Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-10
a MONDAY, OCTOBER S, 1857.
..Shan the Whites and Blacks be
Educated TOgcther!'

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t.shall the Whites and EIacks b.
Educated Togcther!n
Such is the question asked by the Enqui
rer. We answer NJ! The Republican par
ty answers No! The Democratic party an
swers No! Nobody answers Yes! Ther
why does the Enquirer raise the question
1t is not an issue No one advocates the af-
frmative Why then, we repeat, is the En-
guirsr in such trouble about it? The plain
answer is this The Enquirer is at its old
game of raising falso issues and represent
ing the Republican candidates in false po-
sitions. The editor Of the Enquirer has
charged, lance in hand, upon another mill
hammer. He asks shall the whites. and
blacks be educated together? Now who
says that they shall We presume that the
Eneuirer refers to Iowa, and not to any 9th
er State when he asks the question. Now
we boldly assert that not Il Republican cam
didate nor Republican newspaper, nor any
individual authorized to speak for that par
! ty ,shas advocated the education OF white and
BLACK children together in Iowa.
! The Enquirer has entirely mistaken, we
will not say wifully, M. Paryin's position
On this point. 1t has attempted to make
people believe that Mr. Paryin is in favor
Of educating the whites and blacks tosoth
er in Iowa. And it has quoted parts of his
speeches to prove it's charge. Now the En-
quirer should have told the trurh, tie 'ohcte
.su h and nothing dat tile t,~ih.' This
we propose to do.
Mr.. Parvin was once a teacher. In the
ncighborhood colored children were accus-
toned to be taught with the whites. No
ether prorision ecas MADE tor them. A
young colored boy wished to attend. The
people objected, and Mr.. Parvin was obliged
to send the boy away crying because he was
denied that learning for which he yearned,
cithor in q school ofhis o,on hind, or in de-
fault of that in white school. And Mr.
Parvia says that if he were IN that same
situation agaia, that colored boy haping no
other opportunity of learning to read and
write, he would teach hin.
Here the Enquirer stops and in that it is
guilty Of unfairness towards Mr.. Parvin.-
We give the whole of his speech. The debate
was on Mr.. Els amendment, viz: "The
Board of Education shall provide for the
education of all tie youth Of the Stare, &c. "
Mr.. Parvin says: ':This amendment only
fixes one thing; that the legislature shall
not drive them (the negroes from the tree
.ca oo!s They shall have the rights and ad-
vantages Of other scholars. But tie legis-
.ature ,aGv provide that Mey shall be EDU-
GATED SEPARATELY. have no objection to
! that
Mr.. Parvin was combating manfully for
an amendment that should forever prevent
in Iowa the very thing which the Enquirer
charges him with advocating-viz: the co
education of whites and blacks by providing
separate schools for tie blacks, lie wished
humanely and wisely that no other teacher
should hereafter be reduced to the cruel ne
cessity of driving away from the school
house the colored boy, and shutting against
him all the gates of learning, but that
schools and teachers for them and them
alone should be provided, in addition to
the white schools. Judge Hall supported
the same amendment and voted for it,
Now we ak the people of Muscatine in
all candor if there is not a spice of mal;gn
ty in this persecution and misrepresentation
of Mr.. Parvin by the Enquirer, for action
in which he was supported by several of the
leading members Of its own party.
We repeat again ME. PARv1S Is NOT IN
FAVOR OF EDUCATING TIE WHITES AND BLACKS
TOGETHER!