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528 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS<br />

clergyman <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist Church in <strong>Georgia</strong>. He mixed politics with<br />

his gospel to such .an extent that he never failed to carry his county<br />

overwhelmingly for Crawford or Troup. Governor Lumpkin lays<br />

at his door many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> votes cast against him in his numerous cam-<br />

REMNANTS op GOVERNOR TROUP 's OLD HOME PLACE, "VALDOSTA"<br />

paigns, saying that although <strong>the</strong> Baptist Church was not a unit in poli<br />

tics, yet Mercer always carried <strong>the</strong> bulk <strong>of</strong> its members for <strong>the</strong> Troup<br />

candidates.''<br />

This was.<strong>the</strong> last election <strong>of</strong> a governor by a State Legislature in<br />

<strong>Georgia</strong>.<br />

On December 17, 1823, an act was passed to amend <strong>the</strong> constitution

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