The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-06-01
Education in the South.

its editorial utterances during and
after the war. In order that the
Kentucky brethren may under
stand how they stand in the esti-
nation Of this journal Of civiliza-
ton, whose editor is willing to
60 to war for the gold standard, If
somebody else can be hired to be
shot iii his stead, The Dispatch
prints few choice extracts from
its columns. The election Of Hon.
William L. Wilson to the presi-
dency of Washington and Lee
University is the pretext Of the
editorial. 1t says:
He is about to turn his attention to
the education of southern youth, in
the hope of doing something for that
section of the country and for enlight-
ening the ignorance that now unhap-
PLY prevails among its public men {.
Surely there never was people more
in need of education, and OF such edu-
calion in mind and morals as Mr..
Wilson can impart and inspire.
The South is wrong on every eco
nomic and social question. 1t has
not man of distinguished ability
in public life. 1t is under the rule of
hair-brained adventures who are
ready to take up with any cause that
seems to serve their ambition OF the
moment. 1t has become the harbor
an refuge Of the widest econom-
ic and political heresies.
Not only is the present intellectual
condition of the South demoralizing
the entire section. but its evil infu-
ence extends throughout the country,
! and very seriously affects the charac-
ter of the Federal government.
Chaucey M. Depew in his ad-
dress before the alumni of Van
derbilt University said that the
only genuine Americans left in
this country were found in the
South. He did not agree with
this writer in Harper's Weekly in
his estimate Of the South.
The South is guilty Of but one Of
Tense which provokes this sort Of
attack. 1t has honest men and
virtuous women. 1t is Anglo
Saxon in blood, in spirit and in
civilization, and does not believe
in mixed races, and therefore its
civilization is an ofense to those
Of mized blood, corrupt princi-
Piles, and the debased instinct
which Graves social equality with
the negro.
The writer in Harper's Weekly
possibly might rank socially with
our southern negroes, but the as
ISOLATION, if actual, would be hurt
full to the morals of the negroes.
He might grade morality with a
certain class of adventures among
US who have managed to rob our
people without breaking into the
penitentiary, but he would none
the less morally belong to the So
ciety Of our penitentiary convicts
of the more accomplished grades.
He may be self educated fool,
and, beyond doubt, he is an igno-
rant, lying, pharisaical ass, whose
brains are not above the consisten-
cy of buttermilk.
He has probably seen the South
from a car window, and his asso-
Citations with southern-bred and
raised people have no doubt been
confined to negro cooks, walters,
BARRIERS and hostlers, to whom he
may have been superior in ap-
pearance, but to whom he is in
ferior in all else that God implants
in man to distinguish him from
.the brute creation. We judge
lin from his utterances. Perhaps
E do him injustice. He may
1>~e been one of those doughty
riors who followed in the wake
s an E armies and robbed the dead
: field of battle and the de-
s-------- &C ,uon,en and children in