The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-08-30

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SOUTHERN EDUCATION Savannah Ga.
Republican chronicles some items, for the au
thentlcity of which it vouches, showing how
high the anti-slavery feeling is running at New
Haven, particularly in Yale college, which wa'
formerly favorite resort for southern youth, tt
be educated. -Four years ago gentleman o
Savannah placed his son at Sing Sing. near New
York, preparatory to his admission into Yale
college. This summer, the mother of the lac
went on for the purpose, among other things
of taking him to New Haven and seeing hin
properly matriculated. On arriving there, how
ever, she found the prejudices against the south
so strong, both in the college and in the town
Itand the colored population SO insolent, that she
determined at once that was not proper place
for southern man to be educated. Accord
lngly after consulting her husband by telegraph
they have decided, and most wisely in our opin-
ion, to enter their son at Franklin college, in
their own State.
1t is stated, on the same authority, that there
are at this time onl eight students at Yale from
the south. So thoroughly tainted have the Off
GERS of the college become with the virus of abo-
tionlsm, that the faculty hesitatea for some
time before they would grant diploma to a
southern student who undertook in his speech,
at the late commencement, defence of the in
stitutions of his home
1t is stated Also to be probable the rev. Mr..
Stiles, a native Of the south, and well known in
Savannah as one of the most eloquent divines
OF the day, will have to give up his church in
New Haven on account of the anti-slayery feel
ing of his congregation. 1t is said that many of
the oldest and most respectable members Of his
church are giving up their pews, simply because
ZIONIST!
Such facts as these ought to demonstrate to
the people of this section at least the propriety
of patronlslng their own institutions of learning.
The advantages of an education at the older
colleges of the north, will not compensate 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
wearled In resisting and resentlng attacks upon
the honor of kindred and the security of ali he
holds dear
The evil is one of the most portentous signs
of the times, and marks, more than any of the
truculent manifestions of public meetings of
demagogues striving for political capital, how
deep is the breach which the fiery fanaticism of
the times has opened between the north and the
south. The facts are becoming too frequent
and too glaring to be overlooked, and the les
son which they teach ought to be treasured and
improved in every southern community. The
causes of this growing alienation, and the reme-
dies, if any. are theories which would task the
most subtle intellect to search out and expound
clearly. But the fact Of its existence has one
plain and unmistakeable teaching. 1t was al
ways the true wisdom of the south, as it is the
true wisdom OF every community 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 1t is at all times
confession of mental nferiority to depend alto
gether for the cultivation of the southern mind
upon institutions out of its own limits, even
when there did not exist any special causes of
offence or any distinct and increasing antago-
nlsm Of feeling exhibited therein against the
south. 1t would be our duty, and should be
our pride, to build up institutions for education
and semnaries for learning among ourselves,
without such provocation as we are now con-
'tantly receiving to withdraw our youth from
insult, irritation and contamination. Much
more, therefore should these motives have in |
luences over us while their exterior pressure |
'xlsts and is growing more insolent and more
nlschievous daily. We ought not to have
leeded such indictments to husband our resour-
es at home, build up and endow our own COL
eges and seats of learning, and train up and
upport teachers for our own youth. But these
in Old Of t1,o
i the most sedate and dispassionate udgment
nd accumulate upon us motives for fostering
etter home policy and establishing and using
ur own schools and collegiate institutions, ,and
1 devotlng our energies and means to make
hem fit for these high duties.
MASONIC CALENpER.-We publish the fol-
'wlng as interesting to the craftin general
n affixlng dates to official masonic documents,
'eemasons should always use the calendar
'mlllar to themselves; the common calendar, ;
! vulgar era, may also be used in the same
'strument. The dates vary in the different
ranches Of the order {
Masons of the York and French rites, date {
ON the creation of the world, calling it can i
, Lucis,' which they abbreviate A. L., signi- {
ing I'm the year of Light" Thus, with |
em, the present year is A. L. 1854 Masons |
the York rite begin the year on the lst of
'nuary, but in the French rite it commences
the lst Of March, and instead of the months I
celvlng their usual names, they are designa- S
d numerically, as first, second, third, &c S
hus, the lst of January, 1854, would be I
yled, IN French masonic document.:'th lst
ay of the lth masonic month, Ammo Lucis, il
'54.' The French, sometimes, instead of the t
ltlals A. L., use L an de la V. l. or 'Vraise Q
1mlere,' that is, year Of true light. g
Royal arch masons commence their era with
e year in which Zerubbabel began to build '
e second temple, which was $50 years be- !,
re Christ. Their style for the year 1854 is, tt
erefore, A. Inv, that is Ammo Inventionis, '
in the year of the discovery, 1884 n
Royal and select masters very often make a
e of the common masonic date, Ammo Lucis, n
It properly they should date from the year
which Solomon's temple was completed b
d their style would then be, Ammo Deposi- W
mis-, or, in the year of the deposit, and they a!
,uld date the present year 1854. fr
Knights templar use the era of the orga- 0,
'ation of their order in 1118 Their style tt
the present year is A. 0. Ammo Ordinia, or, pl