The true Democrat., 1855-10-16
Our Schools.


 of the north, in preference to those of the south Tell them that this is wrong and they will agree with you, out say that their children can not be so well educated at home as n the north. In this, they are entirely mistaken and to show that we are not singular in this opinion, we make the following extracts, from letter writ ten to the President of the Centenary College, by JOIN PERKINS, jr., of Louisiana. He says:
 "lt is common to hear it said by the unre- fiecting, that boys cannot be properly educated at the south, and must be sent abroad to the north of Europe. There can be no greater CT. TOT. The history of the country is iIlustrat ed by those who have been educated at the south. Washington grew up in a southern State, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Tyler and Polk, were educated at the south. Jackson, Taylor Clay and Scott, received their nstruc tlon and formed their characters at the south. We hear also much of sending southern boys north, in order to have their preudlces rcmOv- ed; but we never see northern boys coming south for similar purpose. It was the advice of Mr. Calhoun himself, a graduate of Yale, and therefore speaking from eXperiencc-that boys intending to reside at the south, should be educated at the south.
 Sincerely entertaining the same conviction, rejoice in the prosperity of the institution over which you preside, and shall be happy in any way, to promote its interests"
 Knowing that such men as those mentioned by Mir. Perkins were educated in the south, can our people say any longer that their children cannot be educated at home? We opine not. With such schools in our midst as the univer- sites of Virginia North Carolina and Mississip- pi, can southerners longer say that the north has better schools than we? By no means.- As numbers of southern medical students an- nually go north to attend lectures let all who contemplate going hereafter, read this extract from the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer:
 "And then there are the medical schools of the south. Who that knows anything of the northern schools will think of ranking them with our schools? Why, the Philadelphia schools to which hundreds of students resort every year, as the most famous in the Union, owe their great popularity to the superlcaty of the course and to, the case with hich lazy or stupid students obtain diplomas. The cxa- minations they institute are tarcical and usually serve onl to demonstrate the indoence of the HC"'tO'lIo '''it liiS Ol tllC Sltlu Ol instruction. The grade of scholarship in the Virginia medical college is much higher and yet there arc year by year more southern stu. dents at northern schools of medicine thar are to be found in the halls of our State institu- tion.'
 Besides the Virginia medical college, we have kindred schools in Louisville, New Orleans, Nashville and St. Louis, which possess facilities unequalled by those of any medical schools in the north. Why southern students then, will persist in attending northern schools we are at a loss to divine. If the schools of the north had better professors than ours-f the course of instruction was more complete and the cost of tuition less then we would not wonder at southerners sending their children there. But such not being the case, 1t is indeed strange that southerners should continue to pursue this suicidal policy.
 That the schools of the north are only so may hot beds of fanaticism and abolitionism, is awell known fact. Every student who has at tended northern school can bear witness to some taunt or insult levelled at students from the south. Every southern student returns home with his mind poisoned against the pa- trarchical institutions and the land of his child hood. With these lights before them, will southemers longer cast aside our own learned and worthy professors and shower heaps of gold into the laps of fanatica professors at the north? It is to be hoped not.
 While on this subject we would call atten tion to the ARKANSAS COLLEGE, in this State The situation of this college is near Fayette- vile, and in one of the healthiest locations of the southwest. The president and professors are men of marked ability, and the discipline of the school and the facilities afforded for ac- quiring an education, are far superior to many schools in the north. We would reoomm end this institution to Arkansas parents.