Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-30

harmony with the law. Not unffequentl,
there is some private opposition, and occu
sionally it uvows itself and assumes an atti
tude of hostility; but the perseverance, o
the friends of progress always subdues it.
pp. ss-9.
presume Mr.. Mann himself would nov
ernse the sentence printed above in smal
capitals, since he has lived to see Thomn:
Sims sit chained in Boston Court House
itself surrounded with chains. | had seer
George Latmer, and many fugitive beside
before that, and pointed out this error tc
Mr. Mann at the time. lie has never for
given me for IT,.
Each parent feels that free education a
as secure part Of The birthrighi Of his o6spring
as Heauen's bounties IF light aud air.
NO child is met on The threshold Of The schoot-
house door, 10 be asked for money or tchethe'
his parents are natiue or foreign, trhether or
not they pdy tar, or ichdt is their .6dih.-
| MIR. Mann knew, if he then took any inte.
rest in this question, that from the very city
where he then sat writing these sentences,
colored families had been obliged 10 remove,
| in order to secure the birthrigbt Of their
| offspring '-au equal place IN schools sup
| ported by their taxes. lie knew that at ereTy
'SchooihouSe door stood men, who, though
| they did not ask whether the applicant was
native or foreign, or Of what faith did uni
formly ask whether he was black or white.
| said at the time, that, in making this list OF
questions mol asked, il seemed impossible
that it should not have occurred to him, that
there was question sure TO bc asked; aud
that even all the confidence which his long
aud arduous lnbors had won for i'm, could
not do away the suspicion that This question,
which he knew WINS asked at the school
house door, was purposcly omitted from his
catalogue
Public opinion, Liai sovereign IN represen-
idtiUe governments, is IN harmony tcih he ldio'
From tho two hundred schools Of Boston,
the capital Of the State, and whose schools
are the special boast OF the Commonwealth,
he knew that every colored Child was rigor-
ously excluded, in acknowledged defiance
of what Mr.. Mann believed TO be the law.
lie knew, or ought to have known, that
young ColOrcd inen, fitted for her two famous
High Schools, mad been forced TO go else
where, aud, at great expense, complete their
studies at the moment when their fathers
taxes were securing gratuitously, to white
boys, those eminent advantages. Aud yet,
in a document meant for European as well
us home circulation, aud specially protesting
to give an exnct aud detailed account of our
school system aud its practical condition,
MIR. Mann yentured the above assertion.--a
gross misrepresentation, 10 Gull it nothing
more. We were endeavoring, all the while,
10y directing public attention to this great in-
Justice, TO secure remedy. Ihls was the
only weapon we had. Does Mr.. Mann sup
pose that representations like these, from
such d quarter, did not tend TO opinte the
,ans.;a.,.a and anubta the ('itv N
hide her shame from the rest of the Com.
rnonwealth, aud from the world whose opiu-
ion she would dread? So utterly neglectlul
had the Secretary been-.lhis watchman on
the Iower-tlat | found one Chairman Of
Legislative School Committee" who
came from the western counties, actually
ignorant that separate schools for colored
children existed in some of the seuboard
towns!
Such ure the Reports to which Mr.. Mann
refers, in answer to my charge of inaltention
to this official duty.
What MIR. Mann means in his seventh item,
about II Statute of 1873 90 not know
There was no Statute made OIL this subject,
in 1913. II il be n misprint lor 1915, have
alrendy spoken of il. Any codfcdiion must
have been made after the Supreme Courts
Session, and so after my criticisms OF
course, therefore, that does not belong 10
this discussion.
And, egh,hly, he says, he always visited
the coiored schools. OF course he did. 1t
was the formal routine of his office, and has
no bearing either way.
| Mr.. Mann's defence shows two things
that he knew of this abuse and that his
opinion of its Illegally aud cruelty concid-
ed with ours. The remarks j have now
made, show that he did nothing, in public
and in earnest, TO remedy il. do not think
thnt this new state of facts improves his po-
siton before the auti-slayery public. The
public will Judge.
The test 10 which would like TO submit
the matter is this: Could | call together, to-
day, all the members Of Legislative and town
aud city Committees before whom we have
so often urged this question, aud ask them
all whether, during that long struggle, any
one of them ever imagined that Horace
Mann stood tcih u.s. in the contest, | nT
confident the idea would be news 10 almost
every one, if not every one of them. j
from them VIC mnde an appeal to the public
whose PATIENCE we, instant in season and
out of season, have so long wearied, moi
one in thousand would say that he evel
heard of Mr.. Mann as party in the effort
Mr.. Mann excuses himself for no; having
publicly helped us, by saying that, when he
entered on his office, religious sect impor
tuned, him to make the school subseryien
to their religious views, and that he refused
us both. II he thinks that the question o
admitting theology into schools is anywis'
akin TO the claim that colored children
whose fathers pay taxes, shall have the sam'
right in schools supported by those take
that their white neighbors hnye-he onl!
shows that he does not, even yet, compre
! hend the subject, or the anti-savery enter
prise ITSELF
enough. If MIR. Mann's convictions dat
back, as he claims, twenty years. beg hin
r remember that long since that date, he ha
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