The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-02-22
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Wednesday Morning, Fob. %. 1871
National Education Not Ua-
constitutional.

The education of the people is ne
oessary to the perpetuity of constitu~
tional government hence it needs no
special grant whatever Of power to
cdacate, to authorize measures by
the general government for the cduca.
tlon of tho people. Besides, it is
time for Americans to begin to look
upon the constitution of their country,
in the light Of the progress of civili-
cation and tho n necessities Of fac,z, as
capable of expansion development
and progress to suit emergencies, and
not simply as stercotyped and rigid
procrustean form. The wisdom of
our fathers may have been vory pro-
found, for "they built far better than
they knew" but all of their notions
Of justice and of law were not corr ect =,
and to permit them, by witt. n
document, to clog the wheels Of na-
tional progr css, especially in matter
90 important as the emancipation of
tho people from tho bonds of ignor-
ance, would be to sacrifice tho end of
good government to the means.
Tho Southern Statos are not going
to educate tho poor whites and tho
blacks during this generation, if left
to themselves. They must 10 made
to do it, and must be assisted an doinu
u, for they need assistance. The only
security for permanent good order
aid progress in our society, is to pro-
mite universal education. The
Southern whites arc unwilling to paw
taxes for the purpose, but they will
lose much more in prosperity, if they
do not. The national government
alono can save them from their own
shortsighted economy in this matter.
1t has tremendous power, and ought
to exercise it. How foolish is the
Jealousy of the blacks that prevails !!
they can never rise to n level with
the whites. They can never iostle
the whites out of their way, and
spread out, where the white man now
stands. They can simply build up.
ward to heaven, as We all should try
to build, and be willing to help them
build, for there is ample room above
us for all. No ono is injured by his
neighbor becoming moro intelligent.
and hence moro industrious, skill.
full and thrifty man. The time will
soon come, too, when tho blacks will
DC shorn Of their shortlivcd political
power. Imagine, thon, their sullcn
discomfort and their ohsequious de.
gradation and moannoss, why, ne
gro will be but a very dog, if they are
not educated. Picture to yourselves
their iilching and stealing, their pov-
erty and wretche dnoss, their brutali-
ties and their crimes. The condition
of the ancient criminal with dead
body chained around his waist, will he
much to be envied in comparison with
the demoralizing and terrible condi.
t'on of Southern Society, having such
GLASS of population, and they free.
in our midst. For soon the effects Of
tho fall of cotton and the necessity of
moro skillful Agriculture, will roach
them, rs it this year has reached, for
the first time, our white people in a
way to bo understood, and they must
sink, and sink speedily, if they cannot
earn to stretch forth their hands
md grasp the helping hand of science.
White men by scores have sunk IN
ls1o, and many moro will 20 down in
|s7l but white mon profit by oxpo.
ience, and where the elemeuts from
without begin to fail them, thew
weave fresh fortunes and a higher
iViliEation from the elements that
re within.