The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-07
"Arter the school Marina. 5.

Having subjugated the "niggers" in
Memphis, the Avalanche proposes to
the "school marms." Ono
of the lessons taught the white fanat-
les by the late riot, it says, is that eve
want none of their school marnlsf
among our population, white or black.
They are nuisances. Women who
could come down South to teach ne
groes are unfit companions for any but
negro society,"" This being the social
law in Memphis, what is the social
status of the women of the South
the daughters of planters and ex-rebel
soldiers, who as we hear, have taken
hold of the education Of the negro
with great t-gusto, and are urged by
many Southern friends to presevere in
it? Are they fit only to be compan-
ions of negroes?
But the Avalanche has shouted
somewhat prematurely. The "schoOl
marms' have gone back to the work
assigned them in Memphis, reinforced
| by such authority as the Avalanche
will be likely to respect. The school
houses and churches which the patri-
Otic Memphians burned to make q
Southern holiday, are to be rebuilt, and
those who engaged in that luminous
business will have the luxurious privi-
lege Of footing the bills. Perhaps tho
Avalanche will make the presence of
the "school marms" the excuse for an
other riot, such as it was instrumental
in instigating Il fortnight ago. 1t Is
pretty safe to assume, however, that in
case it is successful in begetting So
cial war on their account, the mortality
list will not be entirely on one side /;
as in the late riot. lilo
The policy pursued by the Avalanche
in reference 20 the blacks and ths
whites, engaged in the work of educat-
ing them and protecting their interests,
bears such blood-red fruit as this {:
"MENIPHIs, Tenn, May g., 1866.
) "MR. -: You will take notice
that we have determined to rid our
community of negro-loving fanatics
and philanthropic teachers of our for
mer slaves. You are one of the num-
Der; it will be we'll for you if you arc
absent from the city by the 1st Of June.
Consult your safety. .
"ANONYMOUS."
If there should be another riot in
Memphis-and such an event is not
y impossible if the Avalanche and Ar
D gus do not change their course-there
l will go up great cry that the people
, are misreprescnted and lied about,
: should any paper or letter-writer have
the courage to tell the truth and trace
the effect to its cause. We say row,
= and with clear conviction of what we
| say-a conviction reached, not through
the representations of lctter-writers, or
information derived from "radical"
sources, but from daily perusal Of
the tirc-eating papers of Memphis
that there would have been no negro
| riot in that city had not these papers
: industriously stimulated into antagon-
ism every prejudice and interest they
could lay hold of and arouse. They
were at particular and systematic pains
to magnify every instance of disorder
and crime among the negro population
= and met every effort to ameliorate the
condition of these unhappy people,
particularly every enterprise designed
5 to make them intelligent and useful,
with malignant sneer or a devilish
. insinuation that it was done TO force
, them upon an equality with the whites.
t The editors Of the Argus and Ava
lanchc are too intelligent not to know
! what result would be likely to flow
, from this systematic social incendiar-
: ism; and the style in which they
@ treat the subject of the riot now is toll
/ erably conclusive that they have not
/ been disappointed, or in the least re-
q gret the outbreak which resulted in
0 the shedding not only of guilty, but
: innocent blood. Scarcely, indeed, have
t the consequences Of their warfare upon
e the freedmen been recorded in tht
J. burning of their houses, their school
e and church buildings, and the fight oi
o the terrified blacks, before they turn
i upon the whites, who were employed
@ through the Freedmen's Bureau anG
e benevolent agencies organized by in.
= dividual effort in the interest OF thG
blacks, with the avowed purpose O
either compelling them to abandon
" their posts, or take the chances of be
70 ing mobbed, and slaughtered by tn,
:, same throat cutting and house-burninI
! rabble that turned South Memphis int
v a pandemonium during the first day,
il Of May. The blood-hounds of tn,
@ press, pleased with their success in the
hunt after the "niggers," are now howl
ing on the track of the ''School marms.