Fulton-Terrell County GaArchives News.....Stone Castle Chapter Issues Fine Year Book September 5, 1915
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The Atlanta Constitution September 5, 1915
The Duty of Daughters Aptly Shown in Well Balanced Program.

"Here's to the land where roses grow,
Unchilled by breath from mountain snow.
Where winds blow warm from over the sea.
And hearts are rebels and reckless and free;
Where waters flow smooth and skies are bright.
And the mockingbird sings through the velvet night;
Where the jasmine twines on the broad live oak.
And the gray moss floats on the breeze like smoke.
A land of love and laughter and son,
Where the sunlit days are never too long.
A land of witchery and beauty untold,
Where only the hearts of the dead are cold."

The above beautiful quotation is from a poem entitled "Georgia," written by a 
gifted Georgia girl, Ella Harley, granddaughter of Bishop George F. Pierce, and 
occupies the first page of the splendid year book recently gotten out by the 
Stone Castle chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Dawson.  The 
subjects of study for the entire year will be of Georgia history.  This is one 
of the best balanced programs on Georgia that it has ever been the privilege of 
the state editor to examine.  Romance and sentiment have their place on its 
pages in the papers of the association of the Indian tribes with the country 
during the years of colonization and early statehood, an association which is 
forever stamped upon the land through the beautiful Indian names borne by many 
of our mountains and rivers, and the exquisite legends connected with them.  
Stern action has its place in stories of the struggles of the first settlers 
and the great need which produced the many forts and blockhouses built along 
the frontier for the protection of their homes and families.  And the reward we 
or the twentieth century are reaping from the brave acts and well laid out 
plans of these brave men is brought out in the papers on Georgia's industrial 
development, and in the naming of the fine men who have served as our governors.

Are we carrying on the great work begun by our forefathers?  Are we doing 
things to better our state?  Are we true patriots?  Patriotism, like 
conservation, in its broadest sense includes many widely different forms of 
endeavor, from caring for the helpless orphan and giving our fellow Georgian 
who is unfortunately down and out a new start, to raising flags and honoring 
our heroes of the past, the stories of whose courageous acts may be the spark 
to create a burning love of country in the hearts of our boys of today.  We 
must know the men of the past who helped to build our state.  Below we publish 
brief life stories of Governor Telfair, Governor Matthews and Governor Handley, 
from the pen of Joseph T. Derry, and will follow with others next week.

Let us not forget to honor our warriors and statesmen of the past and build 
monuments and mark sites of forts and battlefields at the same.  To quote again 
from the Stone Castle chapter's year book, let us remember that: "The most 
noble and patriotic work that can be done is helping to elevate the lives and 
aspirations of those who are unable to help themselves.  He alone loves God and 
his country who loves and serves his fellow man."

Have you the following actively working committees in your chapter?  Committee 
on welfare of women and children, committee on conservation of the home, 
committee on chldren of the replublic and a committee on patriotic eduation.
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EDWARD TELFAIR

Edward Telfair was born in Scotland in 1735 and received an English education 
at the grammar school of Kirkendbright.  Coming to America at the age of 23 as 
agent of a mercantile house, he resided a while in Virginia, removed to 
Halifax, N. C., and in 1766 settled in Savannah, where he engaged in commercial 
pursuits.  He early sided with the Georgia patriots and was active in 1774 in 
collecting funds at Savannah and forwarding supplies to the Bostonians 
suffering from the effects of the Boston port bill.  He was one of the band 
who, under the lead of Joseph Habersham, removed the powder from the magazine; 
was a member of the Council of Safety; as a member of the continental congress 
from Georgia signed the ratification of the ARticles of Confederation, July 24, 
1778, and was in 1783 one of the commissioners to make a treaty with the 
Cherokee chiefs.

Edward Telfair was twice governor of Georgia and upon the occasion of President 
Washington's visit in 1791 to Augusta, at that time capital of the state, he 
entertained the president brilliantly at his family residence at the Grove.  He 
died in Savannah, September 17, 1807 in the seventy-second year of his age.
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GEORGE MATTHEWS

George Matthews was born in Augusta county, Virginia, and in early manhood was 
greatly distinguished as captain in a battle with the Indians at Point Pleasant 
on the Great Kanawha October 10, 1774.  At the commencement of the American 
revolution he was appointed colonel of the Ninth regiment of the Virginia 
line.  He served under Washington at Brandywine and Germantown.  Being taken 
prisoner in a skirmish, he was for a while on a prison ship in New York 
harbor.  After being exchanged he commanded the Third Virginia line in the army 
of General Nathaniel Greene and shared the hardships, perils and triumphs of 
the campaign which freed the Carolinas and Georgia from British rule.

He purchased in 1785 a tract of land called the Goose Pond on Broad river, in 
Georgia, and removed thither with his family.

His reputation as a soldier gave him prominence and he was elected governor in 
1787, and during his term the constitution of the United States was ratified at 
Augusta, January 2, 1788.  Being re-elected to that high office in 1793 he 
served until January 15, 1796,.  It was during his last year as governor that 
in 1795 the Yazoo land act was enacted, conveying to four associations for five 
hundred thousand dollars a tract of Georgia's western lands amounting to thirty-
five million acres, lying between the Mississippi, Tennessee, Coosa, Alabama 
and Mobile rivers.  A bill ratifying the sale of these lands passed both houses 
of congress.  But in 1796 a new legislature under the influence of General 
James Jackson, repudiated the Yazoo act and burned the records of it in the 
public square of Louisville, at that time the capital of Georgia, and ordered 
the purchase money to be refunded to whomsoever it might belong.  But the 
original purchasers had already sold tracts of land to many parties, who at 
once began to besiege the congress of teh United States.  In 1802 Georgia ceded 
to the United States all her lands west of her present western boundary, 
embracing the greater part of Alabama and Mississippi.  The United States took 
this problem off Georgia's hands and the supreme court in 1801 declared the 
Yazoo sale valid.  Thereupon the government paid all claims on account of it.
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GEORGE HANDLEY

George Handley, son of Thomas Handley, was born near Sheffield in Yorkshire, 
England, February 9, 1752.

He came to America in 1775, warmly espoused the cause of the colonies, served 
in Georgia and South Carolina as captain and lieutenant colonel, winning 
distinction in several engagements, and in 1788 was elected governor of 
Georgia.  In August, 1789, he was appointed collector of the port of Brunswick 
by President Washington.  He died December 17, 1793.

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