The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-30

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| The Times thinks the Blacks can only
| be damaged by any further agitation as
to their rights, because controversy
tends to wider divergence. and to more
| vehement resistance to even on-politi
cal and proper claims in their behalf
adding: r.t
/ sIn a contest under such conditions,
| the negro is sure to be the sufferer, which
ever party NAV win from time TO time
The best thing that could happen to the
negro race, now that they are possessed
| of their freedom and all their civilrights,
would be- so far As national politics are
concerned, to cease altogether being an
exciting element, and, so far as they
themselves are concerned, to sedulously
give their attention to education, the
acquisition of property, and moral and
social improvement. In these directions
they will find abundant and profitable
ground of activity for some time to
come 9) l--lHA sft-t $50 e
We ask the public, in view of the
above suggestion, to consider the follow
ing facts:
I. In no one of the States lately in
rebellion have the Blacks been conceded
any political rights whatever. Even in
those where they form q majority of the
entire population, no one of them can
ever attain the Right of Suffrage under
the existing Constitution, though he
should be capable as Webster, learn ed
as Agassiz, rich as Cresus, and pious as
st. John. No office, however paltry.
can be filed by Black; no negro or
mulatto can serve on jury, even in q
case where all the parties are Black; and
no magnitude of service to the State or
Nation can ever enable any one of Afri-
can descent to emerge from his degraded
condition.
II. The Civil Rights act of Congress
is systematically resisted and defied by
the ex Rebel State and local authorities
Rebel judges in Virginia, Louisiana &c,
have announced from the bench that
they repudiate and nullify it. In no
single instance, has an ex-Confederate
avowed a disposition to respect and obey
that law. 1t is thus rendered practically
a dead letter.
III. Every one of the late Rebel States
has enacted or revived laws discriminate
ing harshly against the Blacks, subject
ing them to penalties, disabilities and
restrictions not imposed upon Whites.
Vagrant 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 forbidden to keep the arms which
they have earned by serving the Union
against its deadly foes, and those arms
are wrested from them by State authority.
By one of these internal acts of the
South Carolina Legislature, "Colored
children between Is and 81 years of age,
who have neither father nor mother living
TN tie district ,Chere they may be found" may
be bound out cas- apprentiees.' ito what?
by magistrate; and, so outrageous were
the expressions perpetrated under this
act, that Gen. Sickles was obliged to
nullify it by . military order, which of
course has been quashed by the Presi-
dents proclamation of peace.
w. The Times advises the Blacks to
'sgive their attention to Education" but
conceals the fact that in no single South
erm State has any public prorision been made
to educate Black children. The few Re
publicans in the Texas Convention fought
desperately for provision that whatever
taxes should be collected for educational
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 Freedmen's Bureau,
officially reports that schools for Blacks,
though entirely supported by themselves
and their Northern friends, will only be
tolerated where there is T. S. Military
force to protect 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 Louisi-
ana. In New Orleans the colored people
pay one fifth of the taxes, whereby good
| schools are maintained; but not one of
their children is allowed a taste of the
education thereby provided. The Blacks.
who pay taxes, are not allowed to send
their children to the schools supported
by their money, wherein Whites who
| never paid tax are free and welcome.
Such are few of the expressions and
| disabilities under which the Blacks labor
| throughout the South. Is it not the
sublimity Of impudence in one who is .
! practical upholder of these Heaven dar-
ing iniquities to advise them to ignore
politics and attend to the education OF
their children?-Ne,c York Tribune
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