The Cherokees were the Eastern Monntaineers of Ameriea. Their country lay along the Tennessce Rirer, and in the high lands of Georgia, Carolina, and Alabama-the lovelicst region east of the Mississippi River mountains and rich valleys fragrant with flowers, and forests of nagnolia and pine filled with the singing of birds and the mel ody of streams, rich in fruits and nuts and wild grains, it was a country worth loving, worth fighting, worth dyiug for, as thousands of its lovers have fought and have died, white men as well as red, within the last hundred years.

When Oglethorpe eane with his eargo of Madeira wine and respeetable paupers from England in 1733, and lived in tents in midwinter on the shores of the Savannah River, one of the first conditions of safety for his colossal almshouse, in shape of colony, come its friends and allies.

Beautiful and grand, with lofty was that all the Indians in the region should be- a new The reputation of his goodness and benevolenee soon pene trated to the fastnesses of their homes, and tribe after tribe sent chiefs and headmen to greet him with gifts and weleome. When the Cherokee chief appeared, Oglethorpe said to him, "Fenr nothing. Speak freely." "I always speak freely," swered the mountaineer, among friends: I never feared, even among my enemies."

The prineipal intention of the English trustees who incorpo- rated the Georgia colony was to persons in England who were "in decayed circumstances.' an- Why shonld I fcar? I am now provide a home for worthy