The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-15

4 BALuMoREAS's IMPRESSIONS OF CHARLES
ToS-THE CAUSE OF EDUcATIoS-AN ELo-
ouEST AppEAL.-The large-hearted editor of
the Baltimore Gazette writing from Charleston
under date Of April 4, says:
II the kind contributors in Baltimore to
the parochial schools in this city could
see for themselves the happy. progress of
the work they haveso largely helped to
inaugurate, their hearts would be great
" gladdened. By invitation Of the Rev.
4. Toomer Porter, to whose zeal and energy
these schools owe their origin, visited the
one which he opened in January last, aud to
which he especially devotes himself Four
hundred little children we're being educated
there. many, or perhaps most Of whom would
have grown up in ignorance but for his ezer-
tons. 1t was pitiful to see these children
marching from the church to the schoolhouse,
singing their morning hymn Of praise, while
the bare feet Of some and the patched and tat
tered garments Of others showed how little Of
this worlds goods they had to 6e thankful for
and how necessary to their future wel-being
was the help extended to them by your people.
Adjoining the ol-building is home Tor
bows from the interior of the State whose
parents have been ruined by the var. It has
the names of the worthiest and most distin-
guished citizens of South Carolina. These
bows are not ouly educated, but are supported
and clothed also. Everything about the estab-
ishment, though very plain, was in perfect
order and scrupulously clean. MIR. Porter has
certainly, made the most Of his limited means,
and has done wonders within the brief space
tending these schools in the South, and of do
ing 1t at once, is painfully felt. Numbers of
boys between the ages Of ten and fifteen years
are fearfully backward in their education, and
their parents are unable to do more than
clothe and feed them. In few years more it
will be too late to remedy their deficiencies, and
thev will pass into society so ignorant as TO be
united for the higher professions, and carry
ing with them bitter feeling of modification.
Ts the much-ta1ed charity of Baltimore ex-
hausted? Let us hope not. Our brethren
here have borne the brunt Of a noble struggle
and have been discounted. They are free
men no longer, and it is with difficulty that
many of them can earn by the sweat OF their
brows the bread which the conquered always
eat in bitterness. They bear these trials with
heroic patience, but it must be an agonizing
tbonrht to many of them that their children
NAV grow up 80 llliterate that they must inevi-
tably take. when they advance in life, far lower
stations than they would otherwise occupy.
Judging by what little saw or large negro
school. the black children are, through one
acency or another, being very well cared for.
TSe children of our own race look appeahngly
to Their friends in the North for aid. The
crisis is an all-important one. Baltimore,
open-handed as she has been, can doubtless
spare g. little more out of her abundance, and
that little contributed to this charity will be
productive t of incalculable good. Over forty
applications for admission to the school are
now pending, and many more will be soon pre-
sented But want OF means to support the
children prevents their reception, and they
still plead to be taught, and many of them to
be clothed and fed. The good deeds Of Baltl-
more are not forgotten here. Can sne not add
one more to the generous and sympatElEins
acts wh!.h have made her. name already q
household word among this people: