New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-24

rsburg has led to one important result-thst ~
bringing before the country, and professionally
before Congress, the subject Of Government
Bureau Of Education. We might name otha.
conclusions reached by the Convention as d..
serving the interest, not alone Of the great ana
respectable community of American teachen
but Of the Intelligent public generaly-a dec.
sive commentator of Object Teaching. thsnsv
and natural system of instruction so successfully
pursued at Oswego, in this State, and liberal
proposition for inquiring into the feasibility Il
calling Worlds Convention Of Teacher
But the best business transacted in the session
just closed was undoubtedly the preparation
made for representing to Congress-backed By
the unanmity of the entire educational profes-
sion of the countryside necessity both mms-
date and permanent, of such department n
the Administration as that Of Education.
We have now two new Bureaus in the M.
tional Government namely, the Bureauof AM.
culture and the Bureau for Freedmen and Alb.
doned Lands. Intimately connected with thsss.
and for neither's sake to be long ignored, is the
auxiliary and controlling interest of Education.
In the progress of thing, and in view Of future
exigencies, we can hardly afford to do without
Bureau Of Education as an aid and influence
working in and with the two vital republican,
elements Of Skilled Agriculture and Free Labor
We are reasonably anxious as to the state d
our crops and in what manner and to what ex.
tent our farmers till this precious soil Of cun,
but we have a still more radical interest b
knowing how our husbandmcn themselves Us
cultivated, and what is the condition Of tAs
growing human crop. II is not to be densa
that agriculturists and agriculturists' childrea,
and indeed everybody and everybody's childrsa,
are most vital and essential crops and crop
growers; and if statistics of harvest Of thb
kind are wanting in the yearly report OF the
Commissioner of Agriculture, it is because tAis
functonary has to do with vegetables, ratha
than human beings.
With the Freedmens Bureau, however.
Bureau of Education will have the earliest prsc-
teal and fruitful working. Here, above IL,
such an agency, recognized at once AID fostered
by the Government, is in demand, and will b
for years to come. Nearly three million and
half of people in the South-a majority OF ID
population-need intelligence, and ofthisnumba
three-fourths are beggars for it. The whoIs
Southern people, for that matter, need instruo'
ton, or especially the moral aids which Hov
from general intellectual activity and free
schools, This is large plumber to teach; and
yet, if we do not teach them, of what use ~
they to themselves or to the State! They ~
either the positive or negative enemies of both.
If the now political pariah, the freedman Of To
South, is not to have franchised citizenship until
he has grown to it, let us test the sincerity n
those who deny him his first right, by seeing
what they will do toward giving him his second.
airy right to be taught and trained, and, mean.
while to be secure in his property and pursuit.
II free schools and equally free citizenship
can come universally together, throughout Tie
South, there will be no great cause to quarrel
what manner of man shall vote be bis color
white or black. The virtues of the schoolhouse
will be check to the vices of the ballot-bo1.
But if only the Whites are to reconstitute the
South, it is high time that we considered, not
alone how many whites are illiterate but how
better we can teach both Black and White NJ
tionalzed education will, in any event, keep
the balance Of power to the General Govern
ment. But, in far wider and more serious
view, it must occur to every thinker that Edu'
cation il only another name for Liberty-ths
very Liberty we boast. 1t is also another Mans
for Progress.
We need not draw upon the excellent arga'
meuts advanced at the late Convention BY
Profs. Greene, Edwards, Wickersham, Rickon'
and other eminent educators, to show that frS
Schools, educating everything else, must be
prime and fundamental element in the Recon-
struction\pf the South. The labors of the whoS
Commission of the Freedmens Bureau, evH
with Towards just administration, would "
null and barren for the future, if they were DO.
fortified and made intelligent by the frce-schooi
missions of the North. The general hope Oh Cd.
freedman's truest friends is that, by means
education, rather than the technical proIecnon'
of government, his freehold and franchise WIZ
be made secure. Clearly, TO make It's ain'
complete and its workings efficient, the Bufe''
of Freedmen requires the cooperation anu
thority of Bureau of Education. seuoof
houses will prove, in many cases, excellent ~.
stitutes for prisons and courts of law, though w.
shall no doubt continue to have them both. w
have not considered the subject as II al''.
what political martinets may term the rgn'S