Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Rugby: Morgan County, Tennessee, Settlement; Founded October 5th, 1880
I am anxious to take this opportunity - the first public one I have had - to remove an impression which seems to have got abroad that the settlement we are planting on these mountains and opening to-day is intended to be an English colony in a somewhat exclusive sense. Nothing can be further from the wishes and intentions of the founders. In a sense it is an En glish colony, no doubt, because at present all the settlers are English, but we hope that this will very soon cease to be so. Our settlement is open to all who like our principles and our ways, and care to come here to make homes for themselves, freely, with out reserve or condition of any kind which does not bind us English also. Although the majority of as - the members of this board - are English, we have already amongst us a large, and, I am happy to say, an increasing number of American citizens. Leading men, not only in Boston, where the enterprise was first undertaken, but in New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati be long to us, and are as earnest and active in the work as any of our English members. They are as firmly convinced as we, that the future of our own race, and indeed of the world, in which our race is so clearly destined to play the leading part, can never be what it should be until the most cordial alliance, the most ia timate relations, have been established firmly, without any risk or possibility of disturbance or misunderstanding between its two great branches. We know of no way in which this can be brought about better than by such efforts as this we are making, in which Englishmen and Americans can stand shoulder to shoulder, and work with one mind and one heart for the same great end. If we knew ofany such better ways we would gladly[5.
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