The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-10

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me nils OF light beyond.
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iisIoHf' At ROANOKE COLLEGES
~ meeting OF The board OF trustees
OF Roanoke College, hold last Tuesday
u resolution was adopted dcclorin,. ~,
'ii's 1ollcGe has boon and is loyal
% me ideals Of the South, appreciatinr
heartily the memory Of the brave and
hoblo heroes and gratefully tho many
PRINCIPLES for which they have stood J,
'hat the abiding; influence of tbo
souths contribution 10 the nation wn,
w secured not by spirit or sectional.
ISM party passion ana popular prciu.
dice, which Injuries rather than he,n.
any cause. but by the spirit Of fair
ness Judicial calm and that love OF tho
truth which is willing to give due con.
sideration to all Of thc facts 81,
9i'e' mat II Is the miss on Of Roanoke
So!iese as an educational institution
70 stand for free and full Investigation
IN search for the truth to deyelop lis
students into men Of broad knowled,ro
SOUND judgment. mental power and I'm.
flsht character that they may become
men OF breadth and fairness capable
Oh seeing all sides Of question"
rms resolution was adopted BY tho
trustees because objection has been
mace 10 one Of the books used bv Tho
teacher of history in that institution
l-'S'oi history OF the United states"
IN which the South is not fairly ar
'fotatuiiy represented Judge w w.
Mofiett called the attention Of the an
thorities to certain inaccuracies IN ~.
history particularly the base slande,,
= contains about the relations OF the
Soulhern masters to the negro women
owned by them before The war and
forbade MS daughter IA student ~ The
eoiiege' 70 attend the history classes
while ii Is III use Then tho matter
~ mo me newspapers, and now
me trustees have apparently taken The
stand that this method Of tcachjp, bi..
tory shall be continued. Ii is expIainod
mat The President OF the College tha
Key. DR., AIorellcad, for whom we hava
great respect, has given the head or
each department the privilege OF Sc
iectins his own books and dcterminina ..
the other details OF lis department aud
Professor Thorstenburg, the head OF
the History Department. has selected
Eison's History. "for its merits ana
iiol iot lis detects and the reason,
as given By the trustees in their state
ment, is that this local public semi.
ment, nisgliidedly awakened. is due
largely 10 failure to appreciate tbe
diherence between a book in COLLEGES
used as basis of instruction and dis
cussion and a textbook in schools OF
lower grades What is called Gle
TOPICAL method Of Instruction. In his
tory is employed at Roanoke, and this
IS now 1t works when the question OF
slavery in the South comes UP Tor con
sidefation and Illustration:
Tie most revolving feature Of
sidNeFS III America, one that he his
'orlan bushes 10 record (but history
must aeai with factS), was hat too
often the attractive slave woman was
"a prostitute 10 her master, that her
children bore the stamp of his coun-
tehance; and yet, according to the in
HeNlDle rule of the slave States thew
shared the condition Sf the mother.
and We're sold by their own father.
This evil was widespread in the South.
as the mixed condition of the black
race to-day Will testify sister OF
president Madison declared that though
the southern ladies were COMMUNICATED
with the name OF vile, they were only
the mistresses of seraglios. a leading
southern lady declared to Harriet Mar
tlneau that the wife of many planter
was but the chief slave OF his hare1n.
Some slave owners, however could not
bear the thought Of selling their own
children, and they planned for their
ultimate freedom But the death of
the master often caused his plans to
mlScafrY An extreme example from
Collin will wildly illustrate this point
"A Nirginian owned a beautiful
ocioroon who became the mother OF
q son III whose veins flowed the blood
Of the master. No one could detect
g trace of African blood in the child.
When still a Child the father sent him
into another State TO be educated and
taught useful trade. He grew to
manhood, married 81 white woman, had
family OF iivc children, and was a
highly respected citizen. Neither he
nor his friends had the rcmotcst
knowledge that he had been born OF a
slave woman Meanwhile his father
dlcd, and Tho heirs In settling tho cs-