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_NEGRO EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH,lit the course of a Lincoln titty ml-drcKH, Um\ Dr. Winslow Adams, I In* inoitor of a Methodist church In Schenectady, N Y., which it, one of the , Inrgeat anti most Influential In tin-I Kind, staled I hut Die hp.it monrnm-nt• Hint pmili) hj erected for Lincoln wan ^ 1 he educe ion of the hlncktt In .Hit*. Sonili. Thu re cun It? only om* Infer*. I'Bcf drawn from the h punch of Dr.f; Admits Hint Hint I' that the negro h .' miIferinjy from wont of education; In other Words, lliut tho South is ni*-;vli'ctliix the education of the black*We presume thru Dr. Adams* remarks ^ were based OH IfTOnranqe of tins net mil . eoil ill I Ion of affair;; as they now ifie* i vail and here prevailed ullke the war.• and peril ups It will he Junt rm well in t'lillnhlen him ho that In the future he will not allow lil.N hearers |o arrive[ at a eOHOlHwlon that the ncgrft is lie* Inn totally neglected ! It Is a fact plainly shown by the 1 slnHfttlcnl icoords that up to the year ' |IlCW the KoyernrnetitH of the reveraI . corn in on wealth a |u tin1 South had ex*; ponded, derplte the Impoverishment ro wilting front the civil war, more than $:Sfio,dO0dtt)(i on negm Hchoobi and more than ninety per com. of thIs money was raised from the laxot paid by the whit** people of the Month This Is a fact quite well understood . by ft Hiial! ntimher of welt Informed and hroinLtnlnded people In lln? Xnrth, hut It does not appear to he known to the Northern people generally, or If I It Ik, It Is judiciously Ignored. The I truth Is that the people or the South have placed Hie negroes in st better r 1,11)1 lit ton mi far a.i Ihe chance*!, of an t mliicatlOn arc roncenicd, than any i hut the most prosperous class of t white -. All ihe advancement the ne-! green of the South have made they 1 owe to the white maw and iuo; t of Itto Ihe white nmn of the South, They were first lifted out of n condition of . actual savagery by the? Industrial . training received during the years of t slavery, and now their children are , helng educated at tha white man's - expense and their youths of college ] age arc free to enjoy educational ad* f vantages witch as are not within reach• i of the poorer classes of whiten In the South, Alt Ihlrigti conshlbrmL Hie I Southern negroes havo been rotmtrku* i lily well tlikeu care of, although theyand their sentimental friends of the f X or Hi are apparently unable to np-i proclhte it. Perhaps the education 1 of i he negroes would Da a 111 tin;-; monument lo Lincoln, and If the pro*. jee: «s attempted the South would . not put any barrier In the way, hut » Just the savne k ig very human and a very natural that the people of the . South want to be given credit for . what they have done for tho blacks.
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Newport News Daily Press
Newport News, Virginia, US
Sat, Feb 15, 1908
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