New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-02

skilled mechanic or farmer, is Obvi-
Gus. 1t is shown in the superior
ability and acquisition of those
states in which the mixed industries
have been established, and those
which merely cultivate the earth and
exchange their crops against the
commodities or services of others.
We have always believed that it
was the investment for during three
quarters of century, of the agricul-
tural products of the South in the
manufacturing productions of the
North, annually consumed to be an
nually replaced, which attracted the
numbers, accumulated the capital,
and educated the industries of the
North. 1t was the exports of the
South that furnished transportation
for the foreign immigration. 1t was
the unoccupied lands won by the
valor of the South, which furnished
the homes for those immigrants. 1t
was the doctrines and interests of
the North which consolidated the
vote and organized the arms of the
immigrants against the Southern
construction of the federal constitu-
ton. The industrial policy of the
South winged the arrow that pierced
its own vitals. viii the Southern
States organize anew the same Sec
tional dependencies Will it always
labor that others may accumulate
the fruits of its toll 2
In adopting a free labor policy for
a free labor people, we claim that
every member of society, without re-
gard to color, should be qualified for
self support. In doing SO we assume
that society shall be burdened with
no more crime, restitution or vice
than is inevitably necessary. We
maintain that every member Of So
ciety should, without regard to color,
be qualified to vote in the true inter
est of society, and that he should be
so interested in the common welfare
as to fight in its defense when re-
quired to do so. With these prem
Uses how can Southern society disre-
gard the industrial capacities of the
colOred race +? How could it consent
that half the population of some of
the Southern States shall be exclud-
ed from knowledge and dedicated to
vice? The events of every day prove
the necessity of a policy which will
guard against these tendencies, and
render available their undeveloped
capacities. 1t would be unwise to
higgle upon the cost of popular
knowledge or of popular morality.
Is the money expended in disinfect-
ants, is the acid poured out in the
cutters loss Is the uncompensa-
ted expense of universal and gratui-
tous vaccination against hideous
disease a profigate waste of the pub
lie money? The unwise parsimony
which should refuse the expenditure
of money for the elementary educa-
ton of all, would be as that of the
man who cultivates annually an un-
productive farm, rather than pur-
chase the agents which can alone re-
generate or develop its fertility.
Such mistaken economy in the State
loses all those values and services
which undeveloped talent might
have produced. We do not, with
the poet, so much regard the loss Of
Hands which the rod of empire might have
Or walked to ecstasy the living Tyre"
AS of that intelligence which might
have awakened the dormant re-
sources, and industrial independence
of the Southern people. If poor
boy, white or black, whom God haa
inspired with the gift of mechanical
invention, fails from want of intel
lectual development to realize the
full value of this gift, society loses
the fruits of this possible capacity.
If such a boy is capable of laying the
lines of a steamship, or building the
engines for her movement, why
should society lose this service
through the want of trade school
or Workshop The first work done
by such an educated mechanic would
repay the whole cost of his educa-
ton. . Ell
In this point of view we can not
look without apprehension upon any
measures tending to discourage or
discredit the education of all ignor-
anee. We shall therefore continue
to claim that the State shall educate
al pupils, because no consideration !
Ofleconomy would justify the growth
ola single crop of an ignorant gem
GRAFTON. -
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