Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-11-11
MIR. BayAra and Education.
HIS NEWSPAPER ORGAN souIRMNa-HIs oProf
TON TO POPULAR EDUCATION lIkKLY TO
oVERHAULED,

HIS NEWSPAPER ORGAN BQUIRM1Na-HIs oPposI-
TON TO POPULAR EDUCATION IkKLY TO Be
ovkRHAULED.
The Gazette Of Monday begins to show its
concern at the publication OF Mr.. Bayards un-
friendliness to the general education Of the poo
pie. We gave on Saturday quotation from q
speech which he made in the Senate, in Februa.
ry, 1870, stating exactly in what volume, and on
what page Of the Congressional Globs, tho quo-
tation would be found, viz page 1898 Of Part
2, OF the Globe for the session Of lsG9.7O. The
Gd,ette, squirming around under the disagreea-
bic oonviction that statesman" opposed to
universal education will make asorry show whom
put out ~ candidate for the Pres.
ldency before the American people, who
have just declared 10 emphatically that
''schoo! shall keep" charges us with suppressing
omIttng it for the purpose Of distortion, ,tc.,
&c. The people will agree with Us that this IL
false charge. The Gdzete 10 worried. and
scoids because It can do no better We have
again consulted the pages Of the GLOBE, aud
carefully copied Mr.. Bsyard's remsrks, That
portion heretofore omitted 10 given below, en-
closed in brackets, with the other, aud ii will
10 seen tlAt it does not modify or change the
sense Of that which we have already quoted;
EXTRACT FROM SPEECH or Mr.. BAyARp, FEB. Is,
1870.
ut is true that the proposition of the Senator
from Indiana was broader 1t was more general
aud therefore more dangerous. But vet the re-
suit would be this, that il the experience of fu-
ture generations Bhonld discover that Unlimited
suffrage IL not benefit to the people Of State,
that restricted suffrage IL wiser for the people
OF State, aaat your system of universal etiuco-
ton 10 not DE uatuabe system Mai YOU suppose
TO De; III they should consider that this Pro-
crustean bed on which YOU .wonld force the
minds OF All the inhabitants In = community,
without needing their dissimilxr capabilities or
nd Str t1tnRV1 t~Hnk
rigid, unelastc rule required il hey should dis.
couer as IL may ,cen BE- U.ey ,oouLi, that such a
sysean Of education IL injIdicious and unreaso,..
atte, operating unfdporatiy upon he mental aud
moral health Of their people and should desire
with the light of experience TO reform And i'm
prove 1t, then comes this condition arbitrarily
imposed by Congress upon that people"
The paragraph supplied simply exhibits more
OF Mr.. Bayard'a dislike for universal education |
He says to the Republicans, (lle wxs replying to
Senator Morton,) that II experience should Dis.
cover thsL your quot Mr.. Baysrd's) system OF
universal education ID not the valuable eystom
that ..yon' land not MIR. Bayard, suppose It; the
people could not change it, Universal educa-
ton he compares TO the bod upon which Pro.
crustas, the robber and murderer Of Attioa, laid
his victims, cutting of tire limbs Of those who
were larger than the bed, aud stretching those
who were shorter. He tl,erefors would not put |
siesippi, or any other State he wanted to leave
things 90 that, il the States discovered, 'as it |
may we'll bs they would" that to educate ali the |
people was "injudcious" and Unreasonable" |
they could abolish the SYSTEM
Any one can read the quotation and analyze it L
for himself. II bears no other character than |
that which We have sscribsd 70 it. 1t 49, In fact.
entirely consistent with Mr.. Bavards other ut.
tersnces on the question OF Education. He
spoke precisely in such spirit, in his address
1t Delaware College, some two or three years
sgo-that education vas useful for the few, but
not for everybody.