Word: southernization
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Kentucky, after much indecision, finally declared in favor of the Union. Here Lincoln's tact was sharply contrasted with the overbearing action of the Southern leaders. The result was in fact chiefly due to the President's delicate handling of the matter...
...Harvard Union holds its regular weekly debate tonight in Sever 11. The subject: "Resolved, That the Southern States should take steps to bring about the disfranchisement of the negro through state constitutions...
Question: "Resolved, That the Southern States should take steps to bring about disfranchisement of the negro through state constitutions...
...only established what we might call the steeple of the church without the church. He nevertheless woke up a band of thoughtful men in the South who believed in and later acted upon his ideas. The Civil War prostrated all educational plans completely and from 1860-1870 the Southern States were more lacking in schooling than any other people in the world within the last fifty years. When the war finally ended colleges and academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their sons to these institutions; therefore a system of public schools became absolutely necessary...
...great drawback to public schools, but yet there has never been in this world such a demonstration for education as has been shown by the South in the last twenty-five years. The Norht may have invested $25,000,000 in education in the South, but the Southern people have paid $75,000,000 in the last 25 years for the education of children whose fathers were their slaves...