He had carefully prepared for the debate and dwelt with great force upon the educational feature.
"Education," said he, "means the intelligent exercise of liberty; and surely without this liberty is a calamity, since it means simply the unlimited right to err.

Who can doubt that if a man is to govern himself he should have the means to know what is best for himself, and what is injurious to himself, what agencies work against him and what for him?
The avenue to all this is simply education.

Suffrage without education is an edged tool in the hands of a child,--dangerous to others and destructive to himself.

Now what is the condition of the South in reference to all this?
I assert that it is such as would bring disgrace upon any despotism in Christendom.

The great bulk of the people are rude, illiterate, semi-civilized: hence the Rebellion; hence all the atrocious barbarities that accompanied it.