To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate of the State of Georgia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate of the State of Georgia When first the restlessness and cupidity of the European race brought them to these shores, they found the red man lord and sole possessor of the soil, they found him just and kind, confiding and generous "He fancied the pale-faced men were gods, "Nor dreamt their secret aim was theft and cruelty." Columbus relates in his first voyage, when his vessel was a wreck, and he was deserted by a part of his own crew, that an Indian chief, upon hearing the information, "shed tears, and despatched all the people of the town with large canoes to unload the ship, with their assistance the decks were cleared in a very short time. From time to time he sent his relations to the admiral, consoling him, and entreating him not to be afflicted at his loss, for he would give him all he had: and Columbus further adds, "they are a very loving race, and "without covetousness." Such was the character of the American Indian in 1492, and the generous and confiding portion of it was found in full vigour by the first Georgians in 1733, when they landed on the bank of the placid and beautiful Savannah. It is generally known that the first settlement of this colony was the result of a benevolent and charitable disposition entertained by some Englishmen of humane feelings and easy fortunes, one of whom, James Oglethorpe, undertook its early superintendence. He came to its shores with the king's charter of 1732, which is now termed "the charter of the state, " but as it only authorized him to occupy the uninhabited lands, and as he found the country pre-occupied by the Indians to the very threshold, he lost no time, as the historian relates, in treating with the natives for a share of their possessions. 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.