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