GEORGIA AND EDUCATION.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 1, 24 October 1887, Page 4

GEORGIA AND EDUCATION.

m Tho State of Georgia lias passed a till making it a nime m l< todi a white child in u colored school, or a «nlt-rcd child in a wl he school. rivi the i il'mco is punishable with hu:d labor wit Is the chain gang. The psetcncf. for this nu-nsme is tho fear uf mistegcjiivinii, sunl its aim is directed against the Attnnia University—an inßtiluiio'.i ei.now ed with Northern phitan throj-hy and supplied with a full Corps of North, in pi cfes.-or- - . "his University ifl designed to ] r.-nmi Mid qualify colored inMi and women lor Unuhim’, pmuhing, doctoring, and pleading for their race, both in ih’s count; y and in Afiica. Tho popular li e itig is s i strong fgtriM the faculty that ihoy are socially ostracised, » mid their children e; mint ho ei’uca‘i d in ajiv other jo h'*ol in the Stale without insult, hemes' they ore tho children of * nigger icm lins.' Ilvnce there tire seven white children enrolled among the stmien's of Atlanta University whose parents are i inch r . The colored youth, whether of Gaur.in or any other State in tho Union, has t s good a light io dr are an education. aitd cv,iv other adv ntr-go of ■*o«rsonal cultivation n- the white youth. To halo him hemes 1 - he is found eagerly embracing (ho host opportunists ii’id making the last use of thorn is she acme of meanness 'I ho toloretl people of Amoric.i with an inheritance act tiring from centuries of onslavi nn nt, have a hard « nough hot; to r-'w nt h< st. If the iwistot ratio youth t.f G orgia a:e n r raid of competition wlrlv on li a siuico, they betray acow.udi cof which they ought to he ashamed. To close the las! school in the hlnic and semi tho faculty to the chain pang because they permit their* own children to , recite to themselves along with o her pupils is a quest on by itself. It will bo as easy for Georgia So dodge a stroke of !i> di'ning n< to e <••*•'* s* - ' it. and cm;-ii.'ii-nM ott of tl c . i n pwp e.