Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03
MEMPHIS MEG HANGS INSTITUTE.

Editors appeal May we not congrat-
ulate our feIlow-citlZens upon the fact
that Memphis has given birth to q Me-
chanics' Institute, an institution which
we hope is bound TO prosper and finally
become productive of much good in our
midst. Similar institutions in the North,
East and West, have proven highly ben
eicial in promoting the progress of the
mechanic arts, manufactures and gen.
eral usefulness, and why should not
Memphis be blessed with a Mechanics
Institute, as we'll as other cities in the
Cnion2
1 am, therefore, happy to inform you
and the public, that the 'ball" has been
set in motion tby a full organization of
the Institutel and hope it will keep roll
ing to some purpose. We would now adj
wise a gOodly number of our industrious
mechanics and artisans to come forward
and Join the Memphis Mechanics Insti-
tute, which promises to be an Institution
devoted to home industry and Southern
interests.
Messrs. Editors, is 1t not time for the
South to rise in her majesty to be instru-
mental and make strong efforts to estab-
lish institutions of profit and usefulness,
and where principles Of home manufac-
lures M industry are inculcated, and
where, also, means are devised to enable
her to do her own works and makings
within her bosom at home? Have the
people of the South not experienced a
bitter lesson flor which they have dearly
to pay long enough by being utterly de.
pendent on the people of the
North, East and west for the
tools she uses, her implements of
husbandry, clothing, shoes, furniture,
harness, broom sticks, ax-handles and
even the shirts on ones back, have to be
made and are obtained from abroad.
This is prepOsterous. l ask, has the
South not the means, intelligence, the dis
position to do her w manufacturing at
homer Yes, l answer she has. She has
all the elements required, within herself,
and she can, if she wishes 10, be soon a
manufacturing people as well as she is
a producer of the raw material. l main
tain that the country has the resources,
and the abilities of her mechanics, which
is decidedly on the increase. She has the
requirements and the elements that con-
stitute all the material necessary for
and fabricating all we need at
home. There is not a doubt of the abili-
ties, qualifications and willingness of the
mechanics of the South. "The South pos 1
sesses all the elements necessary for con- |
cotton into clothing. My opinion
upon this subject has been formed by
taking Columbus, in Georgia, as a repre-
sentative point"
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Inc following. appropriate sentence, spo-
ken lat b Mechanics Institutal by my
friend, William H. Burwen.
Esq. He said, If there be any who doubt
he usefulness or patriotism of mechan-
les, as a class, they would confer with the
of the Washington, or apv ar
and 1t will be found that no men
embarked in the terrible conflict which
has closed, earlier, fought it longer or la
sacrificed more in their persons, or
or achieved more character, than
he mechanics of the South. p.
p. =. As there are many who do not
or understand the true meaning
use of a MechaAics' Instituted would
here embrace thdBopportunity and ex-
plain the nature and use of such ar insti-
.ution. Il Is an Institute which Is gener-
lily formed by an association of mechan-
cs and artisans, consisting of a building
# sastely architecture and of fair dimen-
ions, containing halls for libraries and
ectures, for exhibitions of scientific and
Material demonstrations, and tor other
purposes. It Is also The repository for
archives of the association, of mod
L., Of inventions, and of cabinets of
rawlings, paintings and statuary, etc.,
&c. There are also extra halls and rooms
which are let out TO parties either for
MEETINGS, conventions, for government
fAees, bureaus of statistics, etc. These
re the important objects of the affairs
nd provisions Of a Mechanics Institute.
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