hants declined to make
the loan, saying: "We can not take the land (in Georgia) as surety,
for it is not yet settled, and no man would give us a doit for it; the
personal security (of the emigrants) is also not sufficient, for they
might all die on the sea or in Georgia,--there is danger of it, for the
land is warmer than Europeans can bear, and many who have moved thither
have died; if they settle on the land and then die the land reverts
to the Trustees, so we would lose all; and the six per cent interest
offered is not enough, for the money applied to business would yield
twenty per cent.

Others objected to having the Moravians go at all, especially Court
Preacher Ziegenhagen, who belonged to the Halle party, and who,
Spangenberg found, had much influence on account of his good judgment
and spotless character. They claimed: (1) That the Moravians were not
oppressed in Saxony, and had no good reason for wishing to leave; (2)
that to say they wished to be near the heathen was only an excuse, for
Georgia had nothing to do with the West Indies where they had a mission;
(3) the Moravians could not bear the expense, and neither the Trustees
nor the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge would help
them; (4) they could neither speak nor understand English, and would
therefore be unable to support themselves in an English colony; (5)
their going would create confusion, for Herr Bolzius, the pastor of
the Salzburgers at Ebenezer, had written to beg that they should not be
allowed to come; (6) if they went it would involve England in trouble
with Saxony, and the Georgia Colony was not meant to take other rulers'
subjects away from them, only to furnish an asylum for exiles, and poor
Englishmen; (7) the Moravians could not remain subject to Zinzendorf,
for they must all become naturalized Englishmen; (8) the suggestion that
Zinzendorf's land could be cultivated by the heathen was absurd, for
slavery was not permitted in Georgia and the Moravians could not afford
to hire them; (9) ten or fifteen men, as were said to be on the way,
would never be able to make headway in settling the forest, a task which
had been almost too much for the large company of Salzburgers.

Some of these statements dealt with facts, about which the critics
might have acquired better information, had they so desired, others were
prophecies of which only the years to come could prove or disprove
the truth, others again touched difficulties wh