The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-11-08

eni ~ their hfuIheft fttft pupil vas
compelled "a lfafh s0Me fnl ari -
manual lahuf Which would b. a a.
,snee against heeoming a burden % b. |
cieii, beside hasins The hest tralnlnf /
In ali the industrial and several ~ the |
essential personal, mental. social and
public virtues No pupil was 10 ~
helped ns lone AZ be vas able. ~ she
fall sxertise Of his faculties. 70 help
himself The schooling was al In the
English language. and fairly rcpn-
scented the GRADED system of public In
struction with suitable adaptation TO
the pupils. His teachers. with few eN
cepiions. were white men and women.
Industrial expers, or graduates from
the hest Institutions u the country
and the teaching force had always been
equal TO the highest. most cultured and
socially accomplished faculty In any
American academical school The girls
were trained In practical housekeop-
ing. not OF the plantation lut Of the
superior modern type At the center
of the institution be established n
thorough Normal school. with great
practice department for teachers and,
incidentally. an arrangement FOR train
ing ministers He placed the ins, itu-
ton In vital connection with. though
not subject TO. the State OF Virginia;
which subsidized Il for the industrial
training by $4,000 year. The Pea
body and Slater Educational Funds
and. az first, the Freedmen's Bureau
and the American Missionary Associa-
ton did likewise. BY and by. the Ma
tional Government co-operated and
paid the expense of training a hundred
Indian youth for leadership Of their
own race. As the school grew In num-
bers and the policy developed. the Am
erican people North and South, and
| friends from abroad came to its relief.
| IL was seen at once to lie a master
stroke of educational. industrial, social
| and religious organization: a true uni
vcrsity OF Christian civilization: for
| the training OF the superior class OF
| colored youth for practical leadership
of their race towards their high calling
of sovereign American citizenship.
Gen. Armstrong. like his own great
schoolmaster, Dr. Hopkins. OF Williams
\ College, Massachusetts,, only taught his
/ senior class in what was called men
tai and moral philosophy; but was,
really, the science of Christian man
hood. But his great work, like that
| of Horace Mann and Henry Barnard
before him, was a Ministry OF Educa-
ton; showing the people of the United
States how In one school of work to
| lift up the children and youth to SELF
supporting, self-directed and sslf-con-
trolled citizenship In republican
state. For years. along with DR.. Sears
and DR.. Curry, Of the Peabody fund. he
was the only man to whom the people
of both sections and races. all political
parties and church and classes listened
in the educating OF the negro with
hope, agreement and cooperation. He
wore himself out in middle life. like
the good soldier he was, and asked and
received soldiers funeral. He was
not literary; but his reports and adj
\ dresses read like military orders from
the headquarters of a Commander-iu-
chief in a New Departure in the edu-
cation OF mankind.
His Hampton School is now confess
sedly ahead Of any institution in the
world organized for the educating,
Outstanding. civilizing and general
uplifting OF the people who still re-
main. under different names. ma
jority OF the human race. II Is sup
ported largely by the free gifts of the
people; but deserves a great endow-
ment beyond any in the country AL
ready has this great experiment borne
fruit He educated Mr.. Booker r..
Washington, the first educational
statesman yet produced by the colored
race: who has taken one step beyond
his master. in proving that similar
school can be taught and managed en-
tirety by corps Of colored teachers
and industrial experts, with similar re-
lations to the State OF Alabama as
Hampton to Virginia. Within the past
twenty years every Southern State has
followed this pattern, and each OF them
has now one or more great schools OF
this kind; open to both sexes, free,
with the same blending of moral, in
! dustrial, mental, social and civic
training for superior cOlored youth.
, More than that. beginning with Missis-
sippi, five Of these States have now or
!, ganized a free normal and industrial
college for white girls on the same
principle as Hampton. All the great
UNCONVENTIONAL schools for the COL
ored race, styled colleges and univer-
!. sites; while retaining their depart
, ment OF the higher and professional
education for such as need 1t, in all
, other respects, notably in their indus
trial and normal grades, are being con-
formed to the same standard.
Now that the nation seems to be
. called by Providence to enter upon a
final new departure for the civilizing
and uplifting of several millions Of the
, humber children Of this world, whom
in the islands of the two great oceans
! 1t has emancipated from the bonds OF
civil and ecclesiastical despotism; II
may go forth armed with this last inn
, plement Of American civilization, the
normal and industrial school of Gen
Armstrong, one OF the most notable
timely and far-reaching contributions
to the cause OF a Christian civilization
I yet given to the world And 1t will be
/ demonstrated that the Republic can dc
I all this with no peril to republican In.
? stitutions; and that, as during this past
century, the American people has been
; able to show the world a new and bet
ter way OF dealing with Religion, with
, Education. with Labor. with Society
and Government; II will not reveal to
: the nations new and better way OF H.
Illustrating the old scripture; THE
people which sat in darkness saw q
, great light; and to them which sat in