The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-07-14


er itself potent factor in the process Of genera
&c education, by stimulating every man worth
ls Of the privilege, to acquire the qualification
ii necessary TO exercise the elective franchise
a. CHEERING oMENs.
IA And IN connection with this view. there ar.
10 some suspicious omens to cheer US The las
l. message of the Governor, the Report OF N,
!, Superintendent Of Education, and inforrna
e ton derived from every quarter show tina
a the schools and colleges in The STATE are pros
" porous; that the public interest In the publi,
J. schools IS increasing; ani that the results &c
i compllshed by them, in the last ten years ar,
r far beyond what might have been anticipated
n under the circumstances. Ii il shall appear
: from the late census, that our progress in elm.
4 cation Tor the last ten years, mas been equal
7 / TO our progress IN population, II will be mat
: | ter for just pride and CO ngratuIation The
songs o. liberty and the thanks givinrs ~ !
e jabdees of ancient days might vel lie r.
"A newed such triumph. When l. was
: / announced that tbs Tenth Census gave NisSis-
a ssppl au increase IL population of thiriv-six
: per cent since 1870, the statement was as once
& condemned in certain quarters, as false and
{ fraudulent; but after the most careful iayes-
e LEGATION, and re-lnve stigation-afJer the most
q critical enumeration and RECOMMENDATION
: made in different States and Districts and bv
officers bot connected with the original emu
meration, and selected from other States and
r sections and entertaining political views sun
: posed u be Inconsistent with fraud-iou' you
understand the result Is yiRdicated as 20
| Mississippi and the South, and it appears now
that If any mistake was made in the matter
+ It was against US, and not IN our favor In
teFnaIioaal Review, May 1SSl-4591
And while tins unex pected Increase in popu-
lation Is accoun led for 10 great extent, by the
| injustice done in the Census of 1870 still
tie internal and external evidences, prove be-
yond all reasonable doubt, that our condition
Is improving. and particularly. in the vital
matter OF education. But what | wished 10
say particularly, is this: the Comm ssioner of
Education for thu United States. in his las,
published report, recognized the imperative
necessity of material aid to the public schools
in certain impoverished portions of the COM
try and recommends that National assistance
be extended TO them Report of Comr Of
Ed Io7S-CCL
And last year the Trustees of the Peabody
| Educational fund for the South, composed Of
| such men as Gen Grant Chief Justice Waite
Hamilton Fish, and William Evarts, made a
| similar recommendation to Congress.-[P Pro-
| ceedings Natl Ed Association, 1880. No. ?
ell
The Message of the President of the United
States of the 9th December, 1880, contains
these just and cheering words: 1t is not how
! ever to be forgotten, that the best and surest
| guarantee of the primary rights of citizen
! ship is TO be found in that capacity for self
protection which can belong only to people, |
| whose ri ght to universal suffrage is supported
by uni ersal education. The the |
command of the local and State authorities |
are, in ny cases, wholly inadequate to fur |
nish free instruction to all who need it.
| respectfully recommend that Congress, BY /
suitable legislation, and proper safe guards,
| supplement the local educational funds IN the
several States where the grave duties and re
/ sponslbllltles OF citizenship have been de- I
volved upon uneducated people, by dev0ting
| to this purpose, grants of public lands, and if
necessary, by appropriations from the Treas
ury of the United States. Whatever govern
ment fairly do to promote free popular
education, ought to be done. Wherever gen
eral education is found peace, virtue and social
order prevail and civil and religious liberty
are secure
And President Garfield, in his Inaugural |
Address, speaking with equal justice and lib
erality, said; The Census has already sound |
ed the alarm in appalling figures, which mark
how dangerously the tide of illiteracy has
arisen among our voters, and their children.
