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NEVER SAY FAIL.
Keep pushing—’tis wiser
Than sitting aside.
And dreaming and sighing
Ami waiting the tide.
In life’s earnest battle
They only prevail.
Who dully march onward
And never say fail!
With an eye ever qp n,
A tongue that’s not dumb,
A heart that will neve •
To sorrow succumb—
You’ll but*le and conquer
Tho’ thousands assail,
How strong and how mighty!
Who never say fail!
The spirit of anglo3
Is active I know.
As higher and higher
In glory they go;
Methinks on bright pinions
From Heaven they sail,
To cheer and eucourage
Who never say faili
Ahead then keep pushing
And elbow jour way,
Unheeding the envious
And asses that bray!
All obstacles vanish.
All enemies quail.
In the might <>f th ir wisdom
Who never say fail!
In life’s rosy morning,
In manhood's Gnu pride,
Let this be the motto
Your foctst.ps t»guide;
In storm and in sunshine.
Whatever as-ail,
We’ll onward and conquer,
And never sny fail!
EDUCATION IN GF0EGIA.
Address of State Sc ool Commission¬
er Oir Delivered Beforg the Late
Colored C invention on Ednca ion-
Held in Atlanta on the 12 h of
December - What Georgia has
Done in th^ way of Hivng
al Education.
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Mr C’hairu,an and Members of the
Convention: It was not untd a very
r . c . nt p,. r „„i six-.t-I heard of the cal -
j ug of this c . uveuti-m. When I hemd
of ir I t.-li veiy great concern in refer-
once to th- c uise that the on vent ion
mi >ht t ike. H is hardly uecissary
tor n.e tosay to an audience in tlie
state O'G -oi gia of any race that I
fe 1 a veiy deep inter* s: in r veiy hmg
ti rot pertains to ti e common schools of
the state. Hence my solicits I
feared tii.it y.'U miglit d > s methiug
when you as-embled which would ret
us back in this great work. If It veiy
anxious that your action should have
the opp.oire 11 effect When you invited
u ( com** before you ^ and address
you, I appreciated the courtesy thus
s)imvn me _ j felt, furt ier. that yon
would ha,dly a ; k me to talk to you
without •xpeciing me to sny what I
thought would be bes: for vou and
the entire stale. I suppose it woul
pie .se y.m best for me to deal
j know it is best for the state; h.-uce
you must receive what I sav as from
Qne w | )0 desires the Welfare of tlie State
and all its citizens.
I am very glad that you have
given me an opportunity of saying
w hat I slut 1 say before you take ac-
tion, Slid as you have in - it d me, it
seems to me tliat I c ni l u. t do as
fitting a service as to sk tch out v r
i briefly the course which 1 think it
would be be-t for you as a convention
j pursue, In the first place, sui 1 hope *-d
1 that this convention wib be t'y
j ucational. I have felt ever since I was
Ci, bed to the high office which I now
; occupy that education ought to be
kept out of party politics and made
I non-partisan. I have sought iu my
■ administiatration to do even-handed
: ju S ti ce to al), and have l.,h,,r d to be
| uou-partisan. Ev* rvtiody knows my
i political alignment but in education I
am a Georgian, and I uni f >r the imer*
; ests of all her people - Now, if you
permit m<-, I will give you a iapid
j sketoh of what I ihink * qu may do and
render a great service to the emse of
edncati* n by doing so. I wish y *u to
! bear in miud , iu the fir-t place, ns I
have air -,idy said, that you unit not
take any action that s pudisan. It
you do yon will do barm. You must
^ Jt) j. t0 lJj<} i„i er e s fc s ; d.,ne
LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY, i8, 1884.
in your action if you expect to a worn"
plish good. In the next place. I
would call your attention to certain
facts, and facts are stubborn things,
We dre compelled always to recognize
them and meet them and try to shape
our couree in reference to them. The
always does this. If you will tiike
the report of the Comptroller Genera)
and look into tlie letnrn of tlie taxable
property of the state, you will find it
foots up in round numbers $268,000,-
000. You will find in another tible
in thot report, tlie proparty of the Col-
otvd people footed up separately The
last return aggregated—I mean tlie re-
turn of the property of the colored
people of the state—six millions and a
half. I sta e it in round numbers,
Taking away this six millious and a
half from tlie two hundred and sixty-
eight millions will leave over two bun-
died and sixty-one millions of tlie
property of the state in the hands of
the white race. Now, some of you
lire accustomed to work arithmetic,
Yon will find that the return is about
one-fortmth of the return made by the
white raco—only about one-fortietb.
What I wish to impress upon you is,
Hint in these facts which I have stated
there is the st longest reason for tie;
course «hich I mu going to advise you
Intake. In view of these f'Cts. your
highest int rest roquir s that your
course shall be conciliatory. I am
sayi >g what I beiieve is for your best
ii.tere^t and the interest of your child
ten and ths inte.iest of the people of
Georgia. I repeat it, tlie state of
facts which I have given you demands
at your hands a conciliatory course in
lefereucu to the question of education.
