The Feliciana Democrat., 1859-04-09
TO SOUTHERN PARENTS

daughters in the South
SvururRY PARENTS Permit southern man
10 make nm appeal TO yon in behalf OF South
ern Educaton.
Before the rhirteon Colonies were separated
from England orr rich mon sent their sons and
daughters TO the land of their ancestors to he
educated This wns well onongh while the Col
onirs were dependencies of the British crown.
But after we became m independent nation,
this system was for long time kept mp; for it
takes many years for nation 10 forget the
habits fits infancy The result was that onr
young men returned from England fifty years
ago, completely de-nationalzed-mo English
in feeling than American, affecting English
manners. English cockney pronunciation, En-
glish dress, and English love of kings and
queens!
But this Colonial dependence has ceased for
the past generation; because now in America in
th" large cities Institutions Of learning here
have heen organized equal to those in England.
As these superior Institutions have been. nm
iii within few years. NIL at the North. in the
froe States the South has depended on them,
nnd sent every year thousands Of Southern boys
nrd girls to he educated therein. Tins the
Sru'h has got to he MS Coloniol in. its depend
once on the free States, MS the old States once
were on England. But the old States have
ceased to look to England for the education
Of their children. and it isonitc time the South
shonM cenm to hook In The North!
Schools Of education of the highest charac-
ter are now organized or being founded all
through the South! Onr sons and daughters
eon he sdurotm south Of Mason & Dyons line
ns gracefully, elegantly, practically and thor,
onghlv, rs north Of it. 1t is time Southern
Il, T..
Sftntons at the expense of the prosperity o'
their own!
II is time trne Southernors should show that
they are snch hv educating their sons and dnngh
terS in the South!
II is time thot tho hnmiIiatine dependence
of thc Sonth ON thn Educational Seminarirs in
1h" FREQ States should terminate!
All things being e1i,el, S Som tfhrrnrT, + III
is at heart one. will hnld NJ Southern Insti
tutions II is already onr shame and rcbuk'
in the North, that with nll our intense South
ernism. with all onr boosted chivalry, intellect
grnins and intelligence. we have to acknowl
edge the superiority ofthc free States, by send
ing our children there to he educated!
And what do our children gain there? Nor
thern teachers? Are not our Southern schools
mainly carried on by Northern teachers, an,
cannot we command here the highest order 0
their talents?
DO Southern parents reflect that If the mon
ey they expended on their sons and daughters
for education in the free States, were to be eX
pended in tuition in Southern Institution, on
S'minaries Of learning for both sexes woulC
take the rank they ought to hold?
II there are not eminent Institutions fo
Young ladies and youhs in Mississippi Ala
bnmn and Louisiana, il is because Southerncr
neglect them and send their children past the
doors a thousand miles North TO the free States
Is there any reason for this Indifference t,
the prosperity Of Southern schools? Is no
this system of Colonial dependence on Nor
them ones as if the South were a Colony O
the North and must look mp to it?
Let us put an end to this system so unwo
ty of the independent South. Instead of sen(
ing vur children Northto come home in thre
or four years halfabolitionized, to pity t
poor slaves and argue "with Pa and Ma" o
the humanity of owning slaves, to come HON
dissatisfied with orr Southern Institutions
manners and IDEAS neither SouthernerS nor ye
Northerners send them to your own Institl
tions and edncate them under yonr own sOci;
systems ethey are to live in the South. le
them be trained for Southern life at Sonther
schools The very Northerners who receiv
vonr sons and daughters and yOnr money carr
ed from slave labor, despisc yon for they hav