The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-10-30
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high literary charac,er, our Mi
Ecai coIegs, our theological ~seminarief A2ar
commercial colleges; but our institu4 d
slavery out agricultural productions, d sys-
tom of Internal inc our varied lystem
NJ internal improvements, saeb u iroads
Steamboat facilities; Tslsgraphs, Ierchaut
Ships, Home MAppiactories, Miners Ysprihgs,
Fruit Nurseries etc. etc. Fl
Eechof these themes afford . u field fol
comment and elaboration. Il
a present we shalI direct orr marks more
fAfticularly to Tint branch Of Thu abject EN-,
8bfacsd VA passing view of our educational
interests.
iaaxh first place N wouldno sp
deFogation Of Northern schools and, colleges,
nor pluck one laurel from TIE time bonored
reputation Of snch fonts Of learning as Yale,
Harvard and Princeton Colleges, the medical
college d The University d Pennsylvania and
Others of similar repnte, for Va know that .
great many Of the most ;esa sons Of the
Sonth ne proud ii acknowledge the above
colleges is their most cherished I Alma Mater
but III view Of The bitter, unmitigated and in
c~reasing warfare Of the people Of the North
against Southern institutions, and more par
t~icllarly against that of domestic SLAVERY ID
TIE South, We 40 most cordially condemn the
pfactice Of Southern parents, still to send
their sons and daughters 10 the North to be
educated.
Impressions made upon the minds Of youth
daring the collegiate career nre alike per,na-
md indellible, and Is 1t 10 be presumed
Under the present poisoned attitude Of the
pAblic mind at the North towards the South,
where anatheInas are daily and almost hourly
belched ont BY Tie public press, BY locomotive
politicians and denagagnes, By Professors il
colleges, ministers q the gospel. and indeed by
Every class Of society. against the cherished
Institutions Of The South; that, impressions
under such 4 TRADE Of situperationn and
Misrepresentation are likely ever to be eHiaced,
that tuition acquired through sach channels
VII ever be Of any permanent benefit to The
recipient?
These ARE grave considerations for the
Southern parent, and apart from the item Of
ne vast amount Of treasure yearly thrown into
lhe laps Of our prosecutors, should canse them
q pause and treuible for sheeonsequenees.
IN the earIystegz our history, when the
lnion Of the Southern and Northern mini was
me Of common brotherhood for veal Or va,
the love of union between the North aud
South, was paramount TO ill other con
alterations, and when our Southern schools
md colleges were not 30 iberally endowed,
ior did afford 50 many advantages as those Of
Northern brethren, and more particularly,
the Institution Of Southern slavery Mas
expected, and the rights Of property therein
we're sacfedly regarded, then, we say, Southern
'arents were jastiiable in sending their sons
nd daughters to the best fonts Of public
Instruction, which our common country Ut
ofded.
BIT such Justification does not ernst at present.
We haye now within the limits Of the
southern States, schools and colleges Of every
If as high rernte. as eau be found With
. the limits Of the Northern States.
Look 70 the University of Virginia. with
y ten professors, four thousand alumni, sig
aei, thousand volumes, four hundred students
7 this time,-more than any other college ID
be United States,
This institution is not inferior to Harvard
University, taking in consideration the time Of
= being founded in 1919, and Harvard ID
638.
Again look at Chapel Hill in North Caro-
na, with its ten professors, two hundred AHA
students Mt this time, q library Of fur
Thousand volumes. q law department, and
every respect adequate to the medication Of
thorough knowledge Of all the arts and
!
There nre many Others we could mention Of
milar celebrity. Oar medical college in this
tate ut Newt rleans, and the one at Louis ,
le Kentucky. are highly endowed, and but J
II any, inferior to the University Of /,
ennsylyania at Philadelphia.
We ask now, where is the future necessity
Southern parents sending their children to
9 nurseries and hotbeds of abolition to re- j
i've . finished education
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