Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-06
FROM the Anni.slaxery slnndara.
sOUTHERNEAS VISITING A C0LoRED
SCHOOL.

SUUTHERNERS VISITING A C0L0RED
SCHOOL.
Governor Drown Of Florida, Hon. d. S. Walker
Superintendent Of Public Instruction in that State,
Mrs. Walker, and Nine. Lo Vert Of Mobile visited,
on Saturday last. some of the New York Schools,
and among the rest the colored school in Mulberry
street. The scholars were subjected to an examin.
alton in the presence OF The guests, and we under.
stand thntthey acquitted themselves in n very cred
table manner. Mr., Randall. the State Su2erin.
tendent Of Schools, being present, introduced Gov
ernor Brown, who is reported to have made the fol-
lowing address:
81 have sympathy with all I am glad to see in
all the spirit of Improvement. Education is the
great source of happiness. Education lie the par
ent of virtue, and education virtue will make you
all noble ami respectable. You secure a greater
share of happines 10y attention to cducation.-
Without it life would be n burden. With educa'
ton and virtue as conditions, any life must 5'hap
py. Whether you or your posterity go back to
your native land and raise over it the the banner
of liberty. you will be Il happy people and you
may carry til; banner of Christianity where it is
now unknown. | shall go back to my native State
with a feeling Of qualification that | have witness
cd this. | wish you all happiness aid prosper
ity."
The Hon. Mr.. Walker, the Superintendent Of
Public instruction in Florida. also delivered an ad
dress, which is thus reported
1t has given me a great deal of pleasure, my
young friends, to have the privilege Of making this
visit. | may say that few things | have seen any.
where have given me more qualification than this.
H. IL LII: -. q Al. ,r, -. ,,l,r Ill
circumstances, by all the members Of the human
family, is always pleasant, | have visited several
of the schools of this city. | have Witnessed in
no other an examination to ascertain what progress
they have make, but l will say that l have been
profoundly ~gratifed in hearing the answers which
you have given to the questions which have been
r put to you by your esteemed City Superintendent
Mr.. Randall. They show that your teachers have
done their duty to you, and that you haze done
your duty to yourselves. 1t is beyond my power
to give full expression to my qualification. l will
unite with my friends in the prayer that your
course may be onward, and that Heaven may con.
stantly shower its choicest blessings upon you"
If Gov. Brown and the Hon. Mr.. Walker were
as much %gratifed as they protested to be what
they saw in this colored school-and we certainly
81 snall NOT pTesbHe oqueS'ou Het eihCeihy WY"
what feelings of Indignation must they regard the
laws of the Southern States forbiddiug the educa'
ton of the people of color and degrading the great
majority of them to the condition Of ceattels!
The feelings of the scholars in respect to the
country whioh makes color the badge of social
:, degradation were exhibited by an incident which
must have made a deep impression upon the gen.
,lemen from Florida, and which The Tribune thus
relates:
After more singing, an exhibition Of the capac.
tiles of the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine by
one Of the scholars for sewing is taught in the
school and some reoding by a very little girl who
stood up on a seat, Mr.. Walker suggested the sing
ing of Hail Columbia. To show a peculiarly OF
the school, the singing.master, MIR. Petit played
through the tune, but not more than q dozen of the
scllolors sang. Mr.. Petit afterward explained that
be had never been able to induce teachers and
scholars to sing any Of the patriotic tunes they
said that it wasn't a free country for black people,
and they could not call it a happy land. Mr..
Walker, with the truest gentlemanliress, regret
ted that he had asked them to sing anything
against which they Lad so natural a repugnance,
and requested that they would sing, for n parting
song, something with which they were familiar
They sang a Kansas song"