The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-04-20
DoNALDsoNvIILE, "A, SATURDAY,

question of race or color; accommodations
are provided for all the children; and teach
ers, white and colored, male and female, from
all sections of our country, are employed
whenever their qualifications will allow. In
some cases, the children of both races attend
school in common, and sometimes a colored
teacher has in his school numbers of white
children. Such is the confidence which has
grown up among the people in our school
work that large number of private and
many denominational schools reported year
ago have been merged with our public
schools
One of the School Directors in the
parish of Assumption says:
In certain localities, children of both col
ors attend schools in common, and in such
the improvement is astonishing. This is to
be accounted for, suppose, by the constant
emulation between the two races.
j. Sella Martin, colored man, who
was Assistant Superintendent of the
schools in the Fourth Congress Dis
trict, reported that "the strongest
prejudices have yielded to the teach
ings of necessity" and also that, not
withstanding his color, he was treated
with courtesy by the old citizens.
Mr.. E. Warren Smith, principal OF
the Bienville School in New Orleans,
says:
| find, by special report of my assistants,
| that twO-thirds of the pupils are white and
one third colored. 1t is seldom that the usual
| peace and good order of the school are dis
| turbed by any exhibition on account of race
or color. Both classes are equally ready and
desirous to learn, and certainly by myself,
| and think also by my assistants, is impair
tial justice meted out to all
In the report of the School Directors
of the city of New Orleans, where
there are seventy public schools and
four hundred teachers, that body in
forms the public that
| The requirements of the school law have
| been faithfully observed by the Board, and
no case has come to their knowledge Of the
exclusion of a pupil because of race, color OF
previous condition. Nor has this adherence
| to the law been attended by any of the un-
| favorable results 80 freely predicted in ad-
| vance of the honest trial of an impartial sys-
| TEN of education. In the instances
! where, under the action of tho Law, the
| schools have to some extent been "mxed
Schools" no difficulty has been experienced
The kindly feeling now existing be-
tween the white and the colored peo-
pie of Louisiana, and which Mr.. Con-
way demonstrates as the fruit of ear
nest devotion to duty on the part OF
public officers, can, it seems to us, ex-
tend all over the South, SO that we
shall in future hear more of schools
and school-teachers than of secret
councils of Ku-Klux and open butch
ering of coiored people.
II must crafty Mr.. Conway to set
the good results of his frmness and
industry. How that gentleman must
| have enjoyed the vindieation of the
right of his position which was recent,
ly demonstrated on board of the rev.
enue cutter Wilderness, where State
Senators, Republicans and Democrats
blacks and whites, carpet-baggers ant
natives, without distinction, were found
seated around the same table, and en-
joying equal rights in the Custom
House school, under Custom -Houst
law, with Mr.. Casey for principa
teacher, and Packard and Carter a
assistants!