Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from General Samuel Chapman Armstrong: Founder's Day Address, 1913
Years ago it was an honored custom in some parts of this pleasant Southland - perhaps it is today - for friends, months after they had lain away their dead and after time had dulled somewhat the edge of sad memories and toil had diverted minds, to meet and in memorial service lovingly revive the face and form, the spirit and the work of the absent one. In this spirit we who knew General Armstrong and you to whom his name is but a lively tradition have assembled, and on the spot, too, which he tenderly loved and which he forever consecrated by his life and martyr death given freely to the upbuilding of two great sections of the American people whom the State and Society had sadly neglected - the Negro and the Indian. I can add nothing to the fascinating story of his life which his daughter has told most charmingly and sympathetically and to which loving college friends have contributed delightful details on occasions similar to this. It is my purpose today to review with you the conditions that educated General Armstrong and the way that he used his opportunities.
We speak of a man's environment as though it was born with him but it is as old as the ages which have developed it. Every political, social, or religious idea which blesses man today existed in crude form in the twilight of history, and these ideas, highly developed are still often found in the minds of men alongside those which are most rudimentary. In the same community live the pantheist and the theist, the communist and the believer in private property, the anarchist and the respecter of law. More than this the same individual may hold the most rudimentary ideas along certain lines of thought and well-developed ideas along other lines of thought.
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