Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10
SLAVERY AND EDUCATION.

4 certain Rev. Mr.. Marshall-otherNse khowh
We believe, as Charley Marshall-was prominent
among the orators who illuminated the recent
Southern Commercial Convention at New Orleans.
| The theme Of his discourse education, and. in
its glowing paragraphs. he approved himself such
q genius as can spring into being only IN lnhU
where the chief end Of man is to be either slave
or a slavedriver. The Rev. Charley is an apostle
Of the very newest theory of Slavery; and as such
Of course, while everywhere luminous, pay boast
that consistency is his brightest point. Ile pleads
intensely for Soutl ern schools and Sohltrh uni
versties, on the ground that the Southern touth
are debauched 10y reading Northern books, attend
ing Northern schools and colleges, and that they
thus grow up haters rather than lovers Of Slavery.
fle complains that young men and maidens actual
ly come home from their studies and beg heir par
ents to cmancipatc their slaves. And he moro than
ntimates that this foolish notion of emancipato
colors their whole subsequent lives although pas
sed on plantations in the midst Of the patriarchdl
institution.
There is a way of painting sign so that from
one side Of it you may and from the
other lion. Such are the pictures of Slavery
held out to us w its advocate s. and illustrated by
the speech of the Reverend Marshall He admits
that by giving to Southern youth an insight into
freedom, they learn to detest Slavery; but if this
same declaimer on the joys and blessings of niggef-
driving should come to New York TO make speech
on Slavery, no doubt he would tell u.s. what is az
ways first told us all occasions when the North
is alone addressed, that Slavery is the best possi-
bic condition for the African on this continent
and that it is only the preuGces of the North that
make it hostile to the instution--that, if Notth=
ern men and women could only come and live iii
the South, they would all see and acknowledge the
beauties of all its social and industrial relations.
Indeed, it would appear that all emigrants froni
the North become Shareholders at once and that
no men are such fierce champions in its behalf as
they. Yet in the face of this everyday argument,
we have Mr.. Marshall preaching UP the necessity
of kpppiOu ~ SpuiIpru Vouth from hOrtlpru schools
and colleges, the ground that the very sight Of
Freedom makes such youth detest Slavery and con-
verts them into halfway Abolitionists.
Gentlemen who defend the right to auction off
mon and women in the public square and to keep
Iperpetually burning the fires of hell in human boz
sons your efforts are vain! You cannot mako
white black, or vice virtue, by writing new books
or establishing new schools and new colleges
Truth will be truth, and falsehood falsehood, in
spite of you. You may make Fugitive Slave laws
for the body, but you cannot make them for the
mind. The thought, which escapes and flies from
the boundaries Of your jurisdiction, cannot be
caught and chained as the poor black body, moved
by its impulse, may be. If you will educate your
sons and daughters at all, you cannot escape the
effect of education upon their minds. Your only
hope is in cxtinguishing culture of all Sorts
These halfway measures will not answer the pur@
pose. Begin, then, by refusing to send your youth
away from the engnties e the patriarchhl insti-
! tutions. Confhe them within the region where
Slavery fourishes in all its dismal pror ortiohs.
But il will not do for you to stop there To achieve
your purposes you must shut up even Your own
schools and churches, such they are, burn all
your books, extnguish every spark of intellectual
and moral light You must convert life at the
South into one vast desert if you would preserve
Slavery intact. You must sacrifice everything
good and noble and exalted, or you must submit to
have Slavery viewed under the light of everything
good and noble and exalted, and abide by the con-
sequences.-7ribne.