Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-14
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Senator Boutwell, Of NJ Massachusetts, Is consid-
cred BY bis friepds one ofthe leading Repubii-
high ON ths list of aspirants for the next Presi'
depcy Of the United States, and IL any eastern
man should he hoDored with that dstinciioni II
viii most probably be Boutwell,. His views,
therefore, ,on the important question OF common
schools, as involved in the infamous civil rights
bill, are OF national interest, not, trust, that
he will have the opportunity as President ol
putting them into practical effect, but simply a.
showing how sman and narrow minded the
boasted statesmen of present day are. and how
mean and malignant they are toward the peo-
pie of the South and their institutions. On the
public school question In Boutwells views ars
q, follows:
"a nd therefore, say, lift were possible, as
in the large cities, 1t IL possible, to establish
separate schools for black children and foI
white children, 1t Is In the highest degree mex
pedient to either establish or tolerate such
schools. The theory OF human equality cannot
be taught into families, taking into account the
different conditions OF the different members OF
the families composing human society; but IN
the public scheol, where children OF all classes
and conditions are brought together this doc
trine Of human equality can be taught, and 1t Is
the chief means VI securing the perpetuity OF
Republican institutions. Aud inasmuch A. we
have in this country four million colored people
l assume that is pubic duty that the white
people of the country, with whom they are to
be associated in political and public affairs shall
be assimiiated and made one In the funda-
where II would be possible to establish distinct
schools, 1 am against 1t as matter of public
policy.
These are the views of one who Is called fist
Glass statesmanI They arc simply infamous.
They are narrow minded, selfish and mean.
Boutwell, lives in city. The North is full Of
cities, towns and villages Its population Is
thickIy settled in the counties. There are
scarcely any negroes there to educate. and they
are scattered that they never come in collision
with the white PEOPLE 1t is very easy, therefore,
forSenatorB Boutwell, to say;that "human equality"
can only be taught aud must be taught in the
public schools OF the country, for nearly the en-
tire flour millions of colorsd people OF whom he
speaks so synpathetcally, reside in the South. and
under his theory would have TO be educated in
mixed schools in order TO become 'assInilated and
made one in the fundamental idea Of human
equality" This is the degradation TO which the
people Of the North, or at least their party leaders
wish to reduce the people of the South. But it
10 degradation to which the people Of the South
will never be induced TO submit by civil rights
law nor at the point Of the bsyonet.
The idea that the white man and the negro
ever were made equal on any basis by God, or
ever can be made equal by man, is simply not
only kL own fsisehood, but is pronounced odious
by the natural iuetincts Of every race known upon
the earth, even including the negro himself. un-
less he lie thrown in contact with the native Yam
kee.