New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-09-04

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The chairman seemed so thorpughly be
wlldered that a Suggestions was made tha
"Cushing's MANUAL should hereafter b.
authority 10 all questions raised at futur,
After some lively skirmishing on this sub
lect the motion was carried, and the raeetins
adjourned.
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Turned Out OF school.
injustice BeGot Of Prstudice-Repr.hsns ibis
Act ofths Deer Lodge Educ a ionaI uthor.
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DEER LoDGE. NJ T., Aug. l3, 1873.
MR.. EDITOR: The notice below was served
by the Deer Lodge school directors on the
mother OF bright little boy who has been
attending the public school in this town for
some time past:
IL Iiss Ansrica Turner
You are hereby notified that under the
Montana school law your child is not entitled
to place in the public school. And YOU are
hereby notified to cease sending him to school
as he will not be admitted.
THOMAS H. IRVINE,
THOMAS AsPLING,
GRANVILLE STUART
Directors School District No. l..
To lad to which "notice of custer" apples
is Of mixed blood, like his mother, his father
being white man. He is about five wears
OF age, has been attending to his studies in
the public school, learning rapidly, with
good behavior, excelling many scholars OF
his age. He was also a pet among his school
fellows, and was of no extra trouble to his
teachers. But ssme shoddyite Pharisee had
ascertained that there was some African
blood IN his veins, and a voice was heard
coming up from the gutteral throat of the
dying demon of slave-holding and slave-pro-
paganding tyranny of the past saying that
the lad must be excluded from the free halls
of learning.
In vain did his mother beg for the privilege
of little seat furnished by the public in the
schoOl-house built by the tax contributed by
persons of all cOlors, and to which the law
cOmpels her to contribute her assessed share,
In vain did she plead with those who had a
little brief authority to let her child receive
an education out Of revenues towards which
she had to contribute, and of which the law
gives him an appOrtionment.
In vain did the friends of the lad intercede
with them, telling them that the public well
fare required the education Of all the children
of society. whether Of mixed races or of
bronzed colors. In vain were they told that
the )rner-stOne of the Republic was univer-
sal intelligence, and that to exclude child
from school who was striving to gain know
ledge, eager for an education, with the high
and noble aspiration of becoming a useful
citizen, was blow detrimental to the public
welfare. In vain did justice open her mouth
and say that other mixed breeds. with
bronzed colors, were being taught in the
public schools of Deer Lodge, BY the teach
ers paid out of the public revenues, and why
not teach this little lad as well as others. In
vain did common everyday charity ask that
the preponderance of white blood in this
boys veins might receive an education. All
was in vain. The stern representatives of
school district No. (which encircles the
proud city of Deer Lodge, whose citizens
school law of Montana, turned this little fell
low out of school after he had attended some
time, acquiring relish for his studies and
an attachment for the school. Proud achieve
ment! Six hundred inhabitants belonging
to the land of the free and the home of the
brave" have publicly, through their public
officers, turned out of the public school one
little urchin about five years Of age because
he is supposed by somebody to have African
blood in his veins!
He is turned out of school, and, as his
sschool-fellows pass him by, asking him why
he does not go to school, on each succeeding
day, his bright eyes fill with tears as he tells
them that his mother says the Christian
of Deer Lodge City, by the act
OF the school trustees, have peremptorily
forbidden him the privilege Of an education.
There he is, under the ban of cultivated
prejudice, which denies him the right to de-
vel0p his mind, so necessary to combat a
selfish world. There he is, required by So
ciety to obey the laws, but denied the privi-
lege OF ascertaining what the laws of society
demand of him. Although God in His kind
ness turns over this earth every twenty-four
hours, letting this little boy see the sun in
the heavens, and breath the free air, equal
with the proudest, richest, or whitest, vet,
through the inhumanity Of man towards man.
and out of some mental Christian reservation
from evening prayers, he is forbidden the air
Of our free schools to develop a conscience
responsible to society, and soul accounta-
BILE to his Maker, his God.
Although the thirteenth, fourteenth, and
fifteenth amendments to the Constitution
have been Endorsed with grave public formal
ty by all the parties, yet, at this late day,
this little boy must be prosecuted by proud
city because he has bronzed color, which
corresponds exactly with other worthy chill
iren OF bronzed color belonging to mixed
breeds, who are now attending that public
school from which the hand of tyranny has
driven him, and is as oppressive upon him
As if the ukase had come from the autocrat
Of all the Russias.
Although the political gossip of a great
and gallant party, proclaimed in the listening
ears OF the wide world recently, that there
should be no more distinction as to race or
color. extending their hands over the bloody
,hasm, asking that bygones may be bygones,
yet the tyrannical act of the trustees of
school district No. !, Deer Lodge county,
Montana Territory, assists in giving the lie
to any such pretensions.
What matter is it: He is ONLY a little
mulatto boy, whose mother is too poor to
prosecute the school trustees and obtain the
rights guaranteed by the Constitution and
the laws for her child, while the white.
blooded father struts through the lanes of
society highly respected because he is white.
What matter is it to the sanctifed politi-
clan, whose conduct in the past has peopled
the United States with this mixed race.
What matter is it to those who profession
ally pretend to teach the Gospel of the Lord
Jesus, who said, "As We would that men
should do unto you, do We even so unto them.
for this is the law and the prophets"
What matters it? He is only a child of
mixed bloOd-mixed by creative genius.
which the child could not have helped if he
would. And shall he be misused because he
only asks the privilege to multiply the talent
given him by his Creator?