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benevolent disposition and enterprising spirit, who 

 liad been educated in the same university, and served 

 afterward as a member of the British Parliament for 

 thirty-two years, was becoming distinguished in the 

 annals of legislative philanthropy by the activity of 

 his efforts to alleviate .the physical sufferings of this 

 same class of men, who, for one indiscreet contract, 

 were doomed by the laws of their country to a life- 

 long confinement. For them, and for persecuted men 

 like the Wesleys, he planned an asylum and a new 

 destiny in America, where former poverty would be 

 no reproach, and where the sinijnicity of piety could 

 indulge the spirit of devotion without fear of perse- 

 cution from men who hated the rebuke of its exam- 

 ple. . Twenty-one men of the like benevolent spirit 

 associated themselves together, and having been in- 

 corporated as Trustees of the Colony of Georgia, by 

 charter of George II., bearing date of June 9, 1732, 

 adopted as the motto of their common seal, Non 

 sibi, serf aliis — not for themselves, but for others — ■ 

 and electing one of their number (James Oglethorpe) 

 governor of the colony, commissioned him to carry 

 out their disinterested and praiseworthy purposes. 

 In November, 1732, with a motley band of released 

 debtors, one hundred and twenty-two in number, he 

 embarked for Georgia, and was welcomed, January 13, 

 1733, to the warm hospitalities of Charleston, in South 

 Carolina. After enjoying the rest of a few days, he 

 went forward under the guidance of William Bull, 

 and selected for the settlement of the colony the high 

 bluff on which the city of Savannah now stands. In 

 laying the foundations of this great enterprise, Gov- 

 ernor Oglethorpe was not unmindful of the chief con- 

 ditions of success; and while laboring to promote the 



