Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-19
Friday Morning, Nov. 19. 1880.

| ssNATIONAI. UNION ASSOCIATION NO. l. ;, Rhode Island is a small State, but a great
 work has been begun in it. At a meeting held in Providence few weeks ago committee
 was chosen to consider the propriety of or
 ganizing an association to assist in building
 up at the South a liberal progressive party
 that will strengthen the national feeling and
 the love of the Union in that section that
 will favor the establishment and proper main
 tenance of system of public schools for the
 free education of all children and will labor
 for the protection of the lives and rights of
 all citizens, including the right to vote and
 the securing of an honest count of the bal
 lots. The committee unanimously decided to
 recommend the organization of such an asso-
 citation, and a meeting was held Wednesday
 evening to hear the report of the committee.
 At this meeting Colonel Bryant, of Geor-
 gia, made an interesting address concerning the object of the proposed organization and
 the state of affairs in the South. He thought
 the object as set forth could be accomplished.
 We shall have, said he, to fight against the planting class, the class that controls the South. This class wants cheap labor. and wants matters as near like the old condition as possible. These men are honest in this
 and will not give up their control or their ideas. They have always controlled the South, and were and are politicians from ne- cessity and by education. They controlled the entire press the pulpit, the schools-all the avenues by which the public mind could be reached. ''The time has come when we can go into the South with our ideas and not be killed. We have gained so much. But we have the wealth, the press, the education of the South against us. We have got to go there and build up our ideas. You must bring the wealth and power of the North to the backs of the freed people at the South.
 We have been fighting this in the South for fifteen years, until we have come to the con- clusion that it is of no use to fight it any longer without the support of the people of the North. For this reason are these organi- cations being formed. We have already formed an association at Atlanta. to aid in this purpose, with branch associations all over the State; we propose to publish newspaper, and we propose to send men all over the State; men from the North to talk to the people about their practical interests, when there Is no political campaign gong on This is a great work-it is to change the civ ilization of one-third of the country,-it is to put the American civilization in place of a feudal civilization. It will take long time but we say it is the only remedy, and this alone will bring peace to the country"
 An organization was formed, to be known as the National Union Association No. l, of .c lar organizations will be formed in other nor thern States. There ought to be an organized effort to plant and cultivate new ideas in the South, and if the northern people who are interested in the matter would work unitedly | and skillfully they could accomplish much. ! We shall be surprised, however, if the move ment started in Providence becomes very general or effective.