Chapter VI. Disintegration.
Spangenberg's Visit.
After Spangenberg had decided not to comply with the request
contained in the letter from Savannah, but to stay and prosecute the work
among the Schwenkfelders, where a door seemed to be opening,
he became conscious of a feeling of uneasiness, an impression
that he was needed in Georgia. This was increased by news
of the expected Spanish outbreak, for so general was the alarm
that all the war-ships in the northern harbors were ordered to Carolina,
and the selling of supplies to the Spaniards was absolutely prohibited.
At this point George Neisser and Benjamin Ingham came,
bringing word of the pressure on the Moravians, their decision
to leave Georgia as soon as it could be arranged, and their request
that Spangenberg should go to England with Ingham to see the Trustees,
and secure their consent. Of this plan Spangenberg did not approve,
for he thought the war would ruin everything, or else the danger
would be over, before he could make the long journey to England, and return.
Ingham professed himself ready to carry letters to the Trustees,
and do his best to influence them to grant the Moravian requests,
so Spangenberg decided to entrust that errand to him, and himself go at once
to Georgia, to see whether he could not help matters there.
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