The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-19
The Civil Rights Bill.

Senator Charles Sumner is pushing
his civil rights bill in the senate Of the
United States. The object aimed at IS
to compel railroad companies hotei
keepers, steamboat officers and all
others who keep public houses, or run
lines Of transportation, to admit Color
ed people into the same cars, cabins
bed rooms, dining-r9oms, tlieaters, ETC.
where white people are admitted 1t
also requires that cslored children
shall not be excluded from public
schools where white children are
taught.
1t is high time that this sort Of ad
captandum nonsense on the part OF
Radical demagogues had ceased. This
spirit Of legislation has been the order
of the day With the Radicals since the
result OF the war set the negroes tree,
and it has been resorted To 50 often
that il has become almost ~threadbare.
II this bill is passed, there is ne
doubt hut it will be greatly 10 the detrl
mcnt of the col0red people, although
the wire-pulcrs Of the Radical party
will try to convince them that it Is all
for their good. nIennessce it might
and no doubt will be, greatly injurious
to the cause of the general education
Of the colored children. The last leg
islature was largely Democratic. 1t
enacted q c.mmon school system,
which is mutually beneficial to the
white and colored children. BY the
law, q part Of the school iuad in each
county is set apart, in proportion to
their relative numbers, for the educl
ton 81 the colored children of the dis
trict, and they are TO have scperat'
schools aud seperate teachers.
The superintendent Of the school:
have gone to WORK with energy II
every county in the state and wherever
the county courts have failed to srde'
elections to be held in the civil dis
.ricts for the election Of school com
m~issioners under the law, the superln
tendents have appointed them, AM
schools have been organized in almos
every civil district in the state.
In the establishment ofthese school
the cslored people are well represented
and in every instance where they pre-
fered q colored person TO teach thel
children, their wish has been grat;fed
; This system is working admirably i
Tennessee, and If an usurping congress
, will only let US alone, the cslored chi
dren in the state in the future will b
educated ut the expense of the state, i
the same manner, and under the sam
laws under which the white childre
arc. The great mass of tue colore
people OF the state are satisfied wit
the law, and are giving encouragement
2 to the system and sending their chi
! dren 10 school, This the Dcmocra;
. and Conservatives Of the state hav
7 done, as a matter Of their " pramp'
ing, which enables the colored childrc
. TO be educated at the expense Of Others
for the school tax derived from prop
erty owned by the colored people I
each county would not pay for the err
l ployment OF more than one teacher l
| 4 county, if that much.
e If the civil rights bill becomes q Law
/ and is enforced in Tennessee, the stat
law being antagonistic to it in regar
to "mixed schools" will become a nu
lity if not repealed and a repeal of th
, entire law will no doubt follow.
:, II is timn ih~ ""l"red reepl, real
look to their interests, and cease to L
led off by party demagogucs and pro
fcsslonal office hunters, and blinded b
$ the use Of party catch words, originate
for the purpose Of saving and cult
waiting dissensions between The tw
, races. Let them look for themselve
and see where their interests and wei
fare lie, and follow the path in polite
: which leads in that direction. II the
listen to the false teachings of thos
who have already grown fat on office
given them by the votes Of colore'
people, it will he n long time befor
they obtain that degree of progress a
a people which they SO much ncet
They should learn to think for them
selves.