Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-01-06
Snrrlcrn School ROOkh.

|: IS time that we were rid OF Yankee school
books. Ever since Morse published MS Geog-
rnphy, in which there were filings at the in
situations OF the South, the School Books of
the North which. have flooded the South-ln
fact, we have had no other school books-havc
been filed with AbolitioniSm, and If not with
the outri.h,ness Of Longfcllow's anti-slarery
cant, the books, nevertheless, squintcd that
war, and had the faint Of Northern fanatlcism
in them. Now that our students of medicine
have come home 10 stand by home institutions
il is time tina, home institutions stood by them.
We are no, saving that medical students
should rot use the books best calculated to
teach them their iuties-mcdical books do
not interfere with the slavery question
bu: wc do say that the books in which they are
taught 70 real, ard from which they derive
ileir FIRST Impressions. should be sound, con-
s~,r;atiyc and constitutional. There is treason
10 the South in many Of these Northern school
books. And they have made lis very Squeain'
iSh ln,;i lately in proclaining the moral right
oi ~Slavrr".
NJ. u'Couo., Il Northern IMAM, has spoken
o.: = strongly and Us truly for the institution
Of slavery aS Senator Hammond himself in his
.nos. able exposition on that subject. We
have been too much in the habit Of apologies.
iac Tor slavery. where We should have justified
j, rs il is justified in PaulS most beautiful let
ter 70 Philemon, as well AS in the Old Tesla.
.,.ent. Ii : these in>inuatipns. nay. assertions
oi the moral WRONG Of slavery which our youths
read in these Northern school books which
give an earl: bias 10 their impresSions--lm-
prcssioas upon Which they TO not reason, and
tie result IS that when many Of them colnc TO
,hcir second childhood in their last wills and
,c>,aincn,s. they liberatc their slaves and fill
the country with Il miserable herd of free ne
srocs.
We must stop this Northcrn inundation Of
school books. Have We not Southern men CT
pat,c Of compiling them: Have we not a
Southern literature from which much OF the
compilation might be made: How many beau
lilul things, Just ii, for such books, have Writ,
anil ~l."carc, and Grilnkc and others written, to
say nothing Of the political speeches OF our
Southern and Western orators of the slave
States. whose names and cloquence arc true to
The Constitution, and are able eXpositors OF it.
lialIecl; said. Of certain. OF this class Of school.
book makers and abolition preachers:
Tia: they were c.'ian: and Cody. making love a,esch.
M,
And sain!rr. ~ whn; they call hook and croo.,
4 decrn: iiv.GG. Tne NiG.inians lock
U;,ou ;hcm with a.. favorable eyes
A. Gabriel Oh TIE dead IN Paradise.
Good reason have We. But l1alicck says these
are bn. New highlands "out-cas;s;" but why
should they colna TO Ms? Words arc things
said M.rabcau-and sometimes they are very
potent things in the influence Of young minds,
and sometimes they are fatal things, as Mr..
Seward will lind in the uttcrance Of his IRE
prcssibie coniiic,' sentiment, and in his en-.
do-Scmcn, OF Helpers Impending crisis"
The i;ey. Mr.. ricrpont, when he lived in
Baltimore and kept 4 dry goods house OH Cal.
vert street, was free from .Aboiitionism; but
when he became & Unitarian clergyman and
got located in Boston. he spun anti.slavcry
RHYMES hy the yard. The virus struck linn ir
New England, and, to turn Il penny, he wen'
into the compilation Of school books. Vow, VIZ
rcncat. !c, us have school books Of OR ow,
and a literature Of Our OWN.