Whatever tends to increase intelligence, strengthen virtue, and ennoble citizenship among our people, commands his approval and support. His patriotism takes in our whole country, his philanthropy our whole race. Mr. Peabody exhibited admirable judgment in selecting such a man for the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees, who were to control his noble benefaction.

We quote from Mr. Winthrop's address an extract, in which he expresses his views on the subject of

NATIONAL AID TO EDUCATION.

"It is now more than six years since the attention of Congress was invoked by this Board to the necessity of national aid to education. The admirable report of our associate, Mr. A. H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, as approved and signed by Chief Justice Waite and Mr. Evarts, and as cordially adopted by us all, was dated on the 19th of February, 1880.

"That report only contemplated a provision for the education of the great masses of colored children growing up in a condition of hopeless ignorance, in the Southern States, to become voters under a recently adopted amendment of the Constitution of the United States. It concluded with a resolution that a memorial be presented to Congress, "praying that it may grant such aid as may be required to secure to the colored population of the Southern States the education which is necessary to fit them for the discharge of their duties as citizens of the United States." A memorial transmitting the report was accordingly presented to both branches of Congress on the 8th of March of the same year, and it was followed by a special petition of our late general agent, Dr. Curry, of Virginia, enforcing the views of Mr. Stuart, and invoking the favorable and speedy attention and action of the Federal Government. To these appeals, bearing this double indorsement from eminent Virginians, never prone to ask or advocate measures of a questionable character from the Government, there has been no response."

After additional quotations from the report and comments thereupon, Mr. Winthrop adds:

"I have no authority, and no disposition, to involve others of this board in any responsibility for the views which I may express on this subject; but the infirmities and contingencies of advanced age render me unwilling to omit the avowal once more of my own deep feeling,

that the safety of our free institutions imperatively demands the education of those ignorant masses on whom the elective franchise was so suddenly precipitated, and that this can only be accomplished by national aid from the proceeds of the public lands or otherwise. The prosperous schools and great school-systems of the Western States have owed their original foundation and not a little of their continued support to such aid; and I can see nothing of constitutionality, or of expediency, or of justice, to prevent the Southern States from receiving similar aid in an exigency created by the General Government. It is not, however, a sectional question, but one of vital moment to the whole country."

The services of Dr. Green, General Agent pro tem., have been eminently satisfactory to the Board. He was formally requested to act in the same capacity for another year; and the question of electing a General Agent was deferred until another meeting of the Board.

Dr. Green's report embraces reports from the State superintendents of education and other school officers of the Southern States, showing the special objects to which the Peabody Fund has been applied, the character and progress of the educational work wholly or in part supported by that fund, etc. The policy of the Board is to apply the Fund mainly to the education of teachers. Hence the bulk of the appropriations go to normal schools and colleges, and to what are called normal institutes; the former being designed to train specially for their work those who expect to be teachers, and the latter to afford the opportunity of improvement to those who are already teachers.

The distribution of income of the Fund since October 1, 1885, aggregates $62,365.

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