The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

64 man; and the negro.
"'In early life I had conceived a horror of slavery
in all its forms, and had long held to the opinion that
the Negro, once free, and having a fair opportunity,
would surely make rapid progress toward becoming
a good and honorable citizen. I expected a good deal
more than I have found.'" ''After narrating the extent
and variety of his experiences in New Orleans, Hunts -
ville [Alabama] and
, Nashville, he gives his conclusions
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lead as follows : As a rule, the Negro does not learn
as well as do children of this state [Ohio] . Some
things they seem to master readily; but when they
come to any reasoning they usually fail. They read
well if they have a good teacher, and nearly all write
well.
In arithmetic, grammer, geography and the higher
branches, they are mostly deficient. They learn
definitions tolerable well, but fail in the application.
In arithmetic, a class may learn a method of solving
examples, and will work them with wonderful facility.
You pass on a week or so with the class, come to a
place requiring the use of the principle formerly learned,
and it is gone.
I had in my charge a class in arithmetic
that had been half way through the book; upon examination,
I found that not a single one of them could
work an example in long division.
* * *Some of those who
are teaching, of course, are more intellgent, many being
able to teach arithmetic as far as decimals and interest.
I meet very few who know anything about
grammar. * '^^ *'Fear is usually the only thing that controls
them. Very few of the finer feelings find any