokees , the Chickasaws and the Choctaws ...
... interest and curious investigation . At the settlement of Georgia , the territory embraced within the charter , was inhabited by hordes of savages , known as the Muscogee or Creeks , the Cherokees , the Chickasaws and the Choctaws ...
Page 37
... interests . By surrounding it with all the checks and balances which human ingenuity could devise , they endeavored to provide for its security . By the recognition of the fundamental principle that sovereignty abides in the people ...
... interests . By surrounding it with all the checks and balances which human ingenuity could devise , they endeavored to provide for its security . By the recognition of the fundamental principle that sovereignty abides in the people ...
Page 38
... interests create , have reacted on the administration with a purifying influence . Whilst the vastly increasing pop- ulation of our country , with its consequent increased demands upon each of these departments , must ere long place ...
... interests create , have reacted on the administration with a purifying influence . Whilst the vastly increasing pop- ulation of our country , with its consequent increased demands upon each of these departments , must ere long place ...
Page 39
... and abridging that distance by easy and rapid communication , will cultivate familiar personal acquaintance and knowledge , produce * Gibbon . identity of interests , and , by instructing us in Judge Law's Oration . 39.
... and abridging that distance by easy and rapid communication , will cultivate familiar personal acquaintance and knowledge , produce * Gibbon . identity of interests , and , by instructing us in Judge Law's Oration . 39.
Page 40
... interests to be adjusted , and sectional jealousies to be regulated and controlled - when we reflect upon the moral corruptions , the spirit of faction , the prompt- ings of unholy ambition incident to all free states- we may not ...
... interests to be adjusted , and sectional jealousies to be regulated and controlled - when we reflect upon the moral corruptions , the spirit of faction , the prompt- ings of unholy ambition incident to all free states- we may not ...
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Alatamaha America appointed arrived Augustine Britain British Capt Captain cattle Causton Charleston charter colony of Georgia command common council corporation court Creeks cultivation Darien deponent Ebenezer enemy England expense families five four Frederica French garrison gentlemen Georgia Historical Society Governor granted heirs and successors Highlanders honor horses Hugh Mackay hundred acres Indians inhabitants island James James Oglethorpe Jekyl Jekyl island John King labor land laws letter liberty likewise Lord M'Intosh magistrates Majesty Majesty's ment miles nation negroes night officers Ogle Oglethorpe Oglethorpe's persons plantations planted planters poor pounds pounds sterling present province of Georgia provisions raised received regiment river saith Samuel Mercer scout boat sent servants settled settlement ships Society soon South Carolina Spaniards Spanish subjects subsistence thence thereof thing Thomas thousand tion trade trees twenty Tybee white mulberry William woods