Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-04
NATIONAL EDUCATION.

feared may prove unmanageaDie III ln'
end. To avoid the dire calamity of the
animal getting loose, and playing havoc
with the whole menagerie, it is deemed
expedient to put him under proper
course of training. We have no great
objections to it, so long as our people
are not taxed to supply the needed in
formation. But the Committee on Edu.
cation in Congress have reported bill
purporting to establish system OF
national education. 1t was drawn by
Hoar, of Massachusetts,, and by his
own motion laid over until the
first Tuesday in December next,
when it will be brought up'for discus
sion. The St. Louis Republican, in al
luding to it, says The President is au-
thorized, with the consent of the Senate,
to appoint School Superintendent for
each State, and there are also provisions
for appointment of inspectors and local
superintendent, and for the establish
ment and supervision of district schools
The entire machinery of the measure is
lodged in the hands of the Secretary of
the Interior and the Commissioner of
Education, and an annual report is
to be laid before Congress by the
last named officer. The bill pro-
vides that direct tax shall be levied,
in accordance with the provisions of the
Constitution, and declares that the
money raised in each State by this tax
shall be expended therein for educa-
tional purposes. The last section pro-
vides that the requirements of all the
preceding sections shall be satisfied with
respect to any State, wherever and when
ever it is proved to the satisfaction of
the President that there is established in
said State a system of common schools
which provides reasonably for the chill
dren therein residing. No officers are
to be appointed in those States where
the common school system is now in ex-
istence; and this final clause is the
most important of all, for it con-
fines the operation Of the bill exclu-
sively to the Southern States, and shows
that the real animus of the business is to
force the white people of those States to
educate the blacks within their borders.
The blacks having no property to be
taxed, the whole burden must, of course,
be borne by the whites.
A more ingenious plan was never
framed, and, as an instrument for the
perfect Capitalization and consolidation
of power in the hands of the central gov
eminent, we scarcely know how it can
be improved upon. The President ap-
points the Superintendents, Inspectors,
ETC., etc, and, with the Senate,
Secretary of the Interior and Com
missioner, is supreme dictator in
all matters pertaining to these
schools. Radical superintendent and
will naturally be selected,
and these will quite as naturally choose
Radical teachers and introduce Radical
text books. Whites and blacks are to
be educated together, and educated, too,
from a Radical standpoint. and in ac-
cordance with the Radical creed New
England ideas are to be crammed into
the heads of the rising generation there,
and the South is TO be made to pay for
it, whether they will or not The fan
atheism, intolerance and false philan-
Ihropy which prevail in the one section
are to be transplanted to the other. and
cultivated assiduously until they take
root and bring forth appropriate
fruit. One object sought to be
gained is to eGeetnally Radicalize
he Southern youth, but the primary
md is to hold the negro vote in that re-
zion, and WELD it for the perpetuation of
he dominant party, not only now, but
hereafter, This fresh legion of Office
holders will be just so many political
working pessistently to
the power which pays them,
Il is a freedmen's bureau on a gigantic |
scale, whose existence is to be perpetual,
and whose agents and emisssries are 10 !
De located in every neighborhood, vii. |
age and township from Virginia to Tex
As. Ii is also an empathic declaration
On the part Of Congress that, although |
The Southern States are admitted into |
the Union. and ostensibly reinvested
with all their sovereign right, the Fed |
eral government intends to interfere |
with and direct the domestic affairs Of
these States, and use them for the ac-
of its own purposes. SThe /
bill Of Mr. Hoar is designed as a cap
sheaf to the work Of Radical reeonstruc-
ion, and none can deny that il is emf
nently worthy of its origin and Rntece-
dents"
The wine trade Of California promises
10 be one Of its greatest sources ofwealth. |
The entire State, coo miles long and 1870
broad, is suitable for cultivating the vine,
except in those sections where the land
is over 5000 feet above the level of the
sea. From Oregon to San Diego the
grape is grown. In 1864 It was calcu-