To the South the question is one of supreme |
importance. The responsibility for the exist
ence Of slavery, does not rest upon the South |
alone The Nation itself, is responsible for
the extension of suffrage. and Is under special
obligations to aid in removing the iliteracy
which it has added to the voting population. |
For North and South alike, there Is but on.
remedy. All constitutional power of the na |
ton and of the States, and I'll volunteer forces
of people, should he summoned to meet this |
danger, by the saving influence of education. |
1t is the high privilege and sacred duty of those
now living, 10 educate their successors and ht
them by intelligence and virtue, for the inner
itance which awaits them. In this benefcent
work, sections and should be forgotten,
and partisan ship should be unknown"
And at a recent meeting of the MON League |
Club of New York, presided over by jackson
s. Shultz, the following, among other Resolu-
tons were adopted "ReSotCed That III the |
judgment of this Club, the remedy for the per-
version of the ballot in the Southern States, |
is TO secure to all the residents thereof, the
blessings, the privileges, and the capacities
which flow from education; that there is no
duty now lying in the pathway of the nation,
present, so grand solemn, and Imperative
dangerous, if neglected, so useful 1t per |
formed-as that of affordiug educs ton to those
recently enamel pated hosts, and to all who
need il, and that the aboanding wealth of the |
North, can of its surplus, in no other way, SO
well contribute TO the establishment of good |
local government throughout the South, II the |
rehabilitation of the most fertile parts of our
common country, 10 the unity and harmony OF |
the whole people, and to the welfare and per- |
manence of the whole Republic 'Res0tued,
That to enable the President to inaugurate |
and carry forward the policy thus advocated
by him, on this great and mighty question: we !
call on the people OF the East, OF the west ana
of the South, to strengthen his hands and give | 6
him earnest and substantial support. i New
York Daily Herald. May 70, 1871
These declarations of great and leading men | |
of the North, show that they begin, at last, T.
appreciate the true ard solemn obligations OF | q
the nation on this subject. They are, IN my
judgment, the wisest and best utterances OF |
our Northern brethren en- the results OF the |
war, and it is amazing, that they have not
been expressed, and put into practical opera
ton long ago, by those among them who had |
the power of doing so. To me- they are tnii Of |
hope and encouragement. They indicate that
the uuc GUIDED light OF reason and justice, be- |
gins once more, to warm the Northern sky q
that the great problem of our day-a problem 7
that may effect more than any other the honor |
and safety Of American Institutions IS to be
considered at last as one OF nanonaI as
we'll as of local concern, and to be treated IN =
the spirit of patriotism and christian broth |
erhood. instead of being made the stalking
horse of mole-eyed dema gogues, and sectional
fanatics bloated and bursting with the hoard |
ed poison of reptile souls. Andl shall beheVe
until the contrary appears. that the great
christian, patriotic and phIianthroplc hearto OF
the nation, will respond 10 such sentiments
How can people, distinguished by so many
genuine outbursts of good will towards men
whose generous aid to the Suffering Greeks IN
1872 and 1921 is historic-whose ships freight
ed with costly cargoes for the Green Isle OF
the ocean, made the deep TO boil as pot, |
their white sails swelted out as flags OF
truce, to the ravages of famine, and whose
munifcent contri buttons from every quarter,
and from inhaustible fountains threw halo
along the track of the pestilence that wasted
the South in lS7S-be indifferent to the moral
famine, and the pestilence of ignorance that
RACES among race to whom they gave freedom
and citizenship
OBLIGATION OF THE NATION TO EDUCATE
IRE CoLoRED RACE.
God never imposed more solemn obligations
men, obligations in which duty is more |
indissoIubly connected with interest, than
those resting on the American people, to edu- |
cate and improve the m entail and moral condi-
ton of the iliiterate masses in our midst. The |
Cappadocians, | believe. the only nation |
of whom we have any account, who deliber-
ately preferred slavery freedom, and who |
refused the da5 zling boon Of liberty, when it |
was offered to them; but many instances are
recorded of nations who possessed liberty,
and lost it, by their own faults and foIlies |
when they had the means of its preservation | !
in their power.
PECULIAR METHODS OF IMPROVING INFE-
RIoR RACES. =
It may be apprebended that the American :
methods of improving and elevating inferior 7
races, the two unfortunate races, who, in the I
dispensations of Providence have been placed
under their special guardianship, viii not re- :
csive the unqualified appreciation of impartial >
history. It is true that treasures have besD a
layished upon them, IN manner IN con- 0
EectioE With them but what have been the !