Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-02
SOUTHERN CH1vALRY AND EDUCATION

Southern Shareholders are eternally boastinS Of
their liberality and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI the
yankees" las oil Northern people are termed) as
"a ~picayune set, who get rich by saving candle
ends and soap fat" &c. IL is notorious however,
that in benevolent or religious operations the con-
tributions Of the North are as thousands 80 tens
from the South, and in acts of meanness the 'chiy-
airy" can nowhere be excelled. The following is
a sample of such base plundering and injustice as
would not be thought of in any free State
The report of the Colonization Board Of Vir-
ginia to the Legislature of that State, exposes a
fact of which every citizen of the Old Dominion
should be heartily ashamed. By an Act passed in
1850, q capitation tax was levied upon the free ne
groes Of the Commonwealth, to raise funds for the
colonization to Africa, of all who are willing to go.
The Board was to be the instrument Of the expen-
diture Of the money thus raised. Fifty thousand
dollars have been taken from the free blacks OF
Virginia under the act-a great sum of money to
be levied upon the property Of that depressed class.
The whole of this has been absorbed into the State
treasury and spent. There's chivalry for you A
great State Of proud and arrogant white men rob
bing free negroes, under the guise of public policy
rnd philanthropy, and dividing the plumber among
its Office holders and recipients Of the public mon
ey!-PHs. Dispatch.
In the New York Evangelist we find the follow.
ing statistics illustrating the intelligence of the
Old Dominion;
"SuNDAY ScuooLs IN VIRoINIA.-At the Sunday
school Convention, which was held in Lynchburg,
Va, in the month of June, u ommittee Of twelve
clergymen and laymen, representing all the six
evangelical denominations in the town, was APP
pointed to prepare an address in behalf of the
great cause of Christian education in SOuth-wes-
tern Virginia. 1t has been published, and presents
some suggestive statistics. According to the cen
sus of 1850 the present entire white population Of
the State is about 97l,770. OF these there are,
over 20 years of age, about 1925 Of whom there
are who cannot read about sc. 1870, That is nearly
one in five of all the grown whites of the State.
"Where will these adults learn to read, if not in
the Sunday-School? They are too old, or too poor,
or too proud to attend any other. But again,
there are this year in Virginia, of young persons
between 5 aud 20 years of age, about 379,S45; Of
whom there are at school or collegeonly aboutlll,.
1877; leaving as attending no school of any kind,
268,4l6: that is, for every young person in the
State between 5 and 20 years of age receiving any
instruction, there are two others who receive none.
In other words, two-thirds of that portion of our
population who are to become citizens within the
next fifteen years, are, in these most precious years
of their history, going totally un;aught.
"These facts, we say, are startling. One in five
of the grown white persons of the Old Dominion
unable to read! Two thirds of those who are to
become citizens in the next fifteen years, going
wholly untaughtl Can any other State furnish
such statistics? We fear the answer. IL it not
time to apply the remedy ?"