The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-18
TILE COMING CANVASS.

Reclamation OF Senator Brownlow-Hc
will mot support the Civil Rights Eli.
Senator Brownow has written long political
address to the people OF Tennessee, In response TO
certain resolutions passed by the Nashville Con-
vention Of colored men, charging him with be-
traytng the interests OF that race. These are the
pregnant paragraphs Of the address,
have done all these things for the colored race,
without owing my election to 1t or having the re-
hottest idea Of ever being candidate Tor It's votes
or support have acted from sense OF duty and
because OF sincere aud unsensh desire to ame-
lorate Its condition. do not refer to my services
to the colored people by way OF apology Tor my op-
position to mixed schools: NY position on tins
has the approval OF my Judgment ana conscience.
and sooner than apologize Tor IL or recede IRON it
land Ego the way OF Wards ducks" and every
politician buried without hope OF resurrection.
THE WHITE MAN NO RIGHTS WHICH A NEGRO 10
BOUND TO RESPECTn
So far from betraying the colored people or VIC.
lattng any pledges to them as nsoIentiy and
falsely charged by delegates IN this Nashville Con-
vention, who seem to have reversed Taney's de-
cision and proclaimed, In substance, that white
man has no rights which negro is bound to re.
and Senator, done far more Tor the coored race
than was ever committed or pledged to do and
more than they had right to demand In view OF
5 5Ss issues Of the canvass upon winch went into
BASE rNGRArIruDE OF THE NEGROES.
And now, because adhere to principles OF prae.
tica utility, instead Of running wild after abstrac
TONS am denounced as recReant to duty and
pledges. II the members OF the late cOlored Con-
vention can anOrd to present to the world SUCH
evidences OF base ingratitude to myself, VINO have
done more Tor them than any other Tennesseean,
can we'll afford TO be tndit ferent to their abuse
and despise their threats. 1t Will not injure me,
nor does AFFORD me any soilcitude, except in so
lar as the bad blood engendered between the
races by such conduct and such spirit as cnarac.
tertzed the proceedings OF that Convention viii
tend TO their injury, the destruction OF the COM
mop school system and the detrment Of society
REPUBLICANS CAN DO WITHOUT THE NEGROES. :.
True, 1t may be said, the republican party IN
q osa ss' sGRns sp s
cOlored voters. second, the republican party
as the coored voters can get along without the
republican party. And third, the $4,000 white
TO get aicnS without the coiored voters sooner
than submit to THIS sum OF villanies ana quintes-
sence OF abomination known as the "co-educatlon
E SEPARATE SCHOOLS.
MY only hope for the future prosperity OF the
q @ ~ ns
able programme 30 lnsolently put forth ~ NASH
vile. Let them remember that they now have, IN
the whites. Let them remember that the taxes
with which these schools are supported are con-
tributed almost exclusively BY the white people ..
she State-that the money does not come from Tue
federal government at washington. Let them re.
member that thousands OF the property holders OF
In opposition, have aided IN establishing our pres
ent school system. and without the support Of tlis
class, In cooperation with their white pontlcal
associates It could not have been established.
Let them also remember that 1t Is not question
as to whether we will have mixed schools, but
struction at ALI For 1t Is not in the power OF
forty Congresses to establish this mixed school
system IN Tennessee
THE DANGER TO EDUCATION.
Ii the Clvu Rights oil should pass without the
mixed school feature being stricken out, the wnole
scnoo fabric In Tennessee viii at once fall TO the
ground, as 1t VIII deserve to do. Then the ex-
penses OF the coucaton OF their children, II they
are educated at al, Will De borne by themselves
and not ny the white people, as they now are.
W. @. BROWNLOW.