Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-27
ESTABLISHED 1910.
THE EDUoATIoN OF THE NEGRO.

collegiate education, but an industrial
school education, by which girls could
be taught to sew, wash, iron and cook,
and learn habits of cleanliness, modesty
and decency, and where young men and
boys might be technically trained
in useful avoeations. Mr. Crom
nell is evidently as much be-
hind in a knowledge of the facts of the
education of the negroes of the South, as
the mass of that race is behind the whites
in the skill and ability to earn living by
handicraft pursuits What he recon-
mends with SO much earnestness, aud the
New York TiijHne makes the basis of a
sneer at the white people of the South, as
if it were something new has for several
years been part of the educational system
of several of the leading negro schools
at the South, notably the lie Moyne
school in this city, and with great
success. But we are not sur
prised at Mr. Crommell's ignorance. His
church knows but little of the negro.
and, if Mr.. Tuck is TO be believed, it
ought to care less for him. Hitherto it
has left the man and brother to take
care of himself morally as well as edu
cationally, and now that it is making am
attempt to edge its way into the field so
thoroughly occupied by the American
Missionary Society, and by the Methodists
aud Baptists, it is not to be wondered at
that it blunders at every step and shames
itself by its ignorance of the condition
of the neero aud what has been done and
is being done for his moral and mental
elevation We recommend Mr. Crom-
NELL, and Mr.. Tuck. too, to get the au-
nual reports Of the American Missionary
Society. of q e Southern and Northern
Methodist Churches, and of the African
Methodist and Baptist Churches From
these they will find that more than So
COG, 900 have been expended by these re-
ligious organizations since 1864 in build
ing and maintaining handsome school
houses ia which the negro has been
trained and educated and fitted for the
noble task aud important duty of train
ing and educating others. They will find,
too, from these reports that in all these
years white men and women of learning
and culture have laborcd, often in the
face of prejudice and within earshOt of
contumely aud hate. to accomplish what
Mr.. Crommell so much desires, and what
Mr.. Fred Douglass and his coadiutors OF
the Louisville convention do not seem to
care anything about. What these mis-
sionaries have done the world at large
has made little note Of but the days
are not far distant when everywhere,
throughout the South at least, it
will be acknowledged as the greatest OF
all the great works accomplished in the
United States since 1865. From the
Potomac almost to the Rio Grande the
academies aud colleges of the American
Missionary Society are to be found at
nearly all the large centers of popula-
ton. and they are flourishing because
their work is practical work and their
purpose the plain one Of widening and
deepening the stream of learning at
winch the -ouyU -il., sar -uf tlrv kiurti. ulao
drink freely and at will. These inStitu-
tions are the results of generous
benevolence, and have been main
tanned by self-denying zeal worthy
of the glorious Luther, whose birth
grateful world is everywhere cele
brating with gladness. 1t would
do Mr.. Crommell's heart good, and Mr.
lruck's too, if he would visit them anC
see for himself the wonders they perform
and learn of what they have done il
years past. But if they cannot do that
we recommend them to read the reports
of the Rev. Atticus G.. Haygood Of Ok
ford, Ga, who, since he wrote the Brothe
IN Black, has launched into the work o
furthering the education Of the Negro
with the zeal of missionar,
4 and the spirit of soldier in
noble cause Mr. Hsygood, no
long ago, made tour Of tn,
South in the interest OF the fund t0l
which he is the dispensing agent, and tht
result is a more ierveut devotion to the
.ootl work and more iervid and appeal
Ing sps eches in its behalf A gallant ex
Confederate, a Southerner by birth anC
breeding, aud the son of Il Shareholder
brought up, 700, IN wealthy planting
section of Georgia, he entered upon his
at first seltappointcd task ~ mer,
private. volunteer in the ranks where
he found So mauy noble work kers. But
his knowledge Of the negro, of his capacity
and his needs, and the best methods
of reaching practical educational result
soon marked him for the high posltlonht
ndy occupies as the trusted aud conf
denfisl agent OF fund bequeathed by
benevolent Northern man whose desIr
81 for the Advancement and betteIment o
the negro Or. HaygOod is farthering ,,
hclping all the schools at the South tha
have these for their objects. Already, II
the first year of the existence Of the fun'
this good. strong man finds eucouraSip.
results following upon what h'
has expended of it, and b.
Dleads on every possible occasion
with voice and pen for the extension
of the practical system of education $
long pursued by the American Mission
4 airy Association, and in which lac sees th
best possibilities of the dark race. Dl
HaygOod speaks plainly, rs well as elo
quently. He calls spade a spade IL
does not spare any who Sc. themselves
his way or in the way of the work he ha
so much at Heart He knows that edu
cation makes every mau better, strongC
an happier than he could he without
and he contends for its dissemiRatio
NV cotnpulsion if other means ia
of makmg It general, Of briuglr
IL into every mans house as essential
the maintenance of the peace that passt
ali understanding. IL is in the nature
things that such a man should encountt
opposition; that he should even be r.
viled, abused aud misrepresented, but I
has only to take counsel OF those yh
have occupied the field he is now IN duI
the past twenty years to find sweet 81
lace aud 4 consolation for il all. lie ca
read in their lives the opening chapte'
OF his own career in the field OF neg
sducation. but he can also read
generous e. tardy recognize
of their labors by the best educated mC
and women of the South. who willing
acknowledge their Indebtedness to the
for the patient. earnest. labori0us woI
by which in so short time nearly fOrt
per cent of the negro population has bee
taught to read and write, and so mai
thousands have been trained and tttC
after the most approved technical met
DDS to teach in negro public schools an
thus perpetuate the blessings they r.
ioice in the possession OF Such m'
ne DIR. Haygool is worth To the negro ra
all the conventions like that at Iouisvil
that will ever be assembled lie do
moro good for white and black by q
practical education of the latter In o
wear than ali the negro politicians ha
ever accomplished. .An educated M
can take care OF his liberty aud preser
II from encroachmeBt without she aid
fyothy aud noisy blatherskites, who ~
no objects that are not for their person
aggrandizemeut. Dr. Haygood kee
IL. s...J;i,, laH,rn tho neODle he &