The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-22

| we UeBln Dy trying TO force upon them the
last product of our civilization intellectual
cultJre--or should we first try and create in
them the conditions of this intellectual cul-
ture? 1t needs no argument to convince an
| average mind that you could not effect any
! great alteration in Comanche by teaching
| him English grammar. He would be a fool,
! indeed, who expected that the consequences
would be the immediate change in the nature
and purposes of the Indian. Now the fact is,
we have almost as much to do in order TO
! change the average negro into an intelligent
citizen in q white society as we should have if
we tried to embody the Indian into our Gov
ernnient; and we have begun by teaching
| him English grammar. The school has it's
place in civilization, and, as teacher,
| should be the last to belttle its importance:
but it is the last step in the development of
race, not the first, and its value consists in
the fact that it is the final result of the edu-
cation of thousand years of effort; aud
when we undertake to civilize race as
foreign to us in every trait as the negroes, by
imposing upon them this final product of our
national growth, we wrong ourselves and
them. Those who are clamoring for imme-
date high-school education for the negro will
be the first to condemn him, when it is seen
that this will not give him what he needs.
And unless he is trained in thrift, unless
he is freed from the instincts which
have planted in his blood, this education can
do nothing for him. The training which is
to shape the sensuous, enthusiastic, tickle
negro into a useful citizen must be the train
ing which society alone can give. This
schooling must come from the combined ex-
ample of his neighbors of the higher race
men and women sturdily working out their
careers, starting from the same level of for
tune as he does; give him the influence of
,,n1n ,xi1,
which he has not at present, which he cannot
have until those who have taken his destiny
into their hands get some idea Of the magui-
tude of their task
To give the negro this chance two things
need be done. First, every effort must be
made to bring the best influence of the exist
ing white population to bear upon him. by
removing all barriers of hate which the revo-
luton may have left, and starting that popu-
lation at once on the road to prosperity. But
this population is too small for its work, and
is also in itself in need of teaching in it's new
condition, SO that it is necessary to seek in
the immigration of an industrious foreign
population the teachers needed for the work.
Every German family would be to the negro
a school worth more to him, at the present
stage of his career, than all the universities
in the world. / saw at Beaufort German of
that admirable class well trained in both head
anu udutiS, WHO I'd IOuuu u
colony on one of the islands. God grant him
success! His hard-working countrymen may
do for this black people what the Incas did
for the old Peruvians.
Every move of the Government has been
clearly against the negro in this district.
Confiscating the property of the whites it
cut him off from what would have been, on
the whole, the good influence of his for
mer masters. The whites who supplied their
,NlA
which could have been sent among the ne
groes The property of the whites, taken
under the law for the direct tax of 1861, has
been absurdly held by the Government, the
negroes remaining upon it as tenants at will.
They pay a tax equal to about fifty per cent
on the cash value of much of the land, and
have no certain future. In place of soma
practical teachings in the arts of life, the
Government has endeavored to civilize
them with the alphabet Besides this, the
constant tutelage has fixed in the negro the
belief that if he will just sit still and open
his mouth, Uncle Samuel will see that he is
fed.
Experience, which would act in spite of the
Government, has taught the negroes some-
thing, SO that they seem to be slowly gaining
in some things. A gentleman of excellent
Judgment tells me that they are more honest
than they were just after emancipation. But
there can be no real future until the North
learns that they cannot exercise all the evils
here with that idol of our modern civiliza-
tion, primary school; until they learn that
the negro, if he is to be lifted up to the level
of ourselves, must be raised by strong hands
and active brains, by helpers who, not seek
ing to ease the hard road he has to travel,
toll with him, and give the real aid of ex-
ample.
The July number of The RioerSiGe Maya
zine opens with one of Hans Christian Ander-
sens pleasant stories, which is followed by an
interesting variety of reading matter in prose
and verse that will be appreciated by the
young people The magazine is handsomely
illustrated and the number is altogether above
the average.
Tie Nursery commences a new volume
with its July number, which the little folks
will find as usual full of pictures, interesting
stories and rhymes such as children love to
listen to and learn.
The June number of the Anaerica1l Eg-
change and ReoieaO has an excellent series of
practical, scientific, literary, commercial, and
industrial articles, covering great variety of
subjects.
Tile Journal Of tie Franklin Institute for
ries and scientific investigations and other
matters of interest and importance.
Two Distinguished 6OdmO theirs.
Queen Victoria has lately paid a very unu-
sual honor to little subject of hers by, in
person, standing sponsor to him. The infant
thus distinguished is the Earl of Burford,
direct descendant of Nell Gwynne, being the
eldest son of the Duke of St. Albans by the