New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-22
THE NEGRO oUr OF poLrrrcs.

THE NEGRO OUT OF POLITICS.
Ths Times thinks tho Blacks can only be damaged
by any further agitation as to their rights because
controversy tends TO wider divergence, and TO more
veheman. resistance to even non-politca and proper
claims in their behalf-adding:
an contest under such conditions. the negro IS to Dc
the sufferer which ever party may WIom time to tine ne
best thing q could happen TO The negro race now that they
are nosesed Of their freedom and all her ey rights would
BE- y f "a faonai politics ar6conccrnei ceist altogether
being an exciting element and so r as they Themselves ore
10 seduousy give their attention 70 education the
Scnuton o. properly and moral and social Improvement
In these directions they w RIA abundant ana p''aoV
ground of activity iof some ilme 70 CONF. H., ..
We ask the public, III view oil the ABOVE sueges'
ton TO consider the following acts;
In n one Of the States In. ely in rebellion have
the Blacks been conceded any olitica rights what
ever. Even in those where the form majority OF
the entire population no o. them can over attain
the Right of Suffrage under the existing Constitution
though he should be capable as Webster learned a.
Agassz, rich as CrOsus, and Iious as 81 John. No
Office, however paltry. can be filed by Black; 30
negro mulatto can serve on jury, even DID case
where ali the parties arc Black; and no magnitude OF
service to the State Nation can ever enable any one
of African descent 20 emerge from bis degraded con-
ditiOn.
H. The Civil Rights act of Congres. j, - stomic-
ally resisted and dcfed by the ey-Rcbcl state ana
local authorities. Rebel judges in Virginia, LOUISIANA,
&C., have announced from the bench that they ri-
pudiae and nuliy it. In no single instance las an
OK. Confederate ayowed a disposition to respect anu
obey that law 1t is thus rendered practically a dead
letter.
Ill Every one Of the late Rebel States has
enacted or revived laws discriminating harshy against
the Blacks subiecting them to penalties, disabilities
and restrictions not imposed upon Whites. Nagrant
and penal legislation has been devised expressly to
subject the Blacks to qualified Slavery. In defiance
of the Constitution Of the United States they are for
hidden 20 keep the arms which they have earned by
serving the Union against its deadly foes, and those
arms are wrcsed from them by State authority u
one of these internal acts Of the South Carolina Legs
aurc. "Coorcd children between II and u years OF
age who have neither father nor mother hring IN NE
district ,clere they may be touHi' may be bound out
cas- apprentices" Ito what J by magistrate; ana
so outrageous were the expressions perperated under
this act that Gen. Sickles was obliged to nuly by
a military order which OF course has been quasneu
by the Presidents proclamation OF peace.
". Tie Times advises the Black, to give their at
tention 10 Education but concedls the fact that "a no
singh Southern State has any public prorsion been made
10 educate Black children The few Republicans in The
Texas Convention fought desperately for provision
that whatever taxes should be collected for edGca-
tonal purposes from Blacks should be devoted to The
instruction of their own children; but the Rebel
majority voted this down, with every other provision
looking to the education Of Blacks And now Col
Kiddoo, of the Frcedmen's Bureau, officially report
that schools for Blacks though entirely supported n
themselves and their Northern friends, VIII only be
tolerated where there il u. s. Military force to pro-
tect them In other words, the Rebels break up every
Black school save at the few points where troops are
stationed.
A like condition is presented in louisiana. In New
Orleans the colorcd people pay onc-iiih OF The taxes
whereby good schools are mantained bat not one oil
their children is allowed taste of the education there
by provided. The Black, who pay taye-, are not
allowed to send their children 10 the schools support
cd by their money. wherein Whites who never pad a
tax are free aud welcome.
Such are a few Of the expressions aud disabilities
under which the Blacks labor throughout The South
Is it not the sublimiy Of impotence in one who D.
practical uphoder OF these ieayondagng impurities to
advise them to ignore politics aud attend to The educa'
ton Of their children