Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-05-11
From the Georgia Telegraph.
Parents should look well to the
School Books of their Children.

School Books of their Children.
We are no alarmists, and heartily contemn
the man that habitually snutfs danger in the
distance; nor are We morbid on the subject OF
politics. morals, or religion. We profess to think
feel, and act in all matters pertaining to the well
being of the community in which we live, as 1t
becomes plain-mindcd man to think, fee J. and
act. We have 10 quarrel with that class of pco-
ple living in non-slaveholding States who, hay
ing been trained from the parental knee to soathe
the institution of Slavery in the Southern States,
are to be pitied. Their bias against Slavery hav-
NC been so early imprinted upon their very ma
iture as to make its adherence sentiment with
them, they are wholly morbid upon the subject !;
but, this morbidness is rather their misfortune
than their fault. They may be said to be Abo,
ltionists, by birth, education, and habit. Whilst
We deplore this condition of the public mind in
the Free States, without censuring the masses !;
we conceive that the politician; and preachers
of morals and religion of the Theodore Parker
regime, who continue to fan the flame Of fanati-
cism amidst an already deludcd people, within
their own precints, and who not being content
ed with the perpetual tumult which they have
excited at home, on the subject of slavery, have
associated themselves under the banner of Je-
hovah, to exterminate the institution, and who,
by the most diabolical and insidious means are
endeavoring to sap the foundation of the insti-
tuition, in the South, by the introduction of Alb
clifton textbooks into our Southern Schools,
merit the unmtigated censure and disapproba-
ton of every Southern man. What Southern
man-what man,-living in the Southern States,
whose bosom beats responsive to the peace and
harmony of the community in which he resides,
is there, who does not recoi with horror at so
suicidal policy as the use of Abolition text
books into our model Schools Reader, have
YOU ever seen work written BY the Rev. j. r..
Boyd, A. NJ, of New York, styled Eclectic Phi
losophy? If YOU have not look it up. 1t Is in
Georgia 1t is in our midst. 1t is textbook
in our midst. We care not what State may
have given birth to any man now living in Geor-
gia, nor does it matter what his peculiar views
may be upon the subject of Slavery; but we do
affirm, that if he has common scnse--if he has
any sense of danger in his composition, and will
take the trouble to avail himself of the Eclectic
Philosophy, and turn to page 364, and read con-
secutively to page 376, and note in his mind the
rancorous Abolition doctrines therein contained,
his blood will curde at the legitimate consequent
ces which must necessarily flow from the use OF
such an unhallowed publication in the South.
He will find that the Abolitionists, Wayland,
damon and Barnes, are quoted with the warm
est appreciation. He will see it there affirmed,
that ait is the tendency and design of the
Christian religion, when fairly applied, to abolish
the system" IIe will sec that the negro is slim
ulated to resist bis master, if in the judgment Of
the negro, the master directs him to do anything
incompatible with his notions of propriety. In
word, he will see the most abominable Aboli-
ton doctrines that ever escaped the lips Of the
widest fanatic
Wayland's Moral Science, from which Boyd
quotes with high appreciation, was thrust out OF
the Schools in New Orleans, in February last,
and we sincerely trust that this work, being of
similar character may share the same fate here.
A PARENT.