Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-04-25
MIXED SCHOOLS.
The Meeting Last Night.
Strong and Positive Declarations In
Favor Of Summers Bin.
Speeches By well.Known ColOred Men.


Speeches BY Well.knOWn UOlOred Men,
-,
In pursuance TO aPubllshsd call large nun.
-, $500. a. 80. -. ..,,o- $780,. n.
e'onns W saNo sosio sor -, 'u.t ,. ~
oors,ng senator summers scnoo' o'h' "n'eh
The meeting was called 10 order By John T.
SXTSapsooi and prayer W." On'''d Oy Row. D. W.
was mater OF more than ordinary imoort' and
one n wsieh not only The eitISsns o2 ths Dls.
trict were Interested, but ali especiaiiy those
Th"I we're nrsssnt IA consider tho sehoo, b,u
now bsfore ths senate And being advoonted Nv
Inc CHAMPION Of human fIEhts' ChnrIsa sun.
nes a un,s oosr,S shey SSu !, Ky sslae AZ 20
,ssInsa ~ M ,,t,o,o.st rhany. n Va 80,
~ WhieH sbSv VETS entitled M American eitI
.sn and they ga no. proPO,sss e sI5grGni.s y
49,, lts,is, s,i =. n mai hscn aenonsi,sS.S
IN, ira. Nd hsan no natItion romins from
those I.yOLiOE me measure ,9ey would siys
heard At the CAPITOL sl,I,d, m ,xv,s.,.
Judrs Fliber was hen elocted pre,,den, Of
ne Issnpg and on taking ne ~. ensI, sald r.
isci mt undorSisod nv MI Jehnson,s som.sIs
mai II mani mixed aehoois' and m that was me
~ Lns,s thst N M NJ n,.,ua,c.. IN IN.
Mi. 80 mt ihs aa~ hss snnnc Nv v,hsn nm
manity shogId nave pretud,css. Xner 4 calm
,., 49, Wy I'M y, nv
people. lie eonld remember that al the first
school he ever sttended there was coiored BOYS
y.h nd hs ca,,la sdrs NV nh Sia
preiudlces IL was time Tor othors 10 as D.,
1tho foilovinT were elected ofnoors of the
meeting;
Nice Prceidcnts-O. q. II. wall. Gov, Henry
ID. Cooke. WIN sypbaS, Hon. Il 1. stanton, Al.
X. Shepherd. o. A, Stewart Dr, A. II. Au-
Eusta. IN d. w, Bliss, Hoe. SayIes u. Bowen,
sSspherd, jS%ss b, ROVE. " VIM q Msrssail,
,Tohn Nv. MoKnIrht, Charles Il, HuIso. John A,
Gray, Sol. a. Brown, I'd. T. SAVOY, II. "A. Bos.
veil, WIN. Beckett WIN; A. FRESHMAN, WIN. 2.
Robert Cornell, John M, Morris, j. W, Ohass,
Henry ID. Peyton, don. Mussey, George nj
VAshon, Peter Campbell. Joseph Williams,
Frank II. Freeman, dec. MoRcnands, Major A,
U RIoharda Jaa Wormley Robort IT. HDoker
VIM III Brueo AMI DAVID fishey' M "-'''
Secretarlos,Tamos Garter John NJ Curry,
Johnson, Josiah n. Settle, John n CLARK and
Henry CrVer
ThS following were APPOINTED committee on
rceolutiops: HUH NJ, Brown, M, NJ Holland,
,Iohn ii. 1joof. II. i, Emcry. John III BrooEs
William ii, A, Wormley, MIN II. Smith.
George w. Mitchell was introduced, and said
Thai II Rfforde. him pleasure 10 IN preaenl A. il
was a Iubiec, in which he was intsrostsd' He
did moi forTet that nearly a hundred wears AGO
our Tor ToseasSers broke loose from thc mo,beS
country and established an independent nation.
thst ordeal was mast and now We have that
country that was concsi1ed BY V our isthsrs years
Now We have the riaht 10 vote without respeot
10 rara or rolnr m Eould annonr tbaI ali oiher
riRhtS pertaining 10 citiEenship would naturally
as1 fram this graat frsnchIse. nm sneh Il nh
thn casa' Sensrnte sshoois were a remnant Of
sisyerv Iftbis msssnro wera moi vparant.e.i
by the laws, ii was certainty ono Of eSpodioncy
sympathy Win ali that arc oppressed, andithey
mad %s y aasI ~ ~ ,SS ne MI
LOT no Tl s % y, 'ns g0oa 2. 'e ~ ,
XII. There wac no reason WIN me schools
shoaid moi bo thrown open Tor he benSat of he
black as well as the yhits people; As tnl.
nTmiy nnI,ed snT I,oyern ment will r~st an a bet.
tsr aSd srmsf basis, "''' ~ W = wv
In regard 10 me general school system being
an aeEnowisdEment Of social Equality, no
Mi,hed 10 Nv mai an that noInt thet Woulfug
nam nntIi rsstins mae eonId nof he 1onnd to
rest st' their selfsh ideas, Nv "
IL maIntainsd that schoolr oouid mi n. n,
prnsr,ssixs or ambiiions Nhsn senarata AZ vhen
united, They believed IN eouai ri9hts. And that
ali public institutions supportef IN taxation
shonid ia onnned ~ then, ~ vail A. r. thc
ebiIdrsn N pthsr nstionsiIt,es Th..s "a. mn M
miadie srnnnd IN ,hs mat,sr A man ,,nst ~
kop1 an ab,oot slave or glyen All his riRbts, and
nv intended h nress 1orWnrd in thls maiisr
until thess rI3hts we're obtsined. He doiieated
himself 10 The work and would not atom 10 long
as yestige OF slavery appeared on the cont.
nent.
ali thai was possible TO I'd the country, law and
religion % ali distinotions on account OF color.
There were many, both IN a2irit and soul, which
only tended TO degrade both white and biact
not a man native-bOrn who could not aspire 70
the once Of President Of the United States, they
would deliberate over the right Of schools. A
President, yet his children cannot enter white
school.
1twas preposterous 70 think that such should
and those composed clusiyely Of black as veil
/ as Of white persona As Jesus Christ hated
distinction % did ho He never taught one class
Ss s rssI and md aSSRsT U5
man that fayors distinctions Is not fall grown
| no may DO In body, but not In spirit or heart.
some eolored men want black schoolsi other. Ak
would make him spit In man ace q fns * hln,
down, II was because they pAtted them on tho
back on account Of his hair being curlcd. They
wanted thsso privileges because they are en-
| titled TO them, The thing they needed was
| the nnest school the country could furnish, and
no other indueomsnt should govern the parents
dren that can be secured. How long could he
children be kept 10 schoolf About a. long as
tho white ones He had been looking round,
STUDENT than The Shits children. '''' 'P'D
Tho coiored schools amounted TO nothing, and
| II was NOT worth while f5r them TO shut their
eyes % tho iSct. lie not only demanded schooi
i equality but social EQUALITY With . half 4
| dozen Exceptions no had never found a we'll.
/ conducted negro school; hence no argued that