The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
It is very hard to understand the animus of the recent attempts
to cripple or destroy this noble school (Atlanta University)
by Gov. Gordon and his followers. They have threatened to take
away the $8,000 a year of United States money, and a bill is
before the Legislature and has been reported favorably from
committee to punish with a year of the infamous chain-gang of
Georgia and with a fine of $1,000 the crime of some of the
white teachers in allowing their own children to enter the
classes they instruct. This has been a characteristic feature
of the school, and one that has contributed materially to its
phenomenal success in putting and keeping the negroes on their
best behavior. If some of the most intelligent and refined
white people are willing to face the bitter ostracism of the
South and work for their benefit to the utmost limit of their
strength—and sometimes, as in the case of the late lamented
President Ware, far beyond it—and besides all this put their
own children into the same classes with them, the negroes must
indeed be vile and thankless if it did not stimulate all that
is good and repress all that is bad in them.
It is certain that the sort of people sent out by the American
Missionary Association will not be deterred by ruffianism of
this sort from doing what they believe Christian duty requires.
What object Gov. Gordon and his abettors—and it looks very
much as if the silver-tongued Grady is among them—can have in
stirring up sectional bitterness in this way it is hard to see.
But the fact that such an outrage should be even proposed is
evidence that the awful lesson of the war as to the impolicy
of treating men and women as if they were mere animals has not
yet been learned by some who boast that they belong to the new
South. That it can be helpful to industrial development and
render a residence in Georgia inviting to the most desirable
Northern people no one who knows the facts can believe.
THE NEW YORK HERALD.
The Glenn Bill, which passed the Georgia House of
Representatives, has caused a great deal of hot-tempered
discussion. The constitution of the State is opposed to the
co-education of black and white children. All right. The people
of Georgia are on the ground and ought to know what is for
their best interest. If they see fit to afford educational
facilities to colored children in one school and the same
facilities for white children in another school, well and
good. And if they decree that white teachers shall teach white
children and colored teachers shall teach colored children,
nobody will shrug his shoulders. The object, which is to offer
a good common-school education to every child in the State,
will be attained.
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