The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-08-26
Yankee Pedagogues.

I
States have cast longing eyes, and to-
ward which their footsteps have been
directed when forced by the fear Of
starvation to leave the ungenial eli.
mate and sterile hills of their native
States They came forth to sell to
our people the negroes whom they
found they could not work with profit
at home; they kept the slave trade
open eight years after Virginia wished
it abolished, and were busily engaged
during tho whole time bringing car
goes of negroes from tho coast of
Africa for the Southern mark et.-
Slavery having at length bcen abolish
ca with them, because 1t acas unprofta
ble, they forthwith became rantine
abolitionists, and sought to. steal from
us the property for which we paid
them our money. Our country was
overrun with the emmissarics of aboli-
tion societies. They came as clock
pcddlers, clock cleaners, vendors of
patent medicines, drummers for North.
crn merchants, sellers of patent wash.
ing machines, clothes wringcrs and
churns, agents for catch. penny patent
rights of all kinds, but principally
and most hurtfully as schoolm astcrs
and school marms. Along with the
smattcring of an education obtained in
the free schools of tho North, where
they sung grammar and geography,
and Wcbster's dictionary and section
al histories of the United States, thcy
imbibcd all of the bigotry and intolcr-
ancc, and craft and double dealing
transmitted through the pilgrim Fa.
thers" and their Puritan descendants by
the Father OF Evil himself. For years
these people. whose ancestors fought
Indians for the purpose Of capturing and
selling them into slavery-who passed
the Blue laws-who burnt witches, and
were guilty Of crimes from which the
savagcs o: Ashango land would have
recolcd. were permitted TO practice their
msldious and diabolical arts on the slaves
OF the South, and TO poison the minds of
the children whom they taught, with
the accursed doctrines Of puritanism and
abolilionism. They came in hordes-
scarcely neighborhood could be found
without its Yankee schoolmastcr or
school .nr rn,. Our people. notnrallp
generous, and not suspccting that others
could be- guilty of what they scorned,
failed to perceive the harm that was
being done by these people, and it was
only few years before tho war that
their tricks were discovered, and their
number sensibly diminished in the
South.
The war came and whatever harm it
did, it brought us relief from this pest
The school masters and school marms,
who had done what they could to STIR up
the hostility between the sections winch
eliminated in the war, gathered what
they had gotten here, and, like wild
geese in spring, took their flight North
ward. We were relieved of their pre-
sence for four years, and feel duly thank.
ful for the dispensation OF Providence
which vouchsaied to us that much But
the war came to an end, and in an IN
credible short space of time schools Of
male and female pcdagogues made their
appearance. A new fed was opened
to them. Slavery was gone, and the
little negroes must be educated; they
must be taught TO sing through their
noses, the rudiments Of an educa.
tion.
BY dint Of hard begging they raised
some funds in tho North and entered, as
was their "dooty," on their "labor on
love- with much alacrity. All went OF
swimmingly for while their sable pu
pills were taught singing, and they sang
their a-b abs and Il little grammar and
modicum of geography, and "Rally
round the flag" and "John Browns
body lies mou,dering in the clay" Their
parents were industrlously taught mean
while that their former masters arc their
deadly enemies that they must neglect
their work, when they have any to do,
and attend political meetings that they
have no friends on earth but Yankee
schoolmasters and schoolmarm,; that
they must vote the Radical ticket al.
ways and elect carpet baggers and the
meanest specimens Of scallawaga to fill
all the Offices in the land, their build
ings, which were used as school houses
in the day time, were at night the rem
devious Of loyal leagners and scurvy
scoundrels seeking to get Office by gull.
ing the negroes into voting for tbonl.
When there is q prospect that the
funds given them by Northern societies
for fulfilling their "dooty," are about to
be exhausted, some OF them. with de-.
gree Of impndence which approaches
sublmity, ask to be permitted TO tax
our people to raise funds to pay him and
his colleagues for stirring up strife be-.
tween us and our former slaves. It
amounts to that. We have shown that
they have always been the direst ene-
mics Of Southern peope. They do not
care a fig for the negro. What they
want is money. Their greedy souls
long for it, "as the hart panteth after the
water.brook." Will our Legislators
crafty them by instituting free schools {?
Will our City Cospell go ahead of the
Black, Crook and grant To Washhnrna