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fcions came from Dissenters, not only in South Caro- 

 lina and other provinces in America, bnt in England 

 also. He stated moreover that since the announce- 

 ment of the design to turn the Orphan House into a 

 college, and of the approval of that project by the 

 Governor and Assembly of Georgia, he had visited 

 most of the places where the benefactors of the Orphan 

 House resided, and had frequently been asked " upon 

 what bottom the college was to be founded." To these 

 inquiries he had answered — indeed, he had declared 

 from the pulpit — that it should be upon a broad bottom, 

 and no other. He concluded by telling them that he 

 would not trouble them further about the business, but 

 would himself turn the charity into a more generous 

 and extensively useful channel. His decision under 

 the circumstances was just and prudent. When the 

 correspondence with the Privy Council was concluded, 

 he wrote to the Governor of Georgia as follows: 

 " I humbly hope the province of Georgia will in the 

 end be no loser by this negotiation. For I now pur- 

 pose to superadd a public academy to the Orphan 

 House, as the College of Philadelphia [built above 

 twenty-eight years before, for a charity school and 

 preaching-place for Mr. Whitefield, and ministers of 

 various denominations, on the bottom of the doctrinal 

 articles of the Church of England] was constituted a 

 public academy, as well as charitable school, for some 

 time before its present charter was granted in 1755." 

 He expressed his willingness also to settle the whole 

 estate upon trustees, with the proviso that no oppor- 

 tunity should be neglected of making fresh application 

 for a college charter upon a broad bottom, whenever 

 those in power might think it for the glory of God 

 and the interest of their king and country to grant the 



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