The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-04-15
GN6hGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL Is, 1870
Che 59garietta Sourual.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
Friday Morn. APriI IJ, 1870
FORCING FORWARD SOCIAL EQUAL

TY.
A beginning has been made at last by
the Radicals on the question of cempnl-
sorry education, by the Introduction of a
bill into the Pennsylvania Legislature,
applicable to Philadelphia, which, if
passed, will doubtless be made to cover
the entire State. 1t provides that the
police may take children between eight
and fourteen years of age and compel
their Attendance in some public or other
school, md Ithat a general tax shall be
levied b provide fer them suitable ac-'
commodation. A penalty of thirty dol
lars viii be exacted for refusal to send
children to school wherever it can be
collected. This is but the beginning Of
system which will compel the white
children of the South to sit side by side
with negro children at the public schools.
In Louisiana the Radicals have already
refused to separate the races in the pub
lie schools, and the same policy will be
soon extended over all the Southern
States unless the people put a stop to it.
Not only will the white child be deprived
of an education unless he consents to as
sociate with the negro, but he will DO
compelled to so with the negro to school,
whether he desires or not. This is the
tendency of present Radical movements
in the Education line. A poor white
man writes as follows to tho New Or
leans Picayuae:
81 have learned that we may expect
colored children in the schools the list of
April. The question arises, will the men
of New Orleans permit the public schools
supported bytheir money, to admit prom
iscuouslv black and white children. Will
the poor men permit it! They will be the
greatest sufferers, for the rich can edu-
cate their children at private schools, or
send them to England, France, or Ger
many: but the poor will remain at home,
and mingle freely with the African or
go uneducated. Ye widows of Confeder-
ate dNad, your brave little sons, so proud
of their fathers memory, will go unedu-
Gated or become companion of the de-
based African.
Will the schools be mixcd7 We are
holding our breath and listening in agony
for some cheering word from our citizens;
Some indignation meeting, some resolutc
veto put upon such movement before
the action begins; but no! Each man
says; 81 will take my child away from
school" But what good will that do ?
Your child will go uncducated, while
you pay your money to educate the ne
gro.
To the poor white mon Of New Or
leans address myself-to the pure eau
casian blood Are you willing that your
sons, your daughters-who are "heirs
to all the ages in the foremost files of
times" you willing that they should
be placed upon an actual level with the
negro children of the present day with
the negro race, which has been provea
bcyound doubt to be the lowest in the
scale of humanity, having cone nothing
in the history of the world to prove them
selves reasoning, inventive people, but
have remained just as God made them
to be hcwers of wood and drawers Of
water.
Will the school be mixed 7 | ask for
a reply. What are the teachers to do ?
Shall they remain at their post when
colorcd children are forced in, or shall
they close the schools, relying upon the
men of New Orleans to assist them in
keeping them closed. viii some one
reply
So far as Alabama is concerned, says
the Montgomery Null, the Democracy
intend to prevent the contamination of
such schemes by overthrowing the mon
grel enemy at the polls next fall. Judge
RICE may endeavor to dcbanch the So
ciaI pride of our people by walking into
Railroad meeting arm in arm with a
notorious negro, as he did on Monday
night, but the example of such renegaGes
to their race will have no more influence
with the people than pebble with a
mountain stream.