Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-01
POPULAR EDUCATION.
The Interstate Convention at
Chattanooga.
Six States Besides Tennessee
Represented.
Opening Address by a Great
Educator of the West.
What will be Done at TO-Day's
Session.


nessee was so important as that which met
in Chattanooga yesterday, and is still in
session there-The Interstate Educational
Convention. There is a large attendance
Of teachers and educators from almost every
section of the country.
The convention met in the spacious
Temperance Hall, which was well filled
with delegates and visitors. Among the
latter were quite q number Of ladies.
DR.. j. B. Lindsey promptly called the
convention TO order at O'Clock, and ex-
planned that a meeting had been called as
an adjourned meeting Of the Tennessee
Association but, to secure a larger attend
1 ance, It was decided TO make tins an Inter
State Educational Convention.
DR.. Lindsey was elected Temporary
Chairman, and d. H. Rains, editor Of the
Tennessee Journal Of Education, Temporary
Secretary.
DR.. Lindsey thought the Permanent
President should be from some other State,
than Tennessee.
B. Mallon, Superintendent of the Public
Schools Of Atlanta, was elected Permanent
President Of the Convention, with w. r.
Garrett as Permanent Secretary. Upon
taking thJ chair, the chairman thanked the
| convention for the honor conferred upon
him. DR.. Lindsey having been called
upon to state the objects Of the convention,
said they were self evident. The whole
country had been notified of the meeting
and its objects, which were easily stated.
The people were ignorant, and were there
fore at the foot. They had assembled for
the purpose of helping along those from the
/ foot to the head. The ignorant would al
ways stay at the foot; ihe educated would
| go to the head. They must remove this
pail of ignorance from among the people.
The organization having been completed,
the meeting was opened with prayer by
Rev. DR.. Briggs, Of Illinois.
Col. George Washington, of Knoxville,
was selected 10 extend a welcome 20 the
Convention on the part Of Chattanooga,
which he did in an earnest and impressive
/ manner.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
PreSident-B. MallOn, Superintendent Of
the Public Schools Of Atlanta.
Vice Observation-Disclosures, Prof. G.. A.
Woodward, Selma; Missouri, Prof. W. I.
Harris, st. Louis; Tennessee, Prest. 4. &.
Graves, President Of Mary Sharp College;
Georgia, Prof. A. 5. TOwnes, Rome; Ken
tucky-Msj. w. J. Davis, Louisville; Him
ois-Rey. NJ. c. Briggs, ID. D., Chicago.
SecretaTy-W. X. Garrett, Marshall cOun-
ty, Tenn, and the reporters and members
of the press assistant secretaries.
THE DELEGATES.
g, ,Alabama-G. A. Woodward, Selma.
GeOrgia-Rev. J. Y. Bradshaw, PTesi-
ident Southern Masonic Female College,
COvingtou; A. j. Robert, Principal Tunnel |
Hill Academy; b. MallOn. Superintendent |
Public Schools, Atlanta; r. L. De Lea, At |
lanta; A. 5. TowneS, President Cherokee |
,ptist Female College, Rome; Mrs. Z. L. |
Caldwell, Teacher in the Southern Female |
College, COvingtOn.
Kenlqeky-Mr. Davis, Home and
School, Louisville.
nlinois-Rey. NJ. c. Briggs, d. D., Ev-
anstOn.
Missouri-Wm. T. Harris, Superintend- |
ent Public Schools, ST. Louis.
ViTginia-Miss Sallie j. MehOlin, PTin- |
cipal Sd Ward Public Schools, Wheeling. |
Tennessee-Dr. j. Berrien Lindsey, |
President Tennessee State Teachers AssO- |
citation; Il. W. Weakley, Superintendent Of |
Davidson County Schools; w. L. Wilburn, |
Principal Of HOlstOn Seminary, New Mar |
ket; Prof. 5. L. Sharp, Principal Of Normal |
School Department, Aaryville College; |
w. p. Marks Superintendent of Public |
Schools, Edgefeld; Prof. ". A. @. Brown, |
Principal.Of Masonic Female College, Mos |
81 Greek; Miss w. f. Bailey, Chattanooga;
Miss Hattie Alderman, Chattanooga; P. !
