The Nevada journal., 1855-08-24

law, upon which our vote was given, that
a county tax of 10 cents ON every hundred
dollars, IS imposed upon all property no
matter to whom it belongs. This together
with the State tax of 5 cents on the same
valuation, makes l5 cents on every hun
dred dollars valuation, which every person
OF whatever color or nation is compelled
to pay for school purposes, while by the
introduction of tine word "white," children
of mixed blood are excluded from the ben
efits of an education for which their pa
rents have paid. We do not contend for
a mixture of the races in our schools. No
man in his sober senses who desires to sec
education diffused, will countenance such
a course. 1t is not sanctioned by public
sentiment, and no law should be enacted
which is not sustained by the will of the
majority. The introduction of a colored
child within our public schools, would
drive out ten of our own blood. There is
natural want of fraternity between the
races. 1t is not the province of the leg
lslator to stop and enquire whether the re-
pugnance which exists to the colored ra-
ces, is founded in reason or not, but to
take things as they are, look facts fully in
the face, and legislature accordingly. All
that we contend for is this; either exempt
the colored races from taxation for school
purposes, or allow them their pro rata Of
the school fund, to establish schools OF
their own. This is principle recognized
i'll every free State in the Union with
which we are acquainted, and if are to be
prescribed in the free State of California,
for advocating the same sentiments which
prevail in the State of New York; state
which has always been national, giving
Zachary Taylor of Louisiana, majority
over two northern men, one native of her
own soil, and endorsing the Philadelphia
platform of the American Party-then is
ever northern man prescribed and a sec
tional issue raised, accursed of rod and de-
plored by every lover of our glorious con-
fraternity of states.
The vote which we gave was to retain
the School bill in the form in which it was
origisally introduced-a bill as far as the
question of color is concerned, indentical
with the old School Law on our Statute
books, which was passed by such men as
Henry A. Crabb, A. c. Peachy, Gov
Boggs and Il. N Wood, members of the
Legislature of ls52,-men extremely te-
nacious of southern rights, but who wan
ted the acute perception of one reared in
the hot bed of abolltionism, the editor of the
Democrat, to discover that they were vo-
ting and laboring to "mix up" the races
in our public schools
This question does not affect negroes
alone, or it might appear in different
phase, but it involves the whole popula-
ton of this state not of Caucasian blood
The half-breed native Of California, the
owner of dozens of leagues, formerly a
citizen of Mexico, and elected by the trea-
ty Of peace with that Republic, to become
citizen and be invested with all the rights
OF a citizen of the United States, is COM
PEELED to pay heavy school tax, and his
children are deprived of the privilege OF
receiving even small portion of the school
fund to which he SO largely contributes, to
educate themselves in schools exclusively
their own. A constitutional question here
arises, upon which older legislators than
ourself might ponder.
We have ever expressed an admiration
: for the many noble qualities Of the true
> sons of the South, and Of course, true sons
of the Union. But there is a bastard
chivalry affected By men born in the north,
who cleft their country for their country
good" and having munched a hoe cake
with piggers on southern plantation swing
an arsenal to their bclt, as London baker
, hangs cobs from his window to prove his
corn bread is genuine, and with an air a
d Ia Bombastes Furioso, holds in derision
the institutions of the land Of lis birth,
and with a hearth he has heart black as
c the shades Of Erebus,-a jackdaw decked
in stolen plumes-he pirates of his own
'loundncss" and raises the lying, insane
I, howl of abolition against every man who
$ happened to be born in the same great sec
9 ton of the Union-such chivalry and the
. men who affect it, VIC hold in thorough,
unmitigated, undying contempt. These
, , men find confreres among men born in
the South, but inheliting none of the gen.