Show THE la in vorease of at a haeft M typo type of Rout southerner herner thero there was once a georgia cracker crack or and wo ive are his descendants pays says the augusta go ga Chron chronicle lolo j prom 0 M the blooded blended trains strains of english Salz burgor and scotch irysh which cama to thil this country and which over the savannah from yamacraw yama oraw to burg hero here was a who loft bis his print upon history hi etory it ho 0 line ties curved carved out what con gon toombs used to call tho sense state of georgy Go orgy 11 ho ila grow toboco and indigo ho he traded with tho the indian for hie his peltry paltry bo he bent beat back the spanish into florida and kept the sn ago off hu hit claim ho ito stoutly fought the tho british la in tho the roo resolution lution and under troup and tho the treaty ho op po old john aarns and tho the gonema po go emmott iio ila helped to build the tile anil invent tho the cotton gin ho tin reclaimed tho the and duff dug gold out of tho the hills ho he drilled in tho the mill tin and pulled tho the ganders nock on CM holidays holl daye ho lie bated hated everything wrong and burned up tho the record of tho the yazoo fraud ho lie paid hie his just debts and rounded the molon into ho lie led tho the way to secession with his piko pike and furnished more troops than any other state ho lie was the first ono one to revive after thi this war reclaiming the state and making tho the best of a bad bargain ho lie builds up tip his cities out his rivers and canals loads leads th the e union in railway construct constructions lons and spins more cotton than any othar r sout southern horti commonwealth mon wealth ho ila Is religious patriotic public spirited believes in and keeps tho dry in fact ho he li Is tho the brother gorman to undo uncle jonathan ilo Is called the southern yankee the light of tho the now south the hope of the nation ie Is this georgia cracker judge Longst longstreet wrote humorously but tenderly of h him ra in those incomparable georgia col thompson pictured him hlin gallant and picturesque in that indescribable coart ablis of major jones ready for a fight or a foot race high toned ond and reflective I 1 full ull of pro but never dominated by prejudice hospitable helpful tender quaint and true the georgia crucker cracker cru stands the peer of tho the knickerbocker on the hudson or the carrolls carrells Car rolls of tho the Chosa Cho penko tho georgia cracker was shrewd but full of principle ho ila could col coin money out of the sunshine and tan lan richea from the fur of tho the gopher he ile was not malan melancholy choly or leh lah but full of tho the now ho lie watch his roof thatch rot like the Ark arkansan ansai settler ho he went to work and repa lied it ho was willing to work his lands with or without slaves his fleet charter prohibited serfdom as it barred barm rod out rum ho lie took his horn on with tho the lordly air of a peter 1 stuyvesant a ai i t kept tho the pledge all tho the of thoa tho ear car with the stem stoicism of a spartan bp artan ho lie worshiped andrew jackson and yet believed in troup he ile sided with joo joe brown agin the banks ho le was a democrat by conviction a whig only by perversion he ile regard od ad henry clans clas party as an aristocratic concern ho boycotted la fa otte for meddling with v ith our institutions just as a he be snubbed jay gould when ho he rode through tho the south in his palace car troup was a georgi t cracker so was alex stephens with his pale faco I 1 and bright beso so was ben as he be loft left tho the plow handles in jasper county to go to too the state university was sam sant thurmond of Wat watkinsville Watkins kinsville villo as ho he sturdily fed the forgo with ono one hand and turned the pages of blackstone with the other so aro we all georgia crackers Crac kera the descendant descendants of gods people the plain 3 of an em piro the tho thriftiest thrift iest kindliest most helpful folks on earth sherman cut out a swath forty miles wide and milfin mil ion long right in the heart and homes homer of 0 the georgia cracker one hundred millions of property pro perfy was wiped out in eight months now the whole state from dalton V to waycross Way croes blooms like a rose iron and find coal and granite are ore guarri quarried ca from the base of the tho kenno kenna saw and the railroads chich have given us cordele and americus Anic ricus and brunswick have the iba v u of war france rance hai not leapt into more swiftly than south georgia from pillage e and deva devastation st atlon look what the gargia cracker is I 1 doln doing I 1 there ii one million of 1 him ho ile Is at work Ms children areat oro at school he ile abes 11 well the pa pom and arid thinks for himself himo himl elf he ile 19 b an emparo h ie nothing halt half so to him as the rod red old hills of goorfin Goor gla zin long may ho he livel lay may his tribe increase and his shadow shado WT nui or grow leis lo 10 |