Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-10-07
dependent judiciary" Will you draw this curse
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In South Carolina stupid negro sits as one o
the judges in the Supreme Court of that State
| If they gain ascendancy here we may share tn,
same fate We may have negro sitting in tn,
Court of Appeals. Who desires this? In tn,
language of the venerable Marshall. "Will yor
draw down this curse upon Virginia2"
That the negroes demand share of the Of
| fees where they haveinfuence cannot be denied
In the city of Charleston their platform con
tains this modest clause:
For next mayor white man, nine colorec
aldermen lmost positively and nine white cap
tain or chief of police, colored man; first lieu
tenant, white second lieutenant, colored Their
all the subordinates or non-commissioned Of
6cers and privates on the police force, white
and colored. These colored men must be o.
our own choice in politics. We also demand
an equal alternate pro rata in all the other de-
partmeuts, and share In the executive patron
age; and no man, we care not whom, shall re.
celve our votes as candidate who does not en-
dorse and advocate these measures" And they
add that they are determined to share the offices
and State and municipal patronage with none
who do not stand firm and squarely on oul
ltheir) platform" and they assert right to a
share of the Offices of all grades, wherever they
have Influence.
The Radical party in this State cannot fur
nlsh sufficient number of competent lawyers
to fill the Judiciary, and if they do not put ne
groes on the bench they will have to import a
fresh supply of carpet-baggers. They did this
under reconstruction laws and they will do it
again if the occasion demands And who de-
sires to see the judiciary of the State filled, as
it was filled, by an imported set of incompetent
and ignorant pettifoggers Free
mans and the like.
q The Legislature has control of the whole
educational system of Virginia as prescribed
by the constitution. 1t may create separate or
mixed schools at its pleasure. It may throw
open the same school to white and black That
the Radical party contemplate system of mix
ed schools In this State is susceptible of demon
stration; at least so much of that party as is
composed of negroes, and they constitute nine
tenths of the party in the State. That such is
their purpose is shown by the vote 10 the
Lynchburg convention on the resolution de-
clarlDg 1t inexpedient to establish mixed
schools in the State. This resolution was
voted down by an overwhelming majority, thus
af1rming that 10 the opinion of "a large MAORI
ty OF the representative body such system
was expedient. And their candidate, Mr.
Hughes. when called upon to say whether, if
elected Governor, he would veto bill estab-
fishing mixed schools, refused to answer. He
has since said be was opposed to mixed schools
upon grounds of expediency; but it does not
follow from this that he would veto bill estab-
fishing such schools. 1t may be that he enter
taios the opinion that he would only apply the
veto on constitutional grounds If so, then he
might sign the bill. We ought to have Gov
ernor who would certainly apply the veto to
such bill in the event the Legislature should
be Radical For we know that the negroes are
insisting on mixed schools wherever they have
the power In their recent convention in Mis-
sissppi they adopted the following resolution:
THAT we recognize DO distiction as now ey-
listing by law in the rights Of all the children of
the State to equal privileges and ito accept such
IN all public schools, colleges and universities,
and should any of said institutions of learning
deny to any child on account of race Or color
its equal rights, We pledge ourselves to enforce
the said rights by appropriate legislation; and
we further pledge ourselves to the support of
cur present institutions Of learning and our
present educational system as above explained"
SO In Washington city and 10 several cities ia
New York they are demanding that ''colored
children be allowed to sit in class with white
scholars. And what will be the effect of sys.
tenn of mixed schools, should it be established
among u.s. Will elevate the white children
Will such an association improve the morals or
the manners of the whites? No one is rash
enough to make such an assertion. But every
rejecting man must be convinced that the eff
fecr will be to degrade the whites, and bring
them down to the level of the negro.
And who will suffer from system of mixed
schools? It will not be the rich they can send
their children TO private schools by paying
higher prices 1t is the Door laboring white
man who will suffer His children will be
brought In daily contact with the negro chill
dren in these schools. Having paid the tax
to support free schools, he will be forced to
send his children to these mixed schools or
to abandon their education altogether And
are the laboring white men prepared TO aid in
bringing party into power that favors plan
Of mixed schools in the State?
Moreover, can the Radical party be trusted
with the administration Of the funds raised by
taxation for educational purposes Can you
expect more of them here than iu those States
where they have control of the school funds
La South Carolina. Mississippi, Louisiana and
other Southern States, they have possession of
the State governments, and the school funds
have been wasted or stolen. In some of these
States the free schools are in operation for only
three months in the year, and in others not at
all, because the funds have been misapplied.-
Aud all the higher schools and colleges are lam
these States, where the Radicals are In power,
with the educational system in Virginia under
Conservative rule. La Virginia the colleges
and universities were never more fourishing
Filled by an able corps of professors, they are
filled by large number of young men we'll pre-
pared by the schools for college studies and the
free school system will compare favorably with
that of any State in the Union. Persons from the
North, visiting these schools, have spoken of
them In terms OF high commendation; and it was
but the other day that large and respectable
body of colored Methodists, assembled in this
city, praised their teachers and their organza-
ton. No Radical in the Legislature or out of
it has found fault with the organization of the
free schools, or the mode of conducting them
nor has the party proposed any other plan OF
or suggested any material amend
ment to the plan inaugurated by the Conserva-
tive party and now In operation and let it be
borne In mlod that the Conservative party es-
tablished the present system of free schools
four years in advance Of the period prescribed
by the Constitution. In view of these facts,
can you not safely copfide to the Conservative
party the management of the free schools
which they so promptly inaugurated and have
SO faithfully conducted? Of this you may rest
assured, that the party will never consent to
convert the present system of SCI arate schools
for whites and blacks into system In which
whites and blacks are to be indiscriminateIy
mixed
3. Another power which the Legislature can
exercise, and of kindred nature to the system
of mixed schools, is to confer the rights on all
persons to enter the same hotels, theatres, res
taurants and other places Of public resort
The Legislature can give the right to all per-
sons white and black to enter these nlaces -