New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-11-13
The Colorrd student at t;sC south
Carolina University.

The NtcS and Courier Of the 9TH instant
complains against the entrance of Il colnrcd
student into the South Carolina University.
in the person of Henry f.. IlaNne. who has
entered the medical department of that time
honored institution, within whose walls
some of the purest and ablcst men of the
state lived during the quiet years of their
student lite.' Also, says the Neics and Cou-
rier, for the first time in its history a colored
man is admitted to its classes. That while
the abstract right has existed ever since the
completion of the reconstruction programme
of their admission, a wise regard tor the well
fare of the University had until now prevented
that attempt at mixing of the whites and
blacks which must destroy any institution OF
learning by forcing out the best classes of
the white students and giving practical
monopoly of its advantages to the colored
people,
1t is a circumstance to be dcpiored that
that excellent Institution is to come To an
untimely end, because, by virtue of the pro-
gressiye and liberal sentiment of the age, a
new era is produced, in which the old fos-
SLICED condition of things is so pulyerized.
even in South Carolina, that a coored stu
dent may DC admitted to its classes, who is
objected to simply because a very few drops
OF African blood (by no fault of his own
happens to flow through his Veins and con-
Sequently degrading the blood of the white
man which un;tes and prruDNinates in the
same person.
If social pollution has not ultimatcd in the
destruction of the virtuouS elements, and
Slapped the foundation of tho social system of
white society in this State, surely it is hardly
possible that the educating Of few colored
students, whether mixed or unmixcd, up to
virtuOus m anhOod, philosophy, physics, and
q IL punahIp nj i,,u n t,,-
ton, where great men have been Instructed,
excepted by those prejudiccs and hatred to-
ward the cOlOrcd race which the white race
chooses to cherish.
The Ne,cs and Courier Of the 18th instant
says: There is no impropricty in ANY public
dealing with colorcd men in matters of husi-
ness and the like, but when we bring them
into our homes, and have them check by
iowl with white boys in the schools and col
iegcs, we drag down the white to the level
Of the black, and dcbasc the superior race
without eleyating that which is inferior"
This is certainly very strange doctrine to put
forth in this enlightened and progressive age.
1t is hard to conceive by what philosophy
such proposition can be sustained in CourI-
try OF nearly forty millions Of inhabitants
where the rapid tide Of civilization rushcs
forward with such force that everything with
which it comes in contact is borne onward
and forward. We have been taught to be-
lieyc that in most cases the smaller bodies
are influenced by the iargcr-a proposition in
philosophy generally accepted. Such being
admitted, how then can it be possible for four
millions of colored people to drag down nearly
forty millions of white even il it were posi-
Bile to crowd them all together into the
schools and colleges of this country. We
have been taught theoretically and expert.
mentally that they who help those that need
help are hereby benefited. If college pro-
tcssor teach what should be taught, and his
black students receive his instructions, and
thereby be improved, whence cDmcth the
detrincnt?
Why is it that Audoycr, Amherst, Prince
ton, and even Yale and BOwdOln, where
many cOlOrcd students have been instructed
and graduated, many whom can be namcd,D
have not fallen to pieces:
There are no better schools and colleges
than in New England, where white and black
boys are educated together. In Cleveland
and Chicago, and i'll many Of the western
cities, there are no separate schools or col
leges, but in those that are established, white
and black are instructed together, as at Obcr-
lin, in Ohio. From these institutions come
forth those who are as well educated. and a.
highly elevated in thought, morals, and reli"
giOn, as any other men or women, from any
other educational institutions of this broad
land, where only the whites are instructed.
In these cases we find by observation, that
instead Of the whites being dragged down
to the level Of the blacks" the blacks are
raised t. the level Of the whites. One Of
England's illuslrious poets says that
"EducatOn forms the common mind,
As the twig is bent 50 is the tree inclined"
fla black and a white twig be planted in
the same soil, and receive the same culture
and training, and made to grow in the same
direction and proportions, where will the
detriment arise: II is universally admitted
that the culture and growth Of trees and men
are somewhat analogous.
T.. J. ApAMs.