New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-25
sOUTuERN EDUCATuON.

SOUTHERN EDuCAVuON.
The Mssissippian, an ardent advocate Of south
eru Rights and the revival of the African slave
trade. has lately taken in hand the subject OF south
ern Education. For Southern fathers to send their
sons 10 be educated in Northern schools and col
leges is, according to that journal, committing
their children to the education aud influence Of
their aycwed enemies II is like making the vol
the guardian Of the lamb, the eat the tutor OF tho
mouse. There isevery reason to expect that young
men sent for education to Harvard or Yale VIII
come back poisoned with AntiSlayery heresy
Besides. the graduates of these institutions ara
a race of snstterers, a deger crate set who have
drunk Just sufficiently at the fountains of science
- and of literature to acquire the impudence "
" quacks and # prete nders to much learning, IN
{" stead ofthecam confidence ofgenuine scholars.
They are " scholastic automat0ns verbosey pre-
tentious in commonplace and threadbarc shreds
" of information" but not the deep, str,ng 'g'
orous thinkers needed TO maintain the cause "
slavery and TO adyocat. the revival Of the African
slaVe-trade
As to mathematics, the classics, the modern Ian
eusges sud the ply steal sciences, those are things
with v ich a Southern gentleman can very well
dispense. The principal object of Southern edo
cation is or should be to imble the minds Of the
pupils with deep snd eternal hatred of anything
like Northern liberty aud equality. To impress
the infant Hannibal while his mind was most suS
ceptble 10 influence, with deadly hatred of Rome,
be was made to clasp the horns Of the altar, and
to swear eternal hatred to the Roman people
This example, says The Mssissippian, ought not
TO be lost on the people Of the South. sour youth
4" should, at educational affairs of our own erection,
4" be made to swear eternal allegiance to the inst
tutions Of the South" The one thing needialp
Southern education is a proper indoctrinatIon
to the rightfulness, the necessity, the beauties Of
Slavery. The pupils should be taught thai
Slavery is as necessary for the welfare o.
" the Southern States as sunshine Is iSf
a" the flowers of the prairies and sayannss, and
I" showers to the growing crops." They are ndh
spend their precious time in turning over dichoh
ares or poriDg over Diagrams They must dssa
at the root Of the matter at once. "They sboub
from the infant school TO the university from the
fire side to the exercises closing their collegiate
/" career, be made familiar with all those poserfu
" arguments, Scripturai and political by which
"Slasery is supported, INDICATED and defended
"a noble and necessary institution Of Gods cres
E" ton" The professors 10 these Southern schools
and cole ges, must be gentlemen thoroughly I'D
- bued with Southern sentiment, prepared to sho"
that Slavery sis cOevsl with society and almost
- coextensiye with the human races" that ii va
" con manded by Gods chosen theocr,cy snd
" sanctioned by his Apostles in the Christi's
Church" They should be taught Whist Northern
professors do not teach, that Rome and 0reece
"swed their literary and national grea'"e'.
L" exelHsirdy to the institution OF o"ep
We must confess that We had been in the hsoi' VI
suppooipg that the freedom Of Greece and hon'
bad something 10 do with their nations ana ""
rary greatness. But they have altered al w"
6owa South. II was Exclusively" the institu''0'
Of Slavery If our friends at the South aPPe''
hitherto 10 have fallen slightly behind the rep"S
tion of Greece in arts and letters, the reason VIC
suppose may be that among them tins msguihcs"
;,sttn,;on has hitherto been limited to the blacs
race. Reduce twothirds Of the white popnlahoo
70 Slavery as was the case at Athens, and TIE
| south would at once begin to bristle with poe"
and philosophers
We fully agree with The Mississippian that k
course Of instruction upon which it insists, is nS
10 be had at Yale or Harvard, and that if the young
men of the South are TO be educated upon ts'
system they must be kept at home.