Address Delivered Before The Georgia Historical Society

Author : John E. Ward
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483848856
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Address Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society written by John E. Ward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society: On Its Nineteenth Anniversary, February 12, 1858 And now, to-day, withdrawing for awhile from the crowded marts of business, forgetting for a brief hour the cares of the present, let us stand before this Muse of History and from those tablets on which she has engraved as with a pen of dia mend the memories of the past, let us seek to read the page that records the life and character of this, our native State the youngest of that fair band of sisters that in 1776 shook off their allegiance to the British crown. She was not the last to enter on her new career; nor has she been the slowest in her progress. Beautiful was her domain even in the wildness of uncultivated nature, when no feet but the red man's trod her green Savannas or penetrated her leafy forests, and no keel, save that of his light canoe, had divided her sparkling waters; when beneath the same sun that now rolls over our heads, the Indian hunter pursued the panting deer - when gazing on the same moonthat now smiles for us, the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate. On the North and West she lifted herself into lofty hills, rich with the precious metals, and on the East and South lay a chain of green islands-emeralds in her queenly coro nal. Broad rivers swept through her plains their fertilizing currents, and over her rockv steeps cataracts foamed and brawled, or, dividing in their course, fell softly in fairy foun tains. Nature is unchanged. The beauty of the river and the hill remain, and the soft tints of an almost tropical sky were then, as now, mirrored ia' the stream. And so they waited for the hour and the man - and they came. 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.