The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-22
Message of Governor r. X. Scott.

Assembly pro. TOM, upon tho inaugu-
ration of n Ncgro.govornmcnt in
South Carolina, Governor S. runs
over the samo ground as to debts and
taxation as his predecessor in tho
message printed in our last issue, sug-
gcsts certain changes in the judiciary,
u rc-division of counties, removal of all
political disabilities, caro- Of the State
House, Pcnitcntiary, Jails, and Asy-
lum recommends moderate salaries,
and thus treat Iof such matters rs arc
Of more general interest
EDUCATION.
Civil liberty and tho education of
tho masses arc insoparablo.
The safety of q FREQ State rests upon
the virtue and intelligence of tho pco-
pie, and it cannot preserve tho one
without cultivating tho other. All
republics of which history makes mon.
ton, have owed their decline and fall
to the corruption of tho people who,
having become unmindful of their
rights and duties through Ignorance,
became tho pray of dcmagogucs
through choice. In country such rs
ours. whore tho humblcst citizen, if
worthy and well qualified, may aspire
to tho station of the highest, and
whore tho hard-handod child of povor-
ty and toll may become tho chief
magistrate of tho republic, tho diffu.
sion Of intelligence among tho masses
is not t'only q measure Of public Justice,
but vitality concerns the public safety.
Tho Government of tho United
States has been so mindful of the i'm
portanco of popular education, that it
has already given 10000, 200 of acres
of public lands, worth at least ninety
millions $780, ,OO0) Of dollars, for
the establishment of schools and col
logcs in tho States and Territories of
tho Union. l would, therefore, earn
ostly recommend that the provision of
our Constitution upon this subject, bo
carried out in its fullest extent, and
that rs thorough q systcm of free
schools shall bo established as is con-
sistent with tho present taxable re-
sources Of tho State.
l doom it proper to add, that salts
factory assurances are given that Con-
gress will, within brief pcriod,
make liberal grant of public lands
to this State, for tho creation Of per-
manent common School Fund thus in
n great measure, relieving our people
from tho burden of taxation for that
special object. | respectfully suggest
that you will memorabilia tho Con
grcss of the United States upon this
sui jcct, and solicit tho grant referred
to at tho earliest possible day.
Article 10, Section 3, of tho Con-
stitution, provides Hthoro shall be
kept open at least six months in each
year, ono or moro schools in each
school district"
respectfully recommend that tho
General Assembly will provide by
law for tho establishment Of at least
two (2) schools in each school district
whom necessary, and that ono of said
schools shall be set apart and designa-
tod as a school for colorcd children,
and tho other for whito children, tho
school fund to DO distributed equally
to oach class, in proportion to tho
number Of children in cach between
tho ages of six and sixtcon yoars. e
deem this separation Of tho two races
III tho public schools q matter of the
greatest impot tancot to all classes Of
our people. ua .H lG32
While the moralist and tho philan-
thropist ohoorfully recognizes tho fact
that "God hath made Of one blood all
nations of mon," yot tho statesman
iog!islating for political society that
embraces two distinct, and i'm somo
looasurc, antagonistic races, in tho
great body Of its electors, must as far
as tho law OF equal rights will permit,
take cognizanco Of existing projudices
among both. In school districts,
whore tho whito children may prc.
pondoratc in numbers, tho oolorea
children may be oppressed, or par
TALLY excluded from the schools.
while tho samo result may accrue to
the whites in those districts who're
ooiored children are in tho majority,
unless they shall be sonnrnted hylsw
as horoin recommended. Moreover.
1t is the declared design Of the Consti-
tuition that oil GLASSES Of our people
shall DC educated, but not to provide
for this separation Of tho two races.
will be to ropel tho masses of the
whites from tho educational traininu
that thoy SO much nocd, and virtually
to give to our colored population the
exclusive benefit ofour public schools.
Let us. therefore, recognize facts as
they are and rely upon time, and tho
eleeating influe 'e of popular preju-
dice that may exist among tho two
races Of our follow.oitizens.