Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-07-16

VIZ ',,ace 10 us Of arms, and troops,
II P'l aoe.s. They are indeed the
SUI 'sa,n defense Of nations.
eD s,,d Robert Lowe, when the last
,I s reform bill was passed over
y ,.-renu6us resistance: "Now we
BIS go TO work and teach our
T sa.t,r 5 their letters"
TIE SOUTH OVER WITH SCHOOL
l., ,,ducation compulsory, and it
na m odd 70 it more real wealth than
VAN Sn all other means combined.
,l.ua e South become unit in the
49, Of education as she was in
ln la, mast in fostering an institution
' Mu, ONLY tended to degrade and
IIl ,".en her. Let her instead of
SS;.couraging the efforts on the part
urrood men and women who come
u a.org them to assist in building up
. .1e;r ovn people, slew a similar
t lE.nosifion for the same work.
TTp VIII be no trouble in regard
- aid, lat it come from what
" ~ II may. At present the
g,ork is too great for the South.
Sbe must have help. The work to
i Ia reformed should engage the
whole country, no less the North
than the South.
In In regard to the number of per-
cons in the Union at present who
conpot REID or write only an APP
.royimate estimate can be reached,
b,.ed on the census Of 1860. Ac-
roriing to mat census the number
ofilliterate free persons over twenty
Years Of age was 1,277,779. As
:nmipg that during the last decade
me free States have held their own,
there probably have been added to
,be Nlite illiterates OF the South, by
fine disturbing causes of the wa,
about 100000. The number OF
admit illiterate freedmen, allowing
that the colored population: has not
increased, may be estimated at
I7s455l. The same census Of
1860 shows that the entire adult
m2le population OF the age of twenty
years and upward, was 15,347,956
out Of total population Of 81, 49,
81. Tie number of male Hit
crates over twenty 1--WE may say
voters J, not including Kansas, Ne
braska, Nevada and Oregon, was
whites, 6l2,72l; colored, 92O,604
total, l,534,32j. Thus it appears
that about
LyERr FOURTH MAN WHO CASTS A vOTl
in this country can neither read MOI
yTite. Il WAS for fear of such ;
state Of things as this that Presiden
Washington, in 1916, returned thu
first Trait Of his farewell address t,
Mr. Hamilton that he might insert ,
short paragraph recommendin:
some plan for general education. l
is u9on this and this only, n,
friends, that we are mainly to de
pendfor the elevation of our race
Though tine most of YOU are too oil,
and cant well spare the time T.
irlra tie more difficult branches
vet YOU can learn the more cas-
lessons, such as spelling and read
ing, and by i'll means keep you
culdrcn 10 school, and also instruc
them ut homo IN such a way as vii
enable them to retain and improves
what they learn mt school Flo
Samn9 Shubber in his essay on tn
study e English grammar, coul
think Heaven that what the chill
itsmed ct the fire-side could not b
mltarned at the school. Will
ibis, to a lamentable extent is feal
fully true, I nevertheless believ
that The day and Sabbath school az
an important part in forming an
iaying shape to the moral and re
hqous character Of the child. Tn
duty devolving upon
PARENT AND TEACHER,
IN this respect, cannot be over est
mated. 1t is a fearful and respoI
slble duty. Solomon, the wise maj
IN impressing this duty upo
parents, SAYS: Train up child
the way he should go, and whe
Old he will not depart from it."
The teacher in the South has q
most a double duty to perform
Ne has not only to impress upo
the cliids mind the germ of
moral and religious life, but he h,
;lSo to correct its growing and part
ally formed habits; and as far as h
'an, correct the abuses Of home il
hucnce, for, until this is done, I'll
Progress Of the school is of slo
growth. You must make home il
nuence auxiliary to that of Il
church and school in rescuing I'll
Young who are just cropping OF
INTO boyhood and girlhood; VII
are soon TO take the places of tho.
whose chances for moral and inte
'@cn@! Improvement have been {
Utterly blottel out by the circun
Stances OF the past, and assist
moulding such a public sentime,
as VII contribute most efectualI
10 our moral and religious i,apro'
hent As il is now, public sent
ment contributes but little towar
our elevation; it rather retards
man otherwise. Almost all a,
eady TO