Every teacher who was to teach in these schools was required to pay five dollars for his certificate, which also went into the school-fund; and the end of the whole matter was, that a bare pittance was left for the thirty thousand negro children in Florida of the school age.
Blaine points out the financial burdens placed on teachers and the inadequate funding for education of black children in Florida.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
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