Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-30


1sge. seninariss, ard other higher institutions Of
learning. besides large sprin'sliDg Of Poliii-
clans. who are ever ready to give every convoos-
ton proper party direction. Those who seemed
TO predominaie ia the assembly were from what
10 known ss the sasai States. which, being libe
rally interpreted into the plain English language,
means Ner EngIsnd.
The speakers we're many and numerous. and
the speeches mixed AID various They did fire.
quently refer to the schools. and the best mode
Of difusiDg an education which should be popular
and universal. And then they brsnched Of on
the one absorbing idea Of genuine Yankee
schoolmaster. That was the negro. and wha, be
vas. 10, and must be- lie must be educated.
elevated. and given the ballot. no matter -hst
becomes Of the poor white man or child Many
Of the speakers we're impressed with the idea that
Divine Providence is bound by His wise
DEGREES and His eternal foreordinstion,
70 infiict the most gn punishmens upon
those Who do not recognize the black asa man
and a brother" This was said especially to
those who refused TO give the negro the privilege
Of voting and attending the public school. With
the whites.
Many of the speakers attributed the rebellion
and all its attendant woes, loss of life, property,
&c. to the wan, Of public schools in the South
srn States! This olap-trap was rorshy OF the
nasal orators who figured at the Convention. Did
no, these men know that nearly all the leaders OF
the rebellion were educated in New England
Colleges and Universities. and that if education
could make men loyal" that these leaders
should have been so. for they were brought up at
the feet Of the Yankee Gamalels! Because men
are called learned. and assume to be so. there is
no use in their becoming fools and Ignoramuses,
in order to make point either for the negro or
against rebellion. Why should the Presidents of
Colleges, and Professors OF various grades, be so
unmindful Of history, and the history of their
own country, too, as to overlook the fact that
education does not make man "loyal, per sc?
Do these learned and pretentious people forget
that the first dsioyai aud reasonable Conven-
ton that ever assembled In the United States
was in the heart Of New Englsndr Do they for
Get that il was made up Of the College bred. the
well-sdrcs,ed. and the pious minded men
Of New Eagland? On that occasion, when
treason was rampant. and the Union threatened
With disnem bermsnt, the same pretensions to all
she lesrning. all the civilization, and all the
piety, was claimed for the States then on the eve
Of rebellion These learned men must have a
singular forgetfulness of the past history OF their
own country, not TO know aud remember these
shiugs. Why. New England. during the Of
1912, with Great Britain. vas tie focus of con.
spirscies against tho National Government, and
against The Union itself There were rebels
shen-thers we're traitors abroad in this land OF
"psbic schools" and the Hartford Convention
me. with closed doors 10 hatch incipent treason
against the best Government ever vouchssfed
to men" Il w. treason 80 inercusabe. too.
that il smelled rank 10 tho nos,riis of men aud
gods. IL was treason, 20 the shame of New
England be il spoken. in favor Of foreign en-
envy then IN open, active and merciless
sxxinst US The public schools" Of the Yankee
scboolmaster did not seen then to have any
very saving grace in preventing disloyaty and re-
belliou The reverse was the fact The public
schools" we're rather the hot beds Of remorss-
less opposition TO the war, and. between the col
leges and the pulpit, no people ever tc,tered
nearer the earthly hell Of bold. rsck
less, and unpublished treason They did
everything but take up arms. These disciples
of the public Schools gave aid and comtor,
to the enemy" aud by speech. signal. proclsma-
ton and otherwise. were in constant com munca-
sios with thar hateful power whose flag "hsd
stood . thousand years in the baltls and the
breeze" The learned professors. of high and
low degree. recently assembled at Harrisburg
forgot a.. these things in estimating tho value OF
public scnools" AZ conservators of modern 10y
atty. But il was ticklsh subject. The learned
New England mind vas always remarkable for
its want Of conscience 1t has been bred to de
ceii. 10 pfetence. and cant. and when the
'holisr- than thou" disciples assemble together.
mankind may look for everything but candor.
truth. honor, and unbiased judgment The
mind once dwarfed TO humbug and pretsncs sel
dom rises to the dignity OF love of the whole
country. IL sees only beauty and soundness in
the errors which has corrupted It's own life aud
being.
But what. the reader will ask. was the object
OF tnts bs>emoidhc AZ hatEicoutsu-tni- Cou'o-
cation of the saints and learned Pundts? Ii
professed TO be a meeting OF the " National
Teachers Association" whoever and whatever
they are We believe this Association is made
mp, principally. Of the heads of New England
Colleges. aud professors, school-teachers &c. of
the same section There we're interpreted aud
saudvitehed between these learned pigs" here
and tbsre, q few from the West, Of the same
calling. and having the same nclinations-sd-
Myers and instruments Of the Abolition school
OF New England parsons and politicians That
10 all We know of the material elements OF the
Association. They were men engaged in the
very Questionable mission of" educasing nap" the
people of the free States to a love Of negro
equality, and other equally repulsive dogmas.
and giving 20 New England The entire control of
our educational interests Thi, il the whole
story. in few words.
Now let ps see what these learned Professors
propose 10 do and ask for. We must Judge them
By the stssdard which they sc, Up as an orgapi-
sAtion, and by their associations The polite
ians who took par, IN the proceedings Of the
Teachers Convsniou were SIMON CsxKRox.