The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-09
The Curse Coming Home.

The agitation commenced there and it
was hoped it would stay there.
But like all the peruicious propositions
of "loyalty" this Internal idea could
not be restrained within reasonable
limits. Under Radical manipulation
the agitation has been spreading
throughout the country. The curse of
negro equality in this new shape is be-
ing brought TO our own doors.
Last Monday a negro named JOHN
WINsLow applied to the School Board
across the river at Bridgeport, Ohio, to
have his step son, mulatto boy, admit
ted to the Union School at that place.
The mother Of the boy, as we are in
formed, is white woman; his father a
negro, with whom the mother was init.
mate before her marriage with WINS
Low. On Monday night the School
Board took the case under consideration.
After long and heated discussion vote
was taken upon the following resolu-
ton, offered by Mr.. TALLMAN, a member
of the Board:
Resolred, That the colored youth Of
this School District be admitted into
the schools.
Mr.. CLAYLAND demanded the yeas
and nays. The vote stood,
Yeas-Messrs. RHODES, TALLMAN and
HOLLOWAY. a-
May,-Messrs. CLAYLAND, Cook and
BAGGs.
Some of the friends of the resolution
having intimated that its opponents
feared to face the public upon this vote,
and that those opponents would, in the
course of few years, be ashamed of
their action in this matter, Doctor
JOHN Cook moved that the resolution
and the vote thereon be published in
the Wheeling papers. The motion pre-
vailed.
1t may be well to mention here
the provision of tho Ohio School Law,
that where there are twenty negro chill
dren OF more in School District, sep
arate school shall be established for
their benefit. In the Bridgeport Dis
trict it appears there are but eighteen.
The fact suggests a fair basis of com
promise. The gentlemen who favor ad-
mitting the negroes to white schools
cannot, of course, longer insist upon
mixing blacks and whites against the
wishes of the latter. At the same time,
they cannot object to giving their own
children the benefit of negro society in
the schools. Let them take these
eighteen colored children and add
enough of their own to make up the
number required by law fcra o separate
school, and start one in which their
peculiar ideas Will be recognized and
to which the black blessings they
desire will be vouchsafed. We presume
that the opponents of admitting the
negro to the white schools will not
object. and certainly the friends
of that measure cannot de-
cline a proposition which assures
their families of monopoly of the col.
ored society for which they clamor.
The world recognizes their right to
select just such companions for their
children as they wish. Objection is
made simply to their forcing negro
children into white schools against the
wishes of white children md white pa.
rents.
1t is sadly to be regretted that this
unfortunate, this foolish agitation has
been commenced in this vicinity. 1t
will only serve to produce bitterness
and strife among the people, infict
damage upon the schools, and stir up
enmity against the blacks. COP knows
the country has done enough already
for the negro, without breaking down
the social barriers that divide the races.
He has received Lis freedom, his civil
rights, and in many States his vote. In
the matter of legislation for the past six
or eight years, ten measures have been
enacted for his benefit where the
white man has received one. His en-.
forced elevation must stop somewhere.
Has not enough been done already
One thing is certain: the negro has re-
ceived about all the special privileges
public opinion is disposed to accord him.
Hs white friends bad better not push
his claims further. Let them take him
into their own houses if they desire, but
let them not demand that his children
and the children of all the white citi.
zens of the country shall be placed
upon the same footing, in the same
school houses, upon the same play
grounds and in the same social inter
course. With all the progress" that has
been made, it is more than possible to
arouse fiercer feeling upon this subject
than would be compatible with the
welfare of the race in whose behalf
these extraordinary demands are being
put forth. Once provoke the masses to
struggle against this curse of negro
equality, aud the sad conclusion would
rapidly be reached that the two races
cannot dwell here together in peace.
Sore and savage.
The Intelligexcsr man is sore in body
and bones. He developed more irrita-