Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-18

The APPEAL has always been, and
will always be, a faithful exponent Of
the principles of the Democratic party,
and viii ever, as in times past, labor
for a government OF and for the pee
pie. That they may govern wisely and
well, sad be able to discriminate intel
ligentiy between the good aud bad men
who offer themselves candidates for
their SURFACES, we have insisted, and do
nov insist, that the people shall be
educated az thoroughly as it is possible
for the State to educate them. In this
free country We cannot afford to go
back 10 the "ways that are dark and
the tricks that are vain,n which, prsc-
Iised by the governments OF Europe
until the past few years, stepped the
people in ignorance, and so kept them
il a condition Of vassalsge, Indulgence,
and consequent crime. The daughters
o. the people must not be nurtured in
ignorance, that they may the easier
fall victims to the debasing and
vicious, the brutal appetites Of
men. God made them for 8 higher and
a boiler purpose and we must strengthen
them ia all the virtues Of 8 solid edueR-
cation, expanding the mind and heart
and elevstlng the thoughts above the
.ErOssness aud seIfishness and the cupid
5tv Of ignorance. Crime fsttens where
ignorance reigns. The boys who are
tiesding on the heels Of the men
OF this age and time, who are
10 be the men OF the future, the me-
chsnics, the artists, the farmers, the
professional men, the bankers and the
merchants, demand at the hands of the
State that they shall be enabled to cope
with those in other States in the race
not merely Tor existence but to make
Memphis aud Tennessee equal to the
most favored in the world. All the
children OF our city must be educated
the black and the white. We must
either build sehOOlhOUses orTefOrmatOries
snd jaiis. Vica swsys the multitude
where schools are not found. The stat
5stics Of penitentiaries and Of penal
prisons in every part Of the world
speak loudly for the common schools
which made Germany the greatest
q modern European nations, and which
are now being forced upon the accept
snce Of the people Of England, and
which France will be compelled to es-
tablish in every department and GTrOn-
basement, II she would msirtain her
place among the nations Of the earth.
The bureau OF education at Washington
has flooded the country with pamphlets
on this subject, and it seems like q work
Of supererCgation in US at this late day
to say s word upon it. We regret the
occasion, bat it is duty the APPEAL
does not shrink from. We warn the
people Of Memphis-the masses who
pay the taxes ten times over in what
they eat, and what they wear, and the
rents they psy-that the schools which
are their refuge from ignorance and vice
are IN danger. and that under various
pless there is 8 determination expressed
% cripple them or kill them outright
10 90 impair them as to leave them Of
but little value, OF else suppress them |
altogether. We remember with pride |
our own opportunities at a public |
school; we remember the present Op-
portunities Of our children, and our
b ssrts go out in fullest sympathy with /
the So0r negro just emerging from
serui-barbarity, and the working and
laboring classes OF our own race and
color, upon whose shoulders there rests
to-day the great burden Of unfolding
this growing community. We remem-
Der that the most successful merchants |
of Memphis, and the best clerks, and |
the most practical Of our business men,
.sre the products Of common schools, and |
We feel thankful and grateful for q sys-
- " through which the unity Of our
L.. gage is 70 be perpetuated, our ideas
- tactical Independence and the
,-,,,aya Qjty Of the people to be per-
s..-.5 an u in all the States and Terri
- ,,,sra NIalI be one ruling principle |
~ love for a government founded in
r,,5 viii. resting GpOn the individual
It,, ~ the eitl gen-2 model republic, |
,-itl,ir -,zhose bVrders no voice OF
oomplaint my be heard. The men
who would lsy their bands ID
Violence upon the Common SCHOOLS
merit. and should receive the eIecra-
tio,sof their felIow-citisens. Instead OF
ir,pairing them OF even one iota Of
nresent efficiency, We should add to
Them alI those other and higher branch !
ss. which, acquired, make the mechanic
sftv per cent. more valuable to his en-
tower than the ordinarily educated
nor kman, and make woman better
stted Tor her duties in life, and to be-
emo the mother Of the people. Slowly
and by degrees We have, in Memphis,
milf IN a school system that is our
b9ast. aud justly. Let US see to 1t that
IL l. not dwaffed 10 the dimensions Of
the schools Of the ruder age Of the coun-
try. Our duties to-day are greater than
those Of the fathers Of yesterday, and so
opy education must be better than that
which the founders Of the republic prid-
ed themselves upon, and limited within
the fhree aRs - As We have shown in
the APPEAL Of yesterday, our schools
- more economically managed than
hos. Of any other city in The countTy-
We know, OF our personal knowledge,
sbev are as valuable and IS ably con-
Quoted az any in the Union. Let rs
stand by them, let rs perpetuate them1
LET Us cluster about them all our alice
s3ons. let us foster and ercoursge them,
remembering that they are far above all
other benefactioDs, that they are the
means whereby the city, the State, and
Sbe United Republic, are TO be perpetu-
sted: that they are essential to our
safetv. necessary to our welfare, and
80 though all else ortbe machinery Of
sbs noso,cipsI engine be stopped, they
ms, be kS5t ICING, full houfs And dsys /