II. Green, First Assistant Second District |
Schools, Chattanooga; Prof. r. L. Kirkpat |
rick, East Tennessee University; a. +. /
Moore, Principal Of Sequatchie College,
BIedsOe county; Turner ). Foster, Agent /
Of John p. Morton Il Co., Nash /
vile; A T.. Barrett, Professor Of /
Mathematics, Mary Sharp College, Win /
chester; 5. Z. AmenJ, Davidson county; w.
A. Nelson, Edgefield, member of the EX-
ecutIve Committee State Teachers AssO-
ciation; ii. Pr.sneD, Superintendent of
Washington county schools; c. LOzo Smith,
Professor of Modern Languages, Mary
Sharp college, Winchester; Rev. A. W.
Wilson, President ROgersville Female Col
lege; DR.. r. 4. Watkins, Superintendent
James county schools; Miss Mary E.
Braden, Central Tennessee College, Nash
vile; G. W. Ford, Flint Spring Academy,
Bradley county; Prof. 4. G. Graves, Pres
ident Mary Sharp College, Winchester; I.
G. Karns, Supt. Knox county schools;
D. H. Rains, editor Tennessee Journal Of
Education, Nashville; W. Saunders, Prin-
cipal Third District schools, Chattanooga;
Hon. Leon TrOusdale, State Superintendent
Of Public Instruction, Nashville; Rev.
II. s Bennett Fisk Univerity; A. f.
DIX, Professor of Latin and Greek, Mary
Sharp College, Winchester; j. M. BledsOe,
Professor Of Ancient Languages, Mary
Sharp College, Winchester; Ben. r. Legg
SuperintendentOf Of Granger County Schools;
r. II. Brown, Principal High Schools, ,OOlta-
wah; Jno. R. Dean, Superintendent Bed
ford County Schools; X. e Stone, Nash
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Shelbvyille High School; Walter F. ShroD-
shire, Superintendent ObiOn County
Schools; 81. G. Butler, Principal East Ten
nessee Female Institute; Rev. II. II. Sneed,
Principal Chattanooga Female Institute;
Rev. J. Braden, d. D., President Central
Tennessee College, Nashville; w. l.. Cate,
Chattanooga Seminary; w. A. Nelson,
Limestone School; Miss Anna Cahill, Fisk
University; A. Pickett, Superintendent
Memphis City Schools; w. X. Garrett,
Principal COrneTsville Institute.
ADDRESS OF PROF. A, W. HARRIS.
After the election of officers, etc, Prof.
A. W. Harris, Of st. Louis, was introduced
by the President, and delivered the opening
address. The speaker traced the parallel
between thought and feeling, and showed
how one was derived from the other.
Everybody knows we have a national
idea. A governmental the people, by the
people for the people. Il is an ideal as
well as an idea. Il attracts as well as de-
velOps, and hence We have a mixed pOpula-
tiOn, gathered from all quarters of the
globe. The Mississippi Valley, being the
great interior supply depot, must become
the dominating territory and population of
the country. The lines Of our activity are
north TO south, parallel with
the interior water course and
its branches. This tends directly to
bring about close relations between the
people from the Gulf to the British do
miniOns. The great variety Of soil and
climate constantly stimulate Interchange, of
products and population, tending to make
the whole great interior plane, called the
Mississippi Valley, homogeneous, because
an independent, community. And these
influences Indefinitely operate to draw the
people into more close organic relations
political, social, commercial. The natural
resources Of this plane are such that it will
dominate the nation within the MEM
Ory Of the present generation. 1t !
now holds a population Of 100000.
It will not dominate in hostile or die
tatOrial sense. The constant intercourse
with the eastern and western slopes will |
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