The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-11-23

A speek OF War-AEixed Schools and the
Result-wirI Grant Declare Martial Law
i'm Ohio.
A special from Columbus to the
Enquirer of the 18th, says:
In Perry and. other townships in
this (Franklin) county, the parents of
negro children, although provided
with separate schools, are deter
mined to force them into schools,
set apart for whites. Acting under
advice from Radical negro-equality
lawyers, suits are threatened against
School directors. in the United States
Court at Cincinnati, unless they allow
the schools to be mixed Such suit
is ruin to any man not wealthy, for
when arrested he has 10 pay the Dep
uty Marshal tor. his arrest, his mile
age and fees to Cincinnati, and all the
costs of the Court, whether he is con-
yicted or not; in this is enumerated
his Witnesses, their mileage and per
diem while attending court; for the
United States pays no, costs in suits
criminal Or civil commenced by its Of
! feiais against q citizen, unless that cit
izen first swears that he is pauper,
and is not able TO procure witnesses
necessary TO his defence. Guilty or
innocent, the School Directors, if ar
rested, will have heavy bill of costs
to pay. The threatened arrest is TO
force them into 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
township is Republican and so are the
school Directors, and hence the Dem
Eocrats held off and let the Republicans
settle it among themselves. E
AN INDIGNATION MEETING
Has already been held to protest
against the destruction of the schools
by mixing the blacks and whites, and
to employ counsel. One of the Re-
publican leaders in that township,
Mr.. Jones, gentleman of considera-
bic intelligence and much wealth, sub
scribed five hundred dollars TO pre-
vent the sacriiege. The negro race,
and their white brethren who think
the negrofhe superior race. also have
raised. the sinews Of war. They, too,
are indignant, for under the fifteenth
amendment they claim that all dis
tinction on account of color was done
away, and that the Ku Klux law of
THE last Congress will be used to en-
force their rights. They claim that
they have been instructed by their
counsel, as well as by leading states
man, (supposed to be Mr.. Shellabar-
ger), that If other means fail Franklin
county will have ss8 t,4,,~ assn
A4TAsTE OF MARTIAL LAW,
Under proclamation from President
Grant, which will not. only right all
their wrongs, but will punish the Ru
eRlur Kida. who oppose them. These
Ethreata from the negro leaders, with
their white aiders and abettors, have
| produced an, intense feeling, amp
threats are openly made by Republic
cans that If Grant does interfere he
will lose aevery white mans vote in
Perry Township, if notlin the county.
lseIf the negro children are admitted
to the schools set apart.for white chill
idren twill s.dssF9nisfa
lsiits' BREAK UP THE WHITE SCHOOLS.
For a very large majority, nine-tenths
at least, the white children will be
withdrawn. Even in Columbus,
where they have the finest negro
school building In Ohio-more than
ample. for. all their wants., and easy of
accessible feeling among the negro
population becatse they cannot send
! their children TO the white schools is
! openly expressed and they look for
ward to the time as not, far distant
when a Republican Legislature will
give them the right to mix in schools
as the Fifteenth "A amendment gives
them the right of equality with the
whites at the polls. o. III s.sssa.5.