The Afro-American press and its editors . irst importance in a civilized says: I sing arms and the hero. Carlyle says:* Tools and the man are a far wider kind of epic Young men, like yourselves, Messrs. Editors, are just theones to speak upon this subject. The man that the shoepinches is the one to hollow. The mechanical toe of ours isvery decidedly cramped and pinched by lack of opportunitiesfor growth and improvement. With a view to enlarging the influence and scope of TJicEcho, the editors constituted themselves a stock companyin 1888, with Dr. L. J. Coppin and William F. Sim
The Afro-American press and its editors . irst importance in a civilized says: I sing arms and the hero. Carlyle says:* Tools and the man are a far wider kind of epic Young men, like yourselves, Messrs. Editors, are just theones to speak upon this subject. The man that the shoepinches is the one to hollow. The mechanical toe of ours isvery decidedly cramped and pinched by lack of opportunitiesfor growth and improvement. With a view to enlarging the influence and scope of TJicEcho, the editors constituted themselves a stock companyin 1888, with Dr. L. J. Coppin and William F. Simpsoneditors, and Abel P. Caldwell business manager. This ledto an increase in the size of the paper, and also in thecirculation, and to-day, under the management of an ablecorps of editors, it enjoys a rapidly increasing subscriptionlist, Rev. W. J. White, Editor Georgia Baptist. At a meeting of the Missionary Baptist Convention ofGeorgia, in May, 1880, at Macon, Ga., it was decidedthat the Convention should establish a newspaper, and it. EEV. L. J. COPPIN. 217 218 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. accordingly appointed a committee of three to perfect therequisite arrangements. These decided that the publicationshould be known as The Georgia Baptist, and designatedRev. W. J, White as corresponding secretary and generalmanager, with power to issue the paper. The Convention having appropriated nothing for the ven-ture, Mr. White organized a stock company, and bought anoutfit for the paper and job office, at an expenditure of $ he became proprietor and editor, which positions hestill holds. The religious conventions, associations, etc.,adopted it as their organ, and for nine years it has defendedthem in their creed and doctrine. The first issue, October 28, 1880, consisted of one thousandcopies, which have gradually increased until the average forthe succeeding three months, ending January 1, 1889, wasthree thousand two hundred and forty. This paper goes allover the country and is
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