The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-27

ignorance Denominations education On
never effect tbs Who'll q oOnlmunitv.
The chthppst defense Of the state
property aid life Ia the education Of the /
people. In the entire " ,uih NJ present the .
school fund Is paid almost entirely by .
whites, yet II Is distrF 0uted equally TO both /
whites and negroes All honor to Kentucky
Uf the TWO races On the same basis The
speaker had heard with inexpres'
scle alarm that there was In
some stite movement 70
divide The ser DOL tax 40 that whites should
raise funds u their own children and make
negroes rab their own fund for the colored
ahil'rcn. SnCh aCtion would Overiurh we
ruucd 100 0, s, stem OF the south and would
urrp trt the Ignorance OF the negroes
lot sCu z, poor Agriculture and tillage
are Dire iry from Ohio 10 the gulf. Between
| 1870 ua 1850 there was dlminutlon
value OF taxable property III all out three
| II tr q southern states. Ihe south was la
! pJY erished oy the wnr. History presents
! 10 parallel to It's condition In 1865, morris
| Dle Efforts OF The south to rise ngain. Nc
| eope have ever accomplished
| 80 much in TO short Il time
9TH 20 MANY ob,t es u "a mount yet
the iilitersCy in the south is 'earlul. Thirty
DER cent. OF the white population AMI 20
| Ger CENT OF Lllt 'f-8FftS are lilittA
Kentucky has zoo iliteT"te white voters
and 55 600 il ierae colJfed voters. sim
ilar condition exis 10 all he southern
,Jatus There are SO QUO Hitter sic voters
m the south What has been already
lone for the eiucaiUa OF ltegroes
is very encouraging in It's results
tud should be stimula ed 10 greater Efforts,
TIE emancipation OF tae negroes had sad
aled the south with greater burden than
-he can bear. the LesrGes pay but a
small pGrt OF the taxes They have IDEAS
e II future prosperity withoaJ effort on The II
part. They are deluded and nieled by de-
! ,Raing ana wicked mea. Itey
. | othez foreign peol IL COME here voluntarily
The negroes come by cruel compulsion
Their condition is like that OF no either
cass. The speaker thanked God thai
slavery was aoulished but tho nation had
! freed colored men, and the nation must
o lcare for them. rhe negroes are free. but
lthey are still slaves to ignorance. The
9 government should complete the good work
'. 1t has begun and new they gre Legally free
). should loose them from the letters OF llliJ
eracy. The speaker recited the Ignorance
:, of many whites in the south and closed
With recital of the perils which besei
the free institutions of the country. he
q said it is the duty of nations
y ! in times of peace to guard against internal
y toes. We need school-kouses more thar
" / armies. What better use could be made o
, a small portion of the immense revenue o
!. the United States than by applying it to the
y cause OF eduCationp
Congressman Willis, of the Louisville
district, followed in an excellent speech il
the same llne OF thought, concluding witt
reference to the condition of education IL
this state.
Congressman Morey. of Mississippi, ia
vored the same principles and sale
= the south had broken loose from
: her old meorings into the broad stream
!, of national lie. He was for Fedora
- aid because upon it depends the perpetuity
of national institutions. A bill embDdying
q the principle enunciated here will be pre-
= sented to congress and before ten years II
. will be matter of wonder that any diver
. sity Of opinion ever existed.
a DR.. Dickinson, secretary of the State
Board Of Education OF Massachusetts,
7 favored the extension of Federal aid. DE-.
# Basil Manly, president of the Southern
4 Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville,
[ spoke mainly On the condition of education
in the south. This concluded the discus
p sion of the subject of Federal aid to educa-
{ ton.
\ he next question taken up was the edu-
D cation of the colored race. The discussion
I vas opened by Professor Simmons (colored),
E OF the Baptist Theological seminary, who
covered a very wide field, going outside
r of any reasonable probabilities in his
1 demands for his people. Simmons is q
r bright fellow, but docs not know when he
, has good thi & for his people. DIR. Ben
} nett, OF Fisk university at Nashville, Ten
nessee, followed Professor Simmons in a
J thoughtful address in the interest OF the
! coloIed people and the convention ad-
journed for the day.