San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-27
AUSTIN LETTER.
The Schocls,-importan of Edu-
eating the Negro as we'll as
Teaching the Negro Re-
lIOinn etc.
l!Rion,-e etc,
AUSTIN, Tex, June "a, 1SS!

| AUSTIN, lex, d ulle "a, 1000.
EDITOR LIGHT: We promise to be-
gin where we left off, amid the per-
ambulations of our public school clos
ing exercises. Our last visit was 10
the blind, deaf and dumb asylums,
on Friday night, the l4th instant.
This last seems to be be best of all.
This institution is well managed and
has done good work in the rapid ad-
vancement of these unfortunates. The
standing in scholarship averaged 80 to
9S. Centennial medals were awarded
several of the students for good be-
haviOr as well as for scholarship. The
new building is erected in the best
modern style for the purpose, and
takes its place at once among the best
eleemOsynary institutions of any state
in the Union. This, together with
other efforts made to better the con-
dition of the colored people should
signify a great deal. While our hearts
are gladdened for moment, over
these good deeds, we are made to feel
yery sad on account of acts of cruelty
euualling any ever recorded of Indian
cruelty. There is a great deal to be
done by the good people of the country
| to overcome the evil done by such
demagogues as Col. T. B. Edgington
| in his decoration Grafton at Memphis,
| Tenn. Who can overcome the wicked
| impressions which he made in the use
of statistics? If it be true that the
fecundity of the Negro race is as great
as he makes it out, who Will under
take to interfere? If it be true that
the scions of the revolutionary fathers
increased only SO, who can help that
Any reasonable man can see at once
that no help can be afforded outside
of the noble Anglo-AmeriCan, except
such blessings as come from Almigh-
tv God, in the shape as she sendeth
rain upon the just and the unjust
Col. EdgingtOn may be able to fight
against the weaker part of his fellow
cOuntrymen, but he can achieve little
or nothing when he fights against
Him who "hatn determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds of
their habitation." His English
sparrow story is very illogical
to illustrate the point i'll view.
He should have thought OF
the declaration that not zone sparrow
shall fall to the ground, without ms
heavenly Fathers notice" His rab-
bit story is also wide of the mark,
unless it be trne that the Australian
rabbits are mora powerful than the
Australian men. There are thought
full private soldiers who do not belong
to the G. A. r., who can see as far
into this stone as a colonel. Ihose
journals who have quoted the COloneI
so extensively, never left out the Sig
nigcant fact, that the Colonel belongs
to the &. A. r. When he lifts up his
stentorian voice, warning the Amer
can people against the horrors OF the
Ethiopian Fetch, the question arises
were the first twenty slaves sold at
lanes Town, 1920, teachers of the Fe-
ticho AS slaves, were they teachers
of ANYTHING. or were they taught any
thing by the anti-ravOlutionary Faith
ers? If they were taught anything,
was it the Ethiopian Fetch: If the
Colonel knows anything about the
slave system he knows that their
constitution would not permit
them to learn anything but what
was taught them by their masters.
The religion and religious ideas OF
the slave where taught him by his old
master, and the survivors of that slave
system and their increase, verify be-
lieve in that religion taught from the
Bible. as thousands of preachers
learned learned in the Bible doc
trine, ATTEST: There are less changes
i'm the religious beliefs of the Amerl-
can negro than in any other falling OF
which he may be accused by friend or
foe. To be plain, there is something
VERY rotten at the bottom Of statistics
when used to tell about negro increase
or decrease. \ few years ago, 1873 to
1879, the papers We're filled with tig-
ures showing the great mortality of
the American negro. Following in
the wake of the fearful advise of these
wide awake journals, Mr.. Fred Doug
lass and other distinguished COlOred
men. with the aid of few white men,
organized what was known as the
sanitary commission. | could not
learn the result OF their findings,
though they must have found an
elephant, but never told any
| body the size of it. Mr.. Editor
| there is an unrest among the
cOlored people Of many sections OF the
! states, which grows out OF the at
tempt to prove the gospel true of the
false prophets who prophesled that
| the negro III free state would perish
and disappear from the face OF
| the country. But many such
prophets have lived to contemplate at
! leisure their rash sayings. l have
noticed the different efforts to migrate
the negro TO some foreign country or
sterile section il" America. | have
never believed in the theory, and can
see no reason why I should promul-
gate such doctrine. | believe Ameri-