New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-16

Every now and then wish mas been expressed
by leading politicians and presses at the South that
some method might be devised by which slave
holders should be relieved from the necessity of
sending their children, particularly their sons, TO
the North, to be educated. These views have
lately been embodied and hints ior their practical
realization given, in pamphlet by Bishop Polk Of
Louisiana.
That any of our Northern colleges or uni
versties have made direct attempts 10 Undue
their Southern pupils with AntiSlavery sentiments
IS not asserted II any such sentiments have been
adopted by the Southern youth who seek in the
North culture more finished and complete than
they can attain at the South, it must be the natural
result of all scientific and moral training which IS
in apy degree true to the laws OF Nature and the
facts of history, and to the intercourse between
Southern and Northern students. But however
natural and necessary the process our Southern
friends are none the less anxious to arrest il. The
Moral Philosophy of Waylsnd which has hitherto
been more extensively used in Southern as we'll as
Northera schools than perhaps any other textbook
of that science has recently been rejected by one
Of the South Carolina colleges; and We may expect
that other Southern institutions will follow that
example.
1t will thus be perceived that the poll
tcians and clergy OF the South not satisfied
with a sectional policy aud sectional religion, are
endesvOring TO get up sectional morality and
sectional science which shall for a while blind
their Young men TO the truth that their peculiar
institution is bringing desolation and ruin upon
them-a truth which mere contact with Northern
society must force upon their attention. The prln-
cipes which regulate the relation of capital 10
labor of the director 10 the workman, OF the head
10 the hand lie az the foundation Of society; and
if those principles are fundamentally false, the
fslseheOd must necessarily pervade and modify the
whole system OF religion, morality and science.
The inherent wrong of Slavery, Ike the venom OF
the rattesnake is swiftly and surely permea'lng
and corruptDg the life-boOd of Southern society.
To prevent their young men from seeing this is the
object of our Southern friends il this movement Tor
Southern education. But We warn them before
hand thst sll such efforts Will b. Intellectual. To
Danish Northern or European textbooks from their
schools. will not be sufficient. All science must De
turned upside down; all history must be perverted;
all classical literature must be banished from their
colleges. if they would save their young men from
the danger of becoming imbued with notions at war
with the system Of bondage. And yet, bya curious
and reckless inconsistency, the great men of the
South especially delight in making parade OF elias
steal attainments. Let US show them the danger
which turks for them in that sort Of learning.
More than once have the spiritual despot' of Eu-
rope recommended the Punishment Of the Greek
and Latin authors from the schools, and denounced
their writings as heathensh and calculated 10 foster
revolutionary ideas. 1t was the perusa OF Herodo-
tuss account of the battle of Marathon which first
awakened the enthusiasm for liberty in the breast
Of the young Fremont; and the work of the Father
of History must at least be expurgated, II not
expelled if they would prevent that enthusiasm
from being awakened in the breasts of Others of
their sons.
No one can read the history OF Sparta without
being impressed with the fact that the barbarty
which the Sparans exercised toward their Helot
saves had reacted upon their own pature, and bad