The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-07-01

anpeal to the white man, and nothing
more. aud we therefore denounce 1t any
and everywhere.
Tne connrron schools.
An old friend writing us from Graves
county thinks its strange that the Kick
man CoUREER prefers Capt. VIM. CLARK
to Major Hale, for the Senate, because
the COURIER advocated the School Tax
anu Clark now favors its repeal We
understand CLARK aud Hale's positions
on this question to be the same, or sub
stantially so, that is they both urge It's
repeal because of the apprehension that
the negro will be admitted. The facts
are. that when the additional 10 cents
tax was submitted to the people OF Ken
tucby, II was expressly stipulated that
the fund so derived was to be used for
the education of the White children OF
the State, and foruo other purpose. This
was a positive contract made by the
friends Of the measure with the voters OF
the State The oppouents of the tax
are-atHent HaesSsstAIts andtne
COURIER argued in response that when
such an emergency arose. the additional
tax could be repealed we are forced to
admit that wherever Radicalism has OBJ
tanned power in the South they have
forced the admission of the negro into
the common schools, ana there Is no
question but that they villa it in Ken
lucky whenever they deem il safe policy.
Therefore, If we act in good faith, we
can but eonsentt to its repeal The mix
ture Of white and negro children Is OBJ.
iectionable to both races, and would be
Injurious to both.
Again, We prefer Clark to Hale, be-
cause his viewsarein perfect harmony with
the policies advocated in these columns.
He ehalked the line We have been advo
eating SO precisely, we have no alierna
tive but to support him We should
pay poor compliment to our past
professions. if after having written as
much as we have, and argued as loud
y public and privately in favor of negro
testimony, and participated 10 conventions
insructiog our Senator'S and Represen-
tatives to vote for such bill, il we should
now decline to support man every other
way worthy and well qualified, who bold
~ champions this very view, and is man
fully and ably struggling to combat the
errors and prejudices which pertain TO its
discussion
We make no war upon Major Hale
either as a democrat, a citizen or . gentle
man. We eheerlully eoncede him all
these to high degree, but exercise ON
right to differ with him upon questions q
podcy We DO not say the particular
view he represents Is aah.democratie
but we do question the 1Cisdon, or polt9
elstieriag opinions and sentiments known
or any man can point to Democratic
platform IN single State, which oppose;
negro testimony, we VIII yield the point
The kentucky platform, which is less
direct than any of the other States, dis
tinctiy and emphatically Endorses the re-
cent address by the Democratic Congress
men, and it is we'll known that this ad
dress declares in favor of a strict con
struction of the CONSTITUTION, qojth all us
amendments. afl+e Kentucky Democ.
rscy IN indorsing the address, practically
pass the whole negro. question from the
political boards, aud pronounce it a
dead issue.
Therefore when man like Clark, bold
y steps to the front, and in advocating
this view, seeks. for the good Of the coun
try, to bury the prejudicesand auimosities
eugcndered by our late depIorable civil
strife and to eliminate from our par
ty politics everything calculated to keep
up the hatred and i'll feeling between the
people OF the country, we must prefer
himto one, who however worthy personal
~ aud otherwise politically whose course
is ealeaIsted to keep a live aud fresh these
old wounds.
The Democrats both oftbe North and
South stand ready TO bury the past with
all of its horrors, its suffering aud its
bitter memories. They have turned their
backs on the dark nights of the past. and
with faces set to the future, await patient
" the rising of the sun which shall surely
pierce the mists of uncertainty that over
hang the present, and send the broad,
blessed light Of peace over all the land
He who tries to shut out its joyous rays
will only succeed in casting his own
shadow"