Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-01
MEMPHIS APPEAL
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4. 1859

MEMPHIS APPEAL
SUNDAY, ;: JANUARY 1. Isss
THE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT IN
GEORGIA.
Wepublish to-day the report of an Interview
with LIT. FELTON,, of Georgia, had BY the
Atlanta correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune
at the close of which the ex-coneressmap
iormulates the issues upon which the indie.
Pendents of that State propose to make the
next canvass That DIR. FELTON, ia sincere
there can be no doubt, and az little that he
and those who believe with him will make a
very earnest fight, but we cannot believe
That they will be successful. The Demo-
Gratis OF that great State are liberal and pro-
gressive, and have left nothing undone that
could help in the remarkable advancement
which 1t has made in the past Eve years.
But your real Independent is not satisfied
with the maintenance of the peace dignity
and welfare of State He wants Office and
the control of things. This was evidenced
In this case at meeting of whilom Demo
Gratis and Republicans held at Atlanta on
Friday, at which Felton's platform was
uns=smvasly adopted, and it was resolved
10 establish organ 1.-THE Constitution be-
irg too fairly independently aD3 pu,
DIR. FELTON, forward as the standard.
bearer and candidate Tor governor.
A comDittss IVES appointed to oommuni.
c..s with leading Independents and Repub-
licans in every county in the State and to
call a conference to select candidates for the
State Offices and for Congress. This done, a
mass meeting will be called to indorse tho
candidates, and subsequently the Republi-
cans will hold a convention and decide to
.se usssuppprt the ticket named. Among those
l,, 80 4t aths Conference, which expressed
,rner a. M, inimical to Joe Brown and earnest for
her. By ly1's administrai =. were Ex-Congfsss-
your berth" liam H. Feltot, the Inauguration Of
Cincinnati Gdssepdent movement in the Seventh
Georgia in 1874; General James
lie property. inclua nited States marshal of Geor-
luipment, motive-pepr H. V. NJ. Miller of At
'erything pertaininssanes s. Hook of Augusta: J. |
city or indirectly, to the sjinea-.. ,;,-;. ...
nd Mobile Railway Company s'.olney
e. Immediately after receiving ". Wilson for |
ty the executive committee of the, a, s.v.n,.h
iii, Selma and Mobile Company res
crease the equipment by ordering Puohcans ana
n of freight and passenger ,crats.
Onal motive power. The COZ
royed the contract Lar tn. the .effoxAL POLICY.
n R1iI,yay- and sshs morning a condensed account
he 81 the conference of the executive commit
tee of the American Missionary Association
with number Of its prominent workers at
Nashville the past week. Since the war this
association, supported by the philanthro-
pists of the world has inaugurated and car ,
ried most successfully great and COM ,
prehensive system of education for the ,
benefit of the colored people of the United 1;
States Nothing in the history of the world
indicates such stupendous change and pro-
gS-1 as is shown by the fact that, in the :,
short space of sixteen years from the day 4
of the emancipation of the race, see
established among and for them :
such series of schools, and SO ),
perfect system of private instruction, =,
from the lower and more practical to =
the highest and most complete of college n
courses. This is the more astonishing when =,
we remember that all this has been done =.
among and for people whom public senti- :.
ment and Judgment had declared incompe- ~
tent TO master even the rudiments of knoxl- h.
edge. 1t has been done not with the earn -,
est aid and encouragement OF the masses Of 80
the more Intelligent people of the South h.
where the problem was being worked out. :.
Most of US, by reason of our surroundings ~
and training, have until lately felt that such -.
results were impossible, If, indeed, they were wa
desirable. And it is certainly not the least in,
of the gains accomplished by this association M,
that In the last few years such a revolution of
has taken place in the minds of the Nh
Southern people the sub Inv
jet of the education of the negro. Al,
No one is now SO foolish to advise the limit N.
ing of the education of the colored man or III
his aspirations in this direction. While We N,
have room and opportunity for free men, We ha
have no place in our system nor on our soil to
Tor a serf population. II this were to be his tn
destiny his deportation would become a duty ali
We should owe both to him and to our own in,
institutions. 1t becomes to encourage tn
every wise aspiration in the direction OF the he
highest culture for all, that we may have wi;
here not serfs, but citizens The American p.
Missionary Association in doing this, still the
does not forget that the higher is only at hn
tanned through the more lowly and practical. he,
Its excellent system of industrial education the
at its great school at Hampton, Virginis, viii
under General Armstrong, its agricultural tai
training in the Tongaloo university, near the
jackson, Mississippi, and its other various phi
departments where practical training in spi
the various branches of skilled labor is car of
ried on, is most encouraging to all classes .se7
No race of people can all be college grsdu- bra
ates-there must still be the great class OF me,
laborerl for whom there is little but constant wor
toll. Any training that shall reach this class
and shall raise any considerable number OF
them into the middle class of skilled me- L
chanics, must do very much to solve, not In
only great problems for this race, but must the
at the same time be doing much for the pres
greater interests Of our entire land and Tor the
all raaes-@ sssss -hatever may have oth'
been our pass'ezperiences aI<seelings in the ton
matter, that Dr. Lindsey, of the State Board orat
OF Education, spoke the growing sentiment of read
the entire South, when before this body OF does
earnest workers under the association, he Ian
spokes words of manly, earnes. encourage Grip
mem and cheer in the great and up min
to the present, almost thankiess work Eve
done in these institutions at the South. We stici
lpinv;th the doctor in declaring, There is the
no work mo-, grand than this in which the Becl
American Missionary Association is en- Vest
gagged" woik which, we trust, has not orat'
only blessings for this our own land, but faiie
even In greatet measure for the great dark whic
continent beyond the sea-the fatherlsnd of Vest
the colored people. OF
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