Excerpt from Two Addresses on Negro Education in the South, Vol. 5
The two following addresses were delivered before Educational Associations, and cannot be construed to be partisan in any sense of the word. They were published in volumes of proceedings and met with a fair share of approval at the time of their delivery. Their re-publication now is prompted not by any acuteness in the Race Problem, which is the same now as it has ever been, affecting alike all sections of the country, but by the growing opposition to the education of the negro which is making itself manifest in some quarters.
Some men of fine intelligence are too ready to despair of the benefits, the moral and intellectual advantages of education to the negro race. I am constrained to believe that these men are blinded by race prejudice, or suffering from a restricted personal narrowness. Within one generation of slavery, with no adequate teachers, with all the obstacles and horrors of the period of Reconstruction, when one side strove to make the negro politically dominant, and the other side fought to restore him to a condition of slavery, how can it be said that negro education has had a fair trial?
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