The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-05-16
COLORED PEOPLES EDUCA
TIONAL DAY.

A'NA''''B VI th'7 w ~ 49, 1880
d by the Exposition Managers fol
the educational celebration OF the
cololed people.
| This was fitting. 1t may in truth
he said thar no greater proof ofpro-
gress is to be found within the ex
pansive exhibits Of the Exposition
than that showing the rapid stride
In the education Of the eOlored race;
aud certainly no Improvement is
fraught with greater benefit to the
political, social and material pros
perity Of the country than the
thorough education of that race
upon whom only recently a benign
government has permitted the boon
oEeducatiOn. AS was the HERALD'S
representation, 80, by an examIna.
ton Of the work exhibited, would
any one be impressed by the evil
NCAbO vi thiS IJIOStcSS'
Whether in the solution of math-
ematical problems, mechanical
desig =, neat lcgible handwriting
or in apt aud though ful expression
i'll composition, there is apparent,
throughout the colored educational
exhibits, evidences OF intelligent
scholarship and good instruction.
While personal examination
would be necessary to full apprecia
ton of this, yet the HERALD having
been kindly furnished with u copy
OF Il composition among the Ken
lucky cOlored exhibits, takes the
liberty Of publishing ii, MOI ouly as
illustrative Of what has herein been
said, but as creditable model of a
school girls composition.
, The character of the subject is the
reason Of its selection from among
> many other compositions equally
creditable.
Regarding the writer's evident
anxiety as to evil consequences from
democratic ascendency to national
power, it is only necessary to say,
that should, as there is now reason
to believe, President Oleyeland's
administration gradually diSpel this
fear, now, doubtless, would more
checrfully render him credit therefor
than the race of whom this young
scholar is creditable representa-
tive.
Name Of Scholar, SARAH FlNNEY,
Residence, Louisville, Kentucky.
Department, Normal. Class, Second
Year. Subject, History. Teacher,
| MARY V. Cook.
"IlNCoLN's ADMINISTRATION"
Every freeman'S ,healt should
bound with joy and emotion at the
mere thought OF that greatest and
noblest of all Presidents of the
United States, and the greatest OF
all the emancipatOrs of over four
million souls. Any one familiar
with the political history Of the
times knows what desperate tactics
tho democrats resUrted to, that they
should keep control OF the National
Government. No wonder that il
Was necessary for Lincoln to dis
gulSe himself on lea1 my his beloved
home ANA friends to 20 to a place
where every one was hostile toward
nm; tor III my opinion his life would
not have been Worth moments
purchase III some OF the places which
he travelled through on his way to
the nations capital. Lincoln never
waNered in his determination to do
that which WAS just and right, and
was wiling 10 Goncede mythin.
within human reason 10 avert a
c!islS, alwaystrustingi in the Supreme
Being who gave him life. After
long years of anxiety aud war he
came out c0nqueror, only to be az
SaSsinated. lie had foughta good |
hight aud kept the faith, aud was
incurred by the whole Northern
nations. Az | write, at this mo.
ln.n mt, news has come that tho party |
that tried and nearly succeeded in
wrecklng the whole country aud |
caused y civil war OF over tour wears |
duration has again assembled to
power. EVIL forebodlngs hover in
my mind, for they have never been
u friend TO my race in the past, and |
We cannot EXPECT any more from
them in the future. Lincoln was
every where known, fiom his youth
up, as "Hunest Abe" After his
accession to the Presidency, his
history, like Washington's, is iden.
titled with that q! his country. He
WAS tall ,ungainly man, Ii tie rerSed
III the TctinenentS OF Society bat
gifted 10y nature with great common
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