Some had the feeling that in proportion as the Negro received education, in the same proportion would his value decrease as an economic factor in the state.
These people feared the result of education would be that the Negroes would leave the farms, and that it would be difficult to secure them for domestic service.
The white people who questioned the wisdom of starting this new school had in their minds pictures of what was called an educated Negro, with a high hat, imitation gold eye-glasses, a showy walking-stick, kid gloves, fancy boots, and what not--in a word, a man who was determined to live by his wits.

It was difficult for these people to see how education would produce any other kind of a coloured man.
In the midst of all the difficulties which I encountered in getting the little school started, and since then through a period of nineteen years, there are two men among all the many friends of the school in Tuskegee upon whom I have depended constantly for advice and guidance; and the success of the undertaking is largely due to these men, from whom I have never sought anything in vain.

I mention them simply as types.

One is a white man and an ex-slaveholder, Mr.George W.Campbell; the other is a black man and an ex-slave, Mr.Lewis Adams.

These were the men who wrote to General Armstrong for a teacher.
Mr.Campbell is a merchant and banker, and had had little experience in dealing with matters pertaining to education.