The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-28
EDUCATIOM-No- 3

is apt to be understood as applying
more directly to the legislators to
those who shape, if they do not con.
troll, the State policy. When in a
similar connection, the Churchis re-
ferred to, as interested in measures
for the public good, and called to
give them its sympathy, it is mani.
fest that the cause, whatever it may
be, or however general in its de-
mands upon public attentions
commended to a part only of those
who are concerned. But where the
appeal is to each individual citizen,
none are excluded-the whole body
of the State is reached. And so, we
would appeal to every man, asa man
AS an integral part of community
we would appeal to him to take this
subject of the wants of the State in
the matter of provision for the edu-
cation of the young, home to himself.
1t is every mans duty to be in favor
of putting the State right on this
question Of Education, and this she
cannot be until some law is passed
by the Legislature which will provide
the money to inaugurate and carry
forward thorough system, which
shall compare favorably with the
Public School system Of any State
in the Union. What if God in His
providence has provided yOu with
the means of educating your own
children! Is it any reason why you
should not feel an interest, and a
deep one, too, in this matter? If
selfish motive is needed to arouse
you to your duty, is it not enough
to reflect, that though yO,tr children
are providentially provided for, in
this particular, yet their children
may not be? And suppose you have
none to be sharers of the common
benefit, are there none for whose ed
ucation you would thus provide
among your kindred? Does not the
instincts Of q common humanity
challenge your support of education
al facilities of q higher and better
grade than those now possessed by
the people of TENNESSEE? The gen.
Grafton which are now needing this
education at the public expense, or
to be recipients OF it, require a more
thorough education than their fathers
did it is the order of the day, so to
speak, in other parts of this country,
and in the more advanced quarters
Of the civilized world, to give a more
thorough education to the young;
therefore, the men and women who
shall succeed us, must, as a class, be
educated, or else they will fall be-
hind = far behind, their fathers, in
relative ,telligence comparable those
of other States and countries, where
popular education is provided for as
it should be,
a difficulty may present itself in
the minds of some, from The fact,
that a large number of ignorant
blacks have been forced into citizen
ship by the majority of the Union,
through a Constitutional Amend
ment, and intelligent white men may
say that they do not care to be
taxed to educate the children of
these blacks. But this is not wise.
For, in the first place, these blacks
are citizens. You and we are bound
to accept of things as we find them.
AS citizens, it is our interest, and
should be our pleasure, to give them
every opportunity to become good
and useful citizens. If they are poor,
they have certainly good excuse for
their circumstances. Give them time
opportunity. Let them know that
the Southern man is their true friend.
They do not want their children in
the same schools with ours. The
more intelligent of them know full
we'll that such mixture is neither
wise nor desirable. But they can
have the advantages of our better
system of public schools, when we
get it, and have it as they now do,
in separate school houses-just as
they have it in the Northern States,
where there is a population Of color
ed people. Let us not be like the
simpleton we used to hear spoken of
in our schoOl-hOy days, who "bit off
his nose to spite his face Let US
not, in plain speech, deny just
boon to the white children, because
of any disinclination to educate the
blacks. ne are educating them after
q kind by our present imperfect sys-
tem-and it is an old and true say
ing. that s0h0t is acorth doing ct all,
is acorth doing soeH. Which applies
with force to the whole subject we
have been discussing, as well as to
the particular point now under view,
and with it we close our argument.
TIE State Grange of Georgia met
at Atlanta on Wednesday last. Two
hundred and seventy-five Oranges
were represented by many delegates.
The meeting was harmonious, and
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