The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-23
Old John Browns Body Lies
Wondering In the Grave. but
his Soul Goes MarchingOn!

MS SO0i AOeS W On
Charlotte has long had a Presbyte-
RAN Normal School for negroes. similar
to st. Augustine's and Shaw University
at Raleigh. The new buildings of Bid
die University are pronounced the
finest in North Carolina, except the
capitol.
Last week a large delegation of prom
inent Charlotleese were invited out to
inspect the new edifce. They were
heartily entertained by DR.. Nation,
and as usual a meeting was held to ex-
press the sentiments Of the meeting.
Gen. Rufus Berringer, OF the late Rebel
Cavalry, presided. Gen. Tho.. F. Dray-
ton, whose ancestors built "Drayton
Hall" near Charleston. ). c.. $50 years
ago, made the speech of explanation.
He, with Col. John l.. Morehead and
Col. VIM. Johnston, and Sam'l Witt
kowsky. and John Wadsworth, and
Mai. Wood Fleming, and Capt. Harri-
son Watts,--six Of the richest men in
North C~arolina,--were appointed to
draft resolutions and report them to a
meeting in the City Hall tonight, ex-
pressing the good will of the city to-
wards this negro college!
MORE.
In this connection we note the point
made by Maj. Bingham before the L.
S. Senate Committee on the Education
al Bill. Referring to Rev. DR.. Nation,
he remarked that SO little prejudice
exists il the South, that the daughters
of a President OF a negro college were
in great demand at uncominonly high
salaries for Art Teachers in our leading
northumberland that two Of the most
~arristocratic doctors of the capital city
had accepted professorships in a colored
medical college.
Selah. Don't you see?
History of the Human Race has but
one instance Cthe jews wherein a Ma
ton. after being finally conquered in a
struggle for Freedom and National In
dependence failed to fade and suffer
gradual extinction by absorbing the
habits, and vices of the on
quering power. The Moors, the Greeks,
the Polanders, the Indians, Mexicans.
ETC., are illustrations of this gradual de-
generacy, resulting from submission to
the loss of Fl eedom. Nations as well
as individuals learn in time to hug the
chain which broke their spirit, aud
crippled their manhood.
There are many interesting signs of
the assimilative conquest of the South
by the Yankee Pen following the devas-
tation of the Yankee Sword. Our
presses, pulpits, platforms, and politi-
clans pirate Of OF practical Progress -
but after all our widest. largest, swiftest
alteration has been in mental and moral
matters, rather than money-making and
machinery. The TRANSPORTATION of
souls, or Yankeeization of the South
is something startling to the small rem
nant of Southern pride which remains
among us.
Thirty gears dgo-an Abolitionist was
looked upon as a villain, now he is a
Saint, and many a Southern school boy
of to-day wonders how his grandfather
could have been so brutal and barbarous.
IUenty gears ago the Yankee Blue"
was abhorred, as representing all that was
vilest in the invasion of our homes: now
it is formally adopted, to the casting off
of the Grey which is a Southern Color,
even if it had never been honored by our
gallant Dead. Ten gears ago Negro
schools were a nuisance: now they are
sought for as an ornament to the towns.
SiI gears ago white women who taught
negro schools had little social recognition,
now it is publicly asserted that as soon as
the Educational Bill raises the salaries
our white ladies will rush for the Negro
school houses! -Four gears age, inter
marriage Of whites and blacks raised a
riot now it is frequent, and Ia ten years
will be common.
Franklinton Weekly, edited by Pro-
fessors Gulley and Hines, speaks apollo
geticaily for having copied an article CEN
suring the idea that our ladies would ever
teach negro schools.
Referring to the fact that some North
ern women are teaching in the colored
school there. the Weekly says
I'VE honor the woman. who has enough
of the missionary spirit about her to leave
her home, friends and all, to labor for
the enlightenment Of any race or people.
May we never SO far forget ourselves as
to say one word ~derogatory to those en-
gagged in this noble work. Our colored
people, and white too, are sorely 10 need
of education. This work must be done
by somebody. 1t is best for the colored
people and for the country at large, that
they have the best of teachers. If they
have not teachers Of their own color, why
it is a blessing to the community if some
phllanthropic people from the North
come down here and teach them. 1t is
missionary work"
We may agree with the Weekly when
see these missionaries not anxious
for wages; and not more prejudiced
against the Southern whites than anxious
to serve the negro.