New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-25
SLAVERY AND EDUCATION.

Acertain Rev. Mr. Observation-Disclosures knO Tn,
we believe, as Charley Msrshsll-xas prominent
among the orators who illuminated the recent
Southern Commercial Convention at New Orleans
The theme of his discourse was education, and,
in it's glow ing paragraphs, he approved himself
such genius as can spring into being only in
lard where the chief end OF man is to be either
q slave or slave. driver. The Rev. Charley is
an apostle of the very newest theory of Slavery,
and as such, of course, while everywhere lu-
minOus, may boast that consistency is his bright
est point. He pleads intensely for Southern
schools and Southern universities, on the ground
that the Southern youth are debauched by read
ing Northern books, attending Northern schools
and colleges, and that they thus grow up haters
rather than lovers of Slavery. lie complains shat
Young men and msidens actually come home
from their studies and beg their parents to emau-
cipate Il cir slaves. And he more than intim,tes
that this foolish notion of emancipation colors
their whole subsequent lives, although passed on
plantations in the midst Of the patriarchal lnst-
tuition.
There is way Of painting sign so that
from one side of it you may see an ass and
from the other lion. Such are the pictures of
Slavery held out TO us by its advocates, and
illustrated by the speech Of the Reverend Mar
shall. He admits that by giving to Southern
youth al insight into freedom, they learn to de-
test Slavery; but if this sane declaimer on the
Joys and blessings Of niger. driving should come
to New.York TO make speech on Slavery no
doubt be would tell us, what is always first told
Us on oil occasions when the North is alone ad-
dressed that Slavery isthe best possible condition
for the African race on this continent, and that il
is only the prejudces Of the North that make it
hostile to the institution-!bat, if Northern men
and women could only come and live in the South,
they would all see and acknowledge the beauties
of all its social and Industrial relations Indeed,
it would appear that all emigrants from 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 keeping Southern youth from Northern schools
and colleges, on the ground that the very sIght
of Freedom makes such youth detest Slavery
and converts them into halfway Abolitionists.
Gentlemen who defend the right to alcsion on
men and women in the public square, and to keep
perpetually burning the fires of hell in human
bosoms, your efforts are vain You cannot make
white black, or vice virtue, by writing new books
or establishing new schools aud new colleges.
Truth will be truth and filsehOOd falsehood, IN
spite of you. You nay make Fugitive Slave
laws for the body, but you cannot make them Tor
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 edu'
cate your sons and daughters at all, you cannot
escape the effect of education upon their minds.
Your only hope is in extinguishirg culture OF all
sorts. These halfway measures will not answer
the purpose. Begin then, by refusing to send
your youth away from the benignities of the ps-
triarchal institutions. Confne them within the re-
gion where Slavery foursbes in all ts dismal pro-
portions. But it will not do for you to stop there.
To achieve your purposes, you must shut up even
your own schools and churches such as they are,
burn all your books, extingaish 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 sacri-
fee everything good and noble and exalted, or
YOU must submit TO have Slavery viewed under
the light of everything good and noble and sI-
allied and abide by the consequences.