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Education Intelligence

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
October
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Nrgroes. - We opine that if a slrictcr ; senrch ihan at present is praclised wero j inslituled over this city, vast nutnbers of negroes might be caughl in the act oflearn ing lo rcad, fmm white uboiiüonists. it was not long sincc tiiat we hearu of a' diiro ownec in the upper pari of this city ' who, on hearing tor severa! nights ' cesaively a low murmuring souud in the j1 rooms oT-his negroes, went to lialen j i y to see what it wns a bout. He fouud ft cluster ofthreeor four with booka in i their luindá alteni[;ting the praclice of reftd ing and on inquiry, found farthcr that (hsy 1 had been in Ihe habit of paying fifty cents ! a week, to a schoolmasicr in the neighborJiood lor his abolition pidlanihropy in the iremisefl. Il is very certain thnl our hivehoh'ers pannot watcti their negroes (oo narowly, and if vo wish to remain as wc r.mv are.a compact and contcn'.ed peos)lo,every or.e of them thus cè'ugh't reariing ór t'ryrng to learn, skould be visite d with las'ics. This tnery scem a hurén doctrino buít ilií not half so harsh as the bulchery of our l'y.milies and children. We hope m this caeo ihe oíd Tjaún niaxim of verbum setp. wiW be sufficient.Thifl paragrnph is too cold-blooded, loo hëatheish, to hear commenting upon or cxchiimingagaiiist. "To visit with tlie !a&!) Üiree or four ehivos with bo"ks in ' tlieir hands, aHemptiug ihe raclice of ' réndigg' is au act soditslardlynnd mean, ihat all epilhets nnd exccralions fiiil. 'I'his orsly will wc eay, that the story as here lold, is no "ahohtion lie," that it is notlhs ' síalc story of a hall cenltiry sinco ' ronce. A liet lo over a month since, and this "crime ot'lcarniüg lo read" wüb co[üii'8.', sroïl the rec:ttl oi'it with comments caine warui ;;:id fresh fro:n the pen of lliQ , editor of the "Crescenl City." Aiici rcmcniber, this is a point on the map of busy liíV- a fair deleniation oflife as it now i-: -.i '.Uw Qi-laiifti Think of ihat pubüc seytSraeQt wbick cun requirc, or even enda.re, i'rom the pen of a editor, such n '.hut iirrtï (o learn to read 'sjioulS he visit.edyrbiho lash.' 'ïirnov.tn :o is UQ ilicr of devo'ion, cay? I moihcr cliurcli. 'Iguorance '13 the ncílier j of elavery,' says Ihu slaveholdcr, andgives t:-5 hcartv ariietr at the cm! of tUe iafh, - .Uut liie blow falls, t may Lg, upon the puorslave white in the very act of ppell:ig J-c-3 a-s - ihe inune of the blessed Redremer. Ah, wül the keeneyed New Y. Obsérror, so sensilive uncier the advanec3 wfüch Pupsry is raaking in our countjy, seo r.nv thir.2 aianninjï in thia ?