The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-11-22
WHEELING w. VA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER %, 1871
A speck OF warfn Columbus, Ohio
Nix ed schools and the Result.

Az ouu StAANA NN'' r
(Franklin) county, the parents OF negro
children, although provided with sepa-
rate schools, are determined TO force
them into schools set apart for whites.
Acting under advice from Radical
negro-equality lawyers, suits are threat
ened against school directors, in the
United States Court at Cincinnati, un.
less they allow the schools to be mixed.
Such suit is ruin to any man not
wealthy, for when arrested he has to
pay the Deputy Marshal for his arrest,
his mileage and fees to Cincinnati, and
all the costs of the court, whether lie is
convicted or not; and in this is emu
merated his witnesses, their mileage and
per diem while attending court; for the
United States pays no costs IN suits
criminal or civil commenced by It's 9TH
cials against citizen, unless that citI-
zen first swears that he is a pauE er, and
is not able to procure witnesses neces-
sary 10 his defense Guilty or innocent
the school directors, if arrested, will
have heavy bill OF costs to pay. The
threatened arrest is to force them into
a compliance.
The feeling against mixed schools in
all parts of the country is great, and
strange to say it is even more intense
among the better class Of Republicans
than Democrats. IN Perry township
this is particularly the case. The town
ship is Republican, and so are the
school directors, and hence the Demo
Gratis held off and let the Republicans
settle it among themselves.
AN INDIGNATION MEETING
has already been held to pro-
test against the destruction of the
schools by mixing the blacks and whites
and to employ counsel. One OF the
Republican leaders in that township,
Mr.. Jones, a gentleman Of considerable
intelligence and much wealth, subscrlb-
ed five hundred dollars to prevent the
sacrlege The negro race, and their
white brethren who think the negro
the superior race, also have raised the
sinews Of war. They, too, are indis-
nant, for under the Fifteenth Amend
ment they clam that all distinction on
account Of color was done away, and
that the Ku.Klux law Of the last Com
grcss will he used to enforce their rights.
They claim that they have been In
structed by their counsel, as well rs by
a leading statesman (supposed to be Mr;;
Shellabarger), that if other means fail
Franklin county will have.
A TASTE OF MARTIAL LAW,
under a proclamation from President
Grant which will not only right all
their wrongs, but will punish the ku-
Klux Klan, who oppose them. These
threats from tue negro leaders, with
their white aiders and abettors, have
produced an intense feeling and threats
are openly made by Republicans that
of Grant does interfere he will lose every
white mans vote in Perry township,
if not in the county.
If the negro children are admitted to
the schools set apart for the white chill
dren it will
BREAK UP THE WHITE SCHOOLS,
for very large majority, nine-tenths at
least, OF the white children will be
withdrawn. Even in Columbus, where
they have the finest negro school build,
ing in Ohio-mOre than ample Tor all
their wants, and easy Of accessible
feeling among the negro population be.
cause they can not send their children
to the white schools is openly expressed,
and they look forward to the time as
not far distant when Republican
Legislature will give them the right TO
mix in schools as the Fifteenth Amend
ment gives them the right Of equality
with the whites at the polls.