Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-17
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1857.
For the Journal.

For the Journal.
Mr. EDITOR: Mr.. Samnels, in his speech
last night, took the ground that the Repub-
| lican party were responsible for all the pc
! li,i, al sins Of the day; that the severe VIM
ter and late spring; the short crop and The
low price Ct wheat: and even the late fail
ures of the rotten locooco banks, were all
charyable to the Republican party. Bat
what he looked upon as the most dangerous
of all, and one which forbode the most evil
consequences to the peace 1T society, was
the effort to edncate the niggers. He, was
opposed to it. and would fight it to the bitter
end and called upon his Democratic beth
ren to assist him in putting down this move
ment. 1t would never do to allow the mig
ger to learn to read and write, for that
would promote am lgan!tion. He assured
his auditors, t at if he was elected Governor,
and the Legislature should pass bill conf
pellns white man to Marry nigger-
wench he would veto it.
| He paid a very high compliment to the
intelligence of his audience in his labored
attempt to prove that the principle of adj
hitting colored children into the public
schools was ''modern black Republican
idea" Now Mr.. s. cannot plead ignorance;
| he knows as well as any other man what lie
is talking about, and he knows that his
whole tiradle and harangue last night on the
school question was a wiful and malicious
| Justification. The practice of admitting COL
ored children into the public schools in the
Northern States is older than Mr.. S., and he
cannot find an instance on record in the
above States of their beirg totally excluded
previous to the year 1858. In all the north
east and middle States, they are to this day
admitted on equal terms with the whites,
and why does Mr.. Samuels attempt to talsity
that fact, by saying that it is late Republi-
can movelnent-that the Democrats are and
always have been opposed to it. Read the
law of the good old Democratic State OF
Pennsylvanion, the home of James Buchan
an, passed in 1886, at the close OF Gen. Jack
sons second administration. 1t says:
'An Act, to establish general system of
education by common schools. BE it en-
acted, &c., that every township, borough,
or ward ii. .this commonwealth, shall consti-
tute school district; and each of said dis
tricts shall contain competent number OF
common schools for the education of every
child within the limits thereof, who shall
apply, either in person or by his or her par
ents, guardian or next friend, for admission
and Instruction and in said common schools
all children over four years of age shall De
udmittsd'' And this is the law in Pennsyl-
vania to-day.
The good Democratic State of Illinois
never discovered till 1855 that to admit col
ored children into her public schools was
'sBack Republicanish, and even now she
does not positively exclude them, but says
that:
Gin townships in which there shall be
persons of color, the board of education
shall allow such persons Il portion OF the
school fund, equal to the amount of taxes
collected for. school purposes from such
persons of color, in their respective town
slips'
Indiana is the only northern State that
positively excludes them, and upto the year
1858, no distinction in regard to color W IS
recognized even in that Democratic State,
but at this time the s'spirit" OF the 'sfropn-
ct Samues'' came over their dreams, and
they Immediately amended their school law
as follows: 'Providtd however, that in all
enumerations the children of negroes and
mulattoes shall be omitted and the proper
ty of negroes and mulattoes shall not be
taxed for school purposes, nor shall any ne
gro or muatto derive any OF the benefits OF
the common schools of this State.'
| But the most ridiculous portion Of his re-
marks was the assertion that the Republican
party was responsible for our present lhiser-
able School Law, which passed the Demo-
cratic Legislature of lS49. Mr.. samuels
held the Republicans responsible for the mis-
management of our School Fund, in the
hands of Democratic office holders. He SAID
he held the Republicans responsible for the
mismanagement and waste of that Fund,
even to the 100000 stolen from it by DR..
Eads and his companions. What miserable
pettfogging!
1t seems to me that every one with half
an eye could not tail to see through his
sophistry, to see what he was driving at
He IS cunning, selfish, egotstica, and intla-
ted with self+importance. The great "I''
Ben. M. Samue}s, descended from the first
families of Vifginia.''-"I am to be next
Governor of Iowa, if can only humbug the
people to vote for me. But, Ben, you will
find that game won't win, you may fool
some, and some may goit blind because you
are he party nominee, but You will find that
you will be beaten next Tuesday by larger
majority than you calculate on leading Judge
Lowe. You will have plenty of time after
the election is over to go home and study
he School Laws of other States. and pre-
pare yourself against another campaign.
MUsCATlsE, Oct. 9th, 1857.