Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-06-17

anu are lar liner laCc PhS Sies4ir
than their African prcgenltors. DIR.
IIaygood believes that they were brought
here in tie providence of God to be civilized,
educated, Christianizcd. One million of
them are church members, onc-half being
Bap,ists, the other half Methodists, of four
different stripes, varying very little from
each other Freed by Lincolu's proclama-
ton, and made full citizen by the fifteenth
amendment, all classes of whites have come
to have living interest in the negro as
voter. \ million of them are voters. The
negro vote is already coveted all over Gecr-
gia. 1t is already divided vote, and is no
longer solid like the white vote.
The South, Dr. Haygood tells his fellow
Southerners, has more at stake in the negro
problem than any other people, Repression
will not succeed. 1t has been tried and fail
ed. The blacks have right to elevation.
The negro must be educated. The first
thing 10 be done is to clear the field of
obstacles. The blacks must I've encouraged
and cheercd in their efforts at education
above all. the negro must be encouraged to
help himself The modes of help proposed
by Dr. Haygood are, first, public school sys-
tens like those OF the Moth, in which The
South is dcplorably deficient second,
National assistance in some form not ont
lined third, help from the North and help
from the South. Though citizens Of the
same government, amalgama;ion is impossl-
bic. Left to their natural repugnances and
affinities, the two races minglc as oil and
water mingle each clings lnstinctively to
its own.
The entire separation of the African church
from the white, is only question oftime. The
black man prefers his own church, his own
minister. his own form of church discipline
and organization, his own schools; and
phianthropists have been obliged TO yield to
this demand The colored enrolment en-
bodies three quarters of 4 million of school
children. The Southern States have done
something toward the creation of normal
schools for education of the teachers OF their
own color-Maryland thus spends $4,000
year Virginia. $4,000; South Carolina,
$1,000; Georgia, $1,000; Mississippi, Sl0,-
600 Missouri $4,000; Louisiana, $4,000 to
0,000. These are only beginnings. Normal
schools for colored teachers already number
over 5000 pupils. The different denomlna-
lions of Christians have done much for the
10 At,Nar pl,n
Missionary Association, supported by the
Congregationalists, carries on chartered IN
stitutions. u high and normal schools, and
"a common schools, in the South, with Io2.
pupils taught by 1G3 teachers. This society
expends over 500, coo year in the education
of the blacks, besides having some hundreds
of thousands invested in buildings and school
property The Atlanta University, sustained
by this society. has far better library than
most of the white colleges of the South have,
and President IIaygood quotes ample
testimony TO the excellent work done
in these schools. The Freedman's Aid
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
church has aided in the founding and sup
port Of six chartered collegiate schools, three
theological and one medical, besides 10 In
situations which are not chartered, in which
nearly 300 pupils annually receive instruc
ton. The whole number Of pupils taught
in these schools is over &C, 900, and they
have handed down the instruction received
to 5j0, 900 The number of teachers en-
ploycd this year is 50 In - years the socie-
" has expended almost 100000, nearly
every dollar of which came from the North.
In 1880 cx-Goy. Brown of Georgia, now
United States Senator, publicly thanked
the North for the aid given TO the South i'll
the matter of African education. Tie
American Baptist Home [ Mon has expended
over 100000 for buildings, $500, 900 fer
salaries, $500, 600 for current expenses, ~
| gregating about 81 600, 900, for the educatlon
of the freedmen. The Methodist chur, Ii
! extension society has expended 100000 fer
the benefit of 1000 cOlOrcd churches in the
South The Presbyteiians have done a great
work IN the education of the negroes IN SIX
or seven institutions devoted TO that purpose
| The Episcopaiiars have two normal schools
ard seven for Sunday instruction. The
Friends have an important institution in East
Tennessee and the Roman Catholics have u
school for colored people in Baltimore.
/ Ojhcr churches have done much in the same
direction.
DIR. IIaygood fuIiL discusses lie neg Gas
a member of community and a. a land owner,
maintaining that lac should be treated as
man and brother. He should have oppor-
| tunity 10 anchor to the soil. The plantation
system is broken up in the South, and yet
the old idea Of immense estates under a
single ownership still clings to the people.
| Families are unwilling either to sell their
lands, or to lease them in small farms at fair
prices But time, DR.. IIaygood believes, will
change all this. Half gen"raIon has
brought about wonderful changes. Greater
still will come when the generation that held
the relation Of master and slave shall all have
passed away, DIR. IIaygood acknowledges
that the Southern whites have thus far done
little for the education Of the blacks fiji
because they have been too poor TO educate
even their own children, and secondly be
cause they have rccoilcd from the colored
schools as if there were personal degradation
in teaching them :" but he insists that this
ought not 50 to be, and that eff the best re-
suits are 90 be accomplished, South
crn white people must take part in
the work Of teaching negro schools. "
President lIaygood frankly admits
that 'the white people of the South
may need first of all, to put themselves
through course of schooling in right views
on the subject. and il is with view to such
schooling, evidently, that he has published
his book 1t is a cheering sign that South
crn man, an cX -slav, holder and still identi-
fled in all his interests with the South, can
put forth such work. We trust it will
have wide circulation, both South and
North, and if any Of our readers wish TO see
it, they can obtain it by addressing Phillips
& Hunt the publishers agents, New York
| city. The price Of the volume is one dollar.