Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-30

late issue of your paper: 1ai3a ,7e
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"'A Teacher in Sundays Press and
Herald, thinks an extract from the message
of the Governor of Nebraska of more value
as inducing immigration to East Tennes-
see than the hundred articles entitled
Facts About East Tennessee in the
CHRONICLE. Knoxville has some teachers
very shrewd advertisers, but we doubt
their ability to advertise East Tennessee's
resources by extracts from the messages OF
Western Governors" q i yss, asI i.z.at
If Messrs. Editors, you inferred from
the article in the Press and Herald, to
which you allude, that intended to speak
disparagingly of your articles entitled,
Facts About East Tennessee" you did
widely err. Those articles have been able,
interesting and of great value to our sec
ton of the State, and have contributed
largely to the popularity and to the rapid
and extended circulation of the CHRoNI-
Gle. You deserve, and I doubt not re-
ceive, the thanks of our entire people for
them. You aim by those articles
to build up and promote the interests Of
this city and of this section of country. AT
nothing more nor less do aim in what
ever write or say upon educational mat
tiers. The point (l supposed clear and OBJ
vious) in the article alluded to was, that
the attitude of the Governor, Legislature
and people of Nebraska upon education
and schools, despite their long winters,
rigorous climate, &C., would bring more
emigrants to that State than all the 'Facts
About East Tennessee would to our Sec
ton, if we did not have good facilities for
education hence let us foster our schools
and look we'll to our educational Interests.
Am not right in this opinion On it l
am willing to risk my reputation for
knowledge of the American people and of
of the tendency of the times. 2
East Tennessee is, in my Judgment,
all things considered, the most desir-
able section of our broad land,
for comfort, health and long life. All that
we need in addition to what we already
possess is large and intelligent popula-
ton, and what they will bring and work
out. The question now is how shall such
a population be most speedily and easily
obtained. I answer, (what is obvious to
alD mining, manufacturing and good
schools, from the common school to the
University. Iremark in passing that man.
ufacturers and skilled wOrkmen are men,
usually, of a much higher order. of educa-
ton and intelligence than is commonly
among us. Look at our interest
in schools and colleges. East Tennessee,
in natural characteristics and position, is
nicely fitted to become the. educational
home, the true New England, of the South
Western and Gulf States. The long hot
summers and malarious climate of those
States, will ever prevent their colleges and
seminaries from obtaining more than To-
cal patronage. Young men and women
seeking high education will go
elsewhere. Transfer to East Tennessee,
not a. mammoth Yale or Cambridge Col
leg, but Princeton or an Amherst for
males, and Vassar for females, with two
good, but separate preparatory schools, one
for each sex, and how long would it be ere
begin to reap the financial advantages of
such position. Within the last twenty
five years, millions of money have been
expended in the States of Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Rhode Island for educa-
ton, by people from other States and coun-
tries, and in the Judgment of their best in
formed public men and business men,
their academies and colleges have cOntri-
Duted a larger per cent. to the general
wealth and prosperity of those commune
les than the same amount of money in
vested in any other interest.
From our relation to the regions South
md West of us, we may, in due time, reap
he same advantages. And not only SO,
put if we had demonstrations Of the char
lcter referred to, there are scores. if not
hundreds of young men in the North who
would gladly avail themselves Of the priv
lege of spending the four years of their
college days in the South. This desire to
become acquainted with different sections
If our country has not only led many
young men of the Western States to go to
Eastern institutions, but also many of the
Eastern States to go to Western institu-
ions, while the men of both sections would
much prefer to come to this region if they
,or to build up our University and other
schools, as well as secure the location at
Knoxville of the proposed Methodist Uni
Tersity. E A TEACHER.
You will not get duns If you buy of
Payne & Co., they sell for cash.