The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-10-06
Separate Schools.

Weprint with pleasure commuui.
cation from ono Of our Philadelphis
readers in regard to the proposed
grammar and professional school for
colored students in South Carolina.
The writer we'll educated black
man suggests that wc seem equiyooal
in our expression hopes that wo will
not favor tho project.
Now, this matter of education has
its difficulties. We wish whito chill
dren and colored children to 20 to
school and to learn. If white chill.
drcn will not 60 Will, colored, or color.
cd will not GO with white, we do no.
propose. on t'at account to condemn
thom to ignorance VIC propose to give
them that education which will make
them wiser, better aud murc liberal.
1t colorcd people will take interest
in starting and supporting this par
tlcular school, and will not take i'll
tercst in some other. plan or project,
we propose to hcl p tlom in this.
In other words, wo do not propose
to hinder the progress of education or
the establishment Of schools by insist
ing that all schools established shall
be OF one pattern, or conducted on
one principle. We shall DO our best
to push forward tho school cause, in
our own way if VIC can, if not, in any
other way, 80 that it advances,
Wo think it fat that in South
Carolina to-day both the white and
the colorcd people arc dccidcll, in
favor of separate schools. Whether
their feelings DO wise or not, VIC arc
confident that any effort to cstablisl,
mixed schools would provo q total
failure aud postpone the day of com
mon schools for yeors. If we must
wait for this feeling to change, many
children Of both races will grow from
boyhood to manhood in ignorance
We propose to look at the facts Just
as they ale, start the schovls the best
VIC can, and let timo and education
onlighten the minds and oblitcratc
tho projudiccs Of both races. We 90
for that plan which viii! the soonest
give us schools i'll cvory part Of our
State -Rcp~bhcan.
PovERTY OF ENGLr II AUTHORS. =
Mrs. Inchbald, so wcll known as the
author of the "S!mplo Story" and
other works, dragged Oh to the age OF
sixty q miserable existence, living al
ways in moan lodgings, and suffering
frequently from want OF tho common
comforts Of life.
The brilliant and accomplished
Lady Morgan dad dependent alto
gether upon publiu charity, admins,
tered in tho form of a pension of less
than $500 year.
Mrs. Hemans, the universally ad.
mirod poetess, lived aud died in pov.
erty.
Laman Blanchard lost his senses,
and committed suicide in consequence
of being compelled by his extreme
poverty to the effort Of writing an ar
ticle for periodical while bis wife
lay corpse in the house.
Miss Milford, so we'll known to MI
of us, found horself, after close
economy, so greatly reduced as to be
under the necessity of appealing to
her American readers for means to OK
tricate her little property from the
rude hands of the Sheriff.
Leigh Hunt was dependent upon
the public charity.
Tom Hood lived from day to da,
on the produce of his labor, and his
unhappy wife and children were only
kept from starvation through small
pension generously bestowed by Sir
Robert Peel.
In one of his letters from Germany
whether he had gone to escape his
creditors, the poet Campbell ex pressed
his Joy on hearing that new edition
of his works had been published in Lon
don. "Thc unexpected fifty pounds"
said he, saves me from Jail"
TIE BoNArARrE DyNAsrY- FAMI-
LY Jars. - According to a cable d es-
patch tho Emperor Napolcop's rccov.
CRY of health has had u salutory effect
on the general politics of France
Tho probability Of the Emperor's
death had already bred trouble in the
imperial family, and the friends of
Eugene and the friends of the Prince
Napoleon were known to be at open
feud. a little longer suspense and
the situation might have become ortiz
cal. With the comparative restora.
tion of the Emperor's health the Sit
uation has improved. This little af-
fair shows us what wo have right to
expect if tho Emperor were out of
tho way. Supposing that France wore
to remain faithful to the dynasty, the
question of the guardianship Of tho
Prince Imperial might divide the pop
ulation. Tha Emnress Ia mora than