The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-09-11
DIR. MeCOUsh and Compulsory
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zs.jAt the recent meeting Of the Nationa
Educational Association, held at Elmira
New York, DR.. McCosh, the Preident o
Princeton read an, elaborate paper nfUp
per Schools, in which he stated that "dnr
ing a. recent tour through several of the
most important Southern States, he had
found few or. no schools outside Of the large
cities and towns; that every man blamed
his neighbor for this state Of things, yet
nobody did anything TO help It." Fortunate
~ Prof. Joynes, Of Washington and Lee
University, was present, who protested
against this statement as unjust to the
Southern people. Prot. Joynes stated that
an that the Southern people asked was q
''jnst appreciation and the liberty to do the
best they could for themselves. The South
wanted perfect equality before tho law in
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prof. Joynes, who is well known to us as
one Of the MOST thoroughly competent pro-
fessors ia this country, deserves the thanks
Of oil friends Of Southern education for his
timely rebuke Of this arrogant Scotch
President. Here is what DR.. McCosh pro-
poses-wo extract from bis. paper on upper
schools, as published IN the newspaper: This
(the PIN proposed) for the Northern, Mid
die and Western States. For the Southern
States I propose modification of the;plan.
Having feken tour three months ago in
somesof the Southern States, / was grieyed
to find throughout wide regions that out
side the great cities there was little or no
education provided for the people, white or
black.L It.seems to me that the General
Governoacnt which has felt duly constrained
to interfere from time TO time viii, Che
Southern States, rili9 req,ars to take a
tivilseyTste, aad educate tie people n seAop,
rightly or :aorongly, ~has girt7, me Jfda-
chise ''sas ~ fa's..Sf =. -
. Here IS a man,a foreigner, who,, By his
own confession, has spent but three months
in the South, and now proposes plan of
legislation by which the whole South is to
have q system, different from the. Northern,
Middle and Western States, by which
education is 10 be established
trs the South. The scheme, as VIC under
sand it, proposes this and nothing else.
The General Government which has felt
duly constrained 80 interfere from time
4 time with, the Southern States, iciitpr-
qae to take a. fa,rhe,' step" This isiwllat
II. McCosh proposes. And yet this j. the
min who is now making his appealsf FOR
Southern patronage, who is urging thai the
yqng men of the South shall be to
Princeton to be educated. os ~ 'ia''. ''.
- Vet this learned President Of Princct n
hae his own way about the subject, Of
and We infer that the General
Gotrument would take this "tarther steps
andadopt system of mixed common schools
throughout che South, with the chief Of the
bursu at Washington City, or else at
Princeton, with horde Of psdagogues-
fresh importation-in every village and
distret. armed with the legal authority to
enfoNc the attendance Of the children OF
Southrn parents And. as. for collegiate
educaions Why, Of course, to get that the
people OF the South should be compelled 70
Send DER sons to Princeton. For did not
this Hesident make himself notorious last
Winte, by appearing on the floor Of the
United States Senate Chamber aud lobby
ing against the..scheme to give each State a
portionof the proceeds of the sales of public
lands u aid in establishing colleges of sci
ence-, scheme Of inestimable advantage to
the impoverished South? And yet, strange
to say, This learned Scotsman, CONCERNING
whom Sme one has said no could dive
deeper nd come up drier than any author
known this distinguished Princeton presi-
dent, ash for Southern patronage. H1LV
.l..t-f, RuGBY.
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