Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-08-14

Ihoy have swept lhe University o
North Carolina 0f It's Proicssors-
of a Phillips, a llopburn, Martin
aud an Internal Revenue oOlleet0
prosldes over Two or three villag0
lads, and calls in vain for iorine
students 10 accept dishOnOred diplo
mas. The Universities oi Goorgli
I and Mississippi slill stand and Hour
ish, aud Virginia has an army o.
stadenls in her University aud hei
colleges; and these aro so strong
that il will DO necessary 10 pro
coed against them moro warily. Bnl
they too have been assailod, they
too arc 10 DO undermined, and great
fame Is TO DO gained by breaking
down the carved work of our sane,
tnarios of learning with axes and
hammers. When they are gone, our
ruin will DO complete; and SO the
work OF destruction is the first thing
Ia be done. Destruction is the first,
pillago afterwards; for rs yet We are
loo poor 10 mako our patronage
worth having, and fow arc the
Southern students that could meet
tho expenses nj such colleges US the
Harvard, where tho tuition foes
alone amount 10 $3.50 n year. But
tho Border States, and especially
Kentucky and Maryland, which
have suffered so much by tho war,
aro beginning TO attract tho attention
OF tho Northern Colleges; and when
prosperity returns TO tho other
Statcs-as il assurcdly will-par,
asitios will como TO share the bread
of orusty Timon-brcad triilc
sourcd perhaps by fcrmont of the
war, but still wholesome, still digcs-
tiblc. We shall DO urged to put
away tho bitterness Of tho strife,
to revive tho halowed associations
of tho fratornal time, to accept tho
moral help of our moro progressive
kinsms N, and TO avail ourselves of
advantages denied TO our bcnighted
section. Give us space to toll you
calmly that We do not need your
help; that in tho midst of our power
ty and our humiliation wo have
ample resources for education Of
tho highest typo known to this con-
tinont, and bost suited to the needs
of this continent; that those of our
universities and our colleges that
you have left us are oven now crow
dcd with students, who show an
oagcrncss and carnostncss that have
only been enhanced by our social
revolution. We have Professors
many of them trained in tho very
best European school-mcn, rs n
body, well qualified for their work,
and devoted to it with singlcncss of
purpose. Wo have now genera
ton of teachers coming on, who
have caught from their instructors
the spirit of true scientific progress,
and who promise to carry our lines
far forward. Not only so, but we
tell you that much of that which is
valuable in your country originated
in ours-that DR.. Wayland, Prosi-
dent of Brown University, ard Pro-
fossor of sort of Moral Philosophy,
appropriated without acknowledge
mont the plan of tho University of
Virginia, which was a brilliantsuc
cess before your boastcd University
of Michigan was an experiment.
and that President McCosh, of the
Typical Forms, is trumpcting abroad
a projected reform in the constitu-
ton Of tho College of Now Jersey
which has been thoroughly tried at
the South, and shown to be q fail
uro. We tell you further, what you
do not socm to know, that mans
ability TO teach is not to bc mcasur-
cd by his success in-compIing even
a good textbook, much less by his
success in palming off u bad ono on
an ignorant, public. The Southern
teacher, who prefers the living ut
terance to the dead letter, is not on
that account tho less learned man
is perhaps on that very account q
moro effective instructor. For even
a good text book is almost as dan
gcrous to its author us o bad tcXt-
book is to the student. There is but
too much danger lest it cramp his
development, and give him q thesis
to maintain rather than a problem
to solve. For your truo teacher
should himself be an inquirer; and
if he writes q book on tho depart
ment that he teaches, ho will find in
his own spirit an increasing tendon
cy to dogmatism, which is fossildom.
And hcnco it is rather an advantage
to our Professors thst they have not
devoted themselves as a body to
book making it is an honor to
them that they have not devoted
to such book making as
the literary market Of the
TO Davies, to Anthon, to
Owens, to Billions, the North is
wolcomo-oh | how welcome; and
tuc tlhuc 10 COhiihS WYNN enO 'n's
bulk of such manufactures must be
kept at homo, for want of foreign
True scholarship knows
no parallels of latitude, no degrees
of longitude; but the combination
of sectional spirit with prctcntious
sciolism which cbaracterizcs SO ma
ny of the Northern textbooks has
reused the Southern mind TO great
or vigilance and moro severe criti-
cism, so that oven the better class of
school-books of Northern .parcntage
must undergo moro rigid scrutiny
than heretofore, and encounter
livelier competition with foreign
works and with productions Of Sou
thern growth. Witness the fearful
havoc which Che Southern Rerie,c
has already made in tho ranks of
their scientific cohortst
vigiIant and close criticism can
do no harm 90 what Of good the
Harth may s-ing forth, aud we are