Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-03
From tho Louisiana Courier, Jan. 10.
THE SOUTH IN QUEST OF A ROYAL
ROAD TO LEARNING,

~ urged, MS n matter of the highest Importance to
the future Of the southern states, that hcnccforth
our children should be educated at home, and not
in tho northern nurseries Of abOlitionists and re-
ligious fanaticism and intolerance and that in
place of very Objectionable books now in use in
our schools, written, printed by the enemies of
slavery, encouragement should be given to south
orn writer's and teachers to compose and publish
treatises and textbooks suited for the education of
southern youth, by Offering premiums for those of
the greatest merit, and directing their use in all
public schools and colleges.
Tho greatest difficulty in the way Of southern
writers was that of publication, as the northern
publishers would not print their works, and they
wero almost always without the necessary means
70 pay for their printing from their own pockets.
by Offering pccuniary rewards for good works in
education, this obstacle would be in q great meas.
ure removed and by legislating the books to be
published into tliuse schools and colleges whose
course of instruction could he affected by the acts
OF the Legislature, the disuse of abolition readers,
biographies and other books would be secured.
Give" said Mr.. Marshal in his speech on FRI
day, ito tho North the education of our children,
and the printing and composition of their school
books, and she will not care how many railroads
you build, nor how many Southern Conventions
you hold" Every word Of which we be believe
to be true. 1t is this shameful and inexplicable
feeling of dependency of the southern mind upon
that of the North, which has in a great measure,
emboldened the fanatics and ambitious state sneh
of that part of the Union, in their continual and
tSiSbNiVSo hkNlNNo upuu lhC ilSulc, uiEHltN uIu III
terosts of the South a work in which they have
been greatly aided by southern men ard women,
whose northern education has rendered them OBJ
liyious of, or Indifferent to, the rightful claims on
their yeneration and regard, Of the soil on which
thoS wore born.
We add to this Southern commentary the text
on which it is basui-The Rev. Mr. Marshal's
speech before the Southern Commercial Convention
School.books have greater tcrrors for our Southern
chivalry than swords and revolvers. They utterly
prohibit their use to a large portion of their youth,
and favored classes are only permitted to have such
as are thoroughly expurgated from all that would
possibly give countenancc to any principles Of
general freedom. Spelling books and aliases,
essays, iictions and works of science are to be
prescribed if they dare to hint that Slavery is ever
a"burden." But hear this Rev. advocate Of ig-
norance and Slavery.
The chirman of the Charleston Committee on
Education being called on to make his report, the
Rev. Il. X. Marshall, of Mississippi, arose and
said that the report was not in n sufficiently for
ward state to be brought forward, on account of
the absence of n member who was hourly expected
to arrive with statistics relating to school-books
he therefore proposed resolutions to the effect that
the resolutions passed the Charleston Convention
should be reconirmed by this convention, and that
the Charleston Committee be requested to make
its report to this convention as soon as practicable;
and that q committee he formed to inquire into
the present nature of works placed before the
southern scholars, and that a committed be formed
for that purpose.
NJ The speaker admitted the claims of the great
Southern Pacific railroad on public attention, but.
he asked, what were they in comparison with
education? Every reform was USELESS without at
first adopting a system Of education at home.
What we have to do is, to seize the mind of youth
in its earliest stages. What v raped the oak but
a little, but a tiny dew drop? Just as the twig is
bent the tree inclines. What has been the system
of education forced upon the South of late? We
have been educating our children at the North,
and thus running our own prosperity. One of the
leading professors at the North (Silliman) has said
that he will march to any field. musket in hand, To
prevent the progress of slavery. Yale College
has said that it does not want southern pupils,
and we should say that we do not want northern
teachers.
Our sons now return home ndoctrinatcd by tho
North, and ask Us to cmancipate our slaves, ana
for their authority appeal to Silliman, IA yer silly
man we should say and our daughters come
back imhued with the same doctrines. Abraham,
the Washington of his time, is considered out of
date. We must raise our own teachers, and have
our own colleges and. Institutions in the South
All biblical history was great solely through the
institution of slavery. The grand Egyptian monu-
ments, that we still ask if reared by men or gods,
were raised solely through the institution of sla.
very. Homer, Horace, and all the great writers
of antiquity, gained their inspiration from the
same source.
Thomas J cffcrson, in a letter to Mr.. Breckon
ridge, said, in his day, that the spcck in the
horizon would never be removed 50 long as we
sent 100000 annually to the North for the edu-
cation of our sons. The speaker had said in
the streets of Boston and New York, that civ.
~ilization advanced solely through slavery, and
that fifty years hence the number of slaves would
be doubled. lie then alludes to Africans at homo
and stated that they were but three squirrels
jump from the baboon, and that there was nc
evil in slavery, because differences Of races must
exist.
The great object with us was to prepare a series
of school-books adapted to southern children
We must educate our sons and daughters at home
and write print and publish our school books al
home. Many of our most popular school-book'
were inimical to our institutions. The speaker
read a passage from Appleton's Complete Atlas,
in which it was stated that slavery in oul
southern states was q burden under which the
Africans had long groaned, and that ere long they
would wrest their freedom from their masters
and goes on to state, that in the event Of q wal
with Great Britain, the latter would land black
regiments from the West India Islands to subju
gate the South.
lie alluded to the war in the East, and prayet
to God that Russia might be able to conquer Con
stantinoplc. loud applause.l if a war shoulo
break out between the United States and Eng
land, he would march into all the West India Is
lands and assist in the mastery of them all. III,
then referred to the laws Of the states, and showed
that works similar to Appleton's Complete Alta
endered their writers subject to Imprisonment
.ment for life, or death. In conclusion, he begge'
to offer a series of resolutions, which he would
not ask to be read, as they simply confirmed hi
views.
ANEcDorE.-It is often made a subject of con
plant that ministers of the Gospel participate i
political matters. An anecdote of a Rev. Nj
Field, who lived in Vermont several years ago
contains a good reply. AS the reverend gentle
man went, at a time, to deposit his vote, the office
who recei,e ed it, being a friend and parishionel
but of opposite politics remarked II am sorry
Mr.. Field, to see you here" 'Why ?" asked Nj
r. because" said the officer, Christ said tina
his kingdom was not of this world" elias n
one a right 10 vote" asked Mr.. F.. "unless he b