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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 63
Besides the tract prepared and circulated by Oglethorpe, there also
appeared a pamphlet written by Benjamin Martyn, secretary of the
board, entitled "Reasons for establishing the Colony of Georgia, with
regard to the trade of Great Britain, etc.,'' a discussion ol some merit;
but for lack of time we cannot pause to discuss its contents." The author's
appeal was a strong one, based upon sound arguments and it closed
with an imaginative picture of the future colony, rich in its flocks and
herds. All things considered it is not a matter of surprise that Eng
land's interest in a colony organized for the relief of insolvent debtors
should have reached a degree of interest hitherto unknown in the em
pire's experience as a colonizer and that Georgia, her latest offspring,
fostered by the humane soul of an Oglethorpe, should have become the
favorite child of England, the darling of the Crown.