Charles Sumner: “It was under the auspices of Emigrant Aid Companies that our country was originally settled by the Pilgrim Fathers of…”

“It was under the auspices of Emigrant Aid Companies that our country was originally settled by the Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth, by the Adventurers of Virginia, and by the philanthropic Oglethorpe, whose “benevolent soul,” commemorated by Pope, sought to plant a Free State in Georgia.”