The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-04-19

The private bcnsvolence Of the Northern people ID
doing an immense work in the South among whites
and blacks alike. We gave the other day &C
count OF the colorsd schools in Macon. The National
this week reports that there counted In Georgia
on the LIST Of March, IS s~dmens schools, % teach
ers, o,863 pupls-an increase January Of
schools, teachers and 1873 pupils, notwithstanding
the small pox % uterfersd with the schools in Macon
a. to decrease the attendasce from 272 in January
TO BIS in February. Tho last quarter lending March
lst) has Witnessed increase IL Is schools, 80
teachers, and 2s75 pupils. Last month the freedmen
In five localities contributed e34l toward the support
of their schools and during the quarter ocali-
ties contributed 1861. All this in addition 70 char
table donations % their suffering poor.
There arc 10 North Carolina 100 schools for the
blacks, 1877 teachers. and in the month of January
e 1919 scholars 1900 more than in December.-
They are located in all the principal towns, and
Z generally regarded with favor. TLs teachers expe-
rience, however, the popular aversion. They and the
employees Of the bureau, civil and military, amount
to less than two hundred persons slender army Of
regeseration.
@ The American Missionary Association have now
eleven eolored schools in tho Shenandoah Valley with
800 pupils. In Lexington the colegans and popu-
lace together made STRENUOUS opposon establish
ing one there. In Richmond there are LOO blacks
attending schools.
The following letter from the superintendent of tho
National Frssdmen's Associations schools in Norfolk
viii be read with interest:
NoByoLK, Va, March rs.
AZ Nothing can compare with it-our success. We
have two sets Of scholars children and adults. Tho
adults have TO 10 instructed mainly at odd times at
their houses, where catch them from work,
and at the night schooss. Believing it to be of high
importance 20 teach them, devote fair part of
time them, giving the rest 70 the children. Our
schools, both for adults and chGren are so crowded
that each pupil can have bat the meress fraction of
ton indeed that II would be laughed at in Northern
school, and the constant wonder TO me is how they
learn anything; and the wonder has ample chance
for growth for in very varied experience Of teaching
both advanced and primary scholars both at the east
and west have never seen children with ten times
the opportunity, learn fast these children do.
-" The explanation is, after all, atural enough
Greed for that so long and cruelty denied them, the
craving born in them for knowledge, and added to
that The strength OF memory, which their chief
dependence in the old days. They rarely have to be
told thing more than once-that is thing. !
Habit is strong with them and 90 much the more i'm
portant it that right habits of thought and action
should be established among this rising generation
ing set new and wonderful jewel in the grand re-
republics il Is also that the education is
going 70 leave these cunning hands and busy brains
We must either make them or they will us, such
il their power for good evil and false have they
lations of life.
Z" I tell you-and would that could stamp it as |
indellbly on every other brain it is impressed
mine-edmeae these people educate them in every |
sense aud that right speedily, they will be like
mistoue hanged about our necks.
" This rising generation, remember, is engr afted |
with the worst as well the best CD blood of the
South these children the legitimate inheritors of
the bad passions, the malevoent the vicious tenden
cies OF apeopls of whose humanity we have cause
to think highly. To counterfeit this remains the
rally loving, reverent African Instinct, the quick
caption, the impressble emotional nature. Brought
from such iron bondage to . freedom that their ter
rible Ignorance does not know how to improve Alright
this quick, ardent nature will go wrong it is not
taught right, this immensely fertile soil will grow
weeds II II u not seeded down at once with profitable
grain.