New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-11

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Georgia, alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi
tTlnsi5a, South Carolina and North Carolina, on the
Importance of the proper education 81 The youth Ct
ahe South.
The vital necessity Of the consid eraton Of this
sbisct. lias for some time past been forcing itself
upon the Southern mind The advantages of carry
Inc out the idea Of Southern institutions Of learning,
by HE mutual coonerationo Of all these interested in
building them up, certainly apparent. The colleges
and universities Of the North have deseryedly gained
i hgh reputation or learning and stability. Yale
Howard, Princeton and Others, may claim to rank
among tile rst educational institutions in the civil
lied world. They have been erected and in their in
fancy supported, exclusively " the energetic and
commemorate efforts Of ours Northern brethren. AT
the present time and for some years past, the South
lbs been forcedfo contribute to their maintenance
more than proper quota, for the want Of
indigenous with ourselves Whilst these
colleges 81 universities are by pecuniary aid and
moral eneourag cement supported by the North, the
South BY sending its youth to them has n q large
measure contributed to their prosperity
The question then arises, why may not we Of the
South erect for ourselves such institutions as will IN
yite our citizens TO the 3encourag OF them ~
moral and pecuniary support? All that is necessary
to the attainment Of this purpose is unity Of action.
The principal purpose Of the letter Of Bishop Polk IS
to encourage this unity with view TO the establish
sment Of colleges that would educate Southern youth
within the pale Of Southern influences He IS assured
that such system Of educational training would not
only promote the home interests Of the South, but
tend to consolidate the feelings Of reverence that We
all hold toward the moral and intellectual advance
rlent Of the country at large The Bishop elahoratey
details the system by which he proposes TO attain
this end, and is not unmindfu at the same time, o
the duties that necessarily deyolye upon nm as Inc
head Of his Church in this State, in the effort TO al
vance its benefits to all within its control. DE says
plainy that he desires that the Institution which ne
proposes should be founded upon and governed by
the tenets Of the Protestant Episcopal Ghurcn put
| that the benefits of such an institution should ee
freely opened to the grasp Of l,of Whatever per-
sasior who might desire to avail themselves OF them
on the same terms g they were dispensed to the
Echildren of the Church,
Thus thought is proposed that the lnstltntloh
contemplated should be under the control OF the par
tieuar denomination of which the writer Of the let
tel referred faithful and Jealous member yet its
portals ere intended to be thrown open to the en-
trance and free admission Of all creeds The govern
ment Of the college is to be in the hands OF those
who build it, its benefits are to be shared by all alike.
| Tt is to be catholic. Southern parents who have
heretofore sent their children North in order to OBJ
them classical education because such could
not be had at the South will be induced hereafter in
the event Of the establishment of such d college, to
send them to an institution ayowedy associated with
the principles and peculiar ideas Of the South.
The Bishop eloquently says: I. cannot conceive
Of an agency more powerful for good, in the largest
sense than such institutions as those respectfully
proposed. Bytheir establishment we might serve
tile State by founding schools we have the means Of
making equal to any on the continent, which would
be Of course, open to all, which would relieve oui
own people Of thenecessity Of sending their children
away for that education they entitled to at home
and would while they required the highest standard
Of intellectual deyelopement, breathe that spirit
chastened and dignifed conservatism for which the
i Church is SO contessedly distinguished.
The localityof the first Of the colleges proposed il
considered in spirit of iberality that ignores all
A siderations of local preudces interests After Civ
ing concise yet graphic review Of the various rail
roads tragersng the States Of the South and South
4 west, the Bishop proceeds: Thus we have system
railroads traYersing Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas
y Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. Florida Georgia
South Carolina ard North Carolina, uniting and tel
ninatng in tile Southern end Of the Allegheny range
in the southeast corner of the State of Tennessee
tsby which the citizens of all those States can b
u brought together in from thirty-sx to about forty
eight hours This remarkable fact would seem to il
dicate these high lands as the region for our lnio
and cooperation. They have the merit Of centrat
and accessibility, and from the rapdity Of moyemen
attainable railway, of contgity also. They otfe
mountain air and pure water are beyond the reaeht
epidemics The cost Of living is cheap, and they al
! within the pale of the plantation States
With earnestness the Bishop adyertsto the fact thf
scarcely convention is called that this subject is NJ
:, presented, discussed and referred TO the earne
= consideration Of some future convention. But, it
added the result Of all this is that nothing is done.
I The remedy proposed is that, inasmuch as thsseen
ing absence Of energy and fruitful ZEAL is to be a
y tbuted to the conviction that separate action can
Of no avail, the various States already mentione
9 should conoin in the effort to attain the propose
end The Bishop well says:
II The population of our dioceses is homogeneou
The people are substantially the same; their pu
. suits, their institutions, their sympathes on
y single educational establishment, situated in
place so central and accessible that indicated
it serve the purposes of each of us as well as we
: situated within the precincts of our respective d
. ceses.
Another consideration OF Welghty importance
yitng to union, is that in all enterprises of this XII
avery natural element of stccess--an element ndee
without which there is no SUGGESTS, the presen
n and influenced of public opinion of intelligence, d
elimination, and of wide extent, operating as an OF
S side pressure, unfolding and enforcing disciplir
j. encouraging and stimulating4a high tone of MOI
6 sentiment, and Tewardng successful competition
J academic honors, with an appreciation of so high
character as to make them aulable objects Of hon
Y able ambition.
s The advantages of such public opinion, lis Gle
we could much better show if faculties and SUDDEN
le instead of being under the eye of the people OF
er single State, were subjected to the supervision a
i made the recipients of the rewards Of ten States.
consideration, the force Of which it requires but
small acquaintance with human nature to enable
s. to appreciate.
ID Every effort made tending to the encouragement
IS Southern institutions of learning meets with our
'e, dial appreciation. We are gratied that the subi
q has been taken in hand by authority 50 much to
respected. II the cooperation asked for is given
we cannot doubt it. before long the great desideyat
Of the educational institutions-will shad
!, = our sunny valleys and plains.
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