Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-03-16

| sun, or stand over the wash tub or tho cook
ing stove. But flour own white people would
refuse to take charge of colored schools, black
teachers could be found, who, for assery small
compensation, could manage such schools for q
| year or two until better teachers, Of the, came
| class could be procured All such schools,
whether taught by white or black should he
visited weekly by two or three jujicious men
Of the neighborhood to see what sort Of books
are used, what sort of instructions are impaired
and whether the teachers arc faithful or not.
five refuse TO take hold of this thing our
selves it will be managed, by those who have
but little love for the white population Of the
South. In oil parts of the South, and In our
own State there are schools for colored children
conducted by white men or women from the
North. IT is almost impossible for such teach.
ers to avoid inetilling into the minds of their
pupis and their parents the bitter feelings 80
prevalent in the North against the South. In
nsmuch as schools are hound to be established
in the South for the Freedmen it will be thou
snnd times better that these schools should DO
under our own supervision than that Of stran-
gers, whether enemies or not
1t should he remembered TINT the negroes are
now free, not only by the result Of the war,
but also by the decree Of our own Convention
and by the Code Of our own Legislature, and
the objections TO schooling them, if ever valid,
are not so now. The more aged servants can
not be taugh! much. They, have TO labour !;
but the children should be taught TO read and
write. and the principles of ari,hlrctic. They
should be able to calculate their own wages. as
well as count, many times. for their employers.
They need a common education. They have
served us faithfully for many years, and all
through the bloody war, and they must do the
principal part of the labor for years to come
If they know that we are trying to do some
thing for their children in the way of education
and religion, they will labour tho more assid.
uously. and pleasantly, and profitably.
If they nre destined, after term of years, to
return to their Father land Afr I
hope many Of them wilD-it will be q source
of qualification to know that they go back with
some education. and prepared in some degree
to instruct the heather, and carry the princi-
pies of civilization, religion and liberty to the
bcnightod regions of Africa.
When white man gocs to Africa as n mis-.
sionary, we feel that he is bound to school the
heather, TO teach them to read, and instruct
them in other branches, and should not those
who nurse our children, and m,ngle with them
in their sports and labours have some oducn-
toni 1fso, should their training be left to
strangers or enemies, or should we not do the
! work ouraelvesi
If the Legislature had adopted liberal pol
| icy OH this snHect there would have been but
| little use for the Frcedmen's Bureau amongst
u.s.
think, Mr.. Editor. the foregoing opinions
will commend themselves to oil rejecting IN en-.
In addition, I may observe that as o good
many of the servants can read, and more will
soon be able TO read. there ought to bs news.
paper published for their benefit, sort of
Chids Paper. for the present, containing ad-
vice as to their duty to themselves, their en-
ployers, their country and their God. The pa.
Pers published in the North, or by Northern
men at the South for the Freedmen, are almost
certain to contain bitter things against the
South. Hence. papers should be published in
the South for the Freedmen, by judicous men,
who will be careful to exclude i,,cenoliayy nrti-
cles. and introduce peaceful and profitable
matter. n
Due West. S. C.