New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-01
JEWELL AND HIS TEACHER.

terviewing the intelligent colored citizen,
of limited education, note book in hand
last Thursday, on matters Of social, politi1
cal and general interest. He found this
colored Gamaliel to be SO interesting and
so clear headed that, notwithstanding his
limited education, he at once engaged
him to spread his views before the read4
ers of the Bulletin in edenso. The anus
ing part of the business can only be COM
pretended by on active and imaginative
mind as it inwardly contemplates picture
| wherein Jewell has followed this intelligent
colored man, Of limited education, into
his improbable room, and there bel
seeches him for light and knowledge on
the subjects that now agitate the moral
universe. Perhaps it would heighten th4
effect if the imaginary spectator would
| PROSTATE Jewell before the colored oracle
or at least seat him in sweet and placid
contemplation on the knee Of the intelll
| gent but limitedly educated teacher, giv'
| ing heed to the tale Of wisdom as prof.
| pounded by his overtaxed and lacerated
organ of speech. If it was in our line to
publish illustrations of how the tended
idea is taught to shoot, we might devote
| six or seven square inches Of space to the
| development of our own quiet and adj
miring idea of the picture as it presents
itself to our mind; but as that is out OF
our regular order, we have employed
Isaac, which his name is Mr. Bates, to de.
entrance, an outline of what will serve to
refresh us at times when we desire to-
humiliate our own ambition by looking
at meek and inquiring humbleness III
others.
The man of limited education told
Jewell, so Jewell says, that the colored
people had begun to lose confidence ii
the Republican administration, because
their taxes are SO great. Their property
which was remunerative before the war;
was now so eaten up by taxes as to
bring the proprietor into debt. Thif
man tells US who he is without uttering hih
name, or pulling off his mask. Hf
owned slaves before the war, and because
he has not got them now, and is too big 3
fool to sell his useless property to me1l
that will work it, he is allowing hiF
elephant to eat him up. That he owned
property before the war is the best evil
dence that he was never q slave, and
does not know or feel any of th|e
sentiments which actuate the great
mass of colored Republicans. That
he regrets the days before tn b
war is evidence that he is not in sympathE
with freedom or with his own race, anil
that his proper place is with the Demod-
racy, which tolerated him as free man
while it denied him the rights of free /
man. IF he had spoken to Jewell about
schools or politics before the Republican, S
came here he would have been kicked out
as suspicious character. If he had bee 10
robbed of his property, his oath woul ID
not have been received to convict IL e
robber. As to his grievances about taxe$,
if he knows anything at all he knows tha 1T
taxes are only shade higher than the y
were before the war, and that if the differ
ence in currency is taken into accoun I,
even this advance will disappear.
But this intelligent colored teacher, Of
such very limited education, deplores TIL
fact that he can not send his children to
school because the school tax eats up his
money. Ii his education had not been pf
such an extremely limited character he
would have known that the Legislature
changed the law SO as to leave it optional
with the people whether they would ia x
themselves for school purposes or not.
As for the paltry two mill tax, if thtt
hurts this intelligent but badly educated
man ct the rate of two dollars on the
$1,000, if he will apply to some less INTEL j.
gent but better educated man, who was
enfranchised by the war, it is thought a
subscription will settle the difficulty.
This intelligent man, with his defective
education, ventilated his ideas to Jewell,
so Jewell says, about the public schools,
about the city election, about the United
States Senatorship, about social equality,
about the registration, etc., all In
happy and harmonious uniformity vii ID
the tentative ideas of the wonder-stricktn
Jewell. In fact, if Jewell is to be believed,
his oracle expressed his ideas better than
he could have done it himself. And
during all this time Jewell kept pro-
foundly silent. He never told this defec-
lively educated man how he himself b..
proposed, at she meeting in Lafayette
Square, to keep the negroes out of the
schools He never opened his mou th
once to say that he himself was oppose I'd
to negro suffrage and negro school Is.
He never whispered his opinip n
that the fifteenth amendment v as
fraud. Nor did he magnanimously
inform the benighted oracle that if it had
not been for the ''carpet-baggers'' and
''scallawags' neither he nor any of bis
kind would now be allowed to sit down in
the Bulletin office and talk about schools
and registration. No. The genius W ao
could interview negro who was free lle-
fore the war, did not have the courage to
say what he thought and knew to b{' a
fact even with the asnersinn that the