The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-07
Index Expurgator aus.

Index Exprg aus,
1T seems 10 be assumed by the very Intel |
|; cant .Ceriiea1ess who speak through shet
press Cor the people OF the North , l't u L
hitch time there were In this country Q col
Ie,rc a, CaMsRoSs and CHASDLRRs havtng
mower TO make out for the use Of soutnefD
parents an American "Indcs Expurgaftn-
rius pa list OF books which they may be
permitted to put into the hands Of their
children. Nothing Is more common than to
see in northern Journals extracts srem books
which arc sold to be used 10 southesN
schools, and whose use those wise censors
deem crime In somebody. II is true tnat
tb,s is non,inai'y free country, and that
The Journals In question would denonnce
anybody who proposed to establish sech q
censorship over schools, colleges, aad acac>
emjes in the section cf the country north el
MASON and D,xoS's line; but thee facts 60
for nothing whenever "rebsf" ora = re-
be,,ious S,aten is concerned. these have
no rights which northern pa,rsot is bound
to respcc'. ,. ,...c-, -
Tn. pursuance OF this con.ressfng iaea that
the, South IS ,:ader tute!age> and needs ln-
struction at the hands OF iese eERSbteheo
materialists, infdcls, and patriots OF the
North, Mr.. 'ELAISE recently made a speech
in the United states Senate, 7n'wach speech
he arraicnsd the southern people Us crimi-
us1s bec,csc OF the existence OF certain
hooks whose contents 6a not please him.
and he sIgead upon the broad pages OF tue
CONGRESSIONAL record q number OF extracts
from at.isast one such bools--cXtracts whica
will doubtless do service t1 The pending
campaign in Ohio. Maine, and elsewhere
snd witch will convfnce'many man VINO
hos denounced the Pspess ,l,,de1 E1pu7'gG-
tories that such catalogue IS necessary tn
freeiA America.
AFR. GEORGE WILInssf CURTIS has followed
Mr.BLAlSE's example, and told the readers
OF bis weekly what a" bad iot' these soatl-
EN- schoo!-books ace. He has actually ascer-
tanned that "Thc Southern Students Hand
book OF Selections for Reading and Ora
tory" contains specimens ofthe productions
of none but southern authors residing ia
southern Sta,es''::. This is too bad. Not
q LING from GEORGE WILLIAM, nor from
XacK CHANDLER, nor from LOGAN, nor rom
GRANT, nor frora any other of the aestln-
puished literary characters OF Yankeelanu.
GARRISON is ignored. WENDELL PHHIAh's
is not mentioned. GIDDISGs's name appears
nowhere. "Not northern man or northern
State can be found in this list, and MOI even
a southern orator who has ever made use Of
bis cloquence to defend bis Government "
This is dreadful A book prepared for We
On southern schools aud totally destitute OF
extracts Irom,thc orations Of northern men
This cannot be permitted in free country.
But the Chicago Tribune out-Heroas He
ROD. 1t denounces the same book IN ylo-
Gent terms. 1t says:
$50 far as the purposes Of textbook
are concerned, 4 reader Of this kind Is ABOUT
rs valuable as Il natural history would be
that described only the snakes, pelicans,
bnZzards, Gait fish. alligators, and other YER
min that inliabit southern swamps and
bayouS, or work on history that confined
itself to narratives OF vcndcttas, dues. Dull
dozlng, negro. lashing, bowie.knlfe alifays,
lists OF southern heroes who have died with
their boots on, and other episodes OF south
ern life" ...
Suppose this were all as true rs 1t rs false,
it stillrcmainS that the southern people haVe
TIE right to print and use books OF that sort.
and that ne who would deny to them that
right is a would-be tyrant and real inter-
meddler and PAUL PRY. ...-.-
Toshow the blindness and narrow-mind-
edness OF these northern critics, We men
ton that the one last-named affirms that IN
the northern schools there Is not one book
used that ",could not be used without o..
fence in every State OF the Union" This
statement every school board and every
schoolfcacber in The South doubtless knows
to be false. Certainly every teacher here
in KichMond knows it to be false. The
school board here has had much trou-
Bile concerning such northern school
books OF history as 1t has introduced
into our schools. It would be difficult to
name a single northern history Of the
war wbieh any southern man having
proper seif-respect could put into the
hands OF his innocent children. il there
is any such history, it is one Of those
prepared for schools, and which touches
gingerly upoa disputed points. But the
daily and weekly papers OF the North, the
periodicals, and the entire literature
Of that section, including all the standard his.
tories, all, all, except perhaps paper here,
aud there, printed in the North, but sup
ported In The South, are SO thoroughly inn
bued with falseheods, either Intentional or
that they are not 6t to put
into the hands Of children as containing the
truth. - ,acf....;,,, ,,
After all, however, the real point IS that
we have, q right to print aaa,,r what !
books we please, and that we intend to con.
thine to do so until the man on horseback
arrives, and an authorized censorship OF the
press Is established by our Imperial rulers.
For the present, as HoRCs GREELEY said
Of the Whig platform Of 1852, we spit upon
and DEFY the censures Of our enemies.
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A Convert. ~.
The New York papers IRE learning some
thing, about the silver question, and no
longer denounce the real fnancierS OF the
county us lunatics; and seon:we shall find
ali those gentlemen who take their opinions
fb. Nouy yort- r,raSS rona,tino what