Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-24
Che Anti 9laperp Bngle.
SALEM, OHIO, JANUARY "a, 1857.
THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION ON LIT,
ERATURE ANE EDUCATION.

The Southern Convention has been eminently
successful in making itself the most ridiculous
body which ever assembled in the nation. Among
other resolutions are the following:
|. Resolved, That Professors Bledsoe and Nc
Guffy, of the University of Virginia. and presi-
dent Smith, of Randolph College, Virginia, Hon.
George Il. Badger and d.. L. Swain, of North Caro-.
lima, Right Rev. Bishop Elliott, and j. Hamilton
Cooner. of Georgia, Prof. John Leconte, Rev. J.
II. Thornwell, Rev. ]. w. Miles, and Rev. DIR.
Curtis, of South Carolina. President Tailmadge,
of Georgia, DR.. Lacy, of North Carolina. AshDei
smith, Of Texas, President LOngstreet, OF Mlssis-
,inni- DIR. Garland of Alabama, Gayarre, OF Lou
siana, DR.. Richard Fuller, of Maryland, and Dr.
Alonao Church, Of Georgia, be requested by THIS
Convention to take this matter under their auspi-
ces. and select and prepare such a series OF BOOKS
in every department of study, from the earnest
nrimer TO the highest grade of literature and sci
ence. as shall seem to them best qualified to ele-
waite and purify the education OF the South.
9. Resolved, That when this series OF books
shall have been prepared, the Legislatures OF the
Southern States be requested to order their use In
all the public-schools of their respective States,
and the Trustees OF Incorporated academies be re,
ouested to adopt them as their text books.
2 Resolved, That the encouragement OF the
Southern public is due and should be given to
tb,,se nubiishers of school books among us VINO
have already issued, or have in course OF pubiica,
lion. series of school books adapted tG the wants Of
our youth. :.
Competition in Literature, as in other things, IL
very desirable, and we shall commend rather that
censure the creation of a pure Southern Li,era'ur'
In, il secms In us that the Convention mas I'm
nosed n very heavy burden on the learned and ais
tinguished gentlemen who are to carry OUT ~
edicts. A Judge, who could not understand I'M
case. told Roger Minot Sherman, that 1T was III
duty of the Bar to instruct the Court. MT oner
man bowed low, and with a keen glance OF his ey'
observed, Your Honor is not aware Oh the rAsi
you impose upon usl"
Alasl We fear if those learned Doctors are re
ouire 20 eplighten a stupidity equal 70 that OF tht
Convention, the residue of their lives VIII not sui
Gee And then TO create a Southern Literature
To make Dwights and Bancrofts, and Bryants
> and LongfelloWs, Websters and Morses, out 0
whole cloth And, then, to purify Literature, 81
that it shall make no mention of LeODldas ana th
Spartan Band, who fell for Liberty; OF Hampden
and Sidney. of Wilberforce and GARRISON, Z
Bunker Hill and John Adams, of Thomas Jene'
8 son and the Declaration of lndepence; A.as
when shall such a literature arisef AND ~"o VI
read it?-Cn. Gazette.
The Professor McGuHy of the University OF VI
/. pinia, who is to aid in this stupendous task is ~
author of the school books now so generally IN u'
in this State, aud which are by no means charge
{ bic with fanaticism or with containing anytnin
, !, especially derogatory to slavery except in the ey'
5 of the jealous slayeocrats.
Mr.. McGuay is a clergyman of the Old Soho
:. Presbyterian Church, anG was formerly a profess
in the Miami University Of this State. and ut q
time of the publication of his school books lec.u
lie ed himself into some notoriety as the friend OF 9
Re ~ucation. SOM two or three years since he we
= Ito Virginia since which we have not heard OF hi
- till now. 1t seems he has succeeded in recommen
Ct ing himself to those southern u~ltraists, as one