The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-25

EDITOR ftOk9HUtr nnhhhD.
As you did me the honor, last week.
TO favorably mention the resolution L
offered in the late Democratic Oonven'
tiou. shall DO obliged il you will do
me the favor to publish the resolution
itself. It was conched in the following
terms:
"Resolysd. That as Mississippi has
made liberal provision for the educa-
tion of ali her sons, this Convention
declares il 10 be the highest duty OF
the Legislature TO establish, with an
ample endowment, a State institution
for the education OF our daughters"
make no complaint OF the Commit
tee on Resolutions for refusing to CON-
alder a proposition Of 80 much impors
tance, for, considering the intense neat
and the tremendous strain upon the IN,
tellect of its members IN reproducing
the platform adopted four years ago.
they may we'll be pardoned any further
intellectual effort. / appeal however:
from the officers to the troops. and
trust that the press and the people viii
not allow q subject Of such transcend.
ent Importance TO be quietly whistied
down the wind, and appeal partieu-
larly to the gifted mississippi Woms
an. y who has heretofore 80 ably cham
pioned the cause of female education
! by the State, not to weary in. we'll doing
M cease to labor in cause that appeals
| 80 strongly to the best impulses OF our
nature, and the highest interests OF the
State. We have already one Universi-
| ty. and an Agricultural College for the
education OF white boys, with . similar
Institution for the colored youth of the
State. with one or more Normal Schools
for the education of colored teachers,
while these who ere TO be the wives
and mothers OF our Estlre soldiers and
legislators are utterly ignoxeq end pegs
Iected. It is true that few old wons9
| Ia pankAaoons are driyeiing about the
s~sion OF our dsughters to q share
aom,. =: ah H. sings OF bhe State University
IA Sne pisa,,- - Rs0ther can desire,
at Oxford, but liz --oit bis daughter
and no father will pea. -Hnesra' The
to enter any such hybrid c. Siy sds,
duty of the State to thorough. ths
cate its daughters and ft them for 1.
lofty duties before them, is plain and
imperative, and the legislator who de<
vises and elaborates thorough system
Of education bY the State for it's daugh-
ters, will build for himself o monument
that will endure TO the last syllable OF
recorded time. Let the women Of Mis-
sissippi, then, demand what they are
Justly entitled to. Let them organize
in every county and send up to the next
monster petitions demand.
ing that our daughters shall have the
same educational advantages that are
now bestowed upon our sons. There is
not man deserving OF the name who
will not cheerfully sign such petition,
and no Legislature will dare to refuse
so just demand. Two hundred thou
sand dollars will furnish the needed
buildings, grounds, furniture, ETC., and
an endowment Of fifty thousand dollars
per annum. the sum now given annual
ly to the University at Oxford, will be
ample for its support.
need not enlarge upon the benefis
cent results to the State which must
enure from the establishment OF such
an institution. 1t will be perennial
fountain of intelligence. virtue and pat-
riotism, which like the ceaseless surge
of the imperial river which laves the
western shore of Mississippi for four
hundred miles and cleaves its resistless
pathway to the ocean, asking of no hu-
man power the right of way, will flow on
forever. flooding The State We all love
20 much with benefits and blessings ins
Having full faith in the
women OF Mississippi. faith in the eter-
nal sense of right and justice in the
hearts of the people, look with uns
doubling confidence to see the Legisla-
.ure establish such an institution as
lave described. one that shall be an en-
Turing honor to the sons, and worthy of
he peerless, dark eyed daughters Of
Mississippi.
I am sir, very respectfully.
WIN. 81. McCARDLE.
Vicksburg, Aug. II, 1881.