The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-01-25
TIE OGDEN MOVEMENT.

In another column OF this morning s
Messenger We publish under the mead
ing In the Long Ago" very inter
esdng article furnished us by Il friend
of this paper which is table or con-
tents and resume Of the news mat
ter and business advertisements CON
tanned in the issue Of the Wilmington
Journal Of September 1886. While
the whole article will be interesting to
cur readers, there is one paragraph 10
which We wish especially TO call at
tention and we wish it 10 be read IN
conjunction with an extract which We
publish from the Charlotte Chronicle
in reference to an address recently de-
Iivered by Dr. Lyman Abbott, one OF
the promoters Of the ogden Move
ment". that association OF northern
men who think or pretend to think it
their Christian duty to come down
south every year to tell US Of this sec
ton how we should conduct our CAM
paigns of education.
II will be noticed that Mr.. Abbott
says that there was no public schoo:
system whatever before the civil war,
referring to the southern states II
will be Seen, however, by reading the
local news columns OF the Wilmington
Journal of September .S,lS46, that
the. was ct that time public school
fund in this county.
Mr.. Abbott and the other men OF his
Ogden Movement who are self ap-
pointed missionaries Of education and
enlightenment of the southern people.
should better inform themselves on
the conditions in the south before their
crusade Of education began.
Again, if the south in her impover-
ished condition has made such wonder
full strides in the last forty years n
the matter of public education it strikes
us that Messs Ogden, Abbott & Co,
would recognize the fact that, with
our increased wealth and prosperity,
we of this section could take care OF the
education of our children in the future
without their interference. If we have
accomplished so much by our own cf-
forts in the last forty years when We
were impoverished we surely do not
to come when the south will be goOw
ing richer by millions OF dollars day
by day. Ii under the adverse condi-
tions of the past forty years the south
was able to make such educa tional
progress as was never before known
in the history of the whole country,
surely we do not now or for the future
need the guiding hand of strangers to
direct our people in the matter Of ed
ucation
We have among cur people men and
young men and young women in the
kind of education needed to qualify |
them for their callings in life That |
this is true is fully demonstrated by
the number of North Carolinians who |
have gone to other states and risen |
20 the top of the professions they have |
chosen for their life's calling. Th,re
is hardly a state in the union where |
there is not son OF North Carolina |
who stands at the head Of his profess
sion, In every calling OF life the coun-
try over you will find prominent mem
bers who received their education in !
the schools and colleges of North Car
ohna. We here do not need any outside |
instruction. Our state can give her
sons and daughters all the education
they need Or desire. The pupils of her
schools take honors in the leading
classical universities and medical co.,
eges Of Great Britain and of CONT
mental Europe
We Of the south are better off with
out the incubation Of foreign ideas
and modes of instruction which seems
% be the object of the Ogden Move
nent'' for the education of our youth.
AS a warning to the people Of the
south against educat ton of the kind
Undertaken by the promoters Of this
Ogden Movement" who come south
O educate our youth in their way We
will quote the following from an old
'ook, ''The Elements of General
knowledge, by Henry Kett. fellow Of
oxford college, published in 1912, which
"e have recently read In giving the
ea sons for the fall Of the Roman EN-
ire the author says.
To increase this train OF destructive
wills 49, 1S,,, |