{"id":"jw/letters/1736/09-to-general-oglethorpe","corpus":"jw-letters","type":"letter","author":"john-wesley","title":"09 To General Oglethorpe","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":null,"date_precision":"unknown","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"jw-letters","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"jw-letter-1736-09-to-general-oglethorpe","passage_ids":["jw-letter-1736-09-to-general-oglethorpe-000"],"word_count":181,"themes_auto":["assurance","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["jw-letter-1736-09-to-general-oglethorpe-000"],"passages":[{"id":"jw-letter-1736-09-to-general-oglethorpe-000","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-letter-1736-09-to-general-oglethorpe","source_title":"09 To General Oglethorpe","source_type":"letter","year":null,"chunk_index":0,"text":"To General Oglethorpe Date: SAVANNAH, August 23, 1736. SIR, I choose to write rather than speak, that I may not say too much. I find it utterly impossible anything should be kept secret unless both parties are resolved upon it. What fell out yesterday is already known to every family in Frederica; but to many it has been represented in such a light that 'tis easy to know whence the representation comes. Now, sir, what can I do more Though I have given my reputation to God, I must not absolutely neglect it. The treatment I have met with was not barely an assault: you know one part of it was felony. I can't see what I can do but desire an open hearing in the face of all my countrymen of this place. If you (to whom I can gladly entrust my life and my all in this land) are excepted against as partial, let a jury be empanelled, and upon a full inquiry determine what such breaches of the law deserve. I am, sir, Your obliged and obedient servant.","word_count":181,"source_url":null,"themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:40:33.866804"}]}