New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-18
rDrclT7OY F0R THE SOUTH.

The sneecb of Senator Brown, OF Georgia
On the Education bill deserves general atteE-
tiop. When he was appointed 10y the Governor
and afterward in the campaign before lne
,ooislature which ended in his election. Sena-
for Brown gave signs Of more Intelligent
n,rnosa and a more liberal and progressive
| disnoSition than are usually shown by South
! crn Democrats His ideas of liberalism ana
nrogress may differ widely from those OF lie
nnbIicans at the North; perhaps that is 10 Oe
nxpocted The position OF Senator elecieu
Inv Democratic votes, TO represent a STATE
e+ropolv Democratic in the votes counted, at
loast NAV often influence his acts or utter
orces Vet there will be found at the North
r,,r INTELLIGENT men of either party who VIII
rot he clad that there Is at least one Southern
Scnotor elected by Democratic votes. who
shows some comprehension OF the real necuS
of the South.
Education is necessary, first OF all As Mi.
Brown urges. His remarks IN regard TO the
dutv of the country toward the coiored people
so suddenly cmancipated ana entranchised,
were in a good spirit, i'll good taste, ana con-
tanned much good sense. TO the Ola SOUTH
education of the colOred people naturally
seemed not only useless but dangerous. ne
s;u,,,lcr nrocesses of cultivation, in which the
regro loborer was mainly employed, did not
coll for education. The system of slavery,
,rhicb whether men liked it or not, could not
ho ,iolentIv oyerthrown 10y Instruction with
ont conseouences from which humanity was
comncued to shrink with horror, made 1t dan
ccrous 20 society 70 educate race heid III
bondage. and treated by the laws always, ana
hv individuals often, with extreme cruelty.
But the Young South has no slavery to guatd,
and no desire to be restricted to one form OF
ministry. II longs for progress and diversifi-
cation of industries, but these can be attained
only bv education of labor 1t longs for order
that sort of order which preserves itself,
and is the product not of dcspotism but of
freedom. But such order can be gained and
kent only by popular education. IL longs Tor
conital. enterprise and prosperity. But these
can be secured only by education of the
people.
senator Brown has advanced a long way,
when he has discovered that " the people at
the South includes the negroes. That one
discovery places him in new party. 1t Is
the fundamental idea of a Southern Demo
crat that " the people" at the South includes
only persons who have white skins. Until
man can get that idea out of him, completely
and forever, he cannot possibly be anything
but a Bourbon. reactlonst and public
nuisance. As laborers, rs voters, rs taxpayers,
and "a defenders of civil law and social order,
the colorrd men are a. necessary TO the whites
of the South as the whites are To them in
deed. more necessary. For the average negro
Gan oct away TO Northern State and earn
his living there. But the average white man
of the South would find it impossible to get
along where he is without negro labor, and
impossible 10 earn his living in the fierce COM
netitlon OF Northern industries without COM
nlete change of his nature. Until the South
bu,lds upon broad and solid foundations
unon labor educated and willing. citizens pro-
tectsd themselves and protecting others
in all their rights and voters free TO
vote rs they please, without distinction of
color between laborers, citizens or voters-it
can never build prosperity that will last
The man who has not discovered this is a
Bourbon, and relic of the dead past. TIE
man who has discovered tins spells negro with
one "g,n and refers to both races when ne
talks of educating the people," or of the
Twill of the people"
Mr. Brown sees one other thing that too
MANY Southern men refuse 10 see. The whites
of the South need education also considering
their duties and powers, much more than the