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The following account is givenin the Nation
q Intelligoncer Of !he recent speech of "Rev
+, ". AIyord, General Inspector Of Colored
Schools under the Fteednen's 5 Bureau" re-
csp;ly made in Washington, at a meeting Of a
rrr15er of .sHeacnels of Colored Schools
Ills effort di1 not fayorabiy impress US
lie had been, he said, in the work Of colored
school teaching for thirty years, and seemed
bs this statement 20 claim something more
,5an cohlnon de!erence to his sct-denial and
r;is,!om il the work, He had been all over
he Couth, among the co!orcd schools in
Ihar;esioa, T Savanoah, New Orleans, and else
53era, anG had, in his journeyings, been look
;nG 20? the Dest specimen of a colored school.
rhey 1ere all so excellent, however, that he
opd not vet decided which was cest We ex-
oeoteC: at his point that he would turn to his
personal observations in The schools, and fur
jli,h ar interesting and valuable entertainment
% ;he teachers and ail others on the direct
.pbiact which occasioned the meeting. He did
&c such thing. With some sweeping Vltupera-
;ioE lpon The temper and designs Of the South
ara people, he planted his contemplation upon
he city Ct Washington.
THE colored population Of this city, he
said, had wonderfully improved in character
crt appearance during the war. 1t could be
seer On the streets, at the church, and every
Enere. This very preposteroUs statement was
:uii evidence that he was utterly lgnorant OF
he subject upon which nc was attempting to
enghten an intelligent audience. 1t is abb
2rr(y untrue to represent the colored popu.a-
ten Of this city now as equal in their Industry
intelligence, and correctress OF life to those
rtlc ;7ere here before the war. The poor be-
So;taG, miserable creatures who have thronged
% this city during the war are not to be COM
,ared With those colored servants and tree col
o1eC people who were here when the war open
eC, arc it is only great Ignorance, stupidity, or
:anaticism. or all combined, that will suggest
>ne aosrrdity. Rev Mr.. .Alvord, however,
-heS ne comes to inspect white people IN
Washington, looks through another pair OF
spectaces Many places were improved in
their morals during the war, he said, but
Washington was an exception, and had become
oemoralized. And then with long, loose
rigmarOle, IN the same ScnSclcSS stralnuls IN re-
gsrd &c the colored people, he went on to
Show how Washington had becomea "heteroge-
nous congor1eration Of loaters, ragamuffins,
sad rascaIs. We ewri;e with no unknd spirit in
,egarG tolhjs gentleman. He was sincere in his
views, no doubt, and thought he was doing the
cause O. co!ored schools service in his very
ioo!ish speech Everybody knows, who knows
tnythng about tic Washington population,
that his aspersions upon the white population
of this city are without foundation. The moral
arc intellectual lie of Washington has been
less denoralized, in our Judgment, during the
-1l iran the average Of Northern cities, and if
Is large increase of churches and attendance
upon religious worship, as well as the remark
able increase in the nu!lber and character OF the
schools heve, nave any Significance, this city
never stood higher in morals and intelligence
jtanit does tc-Gay Rev. Mr.. Alvord, ,as Inspect
&c. Of Schools, has made a report to General
Toward, :nd i. viii shortly BE- made public;
anc il IS or this account that his remarkable
ctate1elis, upon which Te have earnestly COM
rented become, Of some significance. If that
repor, IS nov written with more discretion and
.Gorc correctness III matters of fact than his
32eecl &c The schools teachers it will be de-
luding and mischieyous document.