Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-12-17
THE RADICAL SCHOOLMASTER


THE RADICAL SCHO0LMASTER.
Hunnicut is attacking the Freed
mems Bureau as n corrupt political
machine, and the Radical journals de-
clare that il is TO be abolished on and
after the first of the coming year But
other facts do not look as If the aboIi-
ton Of this.gigantic iraud'and swindle
was q certainty. General Howard
announces that for some purposes the
Bureau will be continued in Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Missouri, and in the Dis
trict of Columbia, after the first of
January, 1869, and that he wants
eleven millions of dollars for current
expenses. In all these States the or
ganization is to be maintained, and in
each Of thirteen States and at Wash
ington there is to be an assistant COM
missioner and chief superintendent of
schools; one disbursing officer for
the educational department and pay
ment Of claims two agents for pay
ment of bounties two assistant
superintendents of schools and clerks,
and of course minor officers, TO be paid
by the working men of the country
out of their hard earnings. This mat
ter Of educating the negroes is a mere
cover under which politicians can bend
this class Of voters in the South in their
own direction. The school houses will
be decorated with portraits of Mr..
Lincoln and General Butler and Wen
dell Phillips; extracts from emanci-
patton proclamations and Radical
stump speeches will be placed upon
the walls, teachers selected from the
most bigoied class of Union-hating
Puritans, and thus the schools turn.
ed into recruiting stations for the
Radical party. The Constitution
will be denounced as "leaguo with
hell, and covenant with death the
teachings of the fathers Of the Re
public held up to scorn and derision,
and John Brown and his followers
exalted above General Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jack
son, in point of patriotism and love OF
country. New England books, brim
full Of the peculiar notions of that
section, will be used, and none others.
New England teachers will poison
the minds of those entrusted TO their
charge, aud New England politicians.
shape the whole educational policy and
run il in the channel most likely 10
aid their designs upon of the perpetu-
ity Of this free representative form of
government.
This is not an over.colored picture
of the kind Of schools for negroes in
the South, which will be established
and maintained by the Radical party.
They care nothing for the negro, only
as they can use him as political tool.
Once let these schools be fairly estab-
lished under Radical government and
control, and no negro who votes the
Democratic ticket can have his chill.
dren educated under Bureau care and
supervision. Tho doors of the school
houses will be shut against all such
dusky applicants. They will have to
remain on tho outside of the fold
This principle is already acted upon
by the Radical with reference 10 other
matters in connection with the negoes,
and it will assuredly be applied TO the
schools. Food and clothing are with
held from negroes who viii not join
the Radical column in the South, and
they are arrested and punished on the
most trivial charges, while the "loyal'
negroes have meat and raiment in
abundance, and can rob, plumber and
devastate at their will and pleasure.
On this plan the schools will be con-
Quoted, and tho negroes taught TO
hate the whites and to live in o con-
taDt state of warfare with those who
differ with the leaders Of the Radical
party. And for doing this wicked
work, under the guise OF educating the
negroes, the white men of the North
are expected TO pay from six TO eight
millions of dollars per year. Arc such
results desirable at any price I Do the
people Of this nation want TO bring
about war of races, with all its hor-
rible Consequences They know what
such a war means. They have read
the blood-stained record of st. Domin.
60 Were even the negroes benefited
by that holiday OF murdercrs and as
sassins 7 If not, then why should we
be taxed TO educate the negroes of
this country up to point where bad
men could use them to butcher the
white race without distinction OF age,
sex or condition The Radical party
wish TO continue the Freedmen's Bu-
real for reducationalpurpose they say.
But what kind Of IN oducationdo they
mean to give tho negroes Of the South Z
Not such as will make them peaceful
citizens, willing TO work for their liv.
ing and obey the laws, bat that kind
of training which will fit them 80 do
the bidding Of political kuaves and
men who would mount TO power over
the bodies Of their slaughtered fellow.
countrymen, and the fragments of a
Destroyed Republic Age