Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-16

iniest the North, and are gradually pene-
tra,!ng the solid Conservatism O.. The slave
holding States. Hence aboIitionism, COM
munism, socialism, pol ygamy, and the
whole troupe ofdestructive agencies which
are sapping the very foundations of North
ern society. The mighty evil must speed
lily be remcdied, or else the body polite,
gangrened to the heart, will soon be be-
You'd the hope Of cure. The elements OF
destruction are rapid, fierce, relentless
their course must be checked without de-
lay, if we wish to redeem from their fury
any fragment of modern civilization, on
which our society reposes. Vicious edu-
cation has brought about the present dan
gerous state of afilirs-rectify improve
the educational system, and that state of
affairs viii disappear. The South has a
vital interest in this question. The storm
of anarchic ideas which the Northern
Colleges have elaborated, will sweep away
her distinctive social organization, if those
ideas are permitted any longer to tincture
the minds Of her rising generations. The
habit of sending Southern boys to receive
an education in New England, should be
stopped. Not only does it drain away a
considerable amount of money into the
hands of our inveterate enemies, but it,
unconsciously in many cases, imbues Sou
thern minds with principles at war with
Southel.. institutions. Let us have our
own schools, our own cole ges, our own
textbooks, and we shall soon have lite
nature intensely Southern and purely Anne
rican, instead of the pale reproductions
Of English platitudes with which we are
gorged by the Yankee press. The North
ern universities are toci whence radiate
| influences which are hostile te the slave
holding States. Let there be Southern
universities, to propagate adverse conser-
yative tendencies. "a Roland for an
Oliver" Experience and reason demon
strate, beyond the possibility of reason
able doubt, the absolute superiority of our
social organization, our system of labor
over the hireIing industry and ricketv car
pentry work Of Free State society. Every
effort should be made to preserve, strength
en-, to spread, to perpetuate, our present
unrivalled system. We need fear no at
lacks coming from beyond our own limits.
If slavery should ever disappear, it will
not have been stricken down by the on.
slaughts of outside abolitionists, but it will
have fallen from the weakness Of princi-
pie, the want Of faith in its benefcenr ma
ture, among Shareholders themselves
The only dangerous foes to Southern in
stitutions, are the owners of negroes and
plantations, who have conscientious scru-
Piles. Every institution that has been
abolished from the face of the earth, has
been destroyed, not by IFS enemies, but by
its friends. We appeal to history for the
truth Of this assertion. Hence we say,
in order to preserve our institutions, we
must found and multiply seminaries of
learning, whose influence shall be exclu.
sively and unqualifiedly pro-slavery They
will be centres of conservatism, to react
against aud neutralize the Northern cen.
tres of radicalism. 1t is not simply on
account of the anti-slavery feeling fostered
in the Northern institutions of learning.
that we deprecate their influence, but thai
the seeds of every other dangerous social
and political heresy are there sown. The
whole Northern mind is filed with a GER
tain fury of innovation, which threatens
to carry away every relic of what has
been considered essential to the stability
of society. Even the institution of mar
riage. the sacred ties of family, are not
respected by this wild crusade. The
Southern people are beginning to arouse
from their lethargic Indifference on this