The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-01-08
A state Female College.

Inc COplanan publishes bue auutCSe
read before tho Conference by Miss Ju-
liza RaiforJ. praying that body to trans
fer the property of Whitworth College
to the State, 90 that it could be en-
lowed as a State Female College. II
also publishes a..letter from Mrs. Judge
Peyton in reference to the matter. from
which we make the following extract;
"The matter vas referred to the
Committee on E lucation Of which Col.
Nugent of Jackson, was chm'n. He
informed US that the Conference could
not grant the request even were they
disposed to do 81, as the terms OF M. j.
| Whitworth's will, when the property
passed flom under the control of the
Methodist Church, it must revert to
his heirs. We scarcely hoped to accom-.
pllsh a transfer of the property, but
thought no harm could result in agita-
tating the subject of a State Female
College,
Believing hat the Legislature should
and will establish a State Female
School for white ladies, we publish e1
tracts from the address containing ar
|guments that will make an impression
upon all who read them:
The State, paing an organization snip
ported by a Uniform and compulsory
system of taxation, with money accu
INFLATED in it's treasury and with the
moral support of the church, can sue
cessfully fonnd institutions Of learning.
| This is demonstrated in our own State
hy it's furnishing university at Oxford
for white males and in Aicorn Univer-
sity and the Normal school at Holly
Springs, for the colored C We
grieve to say tina. toward the educltion
of her white daughters no State aid has.
as vet, been extended. Indeed from
the scant eff ,rts that have been made
by our legislators in this behalf, the
popular idea would seem to be that for
woman Ignorance is bliss" Never
was there a wider mistake than this.
Ignorance condemns mi to drldg-
cry. and oftentimes to shame, to dis
honor, and eternal death. We feel that
the time has come when pubic senti
uleub Ou lilo ouOJCCI Va tCIha'o
must be changed.
Feeling the necessity of a more gem
erai education of sex petition, which
will be presented to our next legislature
has been framed by our association,
asking for establishment of a State
Female College. This petition has
been widely circulated and numerous
~ signed, by many of the wiser states
men, aud more prominent men of our
State. Among its endorsers we find
such men as L. @ G. Lamar and Ohio
r. Singleton. Gen. j. A. Smith, our
State Superintendent of Education, and
yers aud ministers of our State.
Our State was among the first to es>
pouse the cause of woman and free her
from the shackles aud restraints of the
common law, aud now it would be a fit
ting and appropriate act for u below
ed wealth to join with the pious
and scholarly advocates of Wesleyan
Christianity to rescue woman from the
bonds of ignorance and dependence.
They would thus put her upon a high
er plane of existence, and rear to them
selves jointly a monument more endu>
| ring than one of brass or of marble.
Our petition asks for legislative
appropriation for the establishment OF
a State Female College. Our legisla-
tors can no longer deny the necessity.
vision, or justice, of such OIL act. A
largo proportion of the property of this
Stale is owned by the white females.
This property lie taxed to pay the debt
incurred in supporting universities and
schools for others, while there is not a
single high school in the State which is
available to those fof her white dAught>
ers whose means are limited.
That an appropriation for this pur-
pose will be made at no distant day, we
feel assured. aud in order that its ben
efts may better reach those whose
means are most limited. a State Female
College ought 10 be located at some &C
cessibie pointin the healthy pine rea'
gion of South Mississippi.
Mrs. LUcY A. KIDD, of our city, hai
accepted the position of yMonitress Of
lthat popular Southern Educational In
stitution (Whitworth Oollege;) and w
are glad to learn that she is pleased
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