Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-30
METHODIST.
Probable Agitation for the Removal to Lou
isVille, KY, of the Nashville N. E.
Publishing House.

From the n ashYille Union AID \ Aerlcan.
A lengthy communication is published
in the Louisville COUTier-JOUrnGt urging
that immediate steps be taken by the cit
liens of Louisville to secure the removal
to that city of the Southern Methodist
Publishing House, which has been located
here since the separation of the churches
North and South. The writer in the
Courier-JOHTndL says;
AT the General Conference of the
Church, held in New Orleans in May, 1867,
a movement was made looking to the re-
mOval of the Publishing House to Louis
vile, and with a view of communicating
the important undertaking a subscription
of twenty Thousand dollars was obtained.
This amount could have been largely
augmented, but it was known financially
the house was greatly embarrassed, its
business Frustrated, II its prospects
gloomy"
The English of which we understand
to be: If Louisville had thought the
Publishing House "a good thing,n it
would have subscribed a few thousand
dollars more to have SECURED its removal
to that city, but as ait was Known that
financially the house was greatly emhar-
raised, its business FRUSTRATED, and its
prospects gloomy,n Louisville did not
care to go a higher figure for the institu-
ton. Through the excellent manage
ment of its accomplished, able and ener-
getic book agent, Rev. DIR. A. II. Redford,
who, +" although surrounded with embar-
easements and discourageinents, has not
only met the fullest measure of conf
dence reposedin him by the conference, but
has exceeded the expectations of the most
sanguine,'' in the language of the writer
in the CoUTier-JolTHdL the Publishing
Houss VIII We presented to the General
Conference in May tout of debt, with a
fair working capital, a rapidly increasing
patronage and a large stock of books and
bOok-making MATERIAL" This, it will be
borne in mind, was all done with the Pub
fishing House in Nashville. If this be so,
and so the Louisville writer asserts, the
very pertinent interrogatOry persistently
presents itself, why the necessity of re-
moving il from Nashville to Louisville?
As our Methodist friends are a very safe
and sober people, the old adage will prob
ably occur to them: LET we'll enough
alone" The writer in the COitrier-JoUr
nat adds, in relation to the last foul
years operations OF the Publishing
House:
GAS a commercial success, considering
the condition which the house was in four
years since, it will, Imagine, be difficult
to find a more satisfactory exhibit, and il
is proper to inquire if, with such difficult
ties as / have indicated such results have
been achieved, what may not be expected
the next four Years. ="
To which we say very respectfully,
"Amen," and add that its unparalleled
success in the past is the most powerful
argument for its continuance in Nash
vile. The writer from whom we quote
proceeds to give the advantages of Louis
one of which is that Louisville is
on a meridian, which crosses the north
ern boundary line of the territory of the
church more equi-distant between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans than any
other important city within that terrific
ry." The exact point in this advantage,
we cannot see. 1t would have struck us
forcibly if Louisville had been stu
ated more nearly equi-distant between
northern boundary line of the terri
tory of the church, and the southern
boundary of its Jurisdiction.
Another one of the advantages urged
for Louisville is its banking facilities.
We doubt whether Louisville has supe-
rior advantages in this respect to Nash
vile, the commercial requirements of the
cities being taken into consideration.
Under the present national banking sys-
there is no city in the South which
full financial facilities. The "trans-
p~ortation facilities" of Louisville are
presented. "She enjoys" says this
writer's ''unsupassed facilities of commu-
with S2ll points North, South,
East and West. Nashville is far supe-
rior to Louisvillekn her connection with
the South and Southwest. How would
Louisville reach kNrth Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia Alabama-except
through Nashville? - reach any of the
southern States she h(ssfnt one line of
and NashyillessSt Two or three.
So far as u interesdkapa publishing
are concerned, it would,
perhaps, be better that the Publishing
House should be removed; but it would
highly injurious to Nashville, and also.
n our opinion, to the best interests the
Church.
The Methodist congregation Is o bof
he largest and wealthiest in the ~
respectfully cali their attention To !
that strenuous efforts will be madt6Xt.
he General Conference in MemphisZ
the removal of the Publish ~
House from Nashville. We ask then to
)e on the alert. Let them take such steps
low as they may think will be necessary
o prevent such a contamination.