Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

yindicate to it our manhood and sbil-
ity. Not by blood, not by the sword,
not by cannon and musketry, will
we walk .into q proud position OF
responsibility and power. but by the
pen. Here in Huntsville I've boast
ed while in Arkansas was the lead
being taken in educational interest.
Sorry that it is not as great as in the
past when night schools were full as
well as day schools. Excuses can not
be accepted-parents who object to
sending their children to free schools,
or to schools on account Of denomina-
ton, usually send them no where. A
Hardshell Baptist myself, l am free
to confess that my children have got
ten the most they know from teach
ers of other denominations. Away
With any denomination prejudice. We
may talk, grumble, 60 to the ballot
box and vote, but our grievances
must continue until by industry and
thrift and education we command
power and respectability to remove
them. Then in travelling we will
have first class accommodation. with
out wives and daughters being sub
jected to Inconvenience and abuse.
Already this privilege is accorded in
Northern States and in all but few
Southern States. Chief in this dis
elimination is the M. & G. Road.
Learn your chileren to be mechan.
is 70 follow trades. Stop hiring out
your laughters-its step to degre-
dation. Poor indeed, but stop the
practice. Keep your girls at home
under parental care. Eat bread and
water rather than hire them for SO a
month. Let them labor, but bring
work to them at their homes. Stop
them from having to 60 out at unsea-
sonable hours, returning often alone
as or s o'clock of evenings.
Education without principle is no
education. Principle must be there,
and character, or it is worthless. Lay
hands to the wheel and turn up
something. Young people must stay
more at home and read, make use Of
tine. Strive by labor to reach posi-
tions Of excellence and usefulness by
preparing f1r them.
EGYPTIANS WERE NEGROES.
The Caucasian historians to shield
their pride of race have falsifed and
obscured history to hide the fact that
the Negroes once held them in sub
lection in Egypt 430 years. It is a
fact nevertheless, and | challenge
contradiction. Then if we were in
Slavery $50 years, the African race
once held the proud Caucasian 430
years. Tho humiliation is mutual.
Since emancipation I claim t!,.t the
colored people have advanced fur
ther and faster for the length of time
thaa any other race. Build on by
steady effort and labor.
DIR LAKIN SAID:
| am deeply interested in the edu-
cation of the masses. 1t has been
said that education makes common
minds Not true. 1t polishes, cult
Yates and invigorates the common
mind, making it useful Physica
training is necessary as well as intel
lectual education. The mechanics is
indispensable to the scientist.
The value of education is striking
ly shown in the higher wages it al
ways commands; the blacksmith, the
engineer, the carpenter, The milliue1
always earns far more than common
uneducated laborers.
Sir Isaac Newton left visible s'foot.
prints" never to be obliterated, BY
diligence and study. The men of ed
ucation. of study and labor shape the
policy Of Nations and govern their
actions. 1t is the privilege of every
one to aspire to some degree Of affid-
ence. There are gradations, and it
is with the parents to say what posi-
tions they will prepare their children
to occupy.
The speaker enforced the necessity
of education in ordinary, every day
affairs by incidents where farmers had