The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-10-29
MORRISTOWN GAZETTE
WEDNESDAY, OCT. %. 1873.
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Gently in session in New York, the
Rev. DR.. Hodge, of Richmond, read,
by special appointment, paper on
the mission Field of the South, .
which was listened to- according
to the Tribune, with great interest. -
The address was one of great force
and power, and must have made the
Beechers, the McCoshes, and their
like, vince under the truths pro-
claimed. In defending the Christian
civilization Of the South, the DR.. in
stituted the annexed contrast be-
tween the New England and the
Southern States, not for the purpose
OF making an iuvidious comparison,
but because the New England States
are generally spoken of as distin-
guished for thrifty industry and high
moral courage:
1. Pauperism prevails in New
England States in the proportion Of
forty-four to every 10000 OF the en-
tire population. In the Southern
States the proportion is Is to every
10000 of the entire population.
2. In the native New England
population the ratio is forty-seven 20
every 10000. In the entire white
population of the South, native and
foreign, the ratio is only fourteen to
10000.
8. In the foreign population of the
New England States the ratio of
pauperism is tbirty-fve thousand to
every 10000. Among the colored
people of the Southern States the ra-
ito is thirteen to every 10000.
/. In the United States census
tables of criminal statistics we are
told that in the entire New England
population the proportion is IL in
10000: in the entire Southern pop
ulation it is s in 10000. 2. In the
native New England population it is
8 in every 10000. In the entire
white population of the South, native
and foreign, the proportion of crimi-
nails is little over d in every 10,-
600. 8. In the foreign New England
population the proportion of crimi-
nails is 26 in every 10000; in the
colored population of the Southern
States it Is about 13i in every 10000.
Another surprising revelation
which these tables makes is
IL reference to church accommoda-
tions: /. In the New England
States there are 5,421 churches, with
2,263,607 sittings. Total population,
5, 3,487,094. In the Southern States
there are $4,000 churches, with sit
tings for 4,706.937 persons. Total
9.467, 1856. 2. Or to state
it in another form, in New England
there is one church for 643 inhabi-
tants. In the South there is one
for SIS inhabitants.
DR.. Hodge also took up the sub
ject of education, and showed what
advances have been made in that
line. He indulged in the following
just tribute to Virginia:
"Virginia has taken the lead in
this great work, and where the free
school system inaugurated in 1870
has been most faithfully and eff
ciently managed, as it might have
been all over the South but for the
fact that in some of the States, acheTe
aliens haze n1onopolized office and ig-
norance has enpeIled Intelligence from
the halls Of Legislation, the public
school fund has been squandered,
and the interests of the colored peo-
pie betrayed.
The question of levying q local
tax for providing school accomoda-
tions was carried in Virginia in
every case whe 2 it was presented to
the suffrage of the people, except in
one district, in which the colored
people voted solidly against it. In
another large district. where the col
ored people were in the majority,
they left the question of the school
tax to be decided exclusively by the
whites. who were the property hold
ers. Not vote was cast by freed
man. but the white people voted un-
animously for the tax.
The establishment for normal
schools for the negroes, like the ex-
cellent and well-endowed Agricultu-
raj and Polytechnic Institute at
Hampton, near Fortress Mon
roe, viii do more than any
thing else to confirm their
possibly wavering interest in educa-
tionaI schemes for their benefit.
Enlightened and well-trained color
ed teachers. thoroughly understand
ing the idiosyncrasies of their own
race, and sincerely desirous to pro-
mote their good. without partisan or
selfish aims, will become the best
agency for keeping alive their pres
ent zeal for self-improvement, and
for instructing them how to guard
the great political estates so recent
ly and suddenly conferred on them
against the raids OF pillaging and
unprineip ed demagogues.'
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