If they might but start again, in a new land, free from entanglements! Others, too, were in prison, whose crimes were negligible, mere mistaken moves with no evil will behind them--or, if not so negligible, then happening often through that misery and ignorance for which the whole world was at fault.

There was also the broad and well-filled prison of poverty, and many of the prisoners there needed only a better start.

James Edward Oglethorpe conceived another settlement in America, and for colonists he would have all these down-trodden and oppressed.

He would gather, if he might, only those who when helped would help themselves--who when given opportunity would rise out of old slough and briar.

He was personally open to the appeal of still another class of unfortunate men.