The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-29

against the wrongs they have suffered And I
l,sl.a nan With glsdness the spirit aninating the
all the murdereS OF 0wenton are in the clutches
OF the law; and the charge of that Kentucky
Judge who tells his grand jury tnat IL they fail
10 1ndfct only the man who committed murder,
but also the sheriff, who wilfully neglected to
arrest that murderer, he will find grand
duty in that spirit which Viii relen sIessiy p1r
sue the lawless elemeni OF society as the com
Southern people; but that spirit prevails in the
SCUM, and no partisan spirit in the North will
,,t ne sstrong enough 10 oaIe the sympathy their
enjoy the largest constitutional measure OF self
onrS 1i and one Of the g attest Of those
the most vital part of our republican institu-
tions After showing the bad effects OF teaching
a race against the whites, and making them
part1 an supporters of corruption and robbery
ana aenouncing the men who did this as the
crueiest, most reachelous, and
aut MOST DAsTARDLY ENEMIES
the colored people ever had, he discusses the
civil rights bill. After saying he could not sup
port the bill because he regarded II unconstftu-
tional, he said. If IL becomes law, IL will break
up the who pubic school system of the
sufferer thereby than the c0lored people, II is
well known fact that in the States CONTAINING
nnik OF the coIoTed population there existed
introduction of the system OF common Schools
TO be supported at the public expense. We know
is equally well known that a large
majority OF the white people of those states.
even large majority Of those who are sincerely
anxious 10 secure to u colored children the
largest possib advantages of education in sepa-
rate establishments, still are very strongly nav
violently, opposed TO any law, which, like the
civil rights bill, would force the admission of
in % Gnlidren Sn 5oge,ner NTH whie children
ists, and we have to deal with il as a fact: try
to enforce, under such circumstances, the
will be the result The old al" pre,udice dice
against system Of public In struction to be sup
ported by taxation as iJ still exists in the states
| in question, win at once nnd itself powerfully
reinforced, and TO an attack so strengthened
against defense IN the same measure weakened,
laboriously built mp will succumb. There is
scarcely greater misfortune conceivable that
could Deiall these communities. But what
gained? Now they have at least their separate
scneoIs senep Ss public expense as part Of the
VIII have no mixed schools, while their
separate sep schools will perish also. Would the
colored man might indeed then enforce his
n hts 10 ride all over the country in a Pullman
sit In the dress circle Of a tn atre. Such things
can be enjoyed under any circumstances only
among them, and these pleasures and convent
ences OF their lew men of means would be
Pnpsinn Prpchssed "a at dreadfSl price The inter
the advantages Of which they now extensively
enjoy in separate estabIishmf nts would depri ,e
necessary to them as their Gaily bread. But in
still other respects the fact meant OF such a law
would not be beneficient to the colored man.
1t would be a dangerous venture TO the coiored
people IL L1ls.a
! TO lfr THEIR SOCIAL POSITIONS
were made the objective point of a new STRIFE
under circumstances so unfavorable., Now that
they have the political rights of citizenship il is
much wiser and safer for them to trust TO the
/ means they already have to make themselves re.
spected, and 20 leave all else to the gradual
progress OF public opinion. which has already
outgrown many aprsjudice that few years ago
4 sill seemed invincible. He then says the way
10 solve the most difficult problem of protection
to the colored people is In their own hands. In
OF terrorism in order TO enforce
/ party discipline, they should encourage
Not in union is their safety, but in divisi n He
then cites as an example 10 them the adopted
citizens of the country, who, as long as they, in
of one party, theother thought OF taking theiI
Il rights from them, but no sooner did they break
their ranks and divide than both sides stood ur
for them with equal zeal It is a lesson easily
understood. AS soonas the colored citizens in
the South shake offthe odium which arises from
their having, as solid organized mass, been
the main support OF the worst kind
one q of them casts his vote on
this side or the other, as his opinions or in
clfnation may dictate Each party will make
their protection special object in order to at.
II tact a majority of those votes, and when these
votes shHll have become so numerous that the
both parties, the fullest measure of protection
viii be afforded them. That will do more tC
stop the bloody excesses in the South than any
military inter erenc and more to establish JUS
and beneficent relations between the two race,
than any congressional legi- lation. The sen atol
finance question, and dwelt at some length or
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