The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-08-30
southerla Eelucatlorl.

very feeling is running at New Haven, par
ticuIarly in Yale College, which was formerly
fayorite resort forsouthern youth, to be ed
ucated. Four years ago gentleman Of sa
vannah placed his son at Sing Sing, near
New York, preparatory to his admission into
Yale College. This summer, the mother Of
the lad went on fer the purpose, among other
things, of taking him to New Haven and see
ing him properly Inatriculated. On arriving
there, however, she found the prejadices
against the South SO strong, both in the Col
lege and in the town, and the colored popu-
lation SO insoIent, that she determined at once,
that that was not proper place for seath-
ern man to be educated. Accordingly, after
consulting her husband by telegraph, they
have decided, and most wiseIyin ouropinion,I
to enter their son at Franklin College, N their
own State.
It is stated, on the same authority, Gthat
there are at this time only eighty students at
Yale from the South. So othoroughly tainted
have the officers of the College become with
the virus Of abolitionism, that the faculty
hesitated for some time before they would
grant diploma to Southern student who
undertook in his speech, at the late com
mencement, adefenee Of the institutions Of
his home.
1t is stated also, TO be probable the Rev.
Mr.. Stiles, native of the South, and wei
known in Savannah as one of the most elo-
quent divines of the day, will have to give up
his church in New Haven on account Of the
anti-slavery feeling Of his congregation. 1t
is said that many Of the oldest and most
respectable members of his church are CIV
ing up their pews, simply because he Is a
native Of the South and not an abolitionist!
Such facts as these ought to demonstrate to
the people Of this section, at least the pro
priety of patronizing their own Institutions Of
learning. The advantages of an education at
the older colleges Of the North, will not com
pensate one for the wrongs and the insolence
to which he is subjected, to the systematic
assaults which he must submit to every day,
or be perpetually wearied in resisting and
resenting attacks upon the honor Of kindred
and the security Of all he holds dear
The evil is. .one Of the most portentoussigns
OF the times, and marks, more than any Of
the truculent manifestations Of public meet
Iings of demagogues striving for political
capital, how deep is the breach which the
fiery fanaticism Of the times has opened be-
tween the North and the South. The facts
are becoming too frequent and too glaring
to be overlooked; and the lesson which they
teach ought to be treasured and improved
in every Southern community. The causes
of this growing alienation, and the remedies,
if any, are theories which would task the
most subtle intellect to search out and ex-
pound clearly. But the fact of its existence
! has one plain and unmistakeable teaching
It was always the true wisdom Of the South,
as it is the true wisdom of every commuRi
ty everywhere, to educate its own youth and
train them from the first to the social habits
and pursuits which are to be theirs in after
life. It is at all times confession of men,
tai inferiority to depend altogether for the
cultivation Of the Southern mind upon insti-
/ tutions out Of its own limits, even when there
did not exist any special causes Of offence OF
any distinct and increasing antagonism o
feeling exhibited therein against the South
1t would be our duty, and should be our pride
Ito build up institutions for education and sem
linaries for learning among ourselves, without
such provocation as we are now constantly
receiving to withdraw our youth from insult
Irritation and contamination. Much more,
therefore should these motives have influences
lover us, while their interior pressure exists
and is growing more insoIent and more mis-
Iohievous daily. We oughtnot to have need
ed such indictments to husband our resources
at home, build up and endow our own col
lleges and seats OF Tearing, and train up and
i support teachers for our own youth. Bu
these indictments come now in aid Of the
. Ipromptings Of the most sedate and dispas
Isionate Judgment and accumulate upon u
motives for fostering better home policy AM
i Establishing and using our own schools AM
I collegiate Institutions and in devoting our en-
ergies and means. to make them it for thes
: high duties.
! How SHE FELT WHEN FIRST KISSED lad