CHAPTER I. REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS.

Middle Georgia—­Colonel David Love—­His Widow—­Governor Dunmore—­
Colonel Tarleton—­Bill Cunningham—­Colonel Fannin—­My Grandmother’s
Bible—­Solomon’s Maxim Applied—­Robertus Love—­The Indian Warrior—­
Dragon Canoe—­A Buxom Lass—­General Gates—­Marion—­Mason L. Weems
—­Washington—­“Billy Crafford”

Chapter II. 
Pioneer life.

Settlement of Middle Georgia—­Prowling Indians—­Scouts and their
Dogs—­Classes of Settlers—­Prominence of Virginians—­Causes of
Distinction—­Clearing—­Log-Rolling—­Frolics—­Teachers Cummings and
Duffy—­The Schoolmaster’s Nose—­Flogging—­Emigration to Alabama

Chapter III. 
The Georgia company.

Yazoo Purchase—­Governor Matthews—­James Jackson—­Burning of the Yazoo
Act—­Development of Free Government—­Constitutional Convention—­Slavery: 
Its Introduction and Effects

Chapter IV. 
Political DISPUTATIONS.

Baldwin—­A Yankee’s Political Stability—­The Yazoo Question—­Party
Feuds and Fights—­Deaf and Dumb Ministers—­Clay—­Jackson—­Buchanan—­
Calhoun—­Cotton and Free Trade—­The Clay and Randolph Duel

Chapter V.
Georgia’s noble sons.

A Minister of a Day—­Purity of Administration—­Then and Now—­Widow
Timberlake—­Van Buren’s Letter—­Armbrister and Arbuthnot—­Old
Hickory Settles a Difficulty—­A Cause of the Late War—­Honored Dead

Chapter VI. 
Popular characteristics.

A Frugal People—­Laws and Religion—­Father Pierce—­Thomas W. Cobb—­
Requisites of a Political Candidate—­A Farmer-Lawyer—­Southern
Humorists

Chapter VII. 
Wits and fire-eaters.

Judge Dooly—­Lawyers and Blacksmiths—­John Forsyth—­How Juries were
Drawn—­Gum-Tree vs. Wooden-Leg—­Preacher-Politicians—­Colonel
Gumming—­George McDuffie

Chapter VIII. 
Fifty years ago.

Governor Matthews—­Indians—­Topography of Middle Georgia—­A New
Country and its Settlers—­Beaux and Belles—­Early Training—­Jesuit
Teachers—­A Mother’s Influence—­The Jews—­Homely Sports—­The Cotton
Gin—­Camp-Meetings

Chapter IX. 
Pedagogues and demagogues.

Education—­Colleges—­School-Days—­William and Mary—­A Substitute—­
Boarding Around—­Rough Diamonds—­Caste—­George M. Troup—­A Scotch
Indian—­Alexander McGilvery—­The McIntosh Family—­Button Gwinnett
—­General Taylor—­Matthew Talbot—­Jesse Mercer—­An Exciting Election

Chapter X.
Indian treaties and difficulties.

The Creeks—­John Quincy Adams—­Hopothlayohola—­Indian Oratory—­Sulphur
Springs—­Treaties Made and Broken—­An Independent Governor—­Colonels
John S. McIntosh, David Emanuel Twiggs, and Duncan Clinch—­General
Gaines—­Christianizing the Indians—­Cotton Mather—­Expedient and
Principle—­The Puritanical Snake