New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-24

So " W a. 80 ytaarrrA--At the sunday
School Co,vcntiop which was held in Lyncfcorg ~
in the month OF June, committee Vi J,om
and aymen representing all ne s 20 pyepare an adj
natiots in the town, was appointeu ~ " y J.cs,;on
Jres In behalf of the great of Chrs'ian
in westerr Virginia II hos been puDnSuou "s
presents some suggestive STATISTICS a'ooi s,;on
os ~ State Is about OH ITO. OF these thore arc,
Owe, 90 years of age about 452,s3s; oil whoui to,o
are who cannot read about 80 lso. 10 ns Sal.
one in five Of all the grown WINES OF 'hS 90, =; the
"Wbere will these adults learn to read II ho' III wy
srndavScbool7 They are too old, or too poor OF 700
proud 10 attend any other. But again ~ and On
wear in Virgins, of young persons o.. are AZ
years of age about 379,si9; OF "non, ~ attend
inc no school Of any kind 26s 4l6; that ior wy
yor no p.rson in the State between ana ~
ace receiving any instruction there are TWO 49,
receive none In other WORDS, eo1a ot,srs WI
t;on Of our regulation who are to become
in The next teen years are, in these most pieciouS
wears of their history, going totally 9ntaagnt. ,..
do the questions What can be done to change ms
sad prospect How is light 10 De p ou,eJa w How
dsrtness which is thus settling az around US How
are .be blessings of general and especially Oh Ohrseian
instruction to be here dused the Kepor, answe's q
follows THE best hope, We have no nes1aoh IN a''
syvcr;no IL in that admirable institution oil our age
bich 2 40 pecuarly conformed to the spirit oil CnrS-
tanitv and TO the genius of our country the sunday
School This agency, whether conuac'eu on , inuI'
ydual responsibility, or under
AHAp
s,n Tendency. But there il one great sunday ochooi
organization Of which we would especiahy SPEAK a.
.naculiarIy adapted to the wants OF the iend-lne
American Sunday School Union. Ihis gIea, IA
tona association OF good men, belonging 10 tne ean-
;nr ayapgelical denominations of the country, ETC.
ssTbe address then explains the Missionary enter
~ oe tbis Society for the organization OF schools IN
fast;tnte places Thus the best appliances OF neigh
borbood are set in action toward the cultivation OF re-
slcon there, and making the wilderness indeeo oos
'som AZ the rose .,.. ..,
sTbe field Immediately under consideration COM
prses twenty-six counties. plan Is proposed TOT us
and an earnest appeal Tor acton ana hoe" oo"'iou
ton concludes the address.
"Tbese facts we say, are startling. One IN nve OF
the grown white persons of the Old Dominion unable
10 readl Two thirds Of those who are to become en-.
yens in fine next fifteen years. going wholly untaugnt
Can anv other State furnish such stastics We fear
the answer Is it not time to apply the remedy
The Sunday school part of the story is thus given
in nutshell But will even these simple sug-
sestions be carried out OF course not The
people in twenty-six counties, even, OF State
which will tax its downtrOdden free negroes
5O.COO for sending the aforesaid free negroes
who don't want to go-Out to Africa, and then
steal the money and throw it into the Treasury for
State purposes, as Virginia has lately done, will
serai no money by taxing themselves for Sunday
schools, or any other schools to educate their own
ignorant whites, so long they can thrust an arm
into the vaults of Northern Sunday-schOol Union
for such object