You ask me nt once, “Hsw can we
be conciliatory? How shall we shape
our action s<> as to show that we are
conci iatoiy?” You must recognize in
the action you tako tliA work that has
been dime in the state of Georgia—the
great w rk that has been done. Now
Ut me give yon a few facts bearidg on
that. I sat down yesterday, at my
(lesk , t , d )oot „ d np ti , e amOHl ,t of
money lint has been ainw opruHen by
si’i-»tateof Gco.giL ,br the v.qqn.rt
eon#n.on school* since I entered office
iw 1S72. I foots up nearly four mil-
l'.-u of dollars. This is the state ap.
prop iatim,. Now we have in tne
stat a number of I locel systems able to w^ere give
they levy t'xe , am not
th * amount levieS nn ler these laws,
It has not been reguriy reported to my
office. I have reason to know, how-
ever, that that amount 'will foot np
considerab’y over another million. We
have, iheref re. expanded on the mat-
ter of couiman schools, since I entered
office, over five millions of dollars,
The colored people of the state have
received, probably, the benefit of over
a million of this—considerably over a
million and u half perhaps. I am not
able to state that positively, because I
have m>t the figures, but I know the
ratio between the amounts applied for
the benefit of the respective races,
The colored people, therefore, got the
benefit of perhaps a million and a
half <>i that amount. Now let ns go
back and see whet has been done by
Hie application of this money.
The first, schools were j)Ut in opera
tion in 1871. The attendance was
forfy-eight thousand, and of these
six thousand were colored children,
We have gone np regularly in attend-
an-e from that year to this day. The
at fin.la c. last ye r footed uo t wo-
li .n;l*ed an i siv y- >ne tiionsiiid.
Now rcollect t mt We liava not
be n in t is cause in Geor/ia like
some other states Other states have
oseilated—moved forward and then
hack ward. The movement in Geor-
gia has been forward from the Vgin-
uiug. From, the itic ptioti of the great
work to the present moment we have
gone on increasing, I said to y<>n
that iu the first schools about six
tlmisHud c**l r d children were taught
The increase has kept even pice
uweeo the two rac-'S. and list year
the colored children of the state at-
tended the sc.ho Is t > the numb r of
ei a ty-five thousand. Let me give
von n few otlilir fac's. I see that Some
of j on have your pencils out I wont
yo i to take down these facts and
think about them. In 1860 the state
of Georgia renin ed six hundred and
syenty-A wo millions of dollars worth
of propeity. The first return after the
warfooted npjooe hundred and seventy
millions. The last return, ns shown
'u the Comptroller-General’s report,
foots up,as I have said, two hundred
and siuty-eight millions. Tho war
swept away five hundred millions of
dollars worth of property, Aeeoidiug
to the present valuation, we have not
got up to within tour hundred millions
of the amount of property owned by
the state of Georgia before the war.
Now, here is what I want to impress
yon, I want you in your action to
recognize this great fact, this great
work that inis been done for yon here
In Georgia, a work, considering tlie
ruin and devastation that had been
wrought in the s ate, that stands out
without a parallel in all history. I
waut you to remember that and recog*
niz« it. In the second place, in the
conciliatory course which I think you
ought to pursue for your interest and
mine, you ought not, only recognize
this great fact that I have mentioned.
bdt yon ought te take ground in favor
of sleeking t> impr>s< upon your
children as they grow up the import-
ar.be of making themselves useful oit-
izens. This comes in right along on
t hr line of the policy which I am
jug to sketch out before yen. Ednca-
turn don’t make a nauir I mean the
education he gets in the schools. Hmr
dreds of schools have tymed out imn
who have been ciphers, though often
pretty fairly educated. What makes
a man j a what he does for 1 1 im-eif after
he has received, an education. A
common school education is ail that
Georgia proposes to give her children,
white or colored. This will do «
good deal for a mac if properly used. ,
I say that what a man Incomes de-
pends on what he does for himself, |
not on wh it can be done for him iu i
the schools. Education is invalable
as a basis on which to Imiki. I want yo i
to recognize that, I address a great
many ministeis Here. Y'ou must
tench y ur people to build on this
foundation which the state is laying,
Y< u will do very little towards the
elcvpfffn foi.ld.tti.m of we your arc trying peogle..until to lay the is
properly built upon. Give an earn, st
to the property owners of the state
that you indeed to d . this building,
that y«u iiVend to impress if upon your
children th.it in order to Make useful
citizens they must not only be int-Jli-
gent, but they must have morality
built upon tliat f-mndatio.i —the mor-
ttlttv taught iu tin* sacred Soriptuies.
They must have 1-ssons of eouorny
impressed upon them mid huliits of
itidu-tr«; these must be taught to
them. Yon very well know that it is
urged against the education of the
colored people that «s soon as a ool*
ored man gets education tie wants to
have labor an.l go into some position
where lie will be free from work. Now
I have not individually sympathize
with this view of the case, 1 have
thought that the indisposition to
labor whs clue to other causes, but
you must so act as to impress upon
tlie men who do hold these views'-
upon the imm who also hold the irrop-
ertv, that you are determined to try
to make useful citizens of your child-
ren. Education don’t lift a man
aliove labor. It is intended to make
of him a more efficient laborer. That
is the true view of it. Foil must
teach your children the importance of
laboring with the adze, with the axe,
with the hoe,-with anything that will
advance tlieir matorial condition and
wib promote tluir material interest,
Seek to impress tiiese lessons oti them
and thus show to the people of tin*
state, linn,ir*ds of whom are watching
yourse, the evidence that you are in
earnest, and are determined to
the best citizens possible out of your
That is th-line of policy
yon should pursue; it is the true line
of conciliation, You may set it down
that property and intelligence will
trol. They have done it j n a q the
pa-t and they will control iu all the
future. Hence it i-< inqjortant lor
yonr race, who are the dependent
race, to show to th< se who have
erty that yon are determ ro d to make
tiie most of the advantages givrni and
r ise yonr children as industrious men
and women. rrv to make good citi-
zeus of timm. Carry with you this
fact also, that tlie state of Georgia is
not able to do all that needs to be
done in this matter of eduoation. W®
have been too ranch impoverished
and remain so. up t<> this hour to do
all that ought to be done. Yon must
recognize this stern fact, and in the
demands that you make you must not
be unreasonable. Home have urged
that tlie state ought to keep up schools
six months. This is done n where in
the United Stat s. Mo K<ate in the
Union does it. Pennsylvania does
not do it even at this late day. nor
Massachusetts. It is not tlie policy of
those states to do all by state action.
They leave much to be done by indi¬
viduals and communities. Let me
advise you not to make exorbitant
demands. Ask for such reasonable
appropriations as the state will justi-
fy. Tho-e of you who are acquainted
with my policy know that I have time
and again asked ^>r more money,
That is the great thing we need. I
think the state can well ufford as she
increases in material resources to give
a little more. She lias been doing it.
She lias been making little additions
and we can continue to make them,
but remember this Work must be grad-
utl. it can’t be brought about in a day.
In the next place, yon mast remember
that you cannot go before congress to
tlsk nati'>tiai aid without recognizing
the fact that the state is in such a con-
diiion that she cann- t do all that
ought to be done- B ar this truth in
mind, recognize it folly in whatever
action you niuy take. Now 1 t me say
to you that you will pursue u very wise
course if you should raise a committee !
to get np u memorial t<> send to cou-1
gjess. You would act well to put our
case as strongly before the represent)!* I
tives of the people as you can wt IJ do,
because that government is rich. He r j
resources are very great. That gey-
emnient is bound to the coloied pco- j
H n(j to the white people too, as I
it, in our condition to
com n f.u ward and aid ns to prepare
01U . ehiltlren to become good citizens:
Lyt me say to you again—let tne ern-
f ,h a8 iz© jt. Y r ou must be concilatory.
You most uot give cflfenaei We must
ul! take that course if we hope to flo ,
an thing with congress. A commis- ]
sion was raised at the Lonisiii'e Ex .
positiou to try to get congiwe to np-:
prepriute money for educa’«-u. X j
| iave the honor to belong tn that com-
mission. You should ad in harmony !
w jth us. You should not do any* |
thing to embarrass us.. You ,
recognize in your action lone our !
wauta lind () „r own earnest effortf to
ni ^ e t tliem. In tlie second place if j
y 0 u are inclined to adopt any resold*
Hons which shall have a partisan com-
plexion, you should consider what af¬
feet they will produce upon a Demo-
cratic house. If you meet here as a
j, , d y of professed friends of ednou-
tion aufl make partisan utiuerauces
you will turn tliat body against you.
Siqipose I and friends should do !
m.y
the same, We would turn Ilia Senate
against us- Don’t you understand i
tin so simple statements. Concilia-
tion is the word. We can’t get the I
money unless we get tlie friends of ed- i
nention of al) parties to come together.
Now I atn very glad to have the op-
portunity to come beforeyou and give
youthe.se thoughts and to present
them before you have matured yonr
action. I hope what I have said here
may be taken into consideration by
you. There is very great weight m jt |
unless I am wholly in error. I am j
talking as the frieud of Georgia, and
of every n an. woman and child in
Georgia. I know that what I am say-
ing is your true iutere>t. I can’t be
mistaken in it; hence the earnestness
with which I urge those views npou
you.
I will give you one other thought
j before I close. I heard in a paper
read here to-day a statement that, im-
der our system as it now exists the
control was entirely, in the hands of
white men. It is so and so it must
remain. Now let me appeal to you as
reasonable men. Suppose that
who control Hie di-posed to do
is right, would you count a thousand
years advantage in experience over
you a small matter? Will it not emi-
: ble its possessors do tile bot for Vou
and ior themselves? A large p er
cent of them want to do the Very best,
I have talked with them and I know
! whereof I affirm. Is it ..ot tiettor to
submit to this state of things and make
1 uo complaint? If wrong should
done, public opinion will hold the men
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who do it to account. I d,.aw hv sny-
ing again that when I 8iw this b.>dv
was to convene in Atlanta I felt a very
deep solicitude, j feel well is-uiml
in my own min-1 that if you deter-
mine to pursue tlie advice of one who
is yonr friend you will make your ae-
tion exceedingly conseruative, and I
close this address by invoking on the
l’art of all the members^thoiougli con-
servntism in the action you may t ike.
I thank you for the privilege of com¬
jog before yen and giving you tin so
views.
Another Nigger Tricked
Not many months ago the columns
of this pap.r contained an account of
the sickness and death of Rev. j e -sj
Gilbert, colored, pastor of the negro
baptist church at this pi ice, and the
sl 'l#seqiu iH trial and expulsion from
the church of oue Edmund JJutler f■ li¬
‘‘conjuiing’ the preacher and causing
his death. Another case of l, tri.>k-
* |J *’ not quite so fatal iu its results
P^’haps, I his was at has .1/ouut come Ena, to the other suifaco.
an negro
, ’ l, " lv!l in this county. U ms >m Hen-
'oison, col nvd, is a sort of a preacher
hintsrdf, a,id for a long time lie win
ns,M * 118 11 substitute at, Mount Ena
the pastor would fail to put
*" * ppearanee. A month or so ago
^ ai,8lU11 * j ad a tmrible spell >,f “uen-
' ,,s ® a ^**d “hd "pou in-
< U 1 * r ** r v/a8 !, y 8 " n,t ' OIJO that ho
corouie b’Hiself by boring a he!- in
ft black-jack oak and fflliog it with*
*‘ nt t,otton K «tuwith whisky; a
oa ^ P' n b ! driven in the hole
an< * sawed of! close to the tree. R a »-
sOm went h->mv full of home deter
mined to carry out the instruction a to
letter. Ho and his wife lia 1 Ii id a qu ( r-
rel the day before, and lnyav n'v. d homo
to find her pou iug, It was dint, long
liofore Bunsom has the hole bored in
a black-jack and the white oak ]>io
pivpaled. When he came t > tho
lions-* and cani-d from*it the pieoa of
cotton ^.tuwt-d S« r whiaky, hi wife
' vafc,,eJ awJ follow,! him t*.
the woods. Wh m tha cult m was in-
8er,e ‘ 1 1,1 tho ho,e rtn<1 nnn , ’ ,,J was
g lv **l> the pin it was ns much ns the
P ol,t ’"K wlf e «>nM stand, and, jam; -
fr, '“ « tree, besides fright-
,un 8 l»0'«Kans half to death, charged
him Avith iixiu’a trick to “kunjurs”
her, and Leaped upon his neuralgic
ht>aa the mostabudveepithets. 4 Ra»m
got mad and gave her wt satisfaction
ubout tlie matter telling her that she
“monght” hove h *r own way’bout it.
But be hadn’t got far out of hearing
before ths old wom in lit on that black
jack with ax, maul an I wedge; unrl
brought the contents of that hole to
the house between two pieces of pine
bark not daring to i»ncli it with her
bands. The same cards that combed
ber head were used oa the coiton. She
never thought of this, and as soon as
8 b« found some of her wool mixed iu
that cottoq. her wrath was insurmouiU*
ft ble. Hhe reported Brer Hansom to
Ibe church. Ciiaig sof ttickeiy were
preferred against him, and lie was
about to be turned out <>f the church,
when one of the brutheis arose and
explained to the members the agony
he himself had suffered Horn nenral-
g*H; and how he wascuied by thesame
method followed by Bei liansom-
Ibis tuned the scales in his ta\ oi,
HUtl 8 8 “ a b nnijuity vofel against
i^conciletl, ? and »i I not anything
iatd
b’ do with him Walt in j. ews.
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An exchange, iu comparing a preach*
or to a printer, says: ‘ Why is a
preacher like a printer? Tney are
both after tlie devil. I-i what respect
does a preacher differ fr iui a printer?
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ma es t »e pr ac lei w o. .
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Union county, Gu., lias » practicing
physician who is ninety years c!d.
S', mu every act that can be judged
unworthy of commendation.