The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-08

When the special dispatch to this paper,
detailing the action OF the Brazil school
board, turning thirty-fve colored children
into the streets, came to hand last night, the
Sentinel wasinclined to interpret the whole
affair as apolitical trick designed TO increase
she lying and SANDER that has been circu.
lated in regard to the recent decision of the
Supreme Court on the school question.
Later information from a thoroughly trust
worthy source goes to show that the outrage
is really a piece of political chicanery;
but it is based upon no such far
sighted and subtitle policy as at first supposed.
It has tor it's motive one of the meanest and
most foolish designs that was ever generated
by low cunning and want of principle. The
board Oftrustees for the Brazil public schools
consists of three members. E.S.H ussey. chair
man, e blican ; Dillon w. Bridges, dem
Ocrst, and William Torbert, republican.
The political complexion of the body is
therefore thoroughly orthodox Oh the negro
question. How could it come to pass, never
theless, that the trustees should commit an
act of such fragrant injustice against the
colored people The explanation is a
sL1AAACAGA ~ ~ I'LL Oh tAO 10
sire of the republican political managers
to hold the control of the workmen engaged
in the mines of that district. During the
periodic strikes that nave taken place at the
mines, the owners nave imported a large
number of negroes to take the place of the
outstanding laborers, and this fact, added to
unfortunate race prejudice, has rendered the
anImosity to colored men very strong, it is
said, among the miners-so much so that
the republicans nave been more afraid to as
sumo a square, manly position on the civil
rights issue in Clay county than in any other
part of the state. Heretofore the workmen,
whether acting on conviction or submitting
to the control OF their employers, for the
most part voted the republican ticket; but
in the last election there was a change, and
the republican majority in Brazil township,
which is the heart of the mining district.
fell in round numbers from about two
hundred to one hundred. The petty poll
ticians were startled at the result, ana, in
stead Of attributing it to the general disgust
of the people with the party, chose to assume
that the race issue had wrought the damage.
Laboring under this utterly contemplate
conviction, the majority of the school board
chose the first opportunity for counteract-
ing, in the most contemplate fashion, the
impression that they favored civil
rights. To conciliate public senti
ment and gain a few votes, they
determined 10 weed the colored children out
of the schools and turn them adrifti There
was a meaner sacrifice of political
consistency for tho sake of political advan-
and the Sentinel can only say that 1T
sincerely trusts that the trustees Of Brazil
estimate the sentiment of the people of that
vicinity by altogether too low a standard,
and that they will find themselves and their
action repudisted by all classes of the COM
munity. Let the provisions OF the law of
May ID, 1869, be put into operation at once,
and let the knaves or fools who Lave
Drougnt disc.eA. 1rs- .hs state and Ylo-,