New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-23
EDUCATION ~ THE SOUTH
A LECTURE AT THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB by THg
RPV. DIR. A. ID. MAYO.

| A LECTURE AT THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB BY THE
RPv. DIR. a. D. MAYO.
| The Rev. DR.. a. ID. Mayo lccturcd last night
in the theatre Of the Union League Club Education
| in the Southern States ito Condition and .Necd'."
| Among those present were the Rev DR..
Henry W. Bellows. Dexter A. Hawkins, reter Cooper and
| the Rev. Dr. s. Irengus Prime
There ten million young people, the speaker saId
enrolled schoosin the Northern States. who being
taught by nearly two hundred thousand teachers The
system Of public schools IA very complete and reaches
its highest development In the West, whore It Ia supple
mented by university. 1t is good system any
can that upon the people, and It has all the
merits and defects OF democracy. There ia fenture
OF American life that gives no much promise for the
future In the North We working earnestly TO edu.
cate the Every child has fair chance Of
being educated.
The close OF the saw the complete destruction Of
system Of the South, which had
purpose the instruction OF the reignng classes Schools
academies and universities shut mp and their
dowmcnts destroyed In the sixteen States there were
not sixteen schools good foundation. The
Government. after the war, had much
conAscated property, and many good schools
were built by the Freedman's Bureau. Under the rule
OF the carpet-baggers there honest attempt
establish school system but It failed because they
working In country they knew nothing Of But
both attempts did great good, for they educated the
Southern people These people dld tremendous amount
thinking between 1868 and 1870 The first thing they
did, when they reganed their power, was To estab-
sh school system; and there iB one now IN
all the States In operation paper In all
except three states there "a fair division between the
white and black people Of the school fund But I'm
Virginia and Maryland the students do not get
than four i've months schooling yearly, and in
the more Southern States taken whole, they do not
get much than years schooling In "a lifetime.
The schools not yet what they IN the North he
the reinng classes and the professions do not
favor them unrescrVedly, and because there
eru press sustain them. The fact that the attempt
has been made is encouraging, and there Is
material for teachers In the members OF families
made poor by the war, not To be found elsewhere.
The lack OF good system Of schools has resulted H.
degradation Of labor, ana utter lack Of skilled labor
IL has produced host OF ignorant Justice
mands that the North should help the South IN every
possible way 10 develop ite schools. THIS must be
done by developing those that it now has IN
its own way. The first thag needed
is sympathy. Aud then should help our Southern
friends establish schools by private gitts and the
Government should aid them Il did the West This
work should be carried carefully, but II should be
lried on. educating OF teachers very essential
and this done to great advantage by schools ia
the South with very little money Technical aud in
dustfial schools should also be established, aud the
capital must come for them from the North. by I'M
proving the educational system Of the South only can
we become one people.