Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-02-03
Negro Equality in Wisconsin.

1--WE are lHl0fuI6u IfOlH q IciiduiC cOuaAO
that at Hurricane Corners, Wisconsin,
thereis delightful state Of social equality.
The pretty school-mistress of that locality
has no aversion to teaching the negro chJ.
dren along with the white scholars, and
the parents Of the latter permit them to
mix with the former TO any extent they
may desire. Eight of the little Africans
of American descent, sit together in close
communica with fifteen little americans OF
mixed d3ssekt and hive done SO for three
months. Hurricane Corners has the most
consistent set Of Abclitionists We. know Of"
!, The above is copied from the Dubuque
Herald, Mahony's rebel paper of January
2Sth, Mahony is to lecture soon at Bee
town, near the Corners, and wishes to
prove his qualifications as lecturer for
democracy and secession by publishing
| Just such stuff as the above. We are as
sured by James Bonham, Esq, and others
at the Corners, old cilizens of that district,
that there is not one word of truth in the
entire statement of Mahony. There is
but one colored person in the district. an
old black woman in the employ Of Mr..
Morrell. Not coIored child ever attend
ed the school. 1t may be that some Of
Mahony's agents at the Corners reported
the above; some Of them are extremely
fond Of digging the aboitionists, so fond
of it as to disregard truth. But why spend
time and paper to refute such stuff as Ma
hony gets up! HIS paper is filed weekly
with the like, some of it copied from 9TH
er papers similarly engaged in lying about
the negroes, some of il of his own vending
This article will be copied uncontradicted
into every democratic paper in the United
States, and into every rebel paper in the
Confederacy.
1t will be seen Mahony makes out that
the whole Hurricane school is co posed
of muiattoes, or as be says, "eight of the
little Africans of American descent, sit to-
gether in close communion with fifteen lit
tie Americans Of mixed descent, and have
done SO fol months" How do you like
that Cousin Grant, Uncle 10. and UGcle
Ed Had Cover of the Grant County
Herald charged the children and grand
children you are sending to school with
being copperheads-mulattoes, how you'd
have scolded about our abolitionisml Bat
you will swallow the charge and pocket
the offense from the Dubuque Herald, just
because Mahony is all right on the niger,
The Constitution and the war.
Mon of Mahony sympathies are terribly
afraid the negroes will go to school and
thereby learn and rise up to lie something
above brute slaves. Rebel sympathizers
have teen so long in the habit of insisting
that negroes can't learn anything that
some of them are just fools enough to be-
lieye lheir own stories; consequently, they
don't want black children to have the OPP
portunitv to learn, so tha their old stories
may still find believers. TIE truth is,
some black children learn tolerably fast,
some DO not; some behave well enough,
some do not This is also true: learning
is not dangerous, whether possessed by
blacks or whites; also, the more the better.
Further, we have never known any very
bad effects upon white children in conse-
quenco Of assembling at the school house
where some colored children are seated back
in the corner. In the south, most genteel
white children are put to the breasts Of col
ored nurses along with other black plea
ninnies till fourteen or sixteen years of age,
when they have grown 50 contaminated
with contemplate meanness as to require
removal, in which state of probation the
seeds of rebellion and treason have already
been sown. But then southern gentlemen
have rights, constitutional rights high up
above northern people; besides, it is no
disgrace in the souta to mix with negroes
ain close communion" and by "mixed de-
scent" perpetuate the Constitution, or Sc
cede therefrom. And as to thed-d Yam
KEGS, their business is to mind Their own
business and not NEEDLE with Their "South-
ern brethren" These are lessons known
as true to every Southern brought up man,
But some of them are SO blinded with par.
ty as to deny them, or SO explain them as
to have no meaning.
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