The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-06
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

A correspondent OF tho Republican
having propounded the following inter-
rogatory az TO the views OF tho Demo
cratic candidate for Superintendent Of
Public Education, Has Mr.. Lushcr
ever given any pledge. or has he ever
spoken out frankly as to his position on
the free and unscctarian school qucs-
ton 2" that paper replies as follows:
Mr.. Lusher has never. 90 far as we know,
given any pledge on the subject. nor done any
Thing 10 aatiafy the people that he Ia ln favor OF
full, Tree and universal education. There ~ n
suspicion IN the m,noa ol gfoa, mpny pe"nIn ,,I
amount of education. confined exclusively to
white children. Is sufficient tor theeenoral herd.
Priests. phvhieipna lawyers and pedaaoeAsH
ara excepted Thov onn only be turned out by
The academies. aud tho Peabody Normal lnati'
tuto 4 lust the tlng for ihis purpose. Whilo he
WINS superintendent OF Education bo permitted
MIR Rogers 20 koep M tleety schools at the ok
penae Of the municipal treasury but thore waH
no nttcmntsi ojueatioh ~ The country, Nearly
all the parinh ir,nHutors took the school IN iney@
for political nnrposca probably and The Super-
intondnnt took no measures to prosecute them.
ie satisfied his conssienee hy reporling 70 we
money IN the country had heen etnbokzled, and
that WAS The end Of IT, He never built NJ amy
school systeni. and Y may roaaonahl Pc doubted
whether he has any policy on the subject OF edu-
cation worthy OF the name, He In II good nnnde@
mician, but fails signally. both from education
and habit. as an instructor of the whole people.
This scandalous tissue Of falsehoods
will receive, at another day, detailed
refutation. As an answer to the query
OF the correspondent Of the Republican,
we print tho following extract from u
letter from DR.. Sears, General Agent Of
tho Peabody School Fund, to Mr..
Lusher, dated July 10, 1870: 9s3 'f
In your correspondence With me YOU have
and havs been restrained only by our rules. |
have assiated oolored schools through you, md
yon urged me 70 continue our aid " sTqlght,
Fish unyersity and others, not because II was
colored, but because II did not come within our
rules, iad they been white scho2ls, we should
to embrace them, m long as we could, without
our whole system. n
hope soop to be able to take In tho whole Hys-
tenn Of the Louisinpa schools. without regard to
color. and know that IN your wish us you have
often written mo. We wisb 10 be no pnrtisnns
in education. wish all t9 be educated and to
and 30 do. you, II you have not greatly changed.
General Agent
The rule referred to by DR.. Sears Is
that, as to elementary schools. two-ilfths
to three -fourths amounts must be raised
In the community interested for tho
maintenance. during nine to ton months
in the year, before supply donations
can bc made from the Z. Il. fund; and
that, us to elementary and normal
schools or departments, they must be
wholly free from sectarian direction or
control.
IL will be seen from this letter that
though Mr.. Lusher has not been loud
In vaunting his opinions. he
has been for long while quietly and
laboring In the interest of
public, non-sectarian and general edu-
cation In this State, while the Radical
agents of public school system organ
lied for partisan purposes have been
the school fund.