The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-28

Richmond alone is worth coming all the vav -
sec. Built, Rome-like, on seven hills, bv the s;do
OF the historic James, it is a city of beautiful
views. And it was a historic city even before tho
"Mother of States and of Statesmen" left tbo
Union it had done so much to establish. Here is
the old Capitol Building, for example, built from
a model selected by Thomas Jefferson. Here
Madison brought out his famous Virginia-Ken
lucky Resolutions in 1899; here Aaron Burr was
tried for treason a century ago; here Madison
and Marshall and Monroe and Randolph sat TO-
gether in the Convention of 1829-3O; here the
Ordinance of Secession was adopted. The mao
nifcent Washington Monument, with the eques-
trian statue of Washington Surrounded by the
figures of six other notable Virginians, stands
in the foreground-built at a cost of 100000
and unveiled in 1853. Monuments to Henry Clay
and Stonewall Jackson are also on the grounds.
I have also seen the old home of General Lee and
the wartime home of Jefferson Davis. The latter
is called "the White House Of the Confederacyo
and is now a museum Of Confederate relics. Most
conspicuous among the objects in the "Nortb
Carolina Room" is the portrait of Governor
Vance, regarded by many as superior to the por-
trait in our House of Representatives in Raleigh.
[ also went out yesterday afternoon to old St.
Johns Church and stood in the pew where Pat
rick Henry stood when he concluded his fiery
speech with the words so dear to the heart of
every schoolboy: "I know not what course others
may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give
me deathp But I haven't time to give a general
description of the city and shall wait till next
week for futrehr observations of this character.
The Educational Conference is the most largely
attended of the six sessions already held, and
promises to be as fruitful as any in good results.
Governor Montague, the brilliant, red-headed
young Chief Executive of Virginia, delivered the
opening address Wednesday night and made a
highly favorable impression, though our North
Carolina Governor is a greater orator. And Mr..
Ogden's annual address was a frank, sensible re-
view of the history and purposes of what has
come to be known as "the Ogden movement" that
should satisfy those Southern critics that have
prOfessed to be so DESTROYS of finding out what is
cat the bottom of the matter" Parenthetically,
it should be said that there is more reason for
wanting to know what is at the bottom" Of the
chronic and long-winded enemies of the move
ment. It looks like it is a little clique of manu-
facturers enraged chiefly by Secretary MurphyS
strenuous fight on child labor in Southern fac
tories.
Throughout the Conference there has been a
frank recognition of the fact that the Educa-
tional Conference and the Educational Boards
are but minor factors in the great educational
revival in the South; in fact, if I had to select
one sentence as the keynote of the Conference
should give this from the great speech Of DR..
Francis G. Peabody, of Harvard University:
"That education is the key Of Southern as OF
Northern security; that education does not mean
political service or racial antagonism; that eau.
cation begins at the bottom and not at the top
that the South and the North have a common
stake in the education of the whole people; thaI
i~literacy is inconsistent with democracy; tha'
the part of the North is not to patronize or crit
icise, but reinforce the initiative Of the South