Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-11-09
FIRST EDITION.
MIR. Bayard and Education.

HIS sEwsrArER ORGAN sourR,uso orPosr-
1IoN TO POPULAR EDUCATION LtKELY TO BE
oyERHAuLED.
The udzeite OF yesterday begins to show its
concern At the publication Of Mr.. Bayard's un-
friendliness to the general education OF the peo
pie. We gave on Saturday quotation from a
speech which he made in the Senate, in Februa-
ry, 1870 stating exactly in what volume, and on
what page of the Congressional Giole, the quo
tation would be found, viz page 1883 of Part
2, OF the Globe, for the session OF 1869 10. Tie
ud'ette, s1nrming around under the disagreea
ble conviction that ''statesman" opposed to
universal education will make sorry show when
put out as. candidate for the Pres
idency before tile American people, who
have inst declared 10 emphatically that
"schoo shall keep" charges lib with suppressng
part OF what MIR. Bayar1 said OF deliberately
omitting it FOR the purpose OF distortion, NC, =,
&c. The people will agree with us that this is
false charge. The Gdze,te is worried, and
ecoldb because it can do no better. We have
again consulted the pagos OF the Globe, and
carefully copied MIR. Bayard's remarks. That
portion heretofore omitted is given below, ell
closed in brackets, with the other, and IL will
be seen that 1t does not modify or change the
sense Of that which we have already quoted
EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF MIR. BAyARD, FEB. IL,
1870.
1T is true that the proposition of the Senator
from Indiana was broader it was more general
and therefore more dangerous. But yet the re-
suit would be this, that il the experience OF fu-
ture generations should discover that ualimited
suffrage is not a benefit to the people Of State,
that restricted suffrage is wiser for the people
OF State, that your system Of uniUersdl educd-
ton is not Tie 0dtudbh system that you suppose
tito be; III they should consider. that this Pro-
ornstean bed on which you would force the
minds Of ali the inhabitants in q community,
without needing their dissimiar capabilities or
fitness, and stretch them or lop them off as some
rigid, unelastlc rnle1equiredi II Huy should dis
cooer as il may ,cell be hey ,oouh, that such
system of education is irJad,ci0us and u,,reds0n
able, operating unfaoordbly upon he mental and
moral health Of their people and should desire
with the light Of experience to reform and i'm
prove it, then comes this condition arbitrarily
imposed by Congrets upon that people"
The paragraph supplied simply exhibits more
of Mr. Bayard's dislike for universal education.
He says to the Republicans, Che was replying to
Senator Morton,) that IL experience should dis
cover that '.'your" (not Mr.. Bayard's) system of
universal education is not the valuable system
that 'you" (and not Mr.. Bayard,) suppose it; tho
people could not change it. Universal educa-
tion .he compares to the bed upon which Pro
crustes, the robber and murderer OF Attica, laid
his victims, cutting oil the limbs OF those who
were larger than the bed, and stretching those
who were shorter He therefore would not put
universal education i'll the constitution Of Mis-
sisdppi, or any other State he wanted to leave
things 30 that, If the States discovered, las it
may well be they would" that to educate all the
people was 'injudicious' and unreasonable"
they could abolish the system.
Any one can read the quotation and analyze it
for himself. 1t bears no other character than
that which we have ascrbed TO it. 1t is in fact,
entirely consistent with Mr.. Bayard's other ut
terances on the question Of Education. He
spoke precisely in such spirit, i'll his address
hnln fNyp nY Qra
ago-tbat education was useful for the few, but
not for everybody.