together. They spoke at the Emancipation
Celebration in Nashville, 1st of January, 1892, which took
place in the Representative Hall of the capitol. They were
the principal speakers.

An afternoon paper on the 2nd said: "The ablest address of
the occasion was delivered by Capt. George T. Robinson on
Abraham Lincoln. The speaker electrified the audience."

"Cap." Robinson graduated from Fisk University in 1885 and
from law in Central Tennessee College, now Walden
University, both of Nashville, Tenn. He is a professor of
law in the university.

In 1875 he refused a seat in the Legislature of Mississippi,
in order to complete his education. In 1886 he delivered the
commencement address at Lane College, Jackson, Tenn.; the
same year he began the publication of the "Tennessee Star"
in Nashville. In 1887 he was made a Captain in the Tennessee
National Guard by Governor R. L. Taylor, In 1888 he was on
the invitation committee to invite President Cleveland to
Nashville and served on Gen. W. H. Jackson's staff as
commander of a division in the parade. In 1893 he was a
nominee on the Citizens' ticket for the city council. In
1896 he was appointed a member of the executive committee of
the Negro department of the Tennessee Centennial and was
chairman of the Military Committee. But the entire committee
resigned before the exposition opened.

Settling in Nashville in 1886, he soon forged his way to the
front and became a champion of Negro rights. Hon. George N.
Tillman says of him: "He is one of the best and ablest men
of his race in the State." Bishop Evans Tyree says:
"Professor Robinson is a giant physically and mentally." Mr.
Robinson's fame rests on his journalistic career.

The "Star" was regarded as one of the ablest edited Negro
journals ever published. After several years of successful
work for God and humanity, it consolidated with the
"Indianapolis Freeman."

The "Star" made its advent in the midst of a big social
scandal with a pastor of the most prominent Baptist Church
in the city, the central figure. With the large following
the divine had, it was not only unpopular, but dangerous to
fight him, especially since he had been acquitted by the
courts; and a large majority of his congregation endorsed
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