Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-03-27

say how much tax We must pay. He may
make it million if he chooses. He is to
be the autocrat of North Carolina, with
more legislative power than was ever placed
In one mans hands in any free govern
ment, with an absolute power of taxation
unknown even to the monarchies of Eu-
rope, and control from which there is no
appeal. This is the plan proposed by
these very unpretending strangers They
propose that all the districts shall build
houses according to plans which will be
brought from Massachusetts the houses
to cost from $500 to 81, OOO each district
to raise the money and build it's own house.
Not to be done voluntarily, of course, but
by coercion. The law says nothing about
1t, but these are their private plans, their
pet hobbies, which they show to their
friends They have already said that
teachers cannot be found in this State; they
must be brought from Massachusetts,
North Carolinians ale ignorant boobies in
their opinion they want Yankees to teach
the schools.
These are some of the things proposed,
and for which they have made provision by
contingencies and constructions of law
They honestly think this best for them
selves, and therefore for the State. They
think they know more than any Legisla-
ture, and they want sufficient power to
carry all th> ~ plans into effect. VIII you
vote for the Mogul Do you propose to
give him power which you know he will
use for your ruin We hope not.
4. The proposed Article says, the Public
Schools are to be free to all children an the State.
The free schools are to be mixed. White
and negro children are to go to the same
schools, sit on the same seats, and reclte
together in the same lessons. Any obiec-
ton to this, these latter day saints call
prejudice. They say we must get over
this, that it is all foolish and wrong. They
pretend that mixed schools are not to be
forced by law, that it will be left to the
districts to decide each one for itself. This
is subterfuge, a palliation, mere sugar
coating to the black pill. Even this would
be intolerable. In half the State the ne
groes would have majority and would
rule the schools in their own way; in other
places there would be endless difficulties.
But this is not the intention. The real
design is to give all the benefits of the
Public Schools to the negroes and the very
few whites who will go with them. The
law, as proposed, will admit this plan, and
a careful comparison of its different parts
will show that it cannot really be executed
in any other way. Their intention was
vention. He put the question to direct
test, aud was not only voted down over
whelmingly, but was treated with disre-
spect, unworthy any deliberative body
The only exemption from mixed schools
will be where they are all black. The
Yankee autocrats will execute this law with
relish. They will enjoy it. It will be as
delicious as Southern home was to
hungry hummer. They say we are aristo,
cratic and naughty. and that it is part of
their mission to teach us our true station.
They would greatly delight to place negro
teachers over white children. They are
fond of arranging colors in that way, and,
in their opinion, it would be good for the
whites and justice to the negro.
According to Radical Interpretation, this
would be the dawn of the millennium, an an
swer to the prayers of Henry Ward Beecher,
and his amiable sister Mrs. Stowe, and
fulfilment of all the prophecies of the level
ing school, The adoption of this article,
and the election of Yankee Superinten-
dent, would be a greater triumph to New
England propagandism, which, being in
terpreted, means the increase of mulattoes,
than all that was ever effected by Grant or
Sherman. All Massachusetts, would hold
q grand, internal jubilee, when she learned
that some of her most insignificant sons
had unlimited power over the education of
a Southern State. Lean, hungry Pilgrims
would come in ''shoals" to behold the spec
tacle and fill their pockets. What say you,
We North Carolinians will you have mixed
schools Will you ratify such law Not
yet, say 10000 true men
5. The proposed Article requires that al
children shall be sent TO school at least Si1tee1e
months.
This is the legislative bed Of Procrustes
to force equality and insure mixed schools.
1t will bear terribly hard on hundreds of
poor white Radicals, but these fanatical re-
formers care nothing for that. They care
for none but themselves. Vast numbers
cannot send their children to any other
than the Public Schools, and, as these will
all be mixed, they have thus devised a sa-
gacious merciful plan, by which they will
force all the poor achite people into equality
with the negro. This is the real intention
of this provision. What they cannot do by
persuasion, they intend to do by force.
We beg to call the special attention of
the industrious, honest, Woodworking peo-
pie of the Western counties to some facts.
Our Western people are told that, as they
have but few negroes among them, they
will not be troubled with mixed schools
This is great mistake. 1t is the very porss
ton OF the state where mixed SchC OILS, II
the new Constitution passes, are to be most
abundant. The bill cOmpels the establish
ment of schools and the attendance of all
children between five and eighteen years
old. Where the negroes are few, as In the
West, there are not enough black children
in each School District to have a negro
school, even if separate schools are allowed.
With a Yankee Superintendent, he would
be sure to force them into the schools with
the white children.
This is refined cruelty, token of what
is to come. The rich can evade it by send
ing to other schools, out of the State, but
the poor will have no escape. Think Of it,
We men of families. You may die soon.-
Your wife and babes may be left without
much of this worlds goods. After you are
gone, your children may be forced to go to
school sixteen months with negroes. Your
daughter, seventeen years old, may be COM
PEELED to recite with negro boys of twenty.
They may make love to her, and call her
pet names, and none can defend her. Open
your eyes, fellow-countrymen ; see into
what a gulf you are to be led. Will you
vote for such measure as this Not yet,
not vet Neither now nor ever hereafter