The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-11-02

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lor fresh supply very frequently 70 run the
same career Of hope and Disappointment.
We are not to be understood as making
sweeping censure of all northern teachers
such is not by any means our intention. We
gladly admit many honorable exceptions =
There have been not few excellent teachers
from the northern States who have demeaped
themselves naodest!y, and have made permanent
and valuable citizens Of the country; and With
out doubt we have been favored with verv
large supply Of an opposite description. But
we rejoice to witness in this respect very
great change for the better. 1t is NOT now re.
garded as a very desirable recommendation 10
say Of teacher that he is graduate Of north
ern college. The thing is entirely reversed,
and to have diploma from a southern college
is beginning to be looked on as much higher
recommendation for public favor; SO that the
academies and colleges Of the country are fast
passing into the hands of southern teachers,
and the people are at last beginning to make
the astonishing discovery that Greek and Latin
and science in all its branches, can be lust as
well taught by southern men on southern soil,
as any how or any where else ! hail this as
an auspcious change, And permit me to say
that we are mainly indebted for it to the influ-
ence Of the denominatonal schools and colleges
of the South. But we have only fairly entered
on this work. The southern people will not
have met their entire responsibility ill all the
children OF the country are brought within the
reach and influence Of schools, academies and
colleges. Our doctrine is, bring the facilities
Of education within the reach OF all the people.
The State Legislature ought to do this, but as
there are generally so many political schemes
to further and feed out Of the public treasury,
and the representatives are not always as wise
as King Solomon, we think that this important
work must be mainly performed by the friends
of the different denominatonal institutions of
the South. They must not think OF resting on
their arms; rather they must push on the glo-
rious work which they have SO auspicously
commenced Your influence, your patronage,
your money, must not be Withheld till your in.
sttutions are amply furnished and endowed,
The truth is, il we love southern independence,
our sons and daughters must be educated al home.
We have been it possible still more subserv-
lent and dependent on the North for our read
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ing. Northern brains and northern hands hnvo
provided us with books from the printer to
books on the loltiest subject Of intellectual ef-
fort. How few books have been written by
southern authors! Not that the sons Of the
South are race OF intellectual pigmies; their
contributions to the periodical literature DIS
proves supposilion. What, then, is the cause
Are we too INDECENT or have the educated men
of the country who have heretofore been found
mostly among the wealthy, regarded book
making as too great drudgery? And as they
had not the stimulus Of wanting bread to urge
them forward in the career of authorship, they
have ingloriously permitted talents OF the high
est order to be buried. Aas that it shoulc
have been 50. But whatever may have beer
the cause, the state Of things indicated above
exists almost universally throughout the south
ern country and if we would compel our north
ern friends to respect us, we must change ou
former habits. Our men of mind who car
WELD the pen of ready writers, must lay them
selves to the task to advance the interests o
southern literature, whether necessity compel
or not. In the periodical Literature OF th
country, we have indeed been a little NOR
Jealous; but even in this respect our supper
Of some half dozen Quarterlies is the amour
Of proof we give OF our appreciation OF tina
higher and more permanent class OF our peri
odcal literature. Our weekly newspapers in
deed are numerous, and many OF them con
Quoted with decided ability; yet 1t is true !
. this respect, as ia others, that northern inhu
ence has controlled to great extent the week
ly issues Of the press throughout the Unlo'
It may be true that in this particulab matter
are greatly changed for the better; but still ou
newspaper press is very far from being decided
lv southern in its character; nor will 1t be
till our men of talents become more lndus'r
: ous with their pens. If our newspaper pre'
must necessarily exert an untold amount oil II
Auence in fashIOning the political and NOR
sentiment Of the country, is moi every genulr
southern patriot sacredly bound to cOn'r'O"
talent and influence to make this instrumental
ity what it ought to be! But our people a
so devoted to money that with many oil the
the price is a much more important conSlder
ton than the intellectual or moral character
the paper. They regard any paper as cheap
dollar year, no matter whether 1t be innd
!, , or Christian, decent or vulgar. The pr'ce
the sheet and it's size are the only importal
points Of inquiry.
/ Now, it is notorious, that from New Yor
E Philade pbia, and other northern Cities new
i papers are sent out all over the land, all
!, them at low prlce, and many OF them opel
lv or coyertly infdel in their character al