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unwise to organize a rival Educational society.  I then proposed that an Executive Committee of the Georgia Educational Association should be appointed by the Council of our Association which had met for that purpose; and that all the leading friends of education in the State, who were willing to act with us, should be elected members: that the Committee should have power to transact all business of the Association, choosing their own officers. It would be proper I knew, to have the President of the Association President of the Committee ex officio; but I was determined to remove, if possible, all cause of complaint against the Association; and as I had been identified, from the start, with it as its President; and, as this