Those who do not understand its work and its good influences might naturally. considering former prejudices and conditions. be opposed to it. but when they become acquainted with the practical working of the institution. then. as we see already demonstrated in the experience of the past ten years. they are likely to become more and more attached to it and to fasten their hopes. as numbers of people do everywhere. on the efficiency of a system of proper commonschool education. So far then. if there were an unwillingness to receive this money and to apply it properly. from that constituting any real reason of opposition to the bill. it establishes in a still stronger sense the necessity of the distribution and proper application of this money from the national Treasury. The Senator from Kansas alluded to the fact that immigration is not as general to the South as it ought to be. and he strangely opposed the passage of this bill because there are no common schools. and the fact that there were no efficient common schools as a rule in the Southern States is objected to by the intelligent immigrants from the North and from foreign lands. The very reason that he gives for opposing this bill is the strongest possible reason for the passage of the bill. Give the South common schools. and the Northern immigrant would often go there in preference to the prairies of the West. Nothing has arrested the development of the South like the fact that these schools do not exist there. We all remember how soon after the close of the war the mass of Northern feeling and spirit was turned toward the South.
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