The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-26
CAPON SPRINGS.
Tribute to Life Work of General
Armstrong.
Honolulu, August %, 1899.

eating the negroes in America, inau-
| gurated by the late General S. c. Arm
! strong, who was born here and was a
graduate of Oahu College, it would in
terest them if you would publish the
following extract from the proceedings
| the subject of negro education, recent
ly held at Capon Springs, West Vir-
ginia. KAMAAINA.
The results of the second Capon
Springs conference, adjourned today,
have been peculiarly satisfactory A
practical basis has been established
| for the cooperation of those at work.
both North and South, for the i'm
prOvement of Southern educational and
social conditions; the need of placing
the Southern colleges and high schools
in position where they may aid more
effectively in the solution of the prob
lens at hand has been made plain; the
cleareSt emphasis has been laid on the
Importance of the Hampton and Tuske-
gee idea as a factor, and, finally, meas
ures have been taken for the co-ordi
nation of the work of the principal
SOuluoTu anu DOoIuS,
with the view of encouraging only such
schools in future as on careful inveSti
CATION may be found worthy of en-
| cOuragement.
1t has been a matter of highest in
| terest throughout these sessions, to
observe the tribute paid, in diversity
| of ways, to the life-wOrk of General
Armstrong 1t is to proclaim the great
and lasting success of Armstrong; eX
pertinent, and to urge the continued APP
| plicatiOn of his methods in the train
| ing of whites as we'll as BLACKSMITH
| the plan of higher education adjusted
| to admit of effective cooperation in
applying those methOdS-that this dis
tinguished assembly Of educators and
scholars has come together. Those who
believe that the name of Armstrong
should be written in the history of the
emancipation and uplifting of the ne
gro race second only to that Of Lin
coin, find abundant support for that
belief in what has been spoken here
within the past few days. The grant
of freedom would have proved nope
leSsly Intellectual had not the work of
fitting the negro for the duties and re-
SponsibilitieS of his new state been un-
dertaken by man who saw, as clearly
as this man saw, the peculiar need
and the right means. The plan OF
regeneration was worked out complete
ly at Hampton-the manual training
of the negro, in the shops of every
craft, in the mill and foundry, and on
the farm; the early indications, by IN
geniously devised methods, of the
sense of thrift; the education of the
mind in those branches most service
Ill
constant offer of opportunity to the eX-
ceptionally able student to pass above
the simpler conditions, to any higher
place for which he might show fitness.
To the perfection of this plan General
Armstrong gave the energies Of TWEEN
ty-five years, working with patience
and courage unmatched in the history
of education. and winning success at
the cost of his life.
LAS Hampton grew, reaching in 1893
a total enrolment Of thousand stud
ents, it's influence extended in con-
stantly increasing degree. The young
men and women taken from the cabins
and huts of the old plantation States
were sent out as teachers and mission
aries of the new idea and as builders
of homes. Booker Washington, the
ragged slave-boy who had found his
way to Hampton afoot from the noun
tains of Virginia, was one OF the hrst
to go forth Within a year graduates
Of his school at Tuskegee were found
ing other schools, while Hampton con-
tinued to broaden its influence IN the
same way and in many directions.
State institutions in various parts OF
the South, including many devoted 10
the education of whites, commenced
TO follow the new example; and so the
system grew and is growing. The fuIl
fruition of General Armstrong; Work
is still to come. The time has been
brought measurably nearer, however,
by the organization of this conference.