Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-04-01
se,ts. who has just taken his seat, has made
an earnes, and ingenious appeal here against
our legislating in form that will carry more
benefaction from this bill to the colored than


to the white scholar.
Does the Senator remember that If this
amendment is not adopted each State will
receive its fund upon the basis Of iliteracy
made up largely, as first read by me in the
letter Of Mr.. Thompson, of black iliteracy,
and that when that fund is swollen so that
Mississippi will receive over S60O.0O0. in
stead Of its going for the benefit of the col
ored scholar in the schools. the illterate, it
will go in the proportion of 3 to TO the
white. unless the general provisions which
he dwells upon so much in this bill are suf-
hcient to prevent that
All through this debate everywhere there
has cropped out allusion TO the vast mass of
black illiieracy that has not yet been touch
ed BY the living fire Of education 1t lies in
all the States, and immense mass blacker
than Cimmerian darkness. that is threaten
ing US to-day, and no school that has vet
been maintained and no system that the
Southern States have been enabled to pursue
and keep up has touched or transmitted
fire to that great mass. But if you send
this appropriation Iargel, for the benefit Of
the illlteracy that exists there. then. in
stead Of its unduly increasing the term
of the colored schools, il will radiate and
penetrate farther and farther year By year, so
that where there are one thousand colorsd
children attending school to-day there will
be two thousand another year. aud three
thousand another. and FIVE thousand another
and at last this whole mass will be trans
fused with the light that We are seeking 10
.end there to the colored race and that will
be the practical benet, Of il, and there will
be no an,agonisn, between the length Of
schools Of, the white and the coiored scholars
Now what are you going to do With this
amendment, Mr.. President What i, to be
us fate 1t can be beaten. The Senator
from New Hampshire. the Senator from
New York. and the Senator from Massa-
cnusetts. and other Senators on this side,
with solid vote upon the other side, may
defeat th. amendment. That is not an
infrequent thing. The uneduca,ed. the
iliiterate. the poor, the de.pised. the down
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