A writer of this period expressed it thus: "It became necessary to check or turn aside the stream which instead of flowing healthfully upon the Negro is polluted and poisoned by the abolitionists and rendered the source of discontent and excitement."[2] He believed that education thus perverted would become equally dangerous to the master and the slave, and that while fanaticism continued its war upon the South the measures of necessary precaution and defense had to be continued.

He asserted, however, that education would not only unfit the Negro for his station in life and prepare him for insurrection, but would prove wholly impracticable in the performance of the duties of a laborer.[3] The South has not yet learned that an educated man is a better laborer than an ignorant one.
[Footnote 1: Hodgkin, _An Inquiry into the Merits of the Am.

Col.
Soc_., p.

31; and _The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Abolitionists_, p.

68.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., p.