The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-24

stock Ia. .423.
AUGUSTA. May 23.-Ootton firm
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Mr.. GREEnEY's Speech TO THE Ne
RoEs.-Mr. Greeley made speech last
Thursday night to the negroes of ough-
keepsie, New York, which contains the
following passages:
In tho next place, we must consider
the fact that the African people in our
country will remain for an indefinite
period peculiar people. Certainly I
trust that, with tho outgoing of slavery
and the political changes necessarily re-
sulting therefrom. there will be less an
tagonism. less repulsion between men of
different races, than there formerly was,
and trust the day is not far distant
when their common rights to any public
conveyance and in public meetings and
institutions will be recognized as they
were not recognized Of old. and ae they
arc but imperfectly recognized still. I
trust that political equality. justly es-
tabilshed, will lead to recognition of
their equality in other respects than
this; but. after oil, while desire and ex-
pect that invidious and CALLING distinc-
tions will gradually fall into disuse, I
still believe that there are differences of
races which political equality will not
efface, but which will remain long after
the memory of slavery has faded to a
faint tradition. "Blood il thicker than
water" and the time will probably never
come when men of races 80 diverse as
ours and theirs will mingle socially with
the same freedom that men of either
race mingle with their own people.
There will always be recognized de-
cided difference, which need not be dis
parity, need not be inequality, but still
difference. I hope the time will come
when our educational institutions and
seminaries will be open to men of ull
races with q freedom, with hospitality
which has never yet been enjoyed.
trust the time will come when no mans
color will exclude him from any church
or any religious organization whatever.
But though that time should come, L am
not ut all sure that the colored race will
not, as they now do, AS u rule, prefer
their own society, and prefer to have
churches, and seminaries, and colleges
OF their own. Nor am I clear that this
would not be wise choice.
so, then, say, with regard to onr
common schools, where q rural district
contains but twenty-five or thirty fami-
lies, it is simply impossible, where two
or three OF those are colored, to have
separate schools; and in those cases to
say that black children shall not 90 to
school with white children is to say they
shall not have any school whatever. But
in communities such as these, while, if
were black man, should not ask &C.
parate school, yet should still say if the
whites chose to have separate schools,
should not object to it. 1 should only
ask that the schools for my children
should be made as good, as sufficient as
schools provided for other mems chill
dren. Then. if the majority chose that
the minority should be educated in sepa-
rate schools, I should say, "Gentlemen,
be it as you please; have no choice in
the matter" A gentleman or q lady never
discusses the question. Was it proper
to refuse me an invitation to my neigh.
bor's party? He or she accepts the fact
and "lets the reason take care of itself.
Precisely 80 with regard to religious fra
ternity or associations for maintenance
OF divine worship. would advise the
colored man never to make distinction,
and never to refuse one. II the whites
choose that the blacks shall not be mem
bers on equal terms of general congre.
cations, should accept exclusive con-
gregations, not as my choice, but as the
choice of the dominant race.
NEW CONSTITUTION FOR SWITZERLAND.
Switzerland, determined not to be be-