Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-01

n WOAeO AZ AALE WOhtEAAAOMLNs
Do you favor civil rights? Ye me-
chanics and laboring men, who depend
on the public schools and cannot afford
to send your children to select acade-
mics. do you favor mixed schoolsP The
question applies to you, of the toiIing
millions. not to the men Of easy or
afauent circumstances. Workingmen,
do you favor mixed workshops?
The question comes home to
You all IN the school, the shop and the
household? These questions would be
insulting, if we doubted your answer.
Yet these questions are put to you in
the most pressing, urgent manner by
the Republican party in the nation.
They are the supreme questions of the
day, so far as Tennessee and the
South are concerned. Time was that
Tennesseeans had nothing to fuss over
but the rights of foreigners, when there
were not Thousand foreign born in
the State. Time win be when the
question Of national finance shall absorb
all others. But the question now and
here, at our very doors, is the Civil
Rights bill, pending before the Con-
gress that meets one month hence, and
pretty certain to be passed, as the
only possible means for retaining
to the Republican party eight hundred
thousand negro voters IN the coming
Presidential election. Nothing we can
do viii prevent its passage, unless it be
such an overwhelming rebuke of this
''sum of villainies" as may paralyze
its authors and abettors. Our duty,
then, is to make sure of its repeal by
the incoming Congress which dates
from the 4th of next March.
No workingman who opposes Civil
Rights IN theory or in practice can vote
for either Harrison or Maynard. The
latter uniformly and consistently sup
ported Summers legacy up to the last
day of the last session of Congress.
Since then, as late as the Doth of July,
on the eve Of the August elections, he
said in his Thorn Grove speech in Knox
county, that the" thirteenth, fourteenth,
and fifteenth amendments to the Uni
ted States Constitution merely led up
to the Civil Rights bill, to which the
Republican party was pledged in its
conventions and by its leaders," In
the same speech, according to the re-
port of his own party organ, the Kaos-
rifle Chronicle, be said of this bill:
"Men lcho are host .Ie to common schools
lvilI seize upon this measure to prejudice
the schools; hence he IcOBld lsaUe the
school clause cat Of it," Thus, as
late as July 90, he favored civil rights
in everything except the schools,
leaving them out professedly for policy
sake. If the August elections in Ten
nessee changed his tune somewhat, 1t
has not affected the Republican party
elsewhere, nor the dominant majority
IN the present Congress. 1t is easy
for Maynard or Harrison to omit
mixed schools from the programme,
when they know full well that
their party will not make
any such omission. 1t is easy
enough for them to dodge the
whole bill when they know their party
are amply strong enough in the present
Congress to enact 1t without their
votes. They explain this thing to the
negroes, who thoroughly understand it.
None bot whites are to be de-
ceived by the pretended dodge in the
Tennessee Republican platform. How
can honest workingmen repose any con-
fidence in these political jugglers, try
ing to carry water on both shoulders:
No man can tell where they stand, ex-
cept by their previous record and aftili-
atoms, which all point one way. But
every one knows exactly where the
Democratic candidates stand, and the
one sure means for not being deceived
is to vote the entire Democratic ticket.