Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-03-12
ali1ed Schools end Colleges.

| DR.. L. NYE HUTBIsCN, as Secretary OF
| the Board of Trustees of Davidson Col
Iege, has taken occasion, through the col
umns of the Fayetteville Presbyterian
| to refute the report circulated throughout
| the State that the Trustees OF that College
were making arrangements to establlsh
department for the education OF colored
| students. The Raleigh ,Sdnd0rd, comply
| ing with the request for papers IN the
| State to notice, with its agrarian contempt
for everything refined and noble Il society,
makes it the excuse for a violent and filthy
attack upon this institution. The article
is characteristic Of the leveling spirit which
actuatcs the foul -mouthed slanderer who
yiIlifes every noble and honorable feeling
of our people during six days Of the week
through the columns of that paper, and on
the seventh serves the devil by giving III
pulpit to the hatred of the South which
rankles in his loathsome heart
While the leaders of its party in the
Legislature are protesting against any
rurpose to mix the races in the public
schools, and while the Standard has pro-
nounced against it in the University,
giving way this much at least to the
''preiudices of CASTE" which it declares
the Christian colleges OF the world are
rapidly rising above, yet it pours the venom
of its wrath against the Trustees OF David
son because they have published the fact
to the world that only whites will be edu-
Gated there. No; the fact is patent that
the miserable wretches who have grown in
power by voluntary association as equals
with blacks, will do all they can to force
that equality upon others Their course In
the Legislature is an acted lie. They mean
to mix the races in schools and elsewhere,
but they fear the "prejudices of caste }"
are too strong to DO so by ono sweeping
enGctnent While they seem to provide
| for the separate education OF whites and
blacks i'll the public schools, their organ
denounces private institutions for doing
the same thing. Nay, it wickediy and
vainIy attempts to prejudice our people
against the distinguished diyines and
elders who comprise the Faculty Of
Davidson College, and the Christian de-
nomination which they represent and
which has done SO much for the educa-
tional and moral welfare of the world.
| It is time when such haters of social re-
| inement are put forward as instructors OF
public opinion, that even Radical papers
in Western North Carolina should become
alarmed st the warfare threatened against
| the social relations Of our people under the
party lash. These degraded men will do
every thing to break down the pestilent
feeling OF aristocracy," which, as Judge
Underwood declares in one of his recent
luminous opinions, sets the people of the
South against mingling freely with the ne
groes. We believe their attack will first
be made through our children. They will,
under tho tyrant's plea Of necessity, estab-
lish mixed schools in those districts where
one or other of the races furnish an insult
fcient number Of scholars to justify q seq
arate school. BY this means the barrier
will be broken down, and economy will
soon require the mixed system to be adopt
ed throughout the State.
In this bitter attack upon Davidson Col
lege, we recognize the rallying cry of the
Radical clans. A few of the faithful will
denounce. then hesitate, as they did in
regard to negro testimony and negro suf-
frage, but soon they will " endure, then
pity, then embrace" and we shall see even
the Rutherford Star, which now threatens
it's party with defeat and destruction upon
this issue, advocating it as one of the car
dinal principles of its political faith.
The Fifteenth Amendment
On Monday both HnnsaS of tho Gennral