Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-09

sionate aud impartial work of DR.
Redfeld, "Homieide North anc
SOUTH" it is stated that the numbe
, of homicides in Minnesota annual,
is but l6; in Michigan about 40
but IN Kentucky in 1878, there were
Psi. There were more homicides il
one county in Kentucky than in the
whole State of Massachusetts. with
the population of 100000. In 1877
and 1878 there were PSI homi
cides in South Carolina to 40 in
Massachusetts,. The cure for litter.
acy is education, and the demon OF
murderous hate Christ must cast out
by truer preaching of his Gospel
OF Love. The events of the past
twenty years are connecting closely
the North and South which renders
the regeneration o. the latter a great
err necessity with US than if the course
of events had rent us in twain. as
they willed it. Efforts are now max.
inc, especially in behalf of the colored
race, which give promise of success
At Nashville both the Methodists
and Congregationalists have colleges
at which colored students are
educated and prepared to en-,
! lghten and lead the men of
their own race. The same is true of
Atlanta, where the Congreg ationsl-
lists have college with two hundred
colored students, whose attalnmepts.
according to the testimony ofthe state
authorities of Georgia, are not sur
passed by those connected with any
other institution; and where the
Methodists have founded Clark
University, whose buildings the
citizens of Atlanta aided in furnish
ing, taking part likewise in their ded-
ication. As the gifted and now aged
Quaker poet, Whittier, who has de-
voted his pen to the cause of free
dom from the beginning to the end
of the great conflict, has said "The
moral and intellectual education of
the Freedmen is the special and i'm
perative necessity of our day. If
Christian love and charity did not
prompt it, duty to ourselves and our
country would demand it. The very
life of the nation depends upon it."
You have not forgotten that at the
National Reunion of Soldiers and
Sailors at Canton, Ohio, President
Hayes spoke to the same effect-eI
am firmly convinced" he said, sthat
the subject of popular education de-
serves the earnest attention of the
people of the whole country, with a
view to wise and comprehensive
action by the government of the
United States. The means at the
command Of the local and state au
thorities are in many cases wholly
inadequate to deal with the question"
"The magnitude of the evil to be
eradlcated is not, l apprehend, gen.
orally and fully understood. Con.
sider these facts: In the late slave.
holding states, under the system of
slavery, education was denied to the
colored people, and the education of
the non slave holding white people
was generally neglected. By reason
of this state of things in 1870 more
than four millions of the people in the
South OF school age and over that
age were unable to read and write,
and more than three quarters of
million of voters are too illiterate to
prepare or even read their own bal
lots. This evil is not rapidly dimin.
ishing. BY the latest available sta
t'stics it appears that in 1878 the to
tai school population, white and col.
ored, in the late slave holding states
was 5,ls7 5S4, and that only 2,71o,,
O96 were during that year enrolled in
any school. This leaves 2,477,4ss-
almost two and half millions of the
young who are growing up in igno-
rance
"Tbe people of the Territory of
New Mexico have never been pro-
vided with the means of education.
The number of people in that terri.
tory in 1870, ten years old and up.
ward. who could not read aud write
was 1920. This is largely more
than half the population.
Jefferson, with his almost marvel
Gus sagacity and foresight, declared
nearly a hundred years ago that free
schools was an essential part-one of
the columns, as he expressed it-of
the republican edifice, and that, with
out instruction free to all, the sacred
flame OF liberty could not be kept
burning in the hearts of Americans,
| Madison said almost sixty years ago.
: a popular government without pop
alar information or the means of &C.
curing it, is but the prologue to
farce or tragedy, or perhaps TO BOTH
The tremendous tragedy which we
saw when we were soldiers of the
Union, aud in which we bore a part,
could never have occurred if in all
sections of the country there had been
universal suffrage based on universal
education"
The great and growing Mormon
territory would properly have come
within the scope of these observa-
tons of Mr.. Hayes. Indeed 1T is to be
regretted that an administration for
the most part so pure and wise has
not dealt more vigorously with the
Mormon iniquity. The system of
polygamy belongs to barbarism and
while its adherents construct tenn.
pie with bsrbaric grandeur they CON-
nit acts OF ruthless violence except
as the weapon of power is wrested
| from their hands. Secret assassina.
lion was their argument with Gen.
tiles. We can not and will not forget
the marriage of mother and daughter
to one ana the same man. We can
not and will not forget the murder of
an efficient and excellent superinten.
dent of the s. S in Salt Lake City;
we can not and will not forget the
Mountain Meadow massacre. These
people grossly neglect the education
of their children. The population of
Utah is already larger than that of
any other territory when admitted
into the Union as a State. If it
should come in as it is polygamy
will have become entrenched behind
state rights; and then, as IN case of
slavery, it can hardly be eradicated.
Mofmonism is introducing its pecu-
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