He went through school, therefore, as though the eyes of the world were looking at the race enquiringly; the eyes of the North expectantly; and the eyes of God lovingly,--three grand incentives to his soul.
When these schools were first projected, the White South that then was, fought them with every weapon at its command.

Ridicule, villification, ostracism, violence, arson, murder were all employed to hinder the progress of the work.

Outsiders looked on and thought it strange that they should do this.

But, just as a snake, though a venomous animal, by instinct knows its enemy and fights for its life with desperation, just so the Old South instinctively foresaw danger to its social fabric as then constituted, and therefore despised and fought the agencies that were training and inspiring the future leaders of the Negro race in such a manner as to render a conflict inevitable and of doubtful termination.
The errors in the South, anxious for eternal life, rightfully feared these schools more than they would have feared factories making powder, moulding balls and fashioning cannons.

But the New South, the South that, in the providence of God, is yet to be, could not have been formed in the womb of time had it not been for these schools.