tablishment in Montgomery, or rather
refused the previous State aid. Having been for many years on the Board
of Trustees of Atlanta University, and being personally acquainted with
a number of the members of the Georgia Legislature, yet I am prepared to
state this astonishing paradox--that even the legislators who voted for
the Glenn Bill have a much higher regard for the colored race and for
the A.M.A. schools than they formerly had. I cannot take time to explain
this singular phenomenon, but it is true. One of the prominent members
of the Georgia Legislature said to me on the streets of Macon, when he
heard the news of President Ware's sudden death at Atlanta University:
"Mr. Ware was a hero of the nineteenth century, and deserves a monument
to his memory from the State of Georgia." So, notwithstanding Col. Glenn
and his followers, the same Legislature of Georgia has recently added
two million dollars to the school fund of the State. The efforts of such
brave and fearless leaders as Rev. Dr. Haygood, Rev. Dr. Curry, Hon.
Walter B. Hill and others have not been in vain, and the good results of
the A.M.A. work have commanded respect and even wonder from its
bitterest opponents, whose number and zeal decreases. Wisdom and
discretion in future will rapidly increase its friends.

3.--I could say much more concerning the colored work, in which (at
Macon, Georgia) I spent eight and a half of the happiest years of my
life. That branch of work needs to be sustained and extended for years
to come. Having now been for eighteen months in the mountain white
department of work, and having visited nearly all its most important
posts, I am prepared to say that this, also, is a most needy part of the
great missionary work which this Society has undertaken. Here are nearly
two millions of people, scattered here and there over this great
Cumberland Plateau, who because of their inaccessibility, their poverty
and indifference, have been largely passed by until recently. The great
tides of missionary effort have swirled and risen to the east, the south
and the west, but have reached only a little way up into the caves and
valleys of this great island plateau, which towers a thousand feet above
the surrounding country. The inevitable effects of isolation, of
intermarriage, of stagnation and neglect in mental and spiritual
matters, has brought about a condition of things which calls for the aid
and sympathy of all good Samaritans. They have