The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-30
FOR STATE SENATE,
WILLIAM r. HILL, OF YAZOO.
FOR COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES,,
HIRAM J. THOMAS,
HARRISON BARKSDALE.
FOR STATE SENATE,
SOUTHERN EDUCATIGN


While our public men and journals are daily
discussing, with furious vehemence and untirinp
assiduity, theoretical views of national tendencies
and political bearings is it not strange that this
important subject receives so little thought and 50
little action? Is it not the climax of follye the
Ultima Thule of stupidity for men, who ale
eternally abusing the Yankees, and seem fully
alive to their impudent encroachments. to he
without complaint or an effort to remedy the evil
continually patronizing their institutions and
sending their children to be educated from South
ern orthodoxy and gentility into that Yankee
selfshncss and sordidness which they profess so
perfectly to abominate? Yankee fanaticism
Yankee manners, Yankee encroachments. and
Yankee views of slavery, they sufficiently hate
and most zealously curse, but at the same time
we see them, by deliberate choice, apparently
ambitious of having the facile minds of their
progeny moulded into the views of those thew war
with. They buy the tadpole but denounce the
frog.
1t is high time that Southern men were aban-
donng this shameful inconsistency and combining
their practice within the bounds prescribed bv
their earnest and very creditable preaching. IF
they detest the Yankees on account of their nsfo-
rlous deeds and meditated hostility, they should
certainly have pride enough to hold themselves
equal to the Yankees It is certainly humiliat;nc
70 acknowledge that the sons and daughters of the
South cannot be accomplished, courteous and
intelligent ladies and gentlemen without resi-
dence OF three or four years in New England and
diploma from Northern college. But it is
objected that Southern institutions of learning
cannot give that full and complete finish that
those OF the North can. This idea is erroneous
and arises merely from the fact that colleges
North are older than our own, combined with the
TACT that they are at distance, furnishing nm
application Of the saying, "a prophet is never
w''hout honor except in his own country )"
Proper examination and reflection will convince
any man that our own institutions of learning are
fully equal to those of Brother Jonathan. Wbv
should they not be? Are they not as well en- |
lowed Have not their Faculties been selected
with as correct judgment as those of the North,
and are they not as competent and learned
Where then are they inferior? In, no point On
the contrary, there is one point Of superiority,
and that is, the sons of the South in So1rthern
colleges are taught confidence in and love for the
institution of slavery
1t IS true that the North exces us in the num-
Der of her colleges and seminaries. This dis
parity ought to be obviated but will be as Gov.
A g. Brown correctly remarked in his able speech
at Sharon, on the 2lst, only when the South.
ern mind is fully aroused to proper convention
OF its Importance" Every State should have its
University, and every citizen, who is able, should
patFonize the institution of his own State. Be.
cause college is thousand miles distant. con.
'titutes no reason for believing it superior to a
college ten miles from your door, Look at the
course of our own University, at Oxford, for in.
stance. 1t is as thorough as that of any North
" Mason Il Dixon's line. Her professors are
equally able and equally learned, and a bow who
Will take an education anywhere, will take one as
complete and perfect under their supervision and
instruction, as under the direction of the first
scholar in the proudest institution in the world
There is no subject of more Importance to the
South than Southern education. We hone at
some future time, to recur to tho topic again, and
examine it more freely than space will at present
allow. Meantime, we should be pleased to see
The address of Gov. Brown at Madison COLLEGE,
broadcast through the country, in pamphlet form.
1t covers the whole question, and fully demon
'trates the vital Interest the South has in edu
'atng her own sons within her own limits.