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Harper's Weekly, November 18,
1865, page 723 (Article) |
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| The two following extracts from the
Houston Telegraph, in Texas, are significant. If the education of the people is to
continue—and even the Democratic party have not yet declared openly and directly
against it—all other questions will be easier of solution. The first extract is from
the issue of September 29: |
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| "More than half the
spelling-books now sold in Houston go into the hands of negroes. Several schools for
colored persons are now in operation here and in Galveston. Many planters buy a stock of
school-books for the schools already not unfrequent upon the plantations. We believe this
is the proper thing, and that the education of the negroes in the elements of knowledge
will aid in a hopeful solution of the question whether freed labor will be successful, and
whether the negro race will survive their freedom." |
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| The next is from an editorial in the same paper of
September 30: |
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| "Meanwhile if some Southern
State, desirous of increasing its political power, should present a Constitution admitting
of universal suffrage some time or in some way, it seems to us the wind would be taken out
of the sails of both the Northern contestants. We are not this summer prepared to say that
any thing is too wonderful or strange to be possible. Politicians are mighty uncertain,
and what they will do can not be foretold by what they have done." |
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| We do not despair of seeing a party
of equal rights in the Southern States to join that in the other parts of the country; and
when that party controls the late rebel as well as the loyal States we shall have once
more an era of good feeling. |
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| Harper's Weekly,
November 18, 1865, page 723 (Article) |
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