National Republican., 1880-12-02

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the interest Of Ohio to contend with too
much vehcmcnco for all the great honors
ip the political gamo, for vaulting ambition
is pictured us overlapping itself sometimes
and falling ON the other side from that on
which il aimed TO land. Covetousness
as bcsetting sin Is not always profitable.
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HAVE WE AN IRELAND 9--Number 4,
The subject of education is so trite that
to many people the mention Of il disgusts
and makes them Turn away and yet every
thing is involved in it as relating TO the
future of the south. GEORGE PEABODY,
the great banker, did not give his millions
to assist his countrymcn in providing an
education for their children unwisely, but
the astonishing thing about IL is that his
magnificent gift has been so little apprc-
ciatcd and so poorly seconded. Perhaps he
gave so much that the people at the south
imagine the work is done and no assistance
is required of them, but The moro probable
theory is that they have no adequate sense
Of the value Of education, and of the vital
bearing it has on the future Of their
| HV'taNh VI thN buN
way it is, the first thing to be done
is to make an effort TO wake them
mp aud create public sentiment in the
general subject, for without this the whole
thing is hopeless. A community that has
no desire for education is not likely to OBJ
tain it.
There is, Of course, large individual de-
sire at the south for learning, but we fear
it is too restricted to accomplish results.
The rich men like to send their sons 10
college and have their daughters instructed
in the branches that arc adapted 10 female
accomplishment, and the poor negroes long
for information which they intutiycly dis
cern is the great need of their race, but
there seems not TO bc any community senti-
ment which c1lls for universal education.
We suppose there is strong objection on
the part of the white race TO educating the
cOlored race, remaining over from the days
Of slavery, when it was deeply rooted and
is kept alive now by its bearings on the
matter OF negro equality; and that herein
lies Tho principal trouble.
| II we are correct in the supposition, then
education must begin q step further back.
a way must be contrived to disabuse the
mind Of the leading southern white man
of the nightmare which makes him so
afraid that in the race of life his ill-favored,
inefficient, dull-hcaded, laundering colored
brother is going to win aud leave him dis
tanced. If there is any actual danger of
this it is high timo the talk about
negro inleriority came TO an end. 1t
is not chivalrous or decent TO stig-
Matte the negro as monkey or
only one remove therefrom, and yet turn
pale ut the consequences of putting book
in his hands. The dread of "ngger domi-
nation" is not confined to the south. 1t
nfcsts aspirants for the presidency, major
generals in the army, and one or two hard
working colored cadets at West Point make
the whole school shvcr with colorphoba
We are dealing with this rs u fact indis-
putable and to show how the whole matter
of southern education aud southern indus
trial concerns are affected by it. We must
admit its existence, and TO deny its inhu-
ence is impossible. If the southron per-
sists in regarding the negro as an animal
he will no more engage in a scheme for his
education than will the people Of the north
tax themselves to maintain schools for
oxen and dogs. The thing is impossible on
the face Of it and absurd; and yet right
here is the pivot on which the whole
conundrum turns and the question recurs
What is TO be done?
Some philosophical writers and orators
who have deeply penetrated the great mys-
tcries Of tho future have given it as their
opinion that there is to be or is war OF
races, and in the struggle the negro race
! will die out. This is a common view at
I the south, but if n true view il is such u
long way TO the denOuement rs to be of no
account in this discussion. ireland will
come long before that happens. The negro
isn't going TO die because of his inferiorty,
for he was more inferior under slavery, and
he greatly increased. lie can die only of
starvation aud murder, and they who be-
levc in his extinction are Obliged TO believe
in the means Of extinction, for even n
negro is not going TO disappear without n
more adequate cause than some philoso-
piers belief that he must. And if the
negro is to die out by oppression, starvation
and murder we are TO have Ireland this
side Of the water, ns that is precisely the
way Irish are being killed of, This phil
osophical view puts an end TO the plan of
education surely, for it is Of no use TO edu-
cate people that you are going to kill.
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THE MooNsuINERs' EXIT.
The efficient measures and policies
adopted by General RAuM for the suppress
sion of the illicit disiillery traffic in Geor-
r gia have been successful 10 an extent that
! leaves only here and there in scattered 10.