The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-10
Ex-iov Orr in communication to the Legislature the

ES-Gov Orr communication to the Legislature
Under the e. Constitution the office State
tor each d Gonnthe and
has already been elected and will doubtless upon the
charge of his duties soon they defined BY
In ns eas fsn schools . and the
To devise scheme adapted to the of South Carolina
pdars alike 5 to city, village OF thny populated country will
aneo with the various localities of the State Hence great
taken, plan adopted is likely benefit
with the great to be entailed
the State and for fifty years they have BEEN
e ae 9 % Of rs enGnns IL the p spa sesd led
tine n best of the State and yet out Of the cities
due educational purposes heretofore made
vded the establishment Schools allowing one school to
oo y so ano na ha og % n % of b
funds in schools jointly with private funds individual
but e "n s Wien The
e oe o tho wa ss p & MG until
expended since 1911 have placed it within the every
English education and citizen has grown up ignorance
State the the PARENT ts or hd 1ad
bal mt w mot be S that school fashioned
regions Of the older Western States will purpose sought
in South Carolina To save an expenditure Of public
dgested and maured upon all the information which
modified by existing circumstance here and be- then % umed @ to-
the General Assembly, before appropriations money made for
the public schools.
The Constitution provides shall be kept open at least
months each schools
Gentlemen OF intelligence, who members
tion believe that the fair construction of this section will
ize when the system maed the establishment separate
schools for the white and colored children of the Another
seon however, declares that M the public
universities of this State
public funds shall be free and to all the children youths
OF the State without regard to color"
Ii shall be attempted to establish schools where both
to be taught being
whole system will result disastrous failure preudces of
whether just unjust exist full South
Carolina than in New England and the
localities separate schools provided for white
dren and community where these prevail so
strong degree how unreasonable is attempt
OF mixed schoos 1t cannot but result in constant feu
necessarily take the quarrel entire thus be
involved in continual tumulhe consequence
efforts of unwise persons
1t the remarkable that
inserted III the Constitution when necessity existed making
such reckless experiment 1t demanded by neither
oored nor the white and submitted to their
by BOTH If it attempted to enforce the law in those
the country where the colored population prpone1ae the
children will be driven from the schools and those sections
the whe population prepondeate the coored children will like
wise lind 1T impossible to remain the
relation between the two there already enough
bcken and controversy and the prudence of grown people
much less Will such prudence characterize the relation
children of the two greater cruelty
could be inflicted by legislation the parents Of children of
the two than that which contemplated by Objectionable
feature OF the Constitution Indeed the mngng the
in the school roo the known uncoproisn
reutces on the subject to have been wanon and often
recognized or submitted to by the Caucasian therefore,
earnestly recommend that adopting educational system
be taken provide for the white and coored youths separate places
OF instruction AT the time the peace
happiness OF the people, protest against this amalgamation
The Congress of the States by July 1